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World History B — World Wars, Cold War and the Contemporary World (California)
Curriculum
4 Sections
20 Lessons
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Unit 1: The Broken Peace and the Rise of Totalitarianism
5
1.1
Making Peace in 1919 — Versailles, the Fourteen Points and the League
50 mins
1.2
Redrawing the Map — Borders, Refugees and Money after 1919
50 mins
1.3
Seminar — Things Fall Apart: Disillusionment after the Great War
50 mins
1.4
Workshop — Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Dictatorship
50 mins
1.5
Performance Task — From Broken Peace to Dictatorship: A Document-Based Argument
150 mins
Unit 2: The Second World War and the Holocaust
5
2.1
Roads to War — Empire-Building and Appeasement in the 1930s
50 mins
2.2
Theaters, Turning Points and Leaders of a Global War
50 mins
2.3
Seminar — The Holocaust: Ideology, Perpetrators, Victims, Rescuers
100 mins
2.4
Workshop — Counting the Cost: The Human Toll of the Second World War
50 mins
2.5
Performance Task — Witness and Memory: A Digital-History Presentation
200 mins
Unit 3: The Cold War World
5
3.1
A World Remade — Yalta, the Bomb, the UN and the New Alliances
50 mins
3.2
Containment — Aid, Alliances and Hot Wars in a Cold War
50 mins
3.3
Seminar — The Chinese Revolution from Civil War to Tiananmen
50 mins
3.4
Workshop — Nationalism, Israel and Palestine in the Modern Middle East
50 mins
3.5
Performance Task — Structured Academic Controversy: Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?
150 mins
Unit 4: Nation-Building and Globalization in the Contemporary World
5
4.1
After Empire — Decolonisation and Nation-Building in Africa
50 mins
4.2
Case Studies — Mexico and China since 1980
50 mins
4.3
Seminar — Do Today’s Trends Serve Freedom and Democracy?
50 mins
4.4
Workshop — The Connected World: Trade, Migration and the Information Revolution
50 mins
4.5
Performance Task — Comparative Research Paper: Building Nations since 1945
200 mins
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