Civilizations II
The book require for the course: Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources, Combined Volume (9780312489168)
Exam description:
BE SPECIFIC - support your statements with EVIDENCE (facts) from the primary sources, your textbook and the supplementary lecture materials.
Big Picture Questions
1. In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century?
2. To what extent were the world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II?
3. In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?
4. In what different ways did the Soviet Union and China experience communism during the 20th century?
5. What was the global significance of the Cold War?
6. What is distinctive about twentieth-century communist industrialization and modernization compared to the same processes in the West a century earlier?
7. In what ways did the colonial experience and the struggle for independence shape the agenda of developing countries in the second half of the twentieth century?
8. To what extent did the experience of the former colonies and developing countries in the twentieth century parallel that of the earlier “new nations” in the Americas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
9. How would you compare the historical experiences of India and China in the twentieth century?
Readings:
Chapters 21-23, including primary source documents
Additional primary source documents:
The Three Emperors League (1881)
From the Journal of Private Fraser, 1914-18
World War I Poetry
In Flanders Fields
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Civilizations IIThe book require for the course Ways of the Wor.docx
1. Civilizations II
The book require for the course: Ways of the World: A Brief
Global History with Sources, Combined Volume
(9780312489168)
Exam description:
BE SPECIFIC - support your statements with EVIDENCE
(facts) from the primary sources, your textbook and the
supplementary lecture materials.
Big Picture Questions
1. In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the
history of the twentieth century?
2. To what extent were the world wars distinct and different
conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In
particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay
the foundations for World War II?
3. In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914
and 1945 have global implications?
4. In what different ways did the Soviet Union and China
experience communism during the 20th century?
5. What was the global significance of the Cold War?
6. What is distinctive about twentieth-century communist
industrialization and modernization compared to the same
processes in the West a century earlier?
7. In what ways did the colonial experience and the struggle for
independence shape the agenda of developing countries in the
2. second half of the twentieth century?
8. To what extent did the experience of the former colonies and
developing countries in the twentieth century parallel that of the
earlier “new nations” in the Americas in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries?
9. How would you compare the historical experiences of India
and China in the twentieth century?
Readings:
Chapters 21-23, including primary source documents
Additional primary source documents:
The Three Emperors League (1881)
From the Journal of Private Fraser, 1914-18
World War I Poetry
In Flanders Fields
