Overview – Honors World History
Imperialism and Wars Unit (Kagan Chapters 26 & 27)
Be Able To:
1.
Explain the various causes of Imperialism.
2.
Give an overall year-by-year review of the important military strategies and
events of WWI.
3.
Compare and contrast the conditions of the European politics and society that
existed at Congress of Vienna (1815) with those existing at the time of the Paris
Peace Conference (1919).
Reading Assignments:
Imperialism, Alliances, and War
Assign. 1: Chap. 26 pp. 912-20 & 921-27 (pp.888-901 )
Expansion of European Imperialism…**
German Empire and Alliance Systems***
Doc. p. 914(p.890) – Refl.
Terms/People/Places:
New Imperialism
Triple Alliance
Boer War
Entente Cordiale
Assign. 2: Chap. 26 pp. 927-939 (pp. 902-915)
WWI***
War in the East**
Doc: p. 920-921(p. 896) – OPVL
Terms/People/Places:
Bosnia
Archduke Ferdinand
Triple Entente
“Blank Check”
Lusitania
Schlieffen Plan
Assign. 3: Chap. 26 pp. 939-944 (pp. 915-19)
Russian Revolution***
No Doc
AQ: Describe the economic and political realities of Russia during WWI. Why did
Russia need to exit the War and why were the Bolsheviks such an instant success?
Terms/People/Places:
Alexander Kerensky
Leon Trotsky
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Bolsheviks
Mensheviks
Red Army
White Army
Assign. 4: Chap. 26 pp. 944-955 (pp. 919-26)
End of WWI**
Settlement of Paris***
No Doc.
AQ: Explain the successes and failures of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Terms/People/Places:
Balkans
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Paris Settlement of 1919
Fourteen Points
John Maynard Keyes
Political Experiments of the 1920’s
Assign. 5: Chap. 27, pp. 966-973 (pp. 936-942 )
Political and Economic Factors…Paris Settlement**
Soviet Experiment Begins***
Docs: pp. 970-971(pp. 939) – Refl.
AQ: Explain the chief issues that divided Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin and defined their
struggle for power.
Terms/People/Places:
“Peace, Bread, and Land”
Josef Stalin
The Third International (Comintern)
Notebook
Terms
Assigns. 1-5
Map