• Wappingers Central School District

    Social Studies Department

    Course Syllabus

     

    Course Name - Global History and Geography II - Regents

    Course Code - D447

    Duration - Full YEar

    Credit - 1.0

    Grade - 10

    Rank - 1.00

    Prerequisite - Must have passed Global History and Geography I 

    Assessment - In Global II (grade 10), all students tke the NYS Global History and Geography Regents Exam in June.  The Regents exam is also the final exam for the course - (weight of the Regents Exam on Final Course Average (TBD).  Students must pass this course and Global History Regents Exam in order to graduate.

    Textbook - World History - Connections to Today - (Prentiss Hall, 1999)

     

    Areas of Study :

    I. Enlightenment - 1685 - 1815

    a) Locke, Rousseau, Montesique, Diderot, Hobbes, Wollenstonecraft

     

    II. The Industrial Revolution (1750-1900)

    a) Dawn of the I.R.

    b) Britain leads the way

    c) Hardships of the I.R.

    d) New Ideologies

    e) I.R. Spreads/Cities

     

    III. Revolutions in Europe and Latin America (1790-1848) 

    a) When France sneezes, Europe catches a cold

    b) The Latin American wars of Independence

     

    IV. Nationalism in Europe (1800-1914)

    a) Building a German State

    b) Unifying Italy

    c) Russian Reform

     

    V. The New Imperialism (1800-1914)

    a) A western-dominated world

    b) The partition of Africa

    c) European Challenges to the Muslim World

    d) The New Imperialism of China

    e) Japan Modernizes

    f)  The British take over of India

    g) Impact of Imperialism

     

    VI. World War I and its Aftermath (1914-1919)

    a) The stage is set

    b) A new kind of war

    c) Making peace

     

    VII. The Russian Revolution (1917-1939) 

    a) Two revolutions in Russia

    b) From Lenin to Stalin

    c) Life in a totalitarian state 

     

    VIII. Crisis of Democracy (1919-1939) 

    a) Recovery and Economic Collapse

    b) Rise of Fascism 

    c) Hitler and the rise of Nazi Germany

     

    IX. World War II and its Aftermath (1931-1949)

    a) Aggression, Appeasement and War 

    b) Axis Advances

    c) Global Conflict

    d) From World War to Cold War 

     

    X. The Cold War (1945-Present)

    a) THe Soviet Union

    b) Warsaw Pact vs. NATO

    c) Cold War all over (Cuban Missile Crisis, Race for Space)

     

    XI.  East Asia and Southeast Asia (Mao) 

    a) Japan as a superpower

    b) China - Reform to Revolution (Mao) 

    c) Asian Tigers

     

    XII. South Asia and the Middle East (1919-Present) 

    a) India seeks self rule (Gandhi) 

    b) Nation building in the Middle East 

     

    XIII. Africa (1945-Present)

    a) Achieving Independence

    b) Struggles for Independence (Apartheid)

    c) MOdern Struggles in Africa

     

    XIV. Latin America (1945-PResent)

    a) Forces shaping modern Latin America

     

    XV - Globalization & Environmental Impact 

     

    For Information -  For a complete review of the NYS Social Studies Learning Standards, see http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/sslearn.pdf

     

    For the complete NYS core curriculum for Global History and Geography, see

     

    http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/sscore2.pdf (pp. 89-120)