The History Project - University of California, Davis
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10.1 - 1.000 the similarities and differences in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman views of law; reason and faith; duties of the individual
10.1 - 2.001 the development of the Western political ideas of the rule of law and illegitimacy of tyranny, drawing from selections from Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics
10.1 - 3.000 the influence of the U.S. Constitution on political systems in the contemporary world
10.10 - 1.000 challenges in the region, including its geopolitical, cultural, military, and economic significance and the international relationships in which it is involved
10.10 - 2.000 the recent history of the region, including the political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns
10.10 - 3.001 the important trends in the region today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual freedom and democracy
10.2 - 1.005 the major ideas of philosophers and their effect on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America (e.g., biographies of John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, J
10.2 - 2.000 the principles of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights (1689), the American Declaration of Independence (1776), the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789), and the U.S. Bill of Rights (1791)
10.2 - 3.000 the unique character of the American Revolution, its spread to other parts of the world, and its continuing significance to other nations
10.2 - 4.000 how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire
10.2 - 5.000 how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon, was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848
10.3 - 1.000 why England was the first country to industrialize
10.3 - 2.007 how scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change (e.g., biographies of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison,)
10.3 - 3.000 the growth of population, rural to urban migration and growth of cities associated with the Industrial Revolution
10.3 - 4.003 the evolution of work and labor, including the demise of the slave trade and effect of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, and the union movement
10.3 - 5.000 the connections among natural resources, entrepreneurship, labor and capital in an industrial economy
10.3 - 6.005 the emergence of capitalism as a dominant economic pattern and the responses to it, including Utopianism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and Communism
10.3 - 7.005 the emergence of the Romantic impulse in art and literature (e.g., the poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth), social criticism (e.g., Charles Dickens’ novels) and the move away from Classicism in Europe
10.4 - 1.008 the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonialism (e.g., the role played by national security and strategic advantage; moral issues raised by search for national hegemony, Social Darwinism and the missionary impulse; material
10.4 - 2.003 the location of the colonial rule of such nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the United States
10.4 - 3.0037 imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term responses by the people under colonial rule
10.4 - 4.001 the independence struggles of the colonized regions of the world, including the role of leaders, such as Sun Yat-sen in China, and the role of ideology and religion
10.5 - 1.002 the arguments for entering into war presented by leaders from all sides of the Great War and the role of political and economic rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, domestic discontent and disorder, and propaganda and nationalism in mobilizing ci
10.5 - 2.002 the principal theaters of battle, major turning points and the importance of geographic factors in military decisions and outcomes (e.g., topography, waterways, distance, climate)
10.5 - 3.001 how the Russian Revolution and the entry of the United States affected the course and outcome of the war
10.5 - 4.0014 the nature of the war, the human costs (military and civilian) on all sides of the conflict, including how colonial peoples contributed to the war effort
10.5 - 5.000 human rights and genocide, including the Ottoman government’s actions against Armenian citizens
10.6 - 1.003 the aims and negotiating roles of world leaders, the terms and influence of the Treaty of Versailles and Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the causes and effects of U.S. rejection of the League of Nations on world politics
10.6 - 2.000 the effects of the war and resulting peace treaties on population movement, the international economy, and shifts in the geographic and political borders of Europe and the Middle East
10.6 - 3.000 the widespread disillusionment with prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians
10.6 - 4.000 the influence of World War I on literature, art, and intellectual life in the West (e.g., Pablo Picasso, the "lost generation" of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway)
10.7 - 1.000 the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin's use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control (e.g., the Gulag)
10.7 - 2.001 Stalin's rise to power in the Soviet Union and the connection between economic policies, political policies, the absence of a free press, and systematic violations of human rights (e.g., the Terror Famine in Ukraine)
10.7 - 3.002 the rise, aggression, and human costs of totalitarian regimes (Fascist and Communist) in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union noting their common and dissimilar traits
10.8 - 1.000 the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930's, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking and other atrocities in China and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939
10.8 - 2.000 the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II
10.8 - 3.001 the identification and location of the Allied and Axis powers; the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions; and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions with emphasis on the importance o
10.8 - 4.000 the political, diplomatic and military leadership (e.g., biographies of Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower)
10.8 - 5.002 the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews, its transformation into the Final Solution and the Holocaust resulting in the murder of six million Jewish civilians
10.8 - 6.002 the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, United States, China, and Japan
10.9 - 1.000 the economic and military power shifts caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic recovery of Germany and Japan
10.9 - 2.000 the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition for influence in such places as Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile
10.9 - 3.000 the importance of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan which established the pattern for the postwar American policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas
10.9 - 4.000 the Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and economic upheavals in China (e.g., the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square uprising)
10.9 - 5.000 uprisings in Poland (1952), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968) and their resurgence in the 1970's and 1980's as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control
10.9 - 6.000 how the forces of nationalism developed in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding the need for a Jewish state, the significance and effects of the location and establishment of Israel on world affairs
10.9 - 7.000 the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the weakness of the command economy, burdens of military commitments, and growing resistance to Soviet rule by dissidents in satellite states and the non-Russian Soviet republics
10.9 - 8.000 the establishment and work of the United Nations, the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, and NATO, Organization of American States and their purposes and functions

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