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World Civilizations: The Global Experience ©2001
by Stearns, Adas, Schwartz, and Gilbert
Focus Lesson 20
Chapter 34: "International Contacts and Conflicts: 1914–1999"
Chapter 35: "The West in the 20th Century"
AP* Course Description
1914–Present
Major Developments
- The World Wars, the Cold War, nuclear weaponry, international organizations, and their impact on global framework (globalization of diplomacy and conflict; global balance of power; reduction of European influence; the League of Nations, the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Nations, etc.)
- New patterns of nationalism, especially outside of the West (the interwar year; decolonization; racism; the Holocaust, genocide; new nationalisms, including the breakup of the Soviet Union)
- Impact of major global economic developments (the Great Depression)
- New forces of revolution and other sources of political innovations
Key Components
- Instructor's Manual:
Chapter 34, pp. 259–269
Chapter 35, pp. 270–276 - Study Guide, Vol. II:
Chapter 34, pp. 125–135
Chapter 35, pp. 136–145 - Test Bank:
Chapter 34, pp. 446–458
Chapter 35, pp. 459–473
Key Web Sites Listed in the Student Text
Given the changing nature of the Internet, you may wish to preview these sites.
- Chapter 34: pp. 864–865
- Chapter 35: p. 887
Key Words and Terms
Chapter 34
- internationalization
- Balfour Declaration
- National Socialist Party
- Munich conference
- Vichy
- Yalta Conference
- Ronald Reagan
- western front
- Great Depression
- Spanish Civil War
- Pearl Harbor
- United Nations
- Marshall Plan
- submarine warfare
- socialism in one country
- Anschluss
- Blitzkrieg
- NATO
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- World War I
- Treaty of Versailles
- final solution
- World War II
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Warsaw Pact
- World Court
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Benito Mussolini
- appeasement
- Winston Churchill
- Potsdam Conference
- League of Nations
- Tripartite Pact
- Adolf Hitler
- Teheran Conference
- Holocaust
- cold war
Chapter 35
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- NATO
- technocrat
- oil crisis
- New Deal
- Federal Republic of Germany
- Margaret Thatcher
- Betty Friedan
- Popular Front
- Pablo Picasso
- Simone de Beauvoir
- fascism
- Great Society
- Common Market
- new feminism
- totalitarian state
- welfare state
- affluent society
- John Maynard Keynes
- Christian Democrat movement
- European Economic Community
- cubist movement
Suggested Pacing
Allow two weeks to teach Chapters 34 and 35 as a unit. There is a great deal of detail in both these chapters. Students should focus on the broad framework of 20th century world history rather than details.
Test Strategy
Sometimes students are concerned that the DBQ will pull down their scores. All three essays are weighted exactly the same, and together the three essays account for 50 percent of the final score. Realizing that the DBQ is worth only a third of the essay score should take some of the pressure off students.
Key Concepts
The setting for 20th-century world history
Taken together, Chapters 34 and 35 provide the broad outline of world history in the 20th century. Chapter 34 deals with World Wars I and II and the conflicts and confrontations between East and West and between imperialists and freedom fighters. Chapter 35 provides the conceptual background for these conflicts and ends with the question: "Will the Real West Please Stand Up?" This section sets up the contradictions in modern life in Western cultures between what is new and modern and what is old and traditional.
Summing Up Student Understanding
Have students combine the time lines on text pp. 838, 839, and 868. Using different color magic markers or a coding system of checks, stars, and dots, have students indicate whether the entries on the time lines are political, economic, cultural, or a combination. Then have students add entries that they believe represent important events and should be included. Students should keep these time lines to aid their review for the AP* World History test.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
You might also find these additional readings useful to develop students' background knowledge or for DBQ activities:
- Aspects of Western Civilization, Vol. II, edited by Rogers—Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11
- Sources of the West, Vol. II, edited by Kishlausky—Part VI
- The Global Experience, Vol. II, edited by Schwartz, Wimmer, and Wolfe—Chapters 24 and 25
- Documents in World History, Vol. II, edited by Stearns, Gosch, and Grieshaber—Section Three