1750-1914 Industrial/Imperial
30-40%of exam
1914-1945 Global Conflict
10-30%of exam
1945-present Cold War + After
30-45%of exam
Exam Skills
30-40%of exam
Source AnalysisCRQ TasksEnduring IssuesCausationComparison
Quick Facts
- Exam
- Global II Regents
- Grade
- Grade 10
- Time
- 3 hours
- Pass
- Scale score 65
- Parts
- 3 parts
- Part I
- 28 stimulus MCQs
- Part II
- 7 CRQ items
- Part III
- Enduring issues essay
- Span
- 1750-present
Nationalism vs Imperialism
Nationalism
- Pride in nation
- Unify or free
- Internal
Imperialism
- Control others
- Build empire
- External
Self-rule vs ruling others
Date to Era Picker
- Around 1750→World in 1750(10.1)
- 1789-1848→Revolutions(10.2)
- 1800s factories→Industrial Revolution(10.3)
- 1870-1914→Imperialism(10.4)
- 1914-1945→Global Conflict(10.5)
- 1945-1991→Cold War(10.6)
Enlightenment + Revolutions
- Locke
- Natural rights
- Montesquieu
- Separation of powers
- Rousseau
- Social contract
- Wollstonecraft
- Women's rights
- French Revolution
- 1789, ended absolutism
- Haitian Revolution
- Slave revolt, independence
- Bolivar
- Latin American independence
- Nationalism
- Loyalty to nation
Direct vs Indirect Rule
Direct
- Foreign officials
- Replace locals
- French style
Indirect
- Use local rulers
- Keep structure
- British style
Replace vs use locals
Industrial Revolution
- Started
- Britain, late 1700s
- Factory system
- Centralized machine production
- Urbanization
- Cities grew fast
- Capitalism
- Private profit markets
- Adam Smith
- Free-market laissez-faire
- Marx
- Class struggle communism
- Unions
- Worker reform demands
- Meiji Japan
- Rapid industrialization
Imperialism
- Motive
- Raw materials, markets
- Berlin Conference
- Europe divided Africa
- Scramble for Africa
- Rapid colonization
- Sepoy Mutiny
- India resistance, 1857
- Opium Wars
- Britain forced China
- Boxer Rebellion
- Anti-foreign China revolt
- Social Darwinism
- Justified domination
- White Man's Burden
- Civilizing pretext
WWI Causes
MAIN = Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism
M: arms raceA: entangling pactsI: empire rivalryN: ethnic pride
Capitalism vs Communism
Capitalism
- Private property
- Free markets
- Profit motive
Communism
- State property
- Planned economy
- Classless goal
Market vs state control
World Wars
- WWI spark
- Franz Ferdinand assassinated
- Total war
- Whole society mobilized
- Versailles
- Harsh treaty on Germany
- League of Nations
- Weak postwar body
- Appeasement
- Gave Hitler concessions
- WWII start
- Poland invaded, 1939
- Atomic bomb
- Ended WWII Pacific
- United Nations
- 1945 peace body
WWI vs WWII Causes
WWI
- MAIN causes
- Alliances
- Assassination spark
WWII
- Versailles anger
- Fascist aggression
- Appeasement
Alliances vs aggression
Revolution + Totalitarian
- Russian Revolution
- 1917, Lenin Bolsheviks
- Five-Year Plans
- Stalin forced industry
- Collectivization
- State-run farms
- Holodomor
- Ukraine famine, Stalin
- Fascism
- Mussolini, ultranationalism
- Nazism
- Hitler, racial state
- Totalitarianism
- Total state control
- Propaganda
- Control public opinion
Fascism vs Communism
Fascism
- Ultranationalist
- Keeps classes
- Right-wing
Communism
- Internationalist
- Ends classes
- Left-wing
Both total state control
League vs UN
League of Nations
- After WWI
- US absent
- Weak, failed
United Nations
- After WWII
- Security Council
- Still active
Failed vs lasting body
Cold War
- Two blocs
- US vs USSR
- Containment
- Stop spread of communism
- NATO
- Western alliance
- Berlin Wall
- Divided East/West
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1962 nuclear standoff
- Proxy wars
- Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan
- Detente
- Eased tensions
- Glasnost/Perestroika
- Gorbachev reforms
Decolonization
- Gandhi
- Nonviolent India independence
- Partition
- India and Pakistan, 1947
- Ho Chi Minh
- Vietnam nationalism
- Mao Zedong
- China communist 1949
- Great Leap Forward
- Failed industry plan
- Deng Xiaoping
- China market reforms
- Nasser
- Egypt, Suez canal
- African independence
- 1950s-60s new nations
Modernization + Global
- Ataturk
- Secular modern Turkey
- Iranian Revolution
- 1979 theocracy
- Globalization
- Linked world economy
- WTO/IMF/World Bank
- Global trade bodies
- Green Revolution
- Boosted food output
- Kyoto Protocol
- Climate treaty
- OPEC
- Oil cartel power
- September 11
- 2001 terror attacks
Human Rights
- Holocaust
- Nazi Jewish genocide
- Nuremberg Trials
- Tried Nazi leaders
- UDHR
- 1948 UN rights
- Apartheid
- South Africa segregation
- Mandela
- Ended apartheid
- Cambodia
- Khmer Rouge genocide
- Rwanda
- 1994 Tutsi genocide
- Darfur
- Sudan ethnic violence
Essay Structure
Thesis -> Evidence -> Outside -> Endurance
Thesis: name issueEvidence: 3 docsOutside: own factsEndurance: over time
Which CRQ Task?
- Asks setting/time→Historical context(Set the scene)
- Asks why/result→Cause and effect(Link events)
- Asks alike/differ→Comparison(Both sides)
- Asks reliability→Source analysis(Author + purpose)
- Asks main idea→Identify claim(Restate point)
- Asks turning point→Continuity/change(Before vs after)
Skills + Question Types
- Stimulus
- Document, map, cartoon
- Causation
- Cause and effect
- Comparison
- Similarity and difference
- Turning point
- Major change event
- Context
- Surrounding circumstances
- Point of view
- Author's perspective
- Enduring issue
- Long-lasting challenge
- Outside info
- Knowledge beyond docs
Enduring Issue Options
Conflict, Power, Rights, Inequality, Scarcity
Conflict: warPower: ruleRights: human rightsScarcity: resources
Enduring Issues Essay Steps
- Step 1→Read all five docs(Annotate)
- Step 2→Pick one issue(Conflict, power, rights)
- Step 3→Define the issue(Clear thesis)
- Step 4→Cite three docs(Evidence)
- Step 5→Add outside info(Beyond docs)
- Step 6→Explain endurance(Across time)
Source Check
Who, When, Why, Bias
Who: authorWhen: dateWhy: purposeBias: viewpoint
Common Traps
Nationalism vs imperialism
Nationalism = self-rule ≠ Imperialism = rule others
League vs UN
League failed ≠ UN still active
Fascism vs communism
Fascism keeps classes ≠ Communism ends classes
Cause vs effect
Cause comes before ≠ Effect comes after
Scale score vs percent
65 is scale score ≠ Not 65 percent correct
WWI vs WWII spark
WWI: assassination ≠ WWII: Poland invasion
Last Minute
- 1.3 parts, 3 hours total
- 2.Pass = scale score 65, not percent
- 3.Part I = 28 stimulus MCQs
- 4.Part II = 7 one-credit CRQ items
- 5.Part III = enduring issues essay
- 6.Essay needs 3+ documents cited
- 7.Add outside info beyond documents
- 8.MAIN = WWI causes
- 9.Containment = stop communism
- 10.Era span = 1750 to present
- 11.Read stimulus before answer choices
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