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    COURSE INTRODUCTION
    Course Syllabus
    Unit 1: What is History?
    1.1: Developing a Global Perspective of History
    Developing a Global Perspective
    Global Citizenship
    1.2: Primary Sources
    Primary Sources
    How Historians Use Newspapers
    1.3: Causation and Interpretation in History
    What Is History?
    Causation and Interpretation in History
    Unit 1 Assessment
    Unit 1 Assessment
    Unit 2: Trade in East Asia and the Indian Ocean
    2.1: India and International Connections
    India and International Connections
    The Mughal Empire
    The Portuguese Empire
    The British Empire
    2.2: The Malacca Sultanate
    The Malacca Sultanate
    2.3: Exchange in East Asia
    Exchange in East Asia
    Emperor Qian Long and the Qing Dynasty
    The Tokugawa Shogunate
    Unit 2 Assessment
    Unit 2 Assessment
    Unit 3: Early Modern Africa and the Wider World
    3.1: The Mali Empire
    The Roots of African Trade
    The Mali Empire
    3.2: The Songhai Empire
    The Songhai Empire
    3.3: The Swahili Coast
    The Swahili Coast
    Swahili Mosques
    3.4: The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
    The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
    Before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
    Unit 3 Assessment
    Unit 3 Assessment
    Unit 4: The Islamic World
    4.1: A Connected Islamic World
    The Connected Islamic World
    4.2: The Ottoman Empire
    The Ottoman Empire
    The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires
    4.3: The Safavid Empire
    The Safavid Empire
    More on the Safavid Empire
    Unit 4 Assessment
    Unit 4 Assessment
    Unit 5: Foundations of the Atlantic World
    5.1: The Protestant Reformation
    The Protestant Reformation
    The Political Impact of the Reformation
    The Protestant Reformation, Science, and Religion
    The Counter-Reformation
    5.2: Crossing the Atlantic
    Crossing the Atlantic
    Exploration and Global Trade
    The Columbian Exchange
    5.3: Indigenous Americans
    The New World
    The Aztecs of Mexico: A Zero-Waste Society
    Colonialism and Indigenous Response in the Americas
    5.4: The Atlantic Slave Trade
    The Atlantic Slave Trade
    Barbados, Jamaica, and Slave Rebellions
    The Atlantic Slave Trade
    The Impact of the Slave Trade through a Ghanaian Lens
    Unit 5 Assessment
    Unit 5 Assessment
    Unit 6: Colonization and Economic Expansion
    6.1: European Colonization in the Americas
    European Colonization in the Americas
    Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
    English Settlements in America
    The Americas and Columbus
    The New World
    Settlement Patterns in New Spain, New France, and British North America
    6.2: The Rise of a Global Economy
    Mercantilism
    Exploration and Mercantilism
    The Rise of a Global Economy
    6.3: Capitalism and the First Industrial Revolution
    Adam Smith
    The Wealth of Nations, 1776
    Karl Marx
    Industrial Revolutions
    The Origins of the Industrial Revolution
    Unit 6 Assessment
    Unit 6 Assessment
    Unit 7: Revolutions in Europe and North America
    7.1: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
    The Origins of the Enlightenment
    The Enlightenment
    Scientific Revolution Enlightenment
    Scientific and Political Revolutions in the 17th and 18th Centuries
    7.2: The Exchange of Ideas in the Public Sphere
    The Exchange of Ideas in the Public Sphere
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
    John Locke (1632–1704)
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78)
    7.3: Revolutions in America, France, and Haiti
    Revolutions in America, France, and Haiti
    The American Revolution
    More on the American Revolution
    Common Sense
    The French Revolution
    More on the French Revolution
    Rights of Man
    The Haitian Revolution
    Dessalines, the Flag, and Independence
    7.4: Nationalism, Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Political Order
    The Napoleonic Wars
    Nationalism, Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Political Order
    The Congress of Vienna and Growth of Nationalism
    Why No Revolution in 1848 in Britain?
    7.5: Revolutions in Latin America
    Spanish America: Revolution for Whom?
    Spanish North America
    Revolution in Latin America and South America
    Spanish South America
    Simón Bolívar
    Portuguese South America
    Unit 7 Assessment
    Unit 7 Assessment
    Unit 8: Expansion in the Industrial Age
    8.1: The Second Industrial Revolution
    The Second Industrial Revolution
    8.2: Motives and Means of Imperialism
    The Motives and Means of Imperialism
    Imposition of European Ideas and Values
    Facilitating Imperialism through Advanced Technologies
    Imperialism: A Study
    8.3: Colonial Empires
    Colonial Empires
    8.4: Exploitation and Resistance
    Exploitation and Resistance
    The Boxer Rebellion
    Unit 8 Assessment
    Unit 8 Assessment
    Unit 9: Life and Labor in the Industrial World
    9.1: Inventions, Innovations, and Mechanization
    Inventions, Innovations, and Mechanization
    The Philosophy of Manufacturers
    Steel: Carnegie and Creative Destruction
    9.2: Life in the Industrial City
    Life in the Industrial City
    Urbanization and Its Challenges
    The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements
    9.3: Immigrants and Settlers
    Communities in Diaspora
    Settler Colonies
    9.4: Regulation, Reform, and Revolutionary Ideologies
    Coerced and Semicoerced Labor
    Regulation, Reform, and Revolutionary Ideologies
    Socialist Economics
    Unit 9 Assessment
    Unit 9 Assessment
    Unit 10: World War I
    10.1: Alliances, Expansion, and Conflict
    Alliances, Expansion, and Conflict
    Planning the First World War
    The Collapse of the Ottomans and the Coming of War
    10.2: Total War
    Total War
    New Weapons of War
    War on the Homefront
    Southeast Asia and World War I
    America and World War I
    10.3: The Peace Settlement
    The War Ends
    The Fourteen Points
    The Final Treaty
    The Middle East and World War I
    10.4: The Russian Revolution
    Rising Discontent in Russia
    The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
    The Russian Revolution
    Women and the Russian Revolution
    Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Peoples
    Unit 10 Assessment
    Unit 10 Assessment
    Unit 11: The Interwar Period
    11.1: Recovering from World War I
    Recovering from World War I
    The European Economy in the Interwar Period
    Internationalism between the Wars
    The Effects of the First World War
    Post World War I Area: Extreme Nationalism
    11.2: The Formation of the Soviet Union
    The Formation of the Soviet Union
    First Five-Year Plan
    11.3: The Great Depression and Fascism
    The Great Depression
    Fascism
    11.4: Demands for Rights and Freedom
    Ho Chi Minh Petition
    Old Empires and New Colonies
    Mahatma: A Great Soul of the 20th Century
    Resistance, Civil Rights, and Democracy
    Unit 11 Assessment
    Unit 11 Assessment
    Unit 12: The Causes and Consequences of World War II
    12.1: The Lead-Up to World War II, an Unstable Peace
    An Unstable Peace
    Prelude to World War II
    12.2: Theaters of War, World War II
    Theaters of War
    World War II
    The Holocaust
    End of World War II
    12.3: Reconstruction and the Effects of World War II
    Out of the Ashes
    Keeping the Home Fires Burning
    The Reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War
    The Manhattan Project
    The Atlantic Charter through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    The United Nations
    Unit 12 Assessment
    Unit 12 Assessment
    Unit 13: Cold War Conflicts
    13.1: The Cold War
    The Cold War Begins
    The Cold War
    The Long Telegram
    Rethinking the Space Race
    13.2: The Spread of Communism
    The Spread of Communism
    The Great Leap Forward
    The Cultural Revolution
    Mao Zedong's Victory and Its Aftermath
    13.3: The Non-Aligned Movement
    The Non-Aligned Movement
    Jawaharlal Nehru Speaks to the Bandung Conference Political Committee, 1955
    13.4: Global Tensions and Decolonization
    Global Tensions and Decolonization
    The Vietnam War
    The Decolonization in the British Empire
    The Angolan Civil War
    The Cold War and Decolonization
    13.5: A New World Order
    A New World Order
    Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History
    Glasnost, Perestroika, and the End of the Soviet Union
    Unit 13 Assessment
    Unit 13 Assessment
    Unit 14: The Contemporary World and Ongoing Challenges
    14.1: A Global Economy
    A Global Economy
    Globalization
    Economic Development in East Asia
    14.2: Climate Change and the Environment
    Debates on the Environment
    Global Climate Change
    14.3: Science and Technology for Today's World
    Science and Technology for Today's World
    Globalization and Technology
    The Clean Energy Hub of the Future
    14.4: Ongoing Problems and Solutions
    Ongoing Problems and Solutions
    The Syrian Refugee Crisis
    What the War in Ukraine Means for the Global Order
    Unit 14 Assessment
    Unit 14 Assessment
    Study Guide
    HIST103 Study Guide
    Course Feedback Survey
    Course Feedback Survey
    Certificate Final Exam
    HIST103: Certificate Final Exam
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  1. HIST103: World History (1600–Present)
  2. Unit 12: The Causes and Consequences of World War II
  3. 12.1: The Lead-Up to World War II, an Unstable Peace
  4. Prelude to World War II

Prelude to World War II

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