Text: Prentice Hall World History Connection to Today- The Modern Era 2005
Course Objectives:
Semester 1
Semester 2:
Course Objectives:
Semester 1
- Identify Renaissance artists and explain how new ideas affected the arts of the period
- Describe European searches for a direct route to Asia.
- Analyze the impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
- Generate an opinion of how Louis XIV became an absolute monarch
- Outline the events that led to the American Revolution
- Explain how Napoleon built an empire and what challenges the empire faced
- Explain how the political crisis of 1789 led to popular revolts.
- Analyze why life changed as industry spread.
- Explain what caused urbanization and what life was like in the new industrial cities.
- Analyze how the spirit of reform spread in 1830.
Semester 2:
- Describe the impact of new technology on industry, technology, and communication
- Describe how Germany became an industrial giant.
- Explain why the problems of industrialization contributed to the outbreak of the revolution.
- Summarize how American democracy grew before and after the Civil War.
- Explain why Western imperialism spread so rapidly.
- Describe how WWI became a total war.
- Analyze how the Communist state developed under Lenin.
- Describe how the Great Depression began and spread and how Britain, France and the US tried to address it.
- Summarize the rise of authoritarian rule in Eastern Europe in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
- Analyze the threat to world peace posed by dictators in the 1930’s and how Democracies responded.
- Understand the horrors of the genocide the Nazis committed.