All ten NYSED Global II units. Each entry is Maria’s study outline, integrated verbatim, and used as live context by Professor Atlas.
Belief systems, the Asian-centered world, absolutism, mercantilism, and the Atlantic trade — the baseline for everything that follows.
Scientific Revolution → Enlightenment → American, French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutions → Napoleon → Italian & German unification.
Why Britain first, key inventions, factory life, new classes, capitalism vs. socialism vs. communism, reform movements, and the global spread including Meiji Japan.
Motives of the New Imperialism, the Scramble for Africa, British India and the Sepoy Mutiny, China's Century of Humiliation, and resistance movements worldwide.
WWI (MAIN causes, Sarajevo, Versailles) → Russian Revolution → interwar totalitarianism (Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin) → WWII → the Holocaust → the atomic bombs.
Yalta/Potsdam, Iron Curtain, containment, Chinese Revolution, Korea, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, proxy wars, Gorbachev, and the fall of the USSR.
End of European empires: Gandhi and Indian independence/partition, founding of Israel and Arab–Israeli wars, African decolonization, apartheid and Mandela, the Iranian Revolution, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
Modernization vs. tradition: the Iranian Revolution (Shah's White Revolution, Khomeini, Islamic Republic), Atatürk's Turkey, Mao/Deng China, Hindu nationalism, Saudi Arabia, and global religious fundamentalism.
Post-Cold War integration: WTO/NAFTA/EU, the rise of China, the internet and smartphones, climate change (Kyoto/Paris), migration, 9/11, the 2008 crisis, COVID-19, populism, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Capstone unit: the 1948 Genocide Convention's strict legal definition, the four canonical genocides (Armenian, Holocaust, Cambodian, Rwandan), Bosnia/Srebrenica, and contemporary cases — Darfur, Rohingya, Uyghurs, Syria — plus the international response trajectory from Nuremberg → UDHR → ICTY/ICTR → ICC → R2P.