Chapters 21, 22,23 and 24 Syllabus
Textbook pages 968 -1131
Online quizzes: Chapter 21,22 ____ and 23,24 ________
Long Term Assessments: DBQ, ____ / CCOT Essay _____
Ch.21: “The Collapse and Recovery of Europe”
1. What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth century?
2. In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century?
3. To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were
they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the
foundations for World War II?
4. In what ways did Europe's internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?
Ch.22 : “The Rise and Fall of World Communism”
1. What was the appeal of communism, in terms of both its promise and its achievements? To
what extent did it fulfill that promise?
2. Why did the communist experiment, which was committed to equality and a humane socialism,
generate such oppressive, brutal, and totalitarian regimes?
3. What is distinctive about twentieth-century communist industrialization and modernization
compared to the same processes in the West a century earlier?
4. What was the global significance of the cold war?
5. "The end of communism was as revolutionary as its beginning." Do you agree with this
statement?
6. In what different ways did the Soviet Union and China experience communism during the
twentieth century?
Ch.23 “ Independence and Development in the Global South”
1. In what ways did the colonial experience and the struggle for independence shape the agenda of
developing countries in the second half of the twentieth century?
2. To what extent did the experience of the former colonies and developing countries in the
twentieth century parallel that of the earlier "new nations" in the Americas in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries?
3. How would you compare the historical experience of India and China in the twentieth century?
4. How has the experience of modern development in the third world differed from that of the
capitalist West and the communist East?
Activities/Points of Focus:
Research Activity: The Spanish Flu and Its Legacy
Lecture : Global Migration from 1846 to 1946
Film : Lumumba (2000) : Congolese independence from Belgium in 1960 / Powerful film
Point of View: Visualizing Fascism : Propaganda Posters from the Spanish Civil War
Misconception : “The communist ‘experiment’ was all bad.” A research based discussion
Lecture: Dictatorships in new nations: Exploring the phenomenon of military dictatorships
Lecture: The role of religion in the 3rd World Nations
Thursday May 15th at 8:00 AM… What will you be doing !!!!!!!!
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