The Curriculum

All ten NYSED Global II units. Each entry is Maria’s study outline, integrated verbatim, and used as live context by Professor Atlas.

10.1

The World in 1750

c. 1750

Belief systems, the Asian-centered world, absolutism, mercantilism, and the Atlantic trade — the baseline for everything that follows.

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10.2

Enlightenment, Revolution, and Nationalism

1543 – 1871

Scientific Revolution → Enlightenment → American, French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutions → Napoleon → Italian & German unification.

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10.3

Causes & Effects of the Industrial Revolution

1750 – 1914

Why Britain first, key inventions, factory life, new classes, capitalism vs. socialism vs. communism, reform movements, and the global spread including Meiji Japan.

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10.4

Imperialism

1750 – 1914

Motives of the New Imperialism, the Scramble for Africa, British India and the Sepoy Mutiny, China's Century of Humiliation, and resistance movements worldwide.

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10.5

Unresolved Global Conflict (1914–1945)

1914 – 1945

WWI (MAIN causes, Sarajevo, Versailles) → Russian Revolution → interwar totalitarianism (Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin) → WWII → the Holocaust → the atomic bombs.

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10.6

The Cold War

1945 – 1991

Yalta/Potsdam, Iron Curtain, containment, Chinese Revolution, Korea, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, proxy wars, Gorbachev, and the fall of the USSR.

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10.7

Decolonization and Nationalism

1945 – 1994

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.

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10.8

Tensions Between Traditional Cultures & Modernization

1920s – present

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.

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10.9

Globalization & a Changing Environment

1991 – present

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.

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10.10

Human Rights Violations

1915 – present

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.

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