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Dawood Public School
Course Outline 2017-18
World History
Class IX
Course Books:
Mc Aleavy, Tony. (2013). Twentieth Century History, International Relations since 1919. Dubai:
Cambridge University Press.
Yearly Syllabus:
Month Contents
August The First World War
The Treaty of Versailles
September Inter War Years
The Great Depression
October
Rise of Hitler
Second World War
The Cold War
November The United Nations and recent world affairs
Revision for Mid-Term Exam
December Mid-Term Examination 2017
January
Germany 1918-1939
Italy 1918-1939
Spain and the Civil War
February
Britain and France, 1919–45
Move towards European Integration
USA in the ‘Roaring Twenties’
The Great Depression and The New Deal
March
USA after Second World War
Struggle for civil rights in USA
Latin America after Second World War
April Revision for Final Exam
May Final Examination Exam 2018
Syllabus Contents:
August:
Causes of the First World War
The First World War (Tony McAleavy)
Causes of the First World War
Long Term Causes 1; The Rise of Germany
Long Term Cause 2; The new Kaiser and World Power.
Long Term Cause 3; The Arms Race.
Long Term Cause 4; The Two Alliances.
Short Term Causes 1; The Killing in Sarajevo.
Short Term Causes 2; The German decision for War.
Short Term Causes 3; Confusion about the British position.
The Russian Revolution
Russia before Communism
The two Revolutions of 1917
The Soviets and the Bolsheviks
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Civil War
World Revolution?
Paris 1919
Big Three
Differences between the Big Three
A ‘Just Peace’ or reparations
Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
Clemenceau and a Harsh Peace
The other Peace Treaties (Tony McAleavy)
Saint-Germain: The Treaty with Austria 1919
Neuilly: The Treaty with Bulgaria 1919
Trianon: The Treaty with Hungary 1920
Sevres: The Treaty with Turkey 1920
Lausanne: Revising the Turkish Treaty 1923
The Treaty of Versaille (Tony McAleavy)
The Treaty of Self-determination
The Mandates
German loss of territory
War guilt and reparations
Aftermath: the immediate consequences of the treaties (Tony McAleavy)
The Weimar Republic
Trouble in Eastern Europe; Anger in Hungary
War and revolution in Poland
Ethnic tension in Czechoslovakia
Surf I.T
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles
https://www.britannica.com/event/Paris-Peace-Conference
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/the-treaty-of-
versailles/
Model Questions:
1. What was the Treaty of Versailles?
2. How were the defeated countries dealt after the Second World War?
September:
A Harsh treaty? (Tony McAleavy)
Was the Treaty of Versailles fair?
Conflicting interpretations
Assessing the Terms of the Treaty
Setting up the League of Nations (Tony McAleavy)
The organization of the League
A European club
America says ‘no’ to the League
Tension between Britain and France
World Public opinion
Reparations: the Dawes and the Young Plans (Tony McAleavy)
The spirit of Locarno
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
Rise of Hitler (Tony McAleavy)
Early life
Hitler tries to seize power 1923
The lean year
Mein Kamp: 1925
The Great Depression (Tony McAleavy)
The depression and the USA
Isolationism
America and the dictator
The Depression and Germany
The Depression and Britain
The Depression and France
Surf I.T
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/league
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/league-of-
nations/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
http://www.biography.com/people/adolf-hitler-9340144#synopsis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression
Model Questions:
1. How far do you agree that Germany was not treated fairly by the terms of the Treaty of
Versailles?
2. Describe how the League of Nations tried to prevent future wars between nations?
3. What were the main weaknesses in the structure and organisation of the League of
Nations?
October:
Crisis in Manchuria (Tony McAleavy)
The rise of Japan
Attack on Manchuria
The missing powers
The worried Powers
Mussolini and Italian Fascism (Tony McAleavy)
Italy before Mussolini
Mussolini goes to War
The Conquest of Abyssinia (Tony McAleavy)
Mussolini looks South
The Stresa Front
The Hoare-Laval Pact
The Second World War
The causes of the war, including Hitler’s foreign policy, British and French appeasement of
Hitler, the Nazi-Soviet pact
The main phases of the war: German victory in the West and the survival of Britain, 1939–
40; Operation Barbarossa and the defeat of Germany in Russia, 1941–44; the War in the
Pacific,
1941–45; the defeat of Germany, 1944–45
The reasons for the Allied victory
The nature of ‘Total War’
The Holocaust
Surf I.T:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_Incident
http://www.johndclare.net/league_of_nations6.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
http://www.biography.com/people/benito-mussolini-9419443#related-video-gallery
Model Questions:
1. Why did Japan invade Manchuria in 1931?
2. Why did the League fail to deal with Japanese aggression against Manchuria?
3. Why did Italy / Mussolini invade Abyssinia?
4. War in 1939 was caused more by the Treaty of Versailles than by anything else’. Do you
agree with this view? Explain your answer.
5. ‘World War II was caused by British-French mistakes 1938-1939.’ How far do you agree
with this view?
November:
The Cold War
The origins of the Cold War, including Yalta and Potsdam
Soviet foreign policy in Europe in the early post-war period, 1945–55
The foreign policy of America and its allies in Europe, 1945–55
The U2 spy plane incident and the building of the Berlin Wall
The globalisation of the Cold War, including Cuba and Vietnam
Détente
Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War
The United Nations and recent world affairs
The structure and organisation of the United Nations
The strengths and weaknesses of the United Nations
Successes and failures of the United Nations, including the Korean War and the Congo
Crisis, 1960–64
Saddam Hussein, the invasion of Kuwait and the First Gulf War
Surf I.T:
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history
https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Model Questions:
1. ‘The attitudes of Churchill and Truman not Stalin caused the Cold War’. How far do you
agree with this statement?
2. ‘The Berlin Blockade brought Europe close to war’. How far do you agree with this
statement?
December:
Mid-Term Examination 2017
January:
Germany, 1918–39
The impact of defeat and the Treaty of Versailles
The Weimar Republic
The early years of the Nazi Party
The crisis of 1929–33 and the rise to power of Hitler
Hitler’s rule over Germany
Surf I.T:
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/the-cold-
war/what-was-the-cold-war/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations
http://www.unfoundation.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic
https://www.facinghistory.org/weimar-republic-fragility.../why-study-weimar-german
http://alphahistory.com/weimarrepublic/
Model Questions:
1. Why was the Weimar Republic in danger of collapse in 1919–20?
2. ‘The Weimar Republic was a failure.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Explain
your answer.
February:
Italy, 1918–39
The aftermath of the First World War
Mussolini’s rise to power
The creation of the Fascist dictatorship
Mussolini’s rule over Italy
Spain and the Civil War, 1931–39
• The Second Republic
• Causes of the Civil War
• Main events of the war
• Reasons for Franco’s victory
Britain and France, 1919–45
• Political, economic and social consequences of the
First World War
• The British General Strike of 1926
• The Great Depression and its consequences
• The Popular Front government in France
• The Home Front in Britain in the Second World War
• France in the Second World War: Vichy, the impact of German Occupation
Moves towards European integration
• Impact of the Second World War, first steps to integration
• The creation of the European Economic Community (EEC)
• Economic cooperation, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Euratom, etc.
• The development of the EEC to 1992
• The Maastricht Treaty: the creation of the European Union, the single market and the
common currency
Surf I.T:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
http://www.biography.com/people/benito-mussolini-9419443#related-video-gallery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War
https://www.britannica.com/event/Spanish-Civil-War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_United_Kingdom_general_strike
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-13828537
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_(France)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/popular-front-European-coalition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire_in_World_War_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_France_during_World_War_II
https://www.britannica.com/topic/European-Community-European-economic-association
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty
Model Questions:
1. Why did Hitler and Mussolini become involved in the Spanish Civil War?
2. Outline the main features of Mussolini’s domestic policies during the years 1925–39. To
what extent did Italians support Mussolini during these years?
3. What structures were established by the Maastricht Treaty?
4. How successful has the Maastricht Treaty been since 1991? Explain your answer.
March:
Section C: The Americas
The USA in the ‘Roaring Twenties’
Republican presidents and policies
Prohibition and its effects
Immigration, racial discrimination, the ‘Red Scare’, the ‘Monkey Trial’
Social changes: the ‘Jazz Age’, cinema, women’s roles and status
Economic developments: contrasting fortunes of different sectors of industry and
agriculture
Causes of the Wall Street Crash
The Great Depression and the New Deal
• The Great Depression and Hoover’s response to it
• The election of 1932
• The New Deal
• Opposition to the New Deal
• Successes and failures of the New Deal
The USA after the Second World War, 1945–89
• Eisenhower’s Presidency and the rise of the affluent society
• McCarthyism
• Kennedy’s and Johnson’s domestic programmes: the ‘New Frontier’ and the ‘Great Society’
• Nixon and Watergate
• Reagan’s presidency and ‘Reaganomics’
The struggle for civil rights in the USA from 1945
• Segregation and the situation in the Southern states after the Second World War
• The campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s
• The importance of the Federal government and the Supreme Court
• The work of Martin Luther King
• Malcolm X and Black Power
• The extent of progress made since the 1970s in politics and society
Latin America after the Second World War
• Cuba: Batista’s regime, Castro and the Cuban revolution, Cuba under Castro
• Chile: Allende, Pinochet, the return to democracy
• Argentina: Peron and Peronism, the influence of the military over Argentine politics, rule by
Junta and the ‘Dirty War’, the restoration of democratic politics after 1983
Surf I.T:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1564.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_economic_expansion
http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Essays/Keeping-the-
Faith/Civil-Rights-Movement/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America_during_World_War_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_during_World_War_II
Model Questions:
1. ‘The greatest opposition to the New Deal came from the Supreme Court.’ How far do you
agree with this statement? Explain your answer.
2. How did President Hoover respond to the Wall Street Crash?
3. What was the Watergate Scandal?
4. ‘Martin Luther King deserves the most credit for bringing about improvements to civil
rights in the USA.’ How far do you agree? Explain your answer.
5. Describe the rule of President Batista in Cuba.
6. How far did the lives of the people in Cuba improve under the rule of Fidel Castro? Explain
your answer.
April:
Revision of Final Exam 2018
May:
Final Examination 2018