New Brunswick · Grade 11
Modern History 11
New Brunswick’s Grade 11 social studies course, from Rights and Revolution to Triumph and Tragedy.
- Units
- 3
- Lessons
- 7
- Skills
- 46
- Provincial exam
- None
- Official curriculum
- curriculum.nbed.ca
Unit by unit
Every skill in the course, with its official code.
Unit 1 · 15 skills
Rights and Revolution
The French Revolution
The general causes of revolutions
I can identify the general categories of causes that produce a revolution and apply them as a framework.
Official code: 1.1.1
The ideas of the Enlightenment
I can explain the key ideas of the Enlightenment and how they challenged the old order.
Official code: 1.1.2
Social conflict in 18th-century France
I can analyse the social conflicts in 18th-century France that fed the Revolution.
Official code: 1.1.3
Absolute government without consent
I can explain how France's absolute monarchy ruled without the consent of the governed.
Official code: 1.1.4
Economic conditions of the Revolution
I can explain how severe economic conditions contributed to the French Revolution.
Official code: 1.1.5
Criteria for historical significance
I can explain the criteria historians use to judge whether an event is historically significant.
Official code: 1.2.1
Assessing the significance of the French Revolution
I can critically assess the significance of the French Revolution using historians' criteria.
Official code: 1.2.2
Comparing the Revolution to modern events
I can compare the French Revolution to a modern event in the context of rights and freedoms.
Official code: 1.3.1
The Industrial Revolution
Ideas and innovations of the Industrial Revolution
I can explain the ideas and innovations that made the Industrial Revolution possible.
Official code: 2.1.1
Social change and conflict in the Industrial period
I can analyse the social changes and conflicts industrialization caused.
Official code: 2.1.2
How governments and workers responded
I can explain how governments and workers responded to the problems of industrialization.
Official code: 2.1.3
Economic conditions of industrialization
I can explain the economic conditions that drove and sustained industrialization.
Official code: 2.1.4
The impact of urbanization
I can explain the immediate and long-term impacts of urbanization during the Industrial period.
Official code: 2.2.1
The evolution of workers' rights
I can explain how workers' rights evolved and why they still matter today.
Official code: 2.2.2
Comparing the Industrial period to today
I can compare and contrast an aspect of the Industrial period with a modern industrialized society.
Official code: 2.3.1
The official wording · 15 outcomes
- 1.1.1
- Identify and understand the general causes of revolutions: new ideas, social conflict, political factors, and economic conditions.
- 1.1.2
- Know, understand and be able to explain the new ideas of The Enlightenment.
- 1.1.3
- Analyze elements of social conflict in 18th century France.
- 1.1.4
- Understand, and be able to explain, how and why France's Absolute Government functioned without the consent of the governed.
- 1.1.5
- Comprehend the severity of economic conditions as contributing factors to the revolution.
- 1.2.1
- Understand historians' criteria for measuring historical significance
- 1.2.2
- Critically assess the significance of the French Revolution
- 1.3.1
- Make connections to allow comparison of the French Revolution to other modern events in the context of rights and freedoms.
- 2.1.1
- Know, understand and be able to explain the new ideas and innovations which led to the Industrial Revolution.
- 2.1.2
- Analyze elements of social change/conflict during the Industrial period.
- 2.1.3
- Understand, and be able to explain, how governments and workers responded to issues of industrialization.
- 2.1.4
- Comprehend the economic conditions which led to industrialization and furthered its development.
- 2.2.1
- Demonstrate their understanding of the immediate and long term impact of urbanization on society during the Industrial period.
- 2.2.2
- Be able to explain the evolution of worker's rights, and the implications of these rights, for workers then and now.
- 2.3.1
- Compare and contrast one aspect of the Industrial period with a modern, evolving industrialized society.
Key ideas
Revolutions tend to share categories of causes: new ideas, social conflict, political factors, and economic conditions.
The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 18th-19th centuries and spread outward.
New ideas challenge how a society is organized and who should hold power.
Innovations included mechanized production, the factory system, and steam power.
Social conflict arises when groups have unequal rights, wealth, or status.
Watch out for
- Thinking revolutions have a single cause - they arise from several causes together.
- Thinking industrialization was one invention - it was many innovations combined.
- Thinking only violence causes revolution - ideas and economics are just as central.
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Unit 2 · 10 skills
War and Violence
Nationalism and Negotiation
Power, rivalries, and the causes of the First World War
I can explain the power rivalries between European nations that caused the First World War.
Official code: 3.1.1
How power is exercised
I can explain how power is exercised on a continuum and how it can have unintended consequences.
Official code: 3.2.1
The ingredients of power potential
I can analyse what makes a nation powerful - the ingredients of power potential.
Official code: 3.2.2
Ethnic nationalism and the exercise of power
I can explain ethnic nationalism and its role in European power from 1860 to 1945.
Official code: 3.2.3
Nationalism in modern conflict
I can examine how nationalism operates in a modern society involved in conflict.
Official code: 3.3.1
Destruction and Disillusionment
Mechanized warfare and destruction
I can explain how mechanized, industrialized warfare increased the destruction of the First World War.
Official code: 4.1.1
The effects of war on individuals and societies
I can explain the effects of the First World War on individuals and on whole societies.
Official code: 4.1.2
Negotiating the treaties of 1919
I can explain the differing points of view of those negotiating the 1919 peace.
Official code: 4.2.1
The Treaty of Versailles and collective security
I can demonstrate how the Treaty of Versailles undermined its own goal of collective security.
Official code: 4.2.2
Comparing the quest for collective security
I can compare the 1919 quest for collective security with modern efforts.
Official code: 4.3.1
The official wording · 10 outcomes
- 3.1.1
- Know, understand and be able to express examples of power relationships and rivalries between European nations, as causes of the First World War (1860s to 1914).
- 3.2.1
- Be able to express how power is typically exercised on a continuum and that the exercise of power can have both intended and unintended consequences.
- 3.2.2
- Analyze the ingredients of power potential.
- 3.2.3
- Examine historical perspectives to explain the concept of ethnic nationalism and the role it played in the exercise of power by European nations from 1860 to 1945.
- 3.3.1
- Examine the role nationalism plays in a modern society involved in conflict.
- 4.1.1
- Know and understand that mechanized/industrialized warfare led to an increased level of destruction.
- 4.1.2
- Comprehend the effects of war on individuals and societies.
- 4.2.1
- Understand and be able to explain the points of view of those negotiating the treaties to end the Great War in 1919.
- 4.2.2
- Demonstrate how the articles of the Treaty of Versailles were at odds with the stated goal of achieving collective security.
- 4.3.1
- Compare and contrast the quest for collective security in 1919 with that of modern day efforts.
Key ideas
By 1914 Europe was divided into two rival alliance systems (the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente).
Industrial technology produced new weapons: machine guns, heavy artillery, poison gas, tanks, and aircraft.
Militarism, an arms race, and imperial competition raised tensions between the great powers.
Trench warfare on the Western Front led to massive casualties for little movement.
Nationalism intensified rivalries, especially in the Balkans.
Watch out for
- Thinking one assassination alone caused the war - it triggered deeper rivalries.
- Thinking the war was fought as earlier wars were - industrial weapons changed everything.
- Thinking the war was inevitable from the start - tensions built over decades.
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Unit 3 · 21 skills
Triumph and Tragedy
Totalitarianism and Total War
Interwar political ideologies
I can explain the differences between the major political ideologies of the interwar period.
Official code: 5.1.1
Why some European governments failed
I can explain why some European democracies failed in the 1920s and 1930s.
Official code: 5.1.2
The effects of totalitarian governance
I can analyse the effects of totalitarian governance on social, political, and economic life.
Official code: 5.1.3
The concept of total war
I can explain the concept of total war.
Official code: 5.2.1
The causes of the Second World War
I can explain the general causes of the Second World War.
Official code: 5.2.2
Comparing the consequences of the two world wars
I can evaluate and compare the consequences of the two world wars.
Official code: 5.2.3
Which world war was more significant for Canada
I can analyse which world war was more significant for Canada and defend my judgment.
Official code: 5.3.1
Crimes Against Humanity
Defining anti-Semitism
I can define anti-Semitism and explain why understanding it is essential to studying the Holocaust.
Official code: 6.1.1
The progression of the Holocaust, 1933-1945
I can explain, truthfully and respectfully, the progression of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945.
Official code: 6.1.2
The international response to Jewish refugees
I can examine how the international community responded to Jewish refugees during and after the war.
Official code: 6.1.3
Human-rights action after the Holocaust
I can identify the international action and human-rights legislation that followed the Holocaust.
Official code: 6.1.4
Investigating the Holocaust with sources
I can investigate the Holocaust using primary and secondary sources, critically and respectfully.
Official code: 6.2.1
Genocide beyond the Holocaust
I can explain that genocide is not restricted to the Holocaust and recognize other cases.
Official code: 6.3.1
War by Proxy
Cold War, containment, and the arms race
I can explain the Cold War, containment, and the arms race.
Official code: 7.1.1
The nuclear threat as the defining element
I can demonstrate how the nuclear threat defined the Cold War.
Official code: 7.1.2
Western society's response to the nuclear threat
I can explain how Western society responded to the nuclear threat.
Official code: 7.1.3
The anti-nuclear and peace movement
I can explain the growth of the anti-nuclear and peace movement after 1945.
Official code: 7.1.4
The Cuban Missile Crisis
I can explain why the Cuban Missile Crisis was a significant Cold War event.
Official code: 7.2.1
McCarthyism and anti-communism
I can examine McCarthyism and the impact of Cold War anti-communism on Western societies.
Official code: 7.3.1
Comparing McCarthyism and the 'war on terror'
I can compare McCarthyism with the modern 'war on terror' in how fear affects rights.
Official code: 7.3.2
The nuclear threat after the Cold War
I can explain why the nuclear threat did not end with the Cold War.
Official code: 7.3.3
The official wording · 21 outcomes
- 5.1.1
- Know, understand and be able to explain the differences between the political ideologies of the interwar period.
- 5.1.2
- Understand and be able to express why some European governments failed during the 1920's and 1930's.
- 5.1.3
- Analyze and be able to explain the effects of totalitarian governance on social, political and economic life.
- 5.2.1
- Understand and be able to explain the concept of Total War.
- 5.2.2
- Recognize and be able to explain the general causes of the Second World War
- 5.2.3
- Evaluate and compare the consequences of the First World War and the Second World War.
- 5.3.1
- Analyze and explain which World War was more significant for Canada.
- 6.1.1
- Define: anti-Semitism
- 6.1.2
- Know, understand and be able to explain the progression of the Holocaust from 1933 until 1945
- 6.1.3
- Examine international response to Jewish refugees during and after the Second World War
- 6.1.4
- Identify international action and human rights legislation resulting from this period
- 6.2.1
- Investigate the Holocaust by examining and utilizing primary and secondary sources
- 6.3.1
- Understand and be able to explain that genocide is not restricted to the Holocaust
- 7.1.1
- Understand and be able to explain the concepts of Cold War and Containment as well as the concept of arms race (in the context of the Cold War).
- 7.1.2
- Know, understand and be able to demonstrate how the nuclear threat was the defining element of the Cold War
- 7.1.3
- Understand western society's response to the nuclear threat
- 7.1.4
- Know, understand and be able to explain the growth of the anti-nuclear/peace movement that developed after 1945
- 7.2.1
- Know and understand why the Cuban Missile Crisis was a significant Cold War event.
- 7.3.1
- Examine anti-communism (McCarthyism) as a Western phenomenon and its impact on societies
- 7.3.2
- Compare McCarthyism in the US with the modern day war on terror
- 7.3.3
- Understand that the nuclear threat did not disappear with the end of the Cold War
Key ideas
Liberal democracy rests on elections, individual rights, and limited government.
Anti-Semitism is hostility toward, prejudice against, or discrimination against Jewish people.
The Cold War was the post-1945 rivalry between the US-led West and the Soviet-led East, without direct all-out war between them.
Communism (as in the Soviet Union) sought a classless society through state control of the economy.
It has a long history in Europe, expressed through stereotypes, exclusion, and violence.
Watch out for
- Thinking communism and fascism are the same - they sit at opposite extremes though both were dictatorial.
- Thinking anti-Semitism began with the Nazis - it has a long earlier history.
- Thinking the Cold War had no fighting - it was fought through proxies and crises, not direct superpower war.
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Questions about Modern History 11
What is Modern History 11?
New Brunswick’s Grade 11 social studies course: 3 units and 46 skills, from Rights and Revolution to Triumph and Tragedy.
What units are in Modern History 11?
1. Rights and Revolution, 2. War and Violence and 3. Triumph and Tragedy.
Is there a provincial exam for Modern History 11?
No. New Brunswick gives no provincial exam for Modern History 11.
What comes after Modern History 11?
Law 120 and World Issues 120.
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