WESTERN CIV - SECOND SEMESTER

OUTLINE

Room 211 -- Period 5

Here is the tentative outline for second semester Western Civ. Follow the underlined links to find research materials about the topic.

• Westphalian System of Government (Treaty of Westphalia, Revocation of the Edict of Nantes)
  A. Westphalian Simulation
  B. The Return of Martin Guerre
  
  
• The Enlightenment (18th Century Studies, Age of Baroque)
  A. Second Treatise on Government by John Locke(1690)
  C. Rousseau, The Social Contract
  D. Voltaire, Voltaire: A Treatise on Toleration (1763)
  E. Mary Wollstonecraft
  F. Denis Diderot
  G. The Philosophes
  
  
• History of Western Music (Classical Music Navigator, Dictionary of Composers, Portrait Gallery of Composers)
  
  
• The Age of Revolutions
  A. Stages of a Revolution
  B. The French Revolution (Declaration of the Rights of Man, French Revolution Pamphlets (written in French), The Guillotine, A Comparison of the French & American Revolutions)
  C. Napoleon (Napoleon Index, Napoleonic War Articles, Waterloo)
  D. The Industrial Revolution (The Life of an Industrial Worker, Child Labor, Machine Tool Inventions)
  E. Economic Revolutionaries -- Adam Smith v. Karl Marx (Rise of Social Class)
  
  
• Nationalism and Folklore
  A. Historical Backdrop to Folklore Collecting
  B. Magic Tale, Fabliaux and Schwankmarchen
  
  
• World War I (Timeline, Photos, Historical Documents,Cartoons)
  A. The Allies -- Britain,( WWI British Propaganda, (British Posters of WWI), France, Russia (Russian Revolution) U.S
  B. The Central Powers -- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire (Map, Armenian Genocide)
  C. Technological Advances ( Guns of WWI, U-boats)
  D. The Treaty of Versailles (How the Versailles Treaty led to WWII)
  
  
• World War II (Pictures & Press Photos)
  A. Between the Wars / The Rise of Hitler (Naziism, Swastika History, Decisions Leading to WWII)
  B. Propaganda (WWII posters)
  C. Allies -- Britain, France, Soviet Union, U.S.
  D. Axis -- Germany (Germany’s Armed Forces, Panzer War & Campaigns) Italy ( Mussolini) Japan
  E. Warfare (War Machines of WWII, Battles on the Eastern Front)
  F. The Holocaust (Pictures, Timeline, Historical Summary, Nuremburg Trials)
  
  
• Recent History / Civilization
  A. Post-WWII Country Research
  B. Diplomacy Simulation (CIA World Factbook)
  C. Disco

• Assignments for Western Civ
• First Semester Outline