Course Description: In this course, students will learn about global history from 1500 to the 1990s, and events from the conquest of the "New World" to the end of the "Cold War". The course is divided into six units, with each unit containing six lessons. Each lesson covers a different geographical region of the world, and the topics within each lesson cover the sequence of events in that region within the unit's chronological boundaries. As with World Civilizations 1A, the course's scale will necessitate superficial examination of many events. Although globe-altering events such as the Protestant Reformation and World War I will receive in-depth study, emphasis will be placed on the universality of certain qualities of civilization and establishment and consequences of interconnected regions, economies, and cultures.

Course Contents:
Students will learn about:

• The geography of eight world regions and its impact on civilization
• The growing interconnection among the regions of the world that occurred between 1500 and 1750
• Major global revolutions and wars that occurred in North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia between 1750 and 1850
• The growth of the concept of nationalism among the world's powers in the era 1850 to 1918, culminating in World War I
• The post-World War I world, the impact of the global economic depression of the 1930s, and the rise of dictators that followed
• World War II, the Cold War that developed in its wake, the low-level conflicts that ensued, and the eventual fall of Soviet Russia in the years 1939 to 2000

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