Early Twentieth Century World History **FREE** Syllabus

This free resource includes a digital download of the 13-week course syllabus aimed at enriching your learner’s understanding of EARLY Twentieth Century World History, 1900-1945. Designed for group instruction or independent study, this syllabus gives text specific discussion questions, time period cultural literacy terms, writing topics, recommended age-appropriate activities (weeks eight & twelve) and recommended literature to provide more depth and breadth. Weeks eight and twelve are reserved for Colloquia and week thirteen wraps up the course with final presentations and a Kahoot Review.

Additional literature (AR) of historical fiction, classics and biographies are given as individual reading or family read aloud suggestions which can provide a better understanding of this Modern Age experienced firsthand.

The text is Glencoe World History by Jackson J. Spielvogel, Ph.D. ISBN  9780078745256 You can find similar online edition of the ebook here for free download- https://epdf.pub/queue/glencoe-world-history.html

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Topics of Discussion Include-

First Colloquia: Choose one story/ influential figure you aren’t familiar with-

Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl), Hiding Place (Corrie Ten Boom) OR Dietrich Bonheoffer: In the Midst of Wickedness (Benge)

Second Colloquia: Choose one story/ influential figure you aren’t familiar with-

Unbroken (Hillenbrand), Boys on the Boat (Brown) *young adult adaptations OR

Gladys Aylward (Benge)

Week One: The Titanic; Triple Alliance vs. Triple Entente; WWI: Beginnings, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary vs. Serbia, Allies vs. Central Powers, Trench Warfare, RMS Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram

Week Two: Spanish Flu Epidemic, End of WW1: ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’, Purposes of Propaganda, Armistice, Woodrow Wilson, Paris Peace Conference, League of Nations, Treaty of Versailles, Fall of Ottoman Empire

Week Three: Russian Revolutions: Romanovs-Republic-Communism, “Peace and Bread”, Bolsheviks, Avant-garde, Vladimir Lenin, Red vs. White Army

Week Four: Roaring 20s to Depression, Spirit of St. Louis- Charles Lindbergh; Women’s Suffrage; Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Republic: Deutschmark, Runaway Inflation; Andrew Carnegie: Philanthropy; Investment; Great Depression: Stock Market Crash 1929, Dust Bowl, FDR’s New Deal, Keynesian vs. Austrian Economics

Week Five: Totalitarianism: Italian Fascist Party, Mussolini; Russia: Lenin’s New Economic Policy, Stalin, Collectivization, Holodomor, Solzhenitsyn; Germany: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kompf, Nazi Party, Reichstag, Enabling Act, Kristallnacht, 1930s- Third Reich, Aryan Race, Fascist/ Nazi Propaganda, Secret Service ‘SS’, Rome-Berlin Axis, Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

Week Six: WW2 Pacific: Second Sino-Japanese War, Asian New Order, Pearl Harbor, Kamikaze, Midway, Western Front: Blitzkrieg, Winston Churchill, Dunkirk, Valkyrie, D-Day, Normandy; Nuremburg Laws; Underground Resistance

Week Seven: WW2 Germany: New Order, Final Solution, Holocaust, Aryan Race, Ghettos, Concentration Camp, Auschwitz, Anne Frank; Japan: Labor & Internment Camps; Manhattan Project: Albert Einstein, Atomic Bomb, Los Alamos, Oppenheimer, ‘Little Man’ & ‘Fat Boy’, Hiroshima, Nagasaki; The Big Three, Iron Curtain, United Nations

Week Eight: Colloquia Discussion on Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl) OR Dietrich Bonheoffer: In the Midst of Wickedness (Benge) OR The Hiding Place (Ten Boom); Epiphany Presentations & Memorial Gallery Walk

Week Nine: Fall of Ottoman Empire: Armenian Genocide, Palestine: Balfour Declaration, Zionism, Jewish State

Week Ten: India: Mohandas Gandhi, Salt March; Africa: Education Breeds Independence; Japan: Rise of Military State; Latin America: Oligarchy, Good Neighbor Policy

Week Eleven: China: Communist International, National and Communism Parties, Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek; Japan: Militarized Executive Branch & Expansion

Week Twelve: Colloquia Discussion & Epiphany Presentations- Unbroken (Hillenbrand) OR Boys on the Boat (Brown) *young adult adaptations OR Gladys Aylward (Benge)

Week Thirteen: Final Presentations & Kahoot Review!