Read: William Duiker, Contemporary World History, fifth edition chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4.
This text book is dense with factual information, and what might be new vocabulary for a beginning student of history. Preview each text book chapter before you begin to read it. This means to page through the chapter looking at the chapter headings in order to understand the major issues that the chapter deals with. Read one section at a time attempting to understand the “story” that the section is telling, rather than focusing on the multiple facts that it includes.
To aid in your comprehension I have included lists of states or areas that you should be able to locate on an historical map.
I am also including vocabulary terms or historical identification terms that you should understand. You may need to use a dictionary or a reference work to understand these. Many reference works are available electronically through the College of DuPage library website if you have a library card. You can apply for a library card electronically. A good reference work available electronically through the library that you can use is the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Finally, I am including focus questions which you should be able to answer if you understand the “story” of the chapter.
When you have completed your study of the chapters for this unit, you may complete the Unit Objective Exam. There are 50 multiple choice questions in the Unit Objective Exam. The Exam is open book but you may take it only once. You have one and a half hours to complete the Exam. Once you start it, you must complete it. There is no saving and coming back. That means that you must have a good grasp of the text book material before you begin.
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Click on the links below to access the corresponding chapter’s vocabulary terms and focus questions:
Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4
Chapter One:
Places you should be able to locate on an historical map: Maps help you to understand where events took place. Use the maps in your text or you can use the historical map linked to here.
Europe circa 1911:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/europe_1911.jpg
Great Britain
France
German Empire
Austria-Hungary
The Russian Empire
The Ottoman Empire
the Balkans
Vocabulary:
Industrial Revolution
American System
tariffs
cartels
world economy
mass society
landed aristocracy
upper middle class or bourgeoisie
plutocrats
working class
liberalism
nationalism
The German Empire
Austria-Hungary
The Russian Empire
Tsar
serfs
emancipation of the serfs
the People’s Will
The Ottoman Empire
the Balkans
Serbia
Socialism
Karl Marx and Marxism
social democratic parties
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
social Darwinism
Sigmund Freud
Focus Questions:
What factors explain why the Industrial Revolution occurred first in Great Britain? How did the mechanization of production spread into western Europe and the United States?
What new products and new forms of organization transformed the industrial world after 1870?
What were the successes and failures of liberalism in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States?
What role was played by the old order, nationalism, and liberalism in Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary?
How would you define socialism, Marxism, and social democratic parties?
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Chapter Two:
See maps:
Asia (circa 1892)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/asia_1892_amer_ency_brit.jpg
and “Indo-China” (1886)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/indo_china_1886.jpg
and Africa around 1890
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/africa_1890.jpg
In South Asia:
India
Dutch East Indies
Malay Peninsula and Singapore
Burma
Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Thailand
Philippines
In Africa:
Egypt
Suez Canal
Algeria
Gold Coast
Sierra Leone
Ghana
Nigeria
Kenya
South Africa
Vocabulary:
Imperialism
colonialism
Hinduism
Islam
Mughals
Scramble for Africa
White Man’s Burden
Swahili
legitimate trade
Bantus
Boers
Cecil Rhodes
indirect rule
direct rule
assimilation
association
Macaulay
sati
thugee
zamindar
Focus Questions:
How did the relationship of Europe with Asia and Africa begin? What is the relationship between nineteenth century European colonialism and the Industrial Revolution?
What were the motives for European imperialism in the nineteenth century? What was the rationale for the scramble for Africa?
What were the positives and the negatives of British rule for the people of India?
What were the different methods of colonial rule in South Asia? Discuss the positives and the negatives for the people ruled of each method of rule.
What were the differences between European interests in South Asia and those in Africa?
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Chapter Three:
Places you should be able to locate on an historical map:
Asia 1892:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/asia_1892_amer_ency_brit.jpg
Modern Asia reference map:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/asia_ref_2007.jpg
China
Beijing
Canton
Hong Kong
Japan
Tokyo
Korea
Vocabulary:
Qing or Manchu dynasty
Lord Macaulay
Confucianism
Opium War
Treaty of Nanjing
Taiping Rebellion
Treaty of Tianjin
self-strengthening
Kang Youwei
Guangxu
Empress Cixi
Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
Sun Yat-sen
Tokugawa Japan
closed country
daimyo
samurai
Meiji Restoration
Focus Questions:
What economic and social conditions in China in the nineteenth century weakened the Qing dynasty?
What events in nineteenth century China demonstrate the increasing weakness of the Chinese government?
How did the Chinese government respond to Western incursions in the nineteenth century?
How did the Chinese government collapse by 1911?
How did the Japanese react to Western incursions in the nineteenth century?
What changes in Japanese society, government, and economics were made by the Meiji reformers?
How did the different reactions of China and Japan lead to different fates?
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Chapter Four:
Places you should be able to locate on an historical map: See map of Balkan states.
Balkan States circa 1899
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/balkan_states_1899.jpg
Balkans
Serbia
Vocabulary:
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Balkans
Bosnian Crisis
Bosnia
Herzegovina
Serbia
Schlieffen Plan
Trench warfare
Breakthrough
Ottoman Empire
Total war
DORA
Tsar Nicholas II
March Revolution
Duma and Provisional Government
Socialist Revolutionaries
St. Petersburg Soviet
Lenin
Bolsheviks
Bolshevik Revolution
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russian Civil War
Versailles Conference
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
Georges Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Treaty of Versailles
Dawes Plan
Spirit of Locarno
Great Depression
John Maynard Keynes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New Deal
Socialism in one country
New Economic Policy
Joseph Stalin
Five Year Plans
Collective farms
Focus Questions:
What role did pre-war alliances, war plans, and conflicts in the Balkans play in the beginning of World War I?
What is meant by “total war” in the context of World War I? How did total war change Britain and France?
Since most of the battles were fought in Europe, how was this war a “world war?”
How did the withdrawal of Russia from the war and the entrance of the United States help to bring this war to a close?
What were Germany’s problems in the 1920’s?
After the Bolshevik Revolution, how did Lenin deal with the difficulties of the new state?
Why do historians sometimes refer to “Stalin’s Revolution?” What were the major aspects of Stalin’s Revolution?
