1. Multiple choice trends and highlights
Global Regents--
Multiple choice trends and highlights

2. The World in 1750

3. The World in 1750 Mughal Empire in India
Ottoman Empire in Mediterranean
Absolute rulers in France, Russia, Prussia
Most questions will be about trade routes!! (ocean-based)
Possible question on religious and ethnic tolerance (Global midterm)

4. Enlightenment, Revolution and Nationalism

5. Enlightenment, Revolution and Nationalism
Identifying main ideas of philosophes (Locke**, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft)
Idea that Enlightenment ideas about government led to revolutions (America, France, Latin America, sometimes Great Britain)
Ideas of the Enlightenment used logic and reason and changed expectations of government
Nationalism: definitions and identification
Nationalism: Germany, Italy—caused new countries
Nationalism: Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empire—caused divisions

6. Causes and Effects of the Industrial Revolution

7. Causes and Effects of the Industrial Revolution
Agricultural innovations, enclosure, led to more food production with less labor
Adam Smith and Wealth of Nations
Technological innovations (spinning jenny, water wheal, power loom, steam engine, factory system)
Sometimes contrast factory system with domestic (put-out) system
Urbanization
Growth of middle class
Poor labor conditions and expectations that government address them (Ashley & Sadler Reports)

8. Imperialism

9. Imperialism White Man’s Burden—belief “civilizing” Social Darwinism
Need for raw materials and new markets (economic justification)
Positive and negative effects (esp. India, China)
Rebellions and resistance (Sepoy, Boxer)
Japan and Meiji Restoration
Scramble for Africa (Berlin Conference)

10. Unresolved Global Conflict (WW1 & 2)

11. Unresolved Global Conflict (WW1 & 2)
Causes of WW1
Effects of WW1
New technology in WW1?
Russian Revolution & Marxism
Stalin and totalitarianism
Rise of Fascism in Europe (Hitler, rarely Mussolini)
Appeasement
Start of WW2
Geography and WW2 (Stalingrad, Britain)
Hiroshima
Holocaust

12. Cold War

13. Cold War Tensions between East and West (ideologies)
Aggression by East, containment by West (NATO, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan)
Expansion of communism into Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis
UN response and intervention in Korea
Proxy Wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam
Détente
Gorbachev’s reforms (glasnost & perestroika)—usually identification
Fall of Berlin Wall and collapse of communism
Application of perspectives to questions…..

14. Decolonization and Nationalism

15. Decolonization and Nationalism
Gandhi
Muslim League and INC
Ghana, Kenya nationalism movements
Zionism as a movement
Creation of Israel, Arab-Israeli Wars
Palestinians, PLO, peace process
Chinese civil war and then communist revolution
China: Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Four Modernizations, Two Chinas?

16. Tensions between traditional cultures and modernization

17. Tensions between traditional cultures and modernization
Urbanization and industrialization in developing world (usually general, but curriculum indicates all regions)
Kemal Ataturk in Turkey
Reza Pahlavi in Iran
Technologies changing interactions
Rise of fundamentalism
Rise of terrorism

18. Globalization and a changing global environment

19. Globalization and a changing global environment
Free market, export driven global economy
WTO, World Bank, NAFTA EU
Population growth and threat to environment (desertification, water shortages)
International organizations and conflict (UN, NATO)
Terrorism after 9/11
Rarely—green revolution (1970s)

20. Human Rights Violations

21. Human Rights Violations
UDHR created and why
Genocides (Armenians, Holocaust, Ukrainians, Pol Pot & Cambodians, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Darfur)
Trials (Nuremberg trials, Japanese War Crime Trials, International Criminal Court)
Apartheid in South Africa and resistance
Misc.