High School World History- Resources

WH 3 | Dawn of the Industrial Revolution Examine the origins, impact, and spread of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.

1. Analyze the factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in England.

2. Discuss the significance of the Agricultural Revolution, Enclosure Movement,
and the Industrial Revolution and their impact on society (e.g., Charles
Townshend, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, etc.).

3. Evaluate important concepts and inventors during the Industrial Revolution (e.g.,
James Hargreaves, Eli Whitney, James Watt, Thomas Edison, the Bessemer Process,
etc.).

4. Contrast factors that enhanced or impeded the spread of Industrial Revolution into
Eastern Europe and the Far East.

Edison and the Kansas Housewife (BB) Assessment

The Industrial Revolution in the United States – Primary Source Set 

WH 4 | Results of the Industrial Revolution
Analyze capitalism as the economic philosophy that developed as a result of the Industrial Revolution and compare economic reactions to capitalism including socialism and communism.

1. Examine the principles of capitalism as developed by classical economist
Adam Smith.

2. Compare and contrast the rise of economic theories as a result of the
industrial revolution (e.g., capitalism, socialism, Marxism, communism, etc.).

3. Appraise government reactions to social problems including Britain’s and
Germany’s passage of labor laws, early welfare, and insurance programs.

4. Investigate major social problems and solutions caused by urban
overcrowding and lack of environmental control (e.g., the contributions of
Baron Haussmann, Edwin Chadwick, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, etc.).

5. Analyze the International impacts and contributions of intellectual
movements (e.g., Darwinism, suffrage, medicine, psychology, physics, etc.).

WH 5 | Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
Analyze the emergence of nationalism and its role in the nineteenth century revolutions, unification movements, and the emergence of multinational empires.

2. Analyze the characteristics that defined Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the
Ottoman Empire as multinational empires.

3. Trace the emergence of political economic, and social modernization in the
early twentieth-century Russian Empire (e.g., the reign of the Romanov
dynasty, Russian expansionism, emancipation of the serfs, etc.).

WH 6 | Imperialism Evaluate western imperialism as a force of global change, emphasizing its impact on colonized peoples and lands.

3. Compare important events in the partition of Africa by European powers
(e.g., construction of the Suez Canal, the French occupation of Algeria,
Belgium’s claim to the Congo, defeat of Italy by Ethiopia, Anglo- Boer Wars,
development of apartheid in South Africa, etc.).

Soweto Uprising (BB) Assessment

Apartheid in South Africa (BB) Assessment

WH 7 | World War I Examine the causes, effects, and significant events of World War I in
Europe.

1. Assess the primary causes of World War I (e.g., the rise of militarism, alliance
systems, nationalism, imperialism, assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, etc.).

2. Describe how trench warfare and advances in military technology affected
the course and outcome of World War I.

3. Examine the role of propaganda as a means to mobilize civilian populations
during World War I.

4. Evaluate the physical and economic destruction of Europe caused by World
War I.

5. Analyze the United States’ increasing role in global affairs during and after
World War I.

American Imperialism (BB) Assessment

World War I Advertising (BB) Assessment

Debate Over the League of Nations (BB) Assessment

Russia and Austria in World War I (BB) Assessment

Dome Hospital (BB) Assessment

League of Nations (BB) Assessment

Appeasement at Munich (BB) Assessment

Letter from Katherine Wright, 1909

The Public Health Nurse, around 1914-18

WH 8 | Interwar Period Analyze the challenges of the interwar period, emphasizing the rise of
totalitarian states.

1. Analyze the Treaty of Versailles as an agent for unrest.

WH 9 | World War II Compare and contrast the causes, effects, and significant events of World War II.

1. Analyze totalitarian aggression by Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet
Union, and examine how the administrations of Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito,
and Stalin prompted the outbreak of war.

WH 10 | Cold War Analyze the period of post-World War II recovery and realignment, emphasizing the social, economic, and political effects of the Cold War.

2. Analyze various economic, political, and military shifts of the post-World War II world
(e.g., effects of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan in Europe and Southeast Asia,
nationalism in Africa, détente in China, the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union,
etc.).

5. Trace the political movements of various nationalist groups and their leaders
in Latin America, the Middle East, French-Indochina, and Africa (e.g., Fidel
Castro in Cuba, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt, etc.).

Napalm in Vietnam (BB) Assessment

Buddhist Monk Protest (BB) Assessment

WH11 | Contemporary World Debate the changing role of globalization
in the contemporary world.

1. Examine social and political issues that helped advance civil and human rights
(e.g., Mahatma Gandhi in India, Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States,
Nelson Mandela in South Africa, etc.).

2. Examine OPEC’s dominance over the world’s oil market and its influence in
determining the foreign policies of Middle Eastern nations (e.g., oil
embargos, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the Gulf Wars, etc.).

3. Analyze the aspects of modern domestic and global terrorism (e.g., the
September 11th attack, the War in Afghanistan, the rise of ISIS, etc.).

4. Recognize the global impact of the internet (e.g., social media platforms and
its influence on politics and social movements, immigrations, climate change,
activism, the rise of global culture, etc.).

“Supreme Court Kills Segregation”: Newspaper coverage of Brown v. Board of Education