Life of the Mind

Thematic Units

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Review

9th Grade Review

All the really important ideas from 9th Grade starting with the Neolithic Revolution through Age of Absolutism.
Revolution, Science & Technology

Scientific Revolution

Region:
Western Europe
Main Idea:
Challenge the ideas of the Catholic Church.
Impact of the Indivdual
Copernicus, Galileo
Linkage
Continuation of Renaissance humanism
Vocabulary
Heliocentrism Sun Centered; Geocentrism Earth Centered
Revolution

Enlightenment

Region:
Western Europe
Main Idea:
Challenge the authority of the government using reason and logic.
Impact of the Indivdual
Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, Smith, Wollstonecraft
Linkage
Continued the idea of challenging authority that came out of the Scientific Revolution
Vocabulary
Absolutism Complete Control; Natural Rights Rights Every Human Has From Birth ie. Life, Liberty and Property; Social Contract Agreement That The Government will Protect The Natural Rights Of Their People
Revolution, Nationalism

French Revolution

Region:
Western Europe
Main Idea:
Political, Social, Economic and Ecological causes led the people of France to challenge the authority of their government. The French Revolution reminded everyone that the masses mater.
Impact of the Indivdual
Louis XIV, Robespierre, Napoleon
Linkage
Continued the idea of challenging authority that came out of the Enlightenment. Numerous other revolutions around the world were inspired by the example in France.
Vocabulary
Estates Social Classes; Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizen Constitution; Committee of Public Safety Government led by Robespierre; Directory Government Napoleon overthrew; Napoleonic Code Law Code

Hatian Revolution

Region:
South America/ Latin America
Main Idea:
First successful slave revolt in World History.
Impact of the Indivdual
Toussaint L'ouverture, Napoleon
Linkage
Continued the idea of challenging authority that came out of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
Vocabulary
Hispaniola (sland colony controlled by the French and Spanish; Saint-Dominque French colony known as Haiti toady; Gens de Couleur; Free people of color
Revolution, Macro-Change, Science & Technology

Industrial Revolution

Region:
Western Europe
Main Idea:
Shift from hand made goods to machine made goods and from animal power to fossil fuels. Mass production on a world wide scale.
Impact of the Indivdual
James Watt, Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, Karl Marx
Linkage
Impact of Geography leads Great Britain industrialize first. Continuation of the Rise of the West.
Vocabulary
Capitalism Economic system focsued on the Free Market, supply and demand and little government regulation; Malthusian Road Block Theory that the population will outpace the food supply; Macro-Change A major shift that impacts the world; Urbanization Growth of cities
Nationalism

Nationalism

Regions:
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, Middle East
Main Idea:
The creation of unity based on a common enemy, common language, common ideology and/or common history/hero.
Impact of the Indivdual
Napoleon, L'ouverture, Hidalgo, Bolivar, Garibaldi, Bismark
Linkage
Enlightenment ideas were put into practice during both the American and French Revolution which laid the ground work for the spread of this idea around the world.
Vocabulary
Peninsilares Spanish born colonists; Creoles descendants of Peninsulares; Sepoy Mutiny resistance movement by Indians in India; Boxer Rebellion resistance movement by the Chinese in China
Imperialism

Imperialism

Regions:
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, Middle East, Asia, South and South East Asia, Eastern Asia, Oceania, North and South America and Africa
Main Idea:
Political, Economic, Social and/or Ecological control by an external force.
Impact of the Indivdual
Captain James Cook, Cecil Rhodes
Linkage
Industrialized nations from Western Europe dominated most of the world.
Vocabulary
Mercantilism Economic domination of the mother country over the colony; Spheres of Influence The economic control of an area; Berlin Conference The meeting that started the Scramble for Africa by European powers.
Globalization

Globalization

Regions:
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, Middle East, Asia, South and South East Asia, Eastern Asia, Oceania, North and South America and Africa
Main Idea:
Advances in technology have lessened the impact of time and space.
Impact of the Indivdual
Emperor Meiji
Linkage
Mass produced technological innovations have made the world more interconnected.
Vocabulary
Time Space Compression Perception that the world has gotten smaller; Interdependence The growing reliance on international relationships
Conflict, Globalization

World War One

Regions:
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, Middle East, Asia, South and South East Asia, Eastern Asia, Oceania, North and South America and Africa
Main Idea:
International competition fueled by nationalism, imperialism, and militarism along with shifts in the balance of power and alliances led to the first world war.
Impact of the Indivdual
Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, Tsar Nicolas II, Vladimir Lenin
Linkage
Mass produced weapons and technological innovations coupled with growing tensions between European powers sparked one of the most deadly conflict in history.
Vocabulary
No Mans Land The deadly area between the opposing trenches War of Attrition Fighting till the last person; Total War Everyone is a threat and a target ; Two Front War Fighting on two sides; Bolshevik Revolution Communist overthrow of the Czarist government in Russia
Conflict

After World War One

Regions:
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Asia, Eastern Asia
Main Idea:
Attempts to establish peace after WWI ultimately failed leading to WWII. Economic problems paved the way for the rise of totalitarian leaders.
Impact of the Indivdual
Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, Franco, Chamberlin
Linkage
The aftermath of WWI led to major changes in Russia, Germany and Japan.
Vocabulary
Treaty of Versailles Treaty that punished German for WWI; League of Nations League of Nations an attempt to establish peace after WWI; Fighting till the last person; Totalitarianism Political system of extreme control; Kulak Wealthy Ukrainian peasant; Purge Elimination; Appeasement
Giving into the demands of an aggressor to avoid conflict; Munich Conference Sudetenland was given to Germany to avoid conflict
Conflict, Globalization

World War Two

Regions:
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, Middle East, Asia, South and South East Asia, Eastern Asia, Oceania, North and South America and Africa
Main Idea:
The development of new weapons made this the most deadly conflict in history.
Impact of the Indivdual
Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman
Linkage
Industrialized nations had the ability to equip, mobilize and sustain a war effort never before seen in history.
Vocabulary
Hitler-Stalin Pact Agreement not to attack each other; Blitzkrieg Lightening war; United Nations Peace keeping organizations; Nuremberg Trails Leaders can be held accountable for crimes against humanity; Genocide Systematic elimination of a specific group; Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japanese cities destroyed with nuclear weapons
Conflict, Science & Technology

Cold War

Regions:
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, Middle East, Asia, South and South East Asia, North and South America
Main Idea:
United States and the Soviet Union emerged as global superpowers engaged in ideological, political, economic, and military competition.
Impact of the Indivdual
Stalin, Truman, Khrushchev, Kennedy, Castro, Gorbachev, Reagan, Yeltsin, Ho Chi Min
Linkage
The Cold War originated from tensions near the end of World War II as plans for peace were made and implemented. The Cold War was characterized by competition for power and ideological differences between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Vocabulary
Arms Race A competition to build up an nuclear arsenal; Proxy War Conflict fought between countries with the support of a superpower; Containment Policy aimed at stopping the spread of Communism; Iron Curtain Imaginary line between Communist and Democratic nations in Eastern and Western Europe; NATO Alliance between non-communist nations led by the US; Warsaw Alliance between communist satellites of the USSR; Glasnost A political reform in the USSR; Perestroika Economic reform in USSR
Nationalism

Decolonization

Regions:
Africa, Middle East, Asia, South and South East Asia, South America
Main Idea:
Many former colonies of Western European powers achieved independence.
Impact of the Indivdual
Gandhi, Nehru, Mandela, De Klerk, Tutu, Kenyatta, Nkrumah, Selassie
Linkage
As WWII weakened the Western European colonial masters, nationalistic movements encouraged many oppressed people to seek freedom.
Vocabulary
Civil Disobedience A non-violent method used bring about change; Salt March Non-violent mass movement in India; Apartheid System of racial separation in South Africa; Zionism Movement back to Israel
Change

Modernization

Regions:
Eastern Europe, South America, Middle East, Asia, South and South East Asia, North and South America
Main Idea:
Attempts by non-western and non-industrialized nations to industrialized in the recent past.
Impact of the Indivdual
Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping,
Linkage
China's continued growth and dominance of world markets is tied directly to their decision to modernize.
Vocabulary
Great Leap Forward Disastourus attempt at industrializing in China; Cultural Revolution Brutal attempt by Mao to reclaim his authority;
Four Modernizations
A movement toward a more open economic system in China
Conflict

Contemporary Issues

Regions:
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, Middle East, Asia, South and South East Asia, North and South America, Africa
Main Idea:
Tensions exist between traditional culture and modernization. Reactions for and against modernization depend on perspective and context.
Impact of the Indivdual
Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Ladin, Yasser Arafat
Linkage
Events today are a result of the connections throughout history.
Vocabulary
Nuclear Proliferation, The spread of nuclear weapons