Unit 7: Global Conflict

Essential Question

To what extent did communism, fascism, or nationalism challenge political and/or social orders from 1900 onward? 

Objectives

1. Explain how internal and external factors contributed to change in various states after 1900.

2. Explain the causes and consequences of World War I.

3. Explain how governments used a variety of methods to conduct war.

4. Explain how different governments responded to economic crisis after 1900.

5. Explain the continuities and changes in territorial holdings from 1900 to the present.

6. Explain the causes and consequences of World War II.

7. Explain similarities and differences in how governments used a variety of methods to conduct war.

8. Explain the various causes and consequences of mass atrocities in the period from 1900 to the present.

9. Explain the relative significance of the causes of global conflict in the period 1900 to the present.

Key Terms and Concepts

1. Economy in the Interwar Period

   1. Government intervention in the economy

      1. The New Deal

      2. The fascist corporatist economy

      3. Governments with strong popular support in Brazil and Mexico

2. Unresolved Tensions After World War I

   1. Territorial gains

      1. Transfer of former German colonies to Great Britain and France under the system of League of Nations mandates

      2. Manchukuo/Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

   2. Anti-Imperial resistance

      1. Indian National Congress

      2. West African resistance (strikes/congresses) to French rule

3. Conducting World War II

   1. Western democracies mobilizing for war

      1. Great Britain under Winston Churchill 

      2. United States under Franklin Roosevelt

   2. Totalitarian states mobilizing for war

      1. Germany under Adolf Hitler

      2. USSR under Joseph Stalin

4. Mass Atrocities After 1900

   1. Genocide, ethnic violence, or attempted destruction of specific populations

      1. Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I

      2. Cambodia during the late 1970s

      3. Tutsi in Rwanda in the 1990's

      4. Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1920's and 1930's