20th Century World History 12

Unit 1: Authoritarian Regimes & Revolutions

How democracies die and dictatorships rise — and the civil wars, independence movements, and revolutions that remade the century's map.

• The rise and tools of authoritarian regimes

• Revolutions, civil wars, and decolonization

Unit 2: Human Rights, Genocide & Conflict

The century's moral ledger: rights movements including indigenous peoples movements, and the ethnic, religious, and cultural conflicts — including genocide — that the ledger answers.

• Human rights movements and indigenous peoples movements

• Conflicts and genocide in the 20th century

• World War I and World War II
• The Cold War

Unit 3: Migrations, Cooperation, Society & Technology

The century's flows: peoples and borders, international institutions, social and cultural transformation, and the technologies that shrank the world.

• Migrations and territorial boundaries

• Interdependence and international co-operation
• Social and cultural developments
• Communication and transportation technologies