Course Number: SS171
Course Title: World History II
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
General
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the major sweep of historical trends and
events between 1500 and the present.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the major cultural, economic, social,
political and intellectual developments placed within their
geographical context.
3. Demonstrate the ability to understand how the past 500 years has given shape
to the modern world with all of its achievements,
failures, challenges, problems and opportunities.
4. Demonstrate an ability to locate on a map and characterize all of the world's
major geographical regions and nations.
Specific
Students will be able to:
Unit 1- The Reformation in Europe
1. Describe the conflict between
worldliness and spirituality, specify the charges of corruption, and trace the
reform movement in the
fifteenth-century Catholic church.
2. Define Christian humanism and the role of Erasmus in it.
3. Describe the career and religious principles of Martin Luther and show the
development of Lutheranism as a separate church.
4. Describe the career of John Calvin and contrast his religious principles with
those of Luther and the Catholic church.
5. Compare the Anabaptists and other radical reforms with those of Luther,
Calvin and the Anglicans.
6. Describe the Catholic response to the Reformation and estimate the
significance of all the sixteenth century religious reforms.
Unit 2 - The A& of
Discovery and the Spanish
Empire
1. List and describe technological and
commercial developments that enabled western Europeans to explore overseas
areas.
2. Discuss the role of Portugal and Spain in overseas exploration and
development; show the areas involved and the economic,
governmental, and religious policies that applied.
3. Explain why the Netherlands broke from Spanish control and describe the
course of events that completed Dutch independence.
4. Describe the leadership of Elizabeth I of England. Show how she handled major
political, dynastic, economic and religious issues.
5. Explain how religious strife became politicized in France; describe events of
the civil wars, and show how the strife was resolved.
6. Discuss sixteenth-century artistic and literary accomplishments in Spain,
France, England, and the Netherlands.
Unit 3 - The Moslem Empires
1.
Describe the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries;
trace their conquests and describe their military
technology and practices.
2. Discuss the impact which the rise of the Ottoman Turk and the expanding
Ottoman Empire had upon Europe.
3. Characterize the Ottoman culture in terms of government, religion and art.
4. Trace the rise of the Safavids in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries; describe the events and persons which led to and
sustained their rule.
5. Discuss the rise of the Mughal Dynasty in
India; describe the events and persons which led to their rule.
6. Describe the Mughal cultural synthesis in terms of scholarship, religion and
government.
Unit 4 -The East Asian World
1.
Describe the cultural achievement of the Ming dynasty
2. Trace the rise of the Qing dynasty and characterize the social
and political structures, relationships and practices which enabled
them
to rule.
3. Describe the artistic and literary achievements of the Qing era.
4. Describe the unification of Japan beginning under Hideyoshi in the
sixteenth century; and trace the rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate
in
seventeenth century Japan.
5. Discuss the events which led to and the impact of the opening of
Japan to the West beginning in the sixteenth century
6. Describe the social, political, economic and cultural developments
and achievements of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Unit 5- The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment in Europe
1. Describe the transition between medieval and Newtonian
concepts of the universe and explain the contributions of specific
scientists
2. Name and describe writings that illustrate seventeenth-century
individualism, relativism, rationalism and empiricism.
3. Explain the historical meaning of the term Enlightenment. List its
concepts used most frequently in the writings of the philosophes.
4. Explain Rousseau's views concerning the Enlightenment. Show what his
writings contributed to the rise of Romanticism.
Unit 6 - Europe and the
Emerging New World Order in the Eighteen Century
1. Explain why the principle of equilibrium is useful in
discussing eighteenth-century politics, war, and science in Europe
2. Trace the chronology of European war and diplomacy from 1740 to 1763.
Relate these to the struggle for colonial supremacy.
3. Explain the tension between England and its North American colonies;
trace the events of the American Revolution and evaluate its
impact on
European and American history.
4. Describe the most important and urgent social and economic problems
of France prior to 1789.
5. Describe in chronological order the events that led to the French
Revolution.
6. Describe the political
institutions and changes in French government between 1791 and 1804.
7. Explain the conditions and personal qualities which enabled Napoleon
to rise in power and conquer most of Europe.
Unit 7- The Industrial Revolution
1. Describe the population changes before the
mid-eighteenth century and explain them in terms of disease, weather, food
supply, and
technology
2. Explain why the conditions leading to the Industrial Revolution occurred
first in the West rather than in the Middle East of East Asia.
3. Contrast the factory system with other manufacturing methods that preceded
it; relate it to the steam engine and the need for
highly skilled labor.
4. Describe and explain the demographic and social consequences of the
Industrial Revolution.
Unit 8 - Europe and the World in the Nineteenth Century
1. Name and locate on a map the areas acquired
by Britain at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and show how they were integrated
into
the British Empire.
2. Describe the commercial, financial, and industrial objectives of
British and French expansion in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific
3. Describe
French, German, and Russian expansion in the nineteenth century and compare them
with British expansion.
4. Trace the main events of the history of the United States in the nineteenth
century and explain why that country may be called a
"second Europe".
5. Describe the liberation movements in Latin America and show how the new
states differed from the United States.
Unit 9 - Transition to the Twentieth Century
1. Describe the developments in weapons
technology and public attitudes toward war in Europe between 1871 and 1914.
2. Trace the development of Bismark's system of alliances from 1871 to
1890; and explain the basic ideas behind these alliances.
3. Describe British policy in Africa and show how they were affected by the Boer
War.
4. Discuss how Japanese expansionism in Asia was met by the major powers in
Europe.
5. Describe the challenges of British naval superiority and relate them to the
entry of the United States and Germany into the
community of nations holding
overseas territories.
6. Describe the series of diplomatic crises between 1870 and 1914; relate them
to the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente; and explain
the immediate origins of
the First World War.
Unit 10 - War and Revolution.
1914 to 1929
1. Describe the major
military campaigns of the First World War, the war aims of each great power, and
the way the war ended.
2. Discuss the industrial, geographical, and social aspects of the countries
participating in the First World War.
3. Explain why the war in France became a stalemate and how the strategy of
attrition was employed.
4. Explain how the United States became involved in the First World War and
describe American participation in the hostilities.
5. Describe the two revolution in Russia in 1917.
6. Describe the process of peacemaking, list the provisions of the treaty and
characterize German reactions to them.
Unit 11- The Interwar World,
1919-1939
1. Explain the effect of the
First World War on the political structures of Great Britain, France, Germany,
and Eastern Europe.
2. Describe the main political and economic issues, conditions, events, and
personalities in the United States during the 1920's.
3. Explain the economic origins and political results of the Great Depression.
4. Describe and explain the main issues of
Western relations with colonies in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia,
Southeast Asia, East
Asia and the Pacific.
5. Describe the economic and political issues that dominated public affairs in
Britain, France, and the United States in the 1930's.
6. Describe contributions of science and technology to mass culture and material
program and show why they fostered uncertainty.
7. Explain the give examples of pessimism in literature, the arts, and comments
of intellectuals between 1919 and 1939.
8. Trace in chronological order and explain the events which led to World War
II.
Unit 12 - From the Second
World War to Cold War, 1939-1949
1. Describe the technology and methods that
characterized land, sea, and air warfare in the Second World War.
2. Describe and locate on map the principle military campaigns of the Second
World War.
3. Explain the strategies and results of each campaign.
4. Explain the Alliance plans for the postwar period as developed in wartime
conferences.
5. Explain the problems of making peace with Germany and show how they were
related to the beginning of the Cold War.
6. Trace the development of specific policies and organizations employed in the
Cold War.
7. Describe the basic idea of the United Nations and show how it was affected by
the Cold War.
Unit 13 - The Are of
Ideology and Containment, 1945 to 1975
1. Describe the international confrontations in
Europe and Asia between 1949 and 1953 and relate them to the last phase of
Stalin's
rule.
2. Describe the rise of Kruschev to power, explain his new orientation of Soviet
policy, and trace the course of Cold War diplomacy
during his tenure.
3. Explain the establishment of the state of Israel and trace the confrontations
in the Middle East between 1948 and 1973.
4. Describe the origins, trace the events, and explain the issues
involved in the Vietnam War.
5. Discuss major the social, political and cultural events and changes in
America during the 1960's and 1970's, explain their causes and
describe their
effects on American domestic and foreign policy.
Unit 14 - The End of Empires: Decolonization of the "Third World"
1. Describe and evaluate the
concept of the "third world".
2. Describe the events and explain the results of political development in
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
3. Discuss the political development of China under Mao Zedong and explain the
changes brought about under Deng Xiaoping.
4. Explain the political and economic development of Indochina, the Philippines,
South Korea, North Korea, Japan and the Pacific
Islands since 1945.
5. Describe the events and explain the goals of Arab nationalism with special
regard to Algeria, Israel, the Cold War, and Moslem
religious fundamentalism.
6. Explain the special problems of the newly independent countries of Africa
south of the Sahara.
Unit 15 - The End of the Twentieth
Century
1. Describe the events that
created international tension during the period of American and Soviet detente
and explain why and how
detente and eventually the Soviet Union collapsed.
2. Explain the process of liberalization of China under Deng Xiaoping and his
successors in China today.
3. Trace and explain the evolution of Japan as a world economic power.
4. Describe the impact of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries on
the economies of Europe, Asia and America.
5. Describe and explain the Islamic revolution in Iran, the Iran-Iraq War, the
Gulf War, the civil war in Lebanon, and the rise of
terrorism as official
policy.
6. Explain the relative decline in the ability of the "superpowers" to dominate
world policy decisions.
7. Describe the most important positive and negative developments of science,
technology, and culture in the second half of the
twentieth century.