GLOBAL HISTORY COMPLETE CURRICULUM, 1750-Today (World History)

The Global/World History 10 Curriculum covers everything from the Enlightenment up to today -- click the links below to preview everything included:

UNIT 1: ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION

Lesson 1: How did the Enlightenment change the way people thought about the world?

Lesson 2: How did Voltaire and other philosophes influence the Enlightenment?
Lesson 3: How did John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu influence modern politics?
Lesson 4: How did the Scientific Revolution change the way people thought about the world?
Lesson 5: How was French society unequal in 1789? (French Revolution: The Estates System)

Lesson 6: What were the causes of the French Revolution?
Lesson 7: Why was the National Assembly formed by the Third Estate?
Lesson 8: The Storming of the Bastille
Lesson 9: Why did Robespierre lead France into the Reign of Terror?
Lesson 10: Did Robespierre’s ‘Law of Suspects’ uphold the goals of the French Revolution?

Lesson 11: How did Napoleon Bonaparte come to power?
Lesson 12: How did Napoleon’s foreign and domestic policies affect Europe?
Lesson 13: How did the French Revolution inspire change in Haiti?
Lesson 14: How did Spain and Portugal build and maintain an empire in Latin America?
Lesson 15: How did the Enlightenment inspire Latin American independence movements?

UNIT 2: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Lesson 1: How is Innovation an Enduring Issue?

Lesson 2: What was the Industrial Revolution? How was it a turning point in history?

Lesson 3: How did innovations during the Industrial Revolution change life in Britain?

Lesson 4: How did industrialization and urbanization affect British workers and cities?

Lesson 5: How did reform movements fix problems caused by the Industrial Revolution?

Lesson 6: Why did Industrial nations start using Adam Smith’s theory of Capitalism?

Lesson 7: How did Laissez-Faire Capitalism affect Ireland in the 1840s?

Lesson 8: What is Communism? Why did Communism emerge during the Industrial Revolution?

UNIT 3: IMPERIALISM

Lesson 1: How was the White Man's Burden used to justify the barbarity of Imperialism?

Lesson 2: How did the British East India Company take control over India?

Lesson 3: How did the Sepoy Rebellion move Indians closer to independence?

Lesson 4: How did the Berlin Conference affect African identity and geography?

Lesson 5: How did imperialism affect Africa over time?

Lesson 6: Why did Britain want to imperialize China?

Lesson 7: How did British imperialism in China lead to the Opium Wars?

Lesson 8: What were the causes and effects of the Boxer Rebellion in China?

Lesson 9: How did Industrialism and Imperialism lead to the Meiji Restoration?

UNIT 4: WORLD WAR I and the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Lesson 1: What were the five causes of World War I? (MANIA Lesson)

Lesson 2: How did the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand mark the start of WWI?

Lesson 3: How was World War I fought differently than wars before it?

Lesson 4: What was the Treaty of Versailles? How did it affect Germany?

Lesson 5: Why did a revolution occur in Russia after World War I?

Lesson 6: Why did Vladimir Lenin found the Soviet Union?

Lesson 7: How did Joseph Stalin rule Russia? How did he compare to Lenin and Marx?

SKILLS REVIEW: What is a CRQ? How do CRQ's teach us to think like historians?

UNIT 5: WORLD WAR II

Lesson 1: What were the historical circumstances that led to World War II?

Lesson 2: Why did Japan imperialize before World War II?

Lesson 3: How did Japanese imperialism add to the failure of the League of Nations?

Lesson 4: How did the Great Depression lead to the rise of totalitarianism in Europe?

Lesson 5: How did Adolf Hitler gain power before the start of World War II?

Lesson 6: How did World War II begin? Where was it fought?

Lesson 7: How did combat innovations lead to the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain?

Lesson 8: Why did the US enter World War II in 1941? (Pearl Harbor/Infamy Speech)

Lesson 9: How did women get involved in the war efforts during World War II?

Lesson 10: Why was D-Day a turning point in World War II?

Lesson 11: What were the historical circumstances that led to the Holocaust?

Lesson 12: How did World War II conclude in Europe and America?

UNIT 6: THE COLD WAR

Lesson 1: How did Germany become divided after World War II?

Lesson 2: How did the Berlin Airlift and new alliances mark the beginning of the Cold War?

Lesson 3: Why was the Berlin Wall built?

Lesson 4: How did the Arms Race and Space Race drive the US and USSR apart?

Lesson 5: How did the Cuban Missile Crisis bring the US to the brink of nuclear war?

Lesson 6: How did the United States try to stop the spread of Communism? (Containment)

Lesson 7: How did détente affect US-Soviet relations?

Lesson 8: Why did the Soviet Union collapse in 1991? What is Russia like today?

Lesson 9: Why did China become a communist state after World War II?

Lesson 10: How did Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward affect China?

Lesson 11: Why did Mao Zedong launch the Cultural Revolution?

Lesson 12: How did Deng Xiaoping’s Four Modernizations change China?

Lesson 13: How did China’s government respond to the Tiananmen Square Protests in 1989?

Lesson 14: How did the Cold War lead to a divided Korea after World War II?

Lesson 15: How did the Cold War lead to US involvement in the Vietnam War?

UNIT 7: DECOLONIZATION AND NATIONALISM

Lesson 1: Why did India want independence from Britain?

Lesson 2: Who was Mohandas Gandhi? How did he help India gain Independence?

Lesson 3: How did the Partition of India affect the people of India and Pakistan?

Lesson 4: How did Pan-Africanism lead to Ghanaian and Kenyan independence?

Lesson 5: How did Apartheid affect South Africans from 1948-1994?

Lesson 6: Who was Nelson Mandela? How did he contribute to the end of Apartheid?

Lesson 7: How did the Rwandan Genocide affect the Tutsi people of Africa?

Lesson 8: Why were Arab Nationalists and Zionists interested in the Middle East?

Lesson 9: How did the Balfour Declaration affect Arab-Nationalists and Zionists?

Lesson 10: Why is there conflict in Israel-Palestine?

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