Unit 8 Study Notes: 20th-Century Global Conflicts

Unit 8: 20th-Century Global Conflicts

Schedule Overview
  • Monday: Causes of World War I (Reading Homework: 822-830)
  • Tuesday: Topic: World War I (8.2) - DBQ Project Source Analysis (Homework: 830-837)
  • Wednesday: Topic: World War I (8.2) - Waging Total War, Western and Eastern Fronts, and Propaganda (Homework: Fay Thesis Annotations & Socratic Seminar Questions)
  • Thursday: Topic: World War I (8.2) - Socratic Seminar on Fay Thesis (Discussion: Impact on Home Front, Homework: 837-849)
  • Friday: Continuation of Topic: World War I - Impact on Home Front (Homework: 837-849)
Russian Revolution and Its Effects (8.3)
  • Monday: Topic Introduction - Russian Revolution, Peace, Land, and Bread (Homework: 849-859)
  • Tuesday: Overview of Russian Revolution and Civil War (Homework: 849-859, HAPPY Doc 1)
Versailles Conference and Peace Settlement (8.4)
  • Wednesday: Treaty of Versailles - Characteristics and Terms (Homework: 864-880)
Age of Progress and Modernity (7.5)
  • Thursday: How Did Modernism Revolutionize Western Culture? (Homework: 885-893)
  • Friday: Minimum Day - Topic: Global Economic Crisis (Homework: 898-900)
Fascism and Totalitarianism (8.6)
  • Monday: Exploration of similarities and differences between Fascist and Communist totalitarian dictatorships (Homework: 900-908)
  • Tuesday: Focus on Stalin and the Soviet Union (Homework: 908-910 & Mussolini Reading Annotations and Questions)
  • Wednesday: Focus on Mussolini and Italy (Homework: 911-919)
Europe During the Interwar Period (8.7)
  • Thursday: Discussion on Hitler’s Rise to Power, Aggression, and Appeasement (Homework: 920-931)
World War II (8.8)
  • Friday: Study Topic: Nazi Propaganda and strategies used by Germany and Japan during World War II (Homework includes Holocaust Research)
Review Session
  • Monday Following Spring Break: Review Rise and Rule
The Holocaust (8.9)
  • Tuesday: Reading Assignment: pages 936-940 (stop at West Versus East)
  • Wednesday: Unit 8 Thesis Outline
Progress Checks
  • Thursday: WWII Conferences (Study for Test 2)
  • Friday: Unit 8 Test and LT Packet due (Reading pages 940-944, LT 1, and Key Terms)
Key Terms for Study

  • The Road to War (pages 824 - 830):

    • Triple Alliance
    • Triple Entente
    • Dual Alliance
    • Kaiser Wilhelm II
    • Benjamin Disraeli
    • Joseph Chamberlain
    • Gavrilo Princip and the Black Hand
    • Allied Powers
    • Central Powers
    • Schlieffen Plan

  • Waging Total War (pages 830-837):

    • Western Front
    • Eastern Front
    • Major Battles:
    • Battle of the Marne (1st and 2nd)
    • Battle of the Balkans
    • Battle of Verdun
    • Battle of Somme
    • Battle of Gallipoli
    • Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
    • Sussex Pledge
    • Lusitania

  • The Home Front (pages 837 - 842):

    • Key Figures:
    • Paul von Hindenburg
    • Georges Clemenceau
    • Emperor Franz Josef

  • Russian Revolution (pages 842 - 849):

    • Key Figures and Events:
    • Czar Nicholas II
    • Provisional Government
    • Bolsheviks and Whites
    • War Communism
    • Petrograd Soviet
    • Vladimir Lenin
    • Red Army
    • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • The Peace Settlement (pages 849 - 859):

    • Paris Peace Conference
    • Woodrow Wilson and Fourteen Points
    • Armenian Genocide
    • David Lloyd George
    • Treaty of Versailles
    • League of Nations

  • Modernism in Arts and Architecture (pages 870-877, 880 - 885):

    • Key Movements:
    • Modernism
    • Functionalism
    • Bauhaus
    • Notable Artists:
    • Van Gogh
    • Monet
    • Degas
    • Picasso
    • Cubism
    • Dadaism
    • Surrealism
    • Virginia Woolf
    • James Joyce
    • Franz Kafka
    • Igor Stravinsky
    • Arnold Schoenberg

  • The Search for Peace & Stability (pages 880 - 885):

    • John Maynard Keynes, Keynesianism
    • Dawes Plan
    • The Great Depression (pages 885 - 893)
    • Noteworthy Concepts:
    • Cooperative Social Action in Scandinavia
    • Popular Front (France)

  • Stalin’s Soviet Union (pages 900 - 908):

    • Joseph Stalin
    • New Economic Plan (NEP)
    • Leon Trotsky
    • Five-Year Plan
    • Collectivization
    • Kulaks
    • The Great Purge (1936 - 1938)

  • Uncertainty in Modern Thought (pages 864-870):

    • Key Figures:
    • Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Logical Positivism
    • Existentialism
    • Marie Curie
    • Max Planck
    • Albert Einstein (Theory of Relativity)
    • Sigmund Freud

  • Authoritarian States (pages 898 - 900):

    • Concepts of Communism and Fascism
    • Discussion of Eugenics

  • Mussolini and Fascism in Italy (pages 908 - 919):

    • Benito Mussolini
    • Fascist Practices (Black Shirts)
    • Lateran Agreement

  • Hitler and Nazism in Germany (pages 911 - 919):

    • Adolf Hitler
    • National Socialism/Nazism
    • Key Events:
    • Enabling Act
    • Appeasement
    • Anschluss
    • Kristallnacht
    • Nuremberg Laws
    • Munich Conference

  • The Second World War (pages 920 - 931):

    • Major Military Tactics:
    • Blitzkrieg
    • Important Operations:
    • Operation Barbarossa
    • Battle of Britain
    • Battle of the Bulge
    • D-Day
    • The Holocaust, key figures:
    • Josef Goebbels
    • Concentration Camps (Auschwitz)
    • Vichy Regime

  • Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War (pages 936 - 940):

    • Important Conferences:
    • Atlantic Charter
    • Tehran Conference
    • Yalta Conference
    • Potsdam Conference

Additional Notes

  • The curriculum includes a diverse range of topics covering major conflicts and transformative societal changes during the 20th century, focusing on the interrelation between global events and their impacts on culture, politics, and society.