Modern History 11

Unit 1: Rights and Revolution

The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - the general causes of revolutions, Enlightenment ideas, social conflict, absolute government, economic conditions, historical significance, industrialization, urbanization, and the evolution of workers' rights.

• The general causes of revolutions
• The ideas of the Enlightenment
• Social conflict in 18th-century France
• Absolute government without consent
• Economic conditions of the Revolution
• Criteria for historical significance
• Assessing the significance of the French Revolution
• Comparing the Revolution to modern events

• Ideas and innovations of the Industrial Revolution
• Social change and conflict in the Industrial period
• How governments and workers responded
• Economic conditions of industrialization
• The impact of urbanization
• The evolution of workers' rights
• Comparing the Industrial period to today

Unit 2: War and Violence

Nationalism and negotiation leading to the First World War, and the destruction and disillusionment of the Great War and its peace - power, rivalries, ethnic nationalism, mechanized warfare, and the Treaty of Versailles.

• Power, rivalries, and the causes of the First World War
• How power is exercised
• The ingredients of power potential
• Ethnic nationalism and the exercise of power
• Nationalism in modern conflict

• Mechanized warfare and destruction
• The effects of war on individuals and societies
• Negotiating the treaties of 1919
• The Treaty of Versailles and collective security
• Comparing the quest for collective security

Unit 3: Triumph and Tragedy

Totalitarianism and total war, crimes against humanity, and the Cold War 'war by proxy' - interwar ideologies, the causes and consequences of the Second World War, the Holocaust and genocide, and the nuclear age.

• Interwar political ideologies
• Why some European governments failed
• The effects of totalitarian governance
• The concept of total war
• The causes of the Second World War
• Comparing the consequences of the two world wars
• Which world war was more significant for Canada

• Defining anti-Semitism
• The progression of the Holocaust, 1933-1945
• The international response to Jewish refugees
• Human-rights action after the Holocaust
• Investigating the Holocaust with sources
• Genocide beyond the Holocaust

• Cold War, containment, and the arms race
• The nuclear threat as the defining element
• Western society's response to the nuclear threat
• The anti-nuclear and peace movement
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• McCarthyism and anti-communism
• Comparing McCarthyism and the 'war on terror'
• The nuclear threat after the Cold War