Semester 2 of World History
 Unit 1: Age of Revolutions
o Divine Right and Absolutism
o The Glorious Revolution
o The Enlightenment
o The American Revolution
o The French Revolution and Napoleon
o The Haitian Revolution
o Latin American Revolutions
o The Industrial Revolution
 Capitalism
 Socialism
 Unit 2: Age of Imperialism
o Otto Von Bismark and the Congress
of Vienna
o Africa
 Africa and the Effects of the
Columbian Exchange
 The Boer Wars
 Shaka Zulu
 The Congo Free State
 The Scramble for Africa
o India
 The British East India
Company
 Sepoy Rebellion
o China
 The Opium Wars
 The Boxer Rebellion
o Japan
 Shift from a Feudal Society
 Japanese Imperialism
 The Russo-Japanese War
 Unit 3: World at War
o World War I
 Causes and Triggering Event
 Modern Warfare
 Treaty of Versailles and
Consequences
 Armenian Genocide
o Russian Revolution
 Communism
o The Great Depression
o The Rise of Fascism
o Rise and Fall of the Weimar Republic
o World War II
 Causes of WWII
 Appeasement and German
Aggression
 Pearl Harbor and US
Involvement
 Turning Points
 Atomic Bombs
 The Holocaust
 The Nuremburg Trials
o Creation of the United Nations
 Unit 4: The Contemporary World
o Creation of Israel
o The Cold War
 East and West Germany and
the Iron Curtain
 The Space Race
 Nuclear Proliferation
 Advances in Technology
o Globalization
o New Rights and Roles for Women
o The Fall of Communism
 Reunification of Germany
o Terrorism
o Development of the European Union
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 Unit 1: Age of Revolutions Vocabulary
Absolutism and the Glorious Revolution

Concepts Absolutism

Natural Rights

Events The Thirty Years’ War

The Glorious Revolution

People The Habsburgs

Peter the Great

The Enlightenment

Concepts Heliocentrism

Separation of Powers

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 Laissez-Faire Economics

Social Contract

Events The Enlightenment

The Scientific Revolution

People The Philosophes

Montesquieu

Voltaire

Mary Wollstonecraft

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 Adam Smith

The French Revolution and Napoleon

Concepts, The Three Estates

Documents,
and Places

Bourgeoisie

Declaration of the Rights of Man

The Palace of Versailles

Coup D’état

Events The National Assembly

Storming of the Bastille

Reign of Terror

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 People King Louis XVI

Marie Antoinette

Maximilien Robespierre

Napoleon Bonaparte

Latin American Revolutions

Concepts Nationalism

Creoles (Criollos)

Peninsulares

Mestizos

Caudillos

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 Events The Haitian Revolution

The Mexican Revolution of 1810

Revolts in South America

People Toussaint L’Ouverature

Simon Bolivar

Father Miguel Hidalgo

Jose de San Martin

The Industrial Revolution

Concepts Cottage Industry

Industrial Capitalism

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 Socialism

Urbanization

Assembly Line

Proletariat

Feminism

Suffrage

Events Industrial Revolution

People Jethro Tull

Eli Whitney

Karl Marx

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