Unit 7 Map

 7.1 Shifting Powers After 1900

Learning Objective A: Explain how internal and external factors contributed to change in various states after 1900.

KC-6.2.I.A - The older, land-based Ottoman, Russian, and Qing empires collapsed due to a combination of internal and external factors. These changes in Russia eventually led to communist revolution.

KC-6.2.II.D - States around the world challenged the existing political and social order, including the Mexican Revolution that arose as a result of political crisis.

Learning Target: I can compare the causes and effects of the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian Revolutions. 

 

7.2 Causes of World War I

Learning Objective B: Explain the causes and consequences of World War I.

KC-6.2.IV.B.i -The causes of World War I included imperialist expansion and competition for resources. In addition, territorial and regional conflicts combined with a flawed alliance system and intense nationalism to escalate the tensions into global conflict.

Learning Target: I can explain the causes of World War I.

 

7.3 Conducting World War I

Learning Objective C: Explain how governments used a variety of methods to conduct war.

KC-6.2.IV.A.i: World War I was the fırst total war. Governments used a variety of strategies, including political propaganda, art, media, and intensifıed forms of nationalism, to mobilize populations (both in the home countries and the colonies) for the purpose of waging war.

Learning Target: I can determine how colonies were utilized in World War I.

 

7.4 Economy in Interwar Period

Learning Objective D: Explain how different governments responded to economic crisis after 1900.

KC-6.3.I.B - Following World War I and the onset of the Great Depression, governments began to take a more active role in economic life.

Learning Target: I can explain how European governments responded to the Great Depression

 

7.5 Unresolved Tensions of World War I

Learning Objective E: Explain the continuities and changes in territorial holdings from 1900 to the present.

KC-6.2.I.B - Between the two world wars, Western and Japanese imperial states predominantly maintained control over colonial holdings; in some cases, they gained additional territories through conquest or treaty settlement and in other cases faced anti- imperial resistance.

Illustrative Examples - Territorial gains: Transfer of former German colonies to Great Britain and France under the system of League of Nations mandates, Manchukuo/Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Learning Target: I can determine the tensions between nations before World War II.

7.6 Causes of World War II

Learning Objective F: Explain the causes and consequences of World War II.

KC-6.2.IV.B.ii - The causes of World War II included the unsustainable peace settlement after World War I, the global economic crisis engendered by the Great Depression, continued imperialist aspirations, and especially the rise to power of fascist and totalitarian regimes that resulted in the aggressive militarism of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.

Learning Target: I can analyze cartoons related to the causes of World War II.

 

7.7 Conducting World War II

Learning Objective G: Explain similarities and differences in how governments used a variety of methods to conduct war.

KC-6.1.III.C.ii - New military technology and new tactics, including the atomic bomb, fıre- bombing, and the waging of “total war” led to increased levels of wartime casualties.

Learning Target: I will evaluate the waging of and consequences of Total War.

 

7.8 Mass Atrocities after 1900

Learning Objective H: Explain the various causes and consequences of mass atrocities in the period from 1900 to the present.

KC-6.2.III.C - The rise of extremist groups in power led to the attempted destruction of specifıc populations, notably the Nazi killing of the Jews in the Holocaust during World War II, and to other atrocities, acts of genocide, or ethnic violence.

Illustrative Examples - Genocide, ethnic violence, or attempted destruction of specifıc populations: Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I, Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.

Learning Target: I can determine the causes and effects of mass atrocities in the 20th century.

 

7.9 Causation in Global Conflict

Learning Objective I: Explain the relative signifıcance of the causes of global conflict in the period 1900 to the present.

Learning Target: I can explain causes of World War I and World War II.