Unit I: 1450 – 1600
Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Discovery, Commercial Revolution
Day
Lesson
Homework
1
Rules, syllabus, expectations, summer work overview
Worksheet 01 Concept - Europe
2
Presentations 1 - 8, review of 'Rise of Europe'
Worksheet 02 Prelude to the Modern
World
3
Presentations 9 - 15, review of 'Rise of Europe'
Palmer Disasters of the Fourteenth
Century (p. 46 - 53)
4
I. End of the Medieval World
A. The Black Death
B. Hundred Years War
C. War of the Roses
Palmer The Renaissance in Italy
(p. 53 – 62)
The Renaissance outside Italy
(p. 62 – 67)
5
II. The Renaissance
A. Italian Peninsula and Southern
Europe
B. The North
Palmer The New Monarchies
(p. 67 – 75)
Worksheet 03 The Renaissance – New
Directions
6
III. New Monarchies
A. England, France, and Spain
B. Holy Roman Empire and the
Habsburg Supremacy
Palmer The Protestant Reformation
(p. 75 – 87)
Worksheet 04 The Rise of National
Monarchs
Indicate the source where the answers
were found.
7
IV. Protestant Reformation
A. Roman Catholic Church in the
Renaissance
B. Martin Luther and the Beginnings of
the Reformation
C. Reform Tradition in Central Europe
D. English Reformation
Palmer Catholicism Reformed and
Reorganized (p. 87 – 93)
Worksheet 06 The Protestant Revolt – A
Move Towards the Unknown
8
V. The Counter Reformation
A. Council of Trent
B. Missionary Work to Convert and
Re-Convert
Palmer The Opening of the Atlantic
(p. 107 - 114)
9
Reading quiz #1: Renaissance and Reformation
VI. Europe Rediscovers the World
A. Africa/Asia/Western Hemisphere
B. The “Exchange”
Palmer The Commercial Revolution (p.
114 – 120)
Changing Social Structures
(p. 120 – 126)
Worksheet 05 The Age of Discovery –
The Progress of Europe
Day
Lesson
Homework
VII. Commercial Revolution
A. Monetary Changes
10
B. Class Structure
C. Changing Production Methods
Palmer The Crusade of Catholic Spain:
The Dutch and the English
(p. 126 – 134)
Worksheet 09 The Commercial
Revolution
VIII. Emergence of Nation-States
A. The German Question
11
B. The Italian Question
C. Centralization of Power
Palmer The Disintegration and
Reconstruction of France (p. 134 – 140)
The Thirty Years War, 1618 – 1648: The
Disintegration of Germany (p. 140 - 149)
IX. The Thirty Years War
A. Background
B. Four Phases
12
C. Treaty of Westphalia
D. Long-term Results
Worksheet 10 Thirty Years War – The
European World at War
(Parts A and C only)
13 Make-up time
Worksheet 14 The Arts – Mirror of
History
14 Make-up time
Review
15 Unit I Exam
Palmer The Grand Monarque and the
Balance of Power (p. 160 - 163)
The Dutch Republic
(p. 163 - 169)
Unit II: 1600 – 1763
Thirty Years War, Absolutism, Louis XIV, Eastern Europe, Colonialism, Peace of Paris, 1763
Day
16
17
Lesson
I. The Age of Absolutism and the Balance of Power
A. The Dutch Republic
B. England – Absolutism to Constitutionalism
1. Domestic Policy
a. Civil War
b. Restoration
c. Glorious Revolution
2. Foreign Policy
3. Colonial Policy
18 C. France – Triumph of Absolutism
Homework
Palmer Britain: The Puritan Revolution
(p. 169 – 176)
Britain: The Triumph of Parliament
(p. 176 - 182)
Palmer The France of Louis XIV, 1643
– 1715: The Triumph of Absolutism
(p. 182 – 190)
The Wars of Louis XIV: The Peace of
Utrecht, 1713 (p. 190 – 197)
Worksheet 17 The Glorious Revolution
Palmer Three Aging Empires
Day
Lesson
1. Domestic Policy
2. Foreign Policy
3. Colonial Policy
Reading quiz #2: The Dutch, English, and French
II. Absolutism in Eastern Europe
19
A. Three Aging Empires: the Holy Roman
Empire, Poland, the Ottoman Empire
Homework
(p. 210 - 221)
Palmer The Formation of an Austrian
Monarchy (p. 221 – 226)
Worksheet 13 The Ottoman Empire –
The Sick Man of Europe
20
B. The Austrian Habsburgs
1. Origins
2. Position in the Holy Roman Empire
3. Role in European Affairs
Palmer The Formation of Prussia
(p. 226 – 234)
21
C. The Formation of Prussia
1. Territorial Gains
2. The Prussian Military State
Palmer The “Westernizing” of Russia
(p. 234 – 245)
The Partitions of Poland
(p. 245 - 249)
22
D. “Westernizing” Russia
1. Rise of Peter the Great
2. Glance Toward Both the West and
the East
E. The Partitions of Poland
Palmer Elite and Popular Cultures
(p. 250 – 256)
Worksheet 11 The Emergence of the
Modern State
Reading quiz #3: Eastern Europe
III. The Struggle for Wealth and Empire
A. Elite and Popular Cultures
23
1. Life of the rich few
2. Life of the poor masses
Palmer The Global Economy of the
Eighteenth Century (p. 257 – 264)
Worksheet 12 The Education of Women
Worksheet 19 Childhood – An Early
Modern View
24
B. The Global Economy of the Eighteenth
Century
1. Commerce and Industry
2. The Dutch, British, and French
3. Asia, America, and Africa
4. Social Consequences
Palmer Western Europe after Utrecht,
1713 – 1740 (p. 264 – 273)
Worksheet 22 The Global Economy –
The Marriage of Politics and Economy
25
C. Western Europe after Utrecht, 1713 – 1740
1. France and Britain
2. The “Bubbles”
3. Fleury and Walpole
Palmer The Great War of the MidEighteenth Century: The Peace of Paris,
1763 (p. 273 - 285)
Renaissance Faire projects due.
D. The Great War of the Mid-Eighteenth
Century: The Peace of Paris, 1763
1. Eighteenth Century Warfare
26
2. The War of the Austrian Succession
3. The Seven Years' War
4. The Peace of Paris, 1763
Review
Worksheet 18 The Aristocracy Plays at
War (Parts A and C only)
Prepare materials for Renaissance Faire
27 Renaissance Faire (October 3)
Review
Day
Lesson
Homework
28 Make-up time
Review
29 Make-up time
Review
30 Unit II Exam
Prophets of a Scientific Civilization:
Bacon and Descartes
(p. 286 – 291)
Unit III: Science, Philosophy, and the Enlightenment
Bacon, Descartes, Newton, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Despotism, American Revolution
Day
Lesson
I. The Scientific View of the World
A. Prophets of a Scientific Civilization
31
1. Bacon
2. Descartes
Homework
Palmer The Road to Newton: The Law
of Universal Gravitation (p. 292 – 300)
Worksheet 20 The Scientific Revolution
– The Search for Meaning
32
B. The Road to Newton: The Law of Universal
Gravitation
Palmer New Knowledge of Man and
1. Copernicus to Galileo
Society (p. 300 – 307)
2. The Achievement of Newton
33
C. New Knowledge of Man and Society
1. Skepticism
2. Evidence
3. Historical Scholarship
34
D. Political Theory: The School of Natural Law
Palmer The Philosophes – And Others
1. Natural Right and Natural Law
(p. 314 – 326)
2. Hobbes and Locke
Reading quiz #4: The Scientific View of the World
II. The Age of Enlightenment
A. The Philosophes – And Others
1. The Spirit of Progress and
Improvement
35
2. Adam Smith
3. Main Currents of Enlightenment
Thought
III. Enlightened Despotism
A. France – Failure of Enlightened Despotism
B. Austria – Reform under Maria Theresa and
36
Joseph II
C. Prussia – Frederick the Great
37
D. Russia – Catherine the Great
1. Domestic
Palmer Political Theory: The School of
Natural Law (p. 307 – 313)
Palmer Enlightened Despotism:France,
Austria, Prussia (p. 326 – 336)
Worksheet 21 The Enlightenment – The
Best of All Possible Worlds
Palmer Enlightened Despotism: Russia
(p. 336 – 342)
Palmer New Stirrings: The British
Reform Movement (p. 342 – 351)
Day
Lesson
Homework
2. Foreign
3. Limitations of Enlightened
Despotism
IV. The British Reform Movement
A. “Democratic Revolution”
38
B. Parliament and Reform
C. Scotland, Ireland, India
Palmer The American Revolution
351 - 360)
V. The American Revolution
A. Background
39
B. The War of American Independence
C. Significance
Review
40 Make-up time
Review
41 Make-up time
Review
42 Make-up time
Review
43 Make-up time
Review
44 Make-up time
Review
45 Unit III Exam
Palmer Backgrounds (p. 361 – 365)
(p.
Unit IV: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe
The French Revolution and the Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte
Day
Lesson
I. The French Revolution
A. Backgrounds
46
1. The Old Regime: The Three Estates
2. The Agrarian System
47
48
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B. The Revolution and the Reorganization of
France
1. The Financial Crisis
2. From Estates General to National
Assembly
3. The Lower Classes in Action
4. The Initial Reforms of the National
Assembly
5. Constitutional Changes
6. Economic Policies
7. The Quarrel with the Church
C. The Revolution and Europe: The War and
Homework
Palmer The Revolution and the
Reorganization of France
(p. 365 – 370)
Palmer The Revolution and the
Reorganization of France
(p. 370 – 378)
Palmer The Revolution and Europe: The
War and the “Second” Revolution, 1792
(p. 378 – 384 )
Worksheet 26 The French Revolution –
Changing Images of the King
Palmer The Emergency Republic,
Day
Lesson
the “Second” Revolution
1. The International Impact
2. The “Second” Revolution
Homework
1792 – 1795: The Terror (p. 384 - 392)
50
D. The Emergency Republic: The Terror
1. The National Convention
Palmer The Constitutional Republic:
2. Background to the Terror
The Directory, 1795 – 1799
3. The Program of the Convention: The
(p. 393 – 398)
Terror
4. The Thermidorian Reaction
51
E. The Constitutional Republic: The Directory
1. The Weakness of the Directory
2. The Political Crisis of 1797
3. The Coup d'État of 1799: Bonaparte
Palmer The Authoritarian Republic: The
Consulate, 1799 – 1804
(p. 398 – 402)
Worksheet 27 The French Revolution –
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
52
F. The Authoritarian Republic: The Consulate
1. The Settlement with the Church
2. Other Reforms
Palmer The Formation of the French
Imperial System (p. 417 – 422)
Reading quiz #5: The French Revolution
II. Napoleonic Europe
A. The Formation of the French Imperial
System
1. The Dissolution of the First and
53
Second Coalitions
2. Peace Interim
3. Formation of the Third Coalition
4. The Third Coalition: The Peace of
Tilsit
54
Palmer The Formation of the French
Imperial System (p. 422 – 425)
5. The Continental System and the War
in Spain
Palmer The Grand Empire: Spread of
6. The Austrian War of Liberation
the Revolution (p. 425 – 431)
7. Napoleon at His Peak
55
B. The Grand Empire: Spread of the
Revolution
1. The Organization of the Napoleonic
Europe
2. Napoleon and the Spread of the
Revolution
56
C. The Continental System: Britain and Europe
1. British Blockade and Napoleon's
Palmer The National Movements:
Continental System
Germany (p. 435 – 441)
2. The Failure of the Continental
System
57
D. The National Movements: Germany
1. The Resistance to Napoleon:
Palmer The Continental System: Britain
and Europe (p. 431 – 434)
Palmer The Overthrow of Napoleon:
The Congress of Vienna (p. 441 – 452)
Day
Lesson
Nationalism
2. The Movement of Thought in
Napoleonic Germany
3. Reforms in Prussia
58
E. The Overthrow of Napoleon: The Congress
of Vienna
1. The Russian Campaign and the War
of Liberation
2. The Restoration of the Bourbons
3. The Settlement before the Vienna
Congress
4. The Congress of Vienna
5. The Polish-Saxon Question
6. The Hundred Days and Their
Aftermath
Homework
Worksheet 28 Napoleon: Giant or
Midget?
Review
Worksheet 31 The Art of Diplomacy
59 Make-up time
Review
Worksheet 30 A Look Back – The
Renaissance through Napoleon
60 Mid-Term Exam
Palmer The Industrial Revolution in
Britain (p. 453 - 463)
Unit V: The 'Isms' – 1815 - 1870
Industrialism, Nationalism, Romanticism, Classical Liberalism, Constitutionalism, Communism
Day
Lesson
I. Reaction Versus Progress, 1815-1848
A. The Industrial Revolution in Britain
1. The Agricultural Revolution in
Britain
2. Industrialism in Britain: Incentives
61
and Inventions
3. Some Social Consequences of
Industrialism in Britain
4. Classical Economics: “Laissez Faire”
62
B. The Advent of the 'Isms'
1. Romanticism
Homework
Palmer The Advent of the 'Isms'
(p. 463 – 474)
Worksheet 24 The Industrial Revolution
– England's Advantage
Palmer The Dike and the Flood:
Domestic (p. 474 – 477)
Day
Lesson
2. Classical Liberalism
3. Radicalism, Republicanism,
Socialism
4. Nationalism: Western Europe
5. Nationalism: Eastern Europe
6. Other 'Isms'
Homework
Worksheet 34 Romanticism and
Christianity
Worksheet 35 Humanitarianism:
Enlightened Christianity
63
C. The Dike and the Flood: Domestic Political
Events
1. Reaction after 1815: France, Poland
2. Reaction after 1815: The German
States, Britain
Palmer The Dike and the Flood:
Domestic (p. 477 – 484)
Worksheet 29 Art: From Religious to
Imperial Grandeur
64
D. The Dike and the Flood: International
Political Events
1. The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle
2. Revolution in Southern Europe: The
Congress of Troppau, 1820
3. Spain and the Near East: The
Congress of Verona
4. Latin American Independence
5. The End of the Congress System
6. Russia: The Decembrist Revolt
Palmer The Breakthrough of Liberalism
in the West: Revolutions of 1830-1832
(p. 484 - 495)
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E. The Breakthrough of Liberalism
1. France: The July Revolution
2. Revolutions of 1830: Belgium,
Poland, and Elsewhere
3. Reform in Great Britain
4. Britain after 1832
Palmer Triumph of the West-European
Bourgeoisie (p. 495 – 499)
Worksheet 33 The Emerging Political
Spectrum
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F. Triumph of the West-European Bourgeoisie
Palmer Paris: The Specter of Social
1. The Frustration and Challenge of
Revolution in the West
Labor
(p. 500 - 507)
2. Socialism and Chartism
.
Reading quiz #6: Reaction Versus Progress
II. Revolution and the Reimposition of Order
A. Paris: The Specter of Social Revolutions
1. The “February” Revolution in France
67
2. The “June Days” of 1848
3. The Emergence of Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte
68
B. Vienna: The Nationalist Revolution in
Central Europe and Italy
Palmer Vienna: The Nationalist
Revolution in Central Europe and Italy
(p. 507 – 514)
Worksheet 32 The Metternich System
Palmer Frankfurt and Berlin: The
Question of a Liberal Germany
Day
Lesson
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
The Austrian Empire in 1848
The March Days
The Turning of the Tide after June
Victories of the Counterrevolution
Final Outbursts and Repression
Homework
(p. 514 – 519)
Worksheet 36 The Revolutions of 1848:
A Case Study in Nationalism
69
C. Frankfurt and Berlin: The Question of a
Liberal Germany
1. The German States
2. Berlin: Failure of the Revolution in
Prussia
3. The Frankfurt Assembly
4. The Failure of the Frankfurt
Assembly
5. The Prussian Constitution of 1850
Palmer The New Toughness of Mind:
Realism, Positivism, Marxism
(p. 519 - 527)
70
D. The New Toughness of Mind: Realism,
Positivism, Marxism
1. Materialism, Realism, Positivism
2. Early Marxism
3. Sources and Content of Marxism
4. The Appeal of Marxism: Its Strengths
and Weaknesses
Palmer Bonapartism: The Second
French Empire, 1852 – 1870
(p. 527 – 531)
Worksheet 37 In Search of an Economic
View of the World: Smith to Marx
71
E. Bonapartism: The Second French Empire
1. Political Institutions of the Second
Empire
2. Economic Developments under the
Empire
3. Internal Difficulties and War
Review
Worksheet 38 Neo-Classicism and
Romanticism: An Evaluation
72 Make-up Time
Review
Worksheet 39 Architecture: The
Enduring Legacy
73 Make-up Time
Review
Worksheet 40 The Individual in Modern
European History
74 Make-up Time
Review
Worksheet 23 The Elbe-Trieste Line
75 Unit V Exam
Palmer Backgrounds: The Idea of the
Nation-State (p. 542 – 546)
Italian Nationalism: The Program of
Cavour (p. 546 - 551)
Unit VI: The European Nation-State, Civilization and Supremacy
German and Italian unification, the advance of democracy, imperialism
Day
Lesson
Homework
I. The Consolidation of Large Nationan-States
A. Background
1. The Idea of the Nation-State
2. The Crimean War
Palmer Bismarck: The Founding of a
B. The Unification of Italy
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German Empire (p. 551 - 559)
1. Italian Nationalism: The Program of
Cavour
2. The Completion of Italian Unity
3. Persistent Problems after Unification
77
C. Bismark: The Founding of a German Empire
1. The German States after 1848
2. Prussia in the 1860s: Bismarck
3. Bismark's Wars: The North German
Confederation
4. The Franco-Prussian War
5. The German Empire
Palmer The Dual Monarchy of AustriaHungary (p. 559 – 564)
Liberalization in Russia: Alexander II
(p. 564 - 569)
78
D. The Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
1. The Habsburg Empire after 1848
2. The Compromise of 1867
E. Liberalization in Russia: Alexander II
1. Tsarist Russia after 1856
2. The Emancipation Act of 1861 and
Other Reforms
3. Revolutionism in Russia
Palmer The United States: The
American Civil War (p. 569 – 574)
The Dominion of Canada (p. 574 - 577)
79
F. The United States: The American Civil War
1. Growth of the United States
2. The Estrangment of North and South
3. After the Civil War: Reconstruction;
Industrial Growth
G. The Dominion of Canada
1. Lord Durham's Report
2. Founding of the Dominion of Canada
Palmer Japan and the West
(p. 577 – 582)
Worksheet II 01 Changing Threads of
Unity
80
H. Japan and the West
1. Background: Two Centuries of
Isolation, 1640-1854
2. The Opening of Japan
3. The Meiji Era: The Westernization of
Japan
Palmer The “Civilized World”
(p. 583 – 587)
Basic Demography: The Increase of the
Europeans (p. 587 – 595)
Worksheet II 02 Shapters of
Nationalism
Reading quiz #7: Consolidation of Nation-States
II. European Civilization: 1871 – 1914
81
A. The 'Civilized' World
1. Materialistic and Nonmaterialistic
Palmer The World Economy of the
Nineteenth Century (p. 595 – 605)
Day
Lesson
Homework
Ideals
2. The 'Zones' of Civilization
B. Basic Demography: The Increase of the
Europeans
1. European and World Population
Growth since 1650
2. Stabilization of European Population
3. Growth of Cities and Urban Life
4. Migration from Europe, 1850 – 1914
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C. The World Economy of the 19th Century
1. The 'New Industrial Revolution'
2. Free Trade and the European
'Balance of Payments'
3. The Export of European Capital
4. An International Money System:
The Gold Standard
5. A World Market: Unity, Competition
– and Insecurity
6. Changes in Organization: Big
Business
Palmer The Advance of Democracy:
Third French Republic, United Kingdom,
German Empire
(p. 605 – 618)
The Advance of Democracy: Socialism
and Labor Union (p. 618 – 625)
Worksheet II The Second Industrial
Revolution
83
D. The Advance of Democracy:
France, Great Britain, and Germany
1. France: The Establishment of the
Third Republic
2. Troubles of the Third French
Republic
3. The Strength and Weakness of the
Republic
4. The British Constitutional Monarchy
5. British Political Changes after 1900
6. The Irish Question
7. Bismarck and the German Empire
8. Developments Elsewhere: General
Observations
E. The Advance of Democracy:
Socialism and Labor Unions
1. The Trade Union Movement and Rise
of British Labor
2. European Socialism after 1850
3. Revisionist and Revolutionary
Socialism
Palmer Science, Philosophy, the Arts,
and Religion (p. 625 – 637)
The Waning of Classical Liberalism
(p. 637 – 641)
Worksheet II 06 Revisionist Socialism –
Roots and Fruits
84
F. Science, Philosophy, the Arts, and Religion
1. The Impact of Evolution
2. Genetics, Anthropology, and
Psychology
3. The New Physics
Palmer Imperialism: Its Nature and
Causes (p. 642 – 650)
The Americas (p. 650 – 654)
Worksheet II 07 Britain: A Case Study
in the Evolution of Democracy
Day
Lesson
Homework
4. Trends in Philospohy and the Arts
5. The Churches and the Modern Age
G. The Waning of Classical Liberalism
1. The Decline of Nineteenth-Century
Liberalism: Economic Trends
2. Intellectual and Other Currents
Reading Quiz #8: European Civilization 1871-1914
III. Europe's World Supremacy
A. Imperialism: Its Nature and Causes
1. The New Imperialism
2. Incentives and Motives
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3. Imperialism as Crusade
B. The Americas
1. The United States and Mexico
2. United States Imperialism in the
1890s
Palmer The Dissolution of the Ottoman
Empire (p. 654 – 662)
The Partition of Africa (p. 662 – 669)
Worksheet II 09 Art: The Classes to the
Masses and Beyond
86
C. The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
1. The Ottoman Empire in the 1850s
2. Attempts at Reform and Revival
3. Repression after 1876
4. The Russo-Turkish War of 18771878: The Congress of Berlin
5. Egypt and North Africa
D. The Partition of Africa
1. The Opening of Africa
2. Friction and Rivalry between the
Powers
87
E. Imperialism in Asia: The Dutch, the British,
and the Russians
1. The Dutch East Indies and British
India
2. Conflict of Russian and British
Review
Interests
Worksheet II 05 Imperialism: Taking up
F. Imperialism in Asia: China and the West
the White Man's Burden
1. China before Western Penetration
2. The Opening of China to the West
3. Annexations and Concessions
G. The Russo-Japanese War and Its
Consequences
Palmer Imperialism in Asia: The Dutch,
the British, and the Russians
(p. 669 – 674)
Imperialism in Asia: China and the West
(p. 674 – 681)
The Russo-Japanese War and Its
Consequences (p. 681 – 682)
Worksheet II 10 1848-1914 Can You
Name that Age?
88 Make-up time
Review
89 Make-up time
Review
90 Unit VI Exam
Palmer The International Anarchy
(p. 695 – 706)
The Armed Stalemate (p. 706 – 712)
Unit VII: The World Wars
World War I, The Russian Revolution, The World between Wars, World War II
Day
Lesson
I. The First World War
A. The International Anarchy
1. Rival Alliances: Triple Alliance
versus Triple Entente
2. The Crises in Morocco and the
Balkans
3. The Sarajevo Crisis and the Outbreak
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of War
B. The Armed Stalemate
1. The War on Land, 1914-1916
2. The War at Sea
3. Diplomatic Maneuvers and Secret
Agreements
Homework
Palmer The Collapse of Russia and the
Intervention of the United States
(p. 712 – 717)
The Collapse of the Austrian and
German Empires (p. 717 – 718)
Worksheet II 08 The Alliance System:
A Search for Security
92
C. The Collapse of Russia and the Intervention
of the United States
1. The Withdrawal of Russia:
Revolution and the Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk
2. The United States and the War
The Final Phase of the War
D. The Collapse of the Austrian and German
Empire
Palmer The Economic and Social Impact
of the War (P. 718 – 722)
The Peace of Paris, 1919 (722 – 731)
Worksheet II 11 The Great War – The
Sidney Bradshaw Fay Thesis
93
E. The Economic and Social Impact of the War
1. Effects on Capitalism: GovernmentRegulated Economies
2. Inflation, Industrial Changes, Control
of Ideas
F. The Peace of Paris, 1919
1. The Fourteen Points and the Treaty
of Versailles
2. Significance of the Paris Peace
Settlement
Palmer Backgrounds (p. 732 – 741)
The Revolution of 1905 (p. 741 – 746)
The Revolution of 1917 (p. 746 – 754)
Worksheet II 12 The Treaty of
Versailles: An Outside Perspective
Reading Quiz #9: The First World War
II. The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union
A. Backgrounds
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1. Russia after 1881: Reaction and
Progress
2. The Emergence of Revolutionary
Palmer The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (p. 754 – 762)
Stalin: The Five-Year Plans and the
Purges (p. 762 – 772)
The International Impact of Communism,
1919 – 1939 (p. 772 – 776)
Day
Lesson
Homework
Parties
Worksheet II 13 The Russian
3. Split in the Democrats: Bolsheviks
Revolution: The More Things Change...
and Mensheviks
B. The Revolution of 1905
1. Background and Revolutionary
Events
2. The Results of 1905: The Duma
3. The Stolypin Reforms
C. The Revolution of 1917
1. End of the Tzardom: The Revolution
of March 1917
2. The Bolshevik Revolution:
November 1917
3. The New Regime: The Civil War,
1918-1922
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D. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1. Government: The Nationalities and
Federalism
2. Govnernment: State and the Party
3. The New Economic Policy,
1921-1927
4. Stalin and Trotsky
E. Stalin: The Five-Year Plans and the Purges
1. Economic Planning
2. The Collectivization of Agriculture
3. The Growth of Industry
4. Social Costs and Social Effects of the
Plans
5. The Purge Trials of the 1930s
F. The International Impact of Communism
1. Socialism and the First World War
2. The Founding of the Third
International
Reading Quiz #10: The Russian Revolution/USSR
III. The Apparent Victory of Democracy
A. The Advance of Democracy after 1919
1. Gains of Democracy and Social
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Democracy
2. The New States of Central and East-
Palmer The Advance of Democracy
(p. 777 – 783)
The German Republic and the Spirit of
Locarno (p. 783 - 788)
Palmer The Revolt of Asia
(p. 788 – 799)
The Great Depression: Collapse of the
World Economy (p. 799 - 804)
Day
Lesson
Homework
Central Europe
3. Economic Problems of Easter
Europe; Land Reform
B. The German Republic and the Spirit of
Locarno
1. The German Democracy and
Versailles
2. Reparations, the Great Inflation of
1923, Recovery
3. The Spirit of Locarno
97
C. The Revolt of Asia
1. Resentments in Asia
2. First World War and Russian
Revoluion
3. The Turkish Revolution: Kemal
Atatürk
4. The National Movement in India:
Gandhi and Nehru
5. The Chinese Revolution: The Three
People's Principles
6. China: Nationalists and Communists
D. The Great Depression: Collapse of the
World Economy
1. The Prosperity of the 1920s and Its
Weaknesses
2. The Crash of 1929 and the Spread of
Economic Crisis
3. Reactions to the Crisis
Reading Quiz #11: The Apparent Victory of
Democracy
IV. Democracy and Dictatorship
A. The United States: Depression and New
98
Deal
B. Trials and Adjustments of Democracy in
Palmer The United States: Depression
and New Deal (p. 805 – 810)
Trials and Adjustments of Democracy in
Britain and France (p. 810 - 818)
Palmer Italian Fascism (p. 818 – 822)
Totalitarianism: Germany's Third Reich
(p. 822 – 833)
Worksheet II 15 The French Search for
Security: An Elusive Goal
Day
Lesson
Homework
Britain and France
1. British Politics: The 1920s and the
Depression
2. Britain and the Commonwealth:
Imperial Relations
3. France: The 1920s and the Coming of
the Depression
4. Depression Ferment and the Popular
Front
5. The Popular Front and After
6. Western Europe and the Depression
99
C. Italian Fascism
D. Totalitarianism: Germany's Third Reich
1. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
2. The Nazi State
3. Totalitarianism: Some Origins and
Consequences
4. The Spread of Dictatorship
Reading Quiz #12: Democracy and Dictatorship
V. The Second World War
A. The Weakness of the Democracies: Again to
War
1. The Pacifism and Disunity of the
West
100
2. The March of Nazi and Fascist
Aggression
3. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
4. The Munich Crisis: Climax of
Appeasement
5. End of Appeasement
101
102
Palmer The Weakness of the
Democracies: Again to War
(p. 834 – 843)
Worksheet II 18 The Mind of the Nazis
Palmer The Years of Axis Triumph
(p. 843 – 849)
Worksheet II 17 The State of the
Nations: 1933-39
B. The Years of Axis Triumph
1. Nazi Europe, 1939-1940: Poland and
the Fall of France
2. The Battle of Britain and
Palmer The Western-Soviet Society
American Aid
(p. 852 - 860)
3. The Nazi Invasion of Russia: The
Russian Front, 1941-1942
4. 1942, the Year of Dismay: Russia,
North Africa, the Pacific
C. The Western-Soviet Victory
1. Plans and Preparations, 1942-1943
2. The Turning Point of the Tide,
1942-1943: Stalingrad,
North Africa, Sicily
3. The Allied Offensive, 1944-1945:
Palmer The Foundation of Peace
(p. 860 – 866)
Worksheet II 16 Soviet Suspicions and
the Search for Security
Day
Lesson
Homework
Europe and the Pacific
103
D. The Foundation of the Peace
Review
Worksheet II 20 World War II: From
Guernica to Nagasaki
104 Make-up Time
Review
Worksheet II 19 Potpourri: A Look at
the Twenties and Thirties
105 Unit VII Exam
Palmer The Cold War: The Opening
Decade, 1945-1955 (p. 867 - 883)
Unit VIII: The Cold War
The Cold War: 1945-55, The Developing World, The Cold War: 1955-75, Collapse of the USSR
Day
Lesson
I. The Cold War: The Opening Decade, 1945-1955
A. The Cold War: Origins and Nature
1. Germany: The Berlin Blockade and
the Airlift of 1948-1949
106
2. The Atlantic Alliance
3. The Revival of Japan
4. Containment in Asia:
The Korean War
Homework
Palmer Western Europe: Economic
Reconstruction (p. 883 – 886)
Western Europe: Political Reconstruction
(p. 886 - 897)
107
B. Western Europe: Economic Reconstruction
1. The Marshall Plan and European
Recovery
2. Economic Growth in Western Europe
C. Western Europe: Political Reconstruction
Palmer Reshaping the Global Economy
1. Great Britain: Labour and
(p. 897 - 903)
Conservative
2. The French Republic:
Fourth and Fifth
3. The Federal Republic of Germany
4. The Italian Republic
108
D. Reshaping the Global Economy
1. Currency Stability: Toward the
“Gold-Dollar” Standard
2. European Integration: The Common
Market and the European
Community
3. End of the Gold-Dollar Standard,
Palmer The Communist World: The
U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe
(p. 903 – 914)
The Communist World: The People's
Republic of China (p. 914 - 918)
Day
Lesson
Homework
1971
E. The Communist World: The U.S.S.R. and
Eastern Europe
1. Stalinism in the Postwar Years
2. Khrushchev: The Abortive Effort at
Reform
3. The Bruzhnev Era
4. A Troubled Economy and Society
5. Brezhnev's Successors: Andropov
and Chernenko
6. Eastern Europe: The Decades of
Dictatorship
Palmer End of the European Empires in
7. Comsolidation of Communist Control Asia (p. 919 - 940)
8. Ferment and Repression in East
Germany, Poland, and Hungary,
1953-1956
9. The 1960s: The “Prague Spring”
10. In the Era of Détente
F. The Communist World: The People's
Republic of China
1. The Civil War
2. The New Regime
3. Foreign Affairs
109
Reading Quiz #13: The Cold War: Opening Decade
II. Empires into Nations: The Developing World
A. End of the European Empires in Asia
1. End of the British Empire
2. The Dutch Empire: Indonesia
3. End of the French Colonial Empire:
Palmer Ferment in the Middle East
Indochina
(p. 940 – 952)
110
4. The Americans and the Phillipines
.
110
cont.
B. The African Revolution
1. French North Africa: The FrenchAlgerian War
2. End of British Rule: West Africa
3. End of British Rule: East Africa
4. Southern Africa
5. The French Sub-Saharan Empire
Palmer Ferment in the Middle East
(p. 940 - 952)
Day
Lesson
Homework
6. The Belgian Congo: Zaire
7. End of the Portuguese Colonial
Empire
8. Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan
9. Liberia: Civil War
10. The African Revolution
111
C. Ferment in the Middle East
1. The Emergence of Israel
2. The Arab-Israeli Wars after
Independence
3. Turmoil in Lebanon
4. Israel, the Occupied Territories, and
Peace Negotiations
5. Libya
6. Revolution in Iran
7. The War between Iran and Iraq
Palmer Changing Latin America
(p. 952 – 959)
The Developing World (p. 959 - 963)
112
D. Changing Latin America
1. The Colonial Experience and the
Wars for Independence
2. The Colossus to the North
3. Economic Growth and Its Problems
4. End of Yankee Imperialism?
5. The Political Record
E. The Developing World
1. The End of Empire
2. The Third World: The Developing
Countries
3. Changing Worlds and Continuing
Problems
Palmer Confrontation and Détente
(p. 978 - 992)
Reading Quiz #14: Empire into Nations
III. A World Endangered: The Cold War
A. Confrontation and Détente, 1955-1975
1. The Kennedy Years, 1961-1963
2. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
113
3. The United States and the
Vietnam War
4. Brezhnev in the 1970s: Détente, the
Hilsinki Conference of 1975
114
B. The Global Economy
1. The Recession: Stagnation and
Inflation
2. Economic and Political Change in
Western Europe
3. The American Economy
4. The Financial World
Palmer The Global Economy
(p. 992 - 1001)
Palmer The Cold War Rekindled
(p. 1002 – 1006)
China after Mao (p. 1006 - 1010)
Day
Lesson
Homework
5. The Enlarged European Community:
Problems and Opportunities
6. Toward a “Single Europe”: the
European Union
115
C. The Cold War Rekindled
1. The Reagan Years: From Revived
Cold War to New Détente
2. Nuclear Arms Control
D. China after Mao
1. Deng's Reforms
2. The “Democracy Movement”
3. Population Growth
Palmer The Crisis in the Soviet Union
(p. 1011 – 1018)
The Collapse of Communism in Central
and Eastern Europe (p. 1018 - 1025)
Reading Quiz #15: A World Endangered
IV. A World Transformed
A. The Crisis in the Soviet Union, Gorbachev
and the West
B. The Collapse of Communism in Central and
Eastern Europe
1. Poland: The Solidarity Movement
Palmer The Collapse of Communism in
2.
Hungary:
Reform
into
Revolution
the Soviet Union (p. 1025 – 1029)
116
3. The German Democratic Republic:
After Communism (p. 1029 - 1041)
A “Gentle” Revolution
4. Czechoslovakia: “'89 Is '68 Upside
Down”
5. Bulgaria and Romania
6. The Revolutions of 1989 in Central
and Eastern Europe
117
C. The Collapse of Communism in Central and
Eastern Europe
1. The “Creeping Coup d'État”
2. The Bungled August Coup
Palmer Intellectual and Social Currents
D. After Communism
(p. 1042 - 1057)
1. Russia after 1991
2. The Resurgence of Nationalism: the
Breakup of Yugoslavia
Day
Lesson
Homework
3. Western Europe and Japan after the
Cold War: Economic and
Political Uncertainties
4. Western Europe: Political Crises and
Discontents
5. Europe's Immigrants and Refugees
6. Japan in the 1990s
118
E. Intellectual and Social Currents
1. The Advance of Science and
Technology
2. Nuclear Physics
3. Implications of Science and
Technology
4. Space Exploration
5. Philosophy: Existentialism in the
Palmer A New Era (p. 1057 - 1065)
Postwar Years
6. Philosophy: Logic and Language;
Literary Criticism; History
7. The Creative Arts
8. Religion in the Modern World
9. Activism: The Youth Rebellion of the
1960s
10. The Women's Liberation Movement
119
F. A New Era
1. The International Scene
2. The Population Explosion,
Environment, the Future of
Humanity
120 Unit VIII Exam
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