Grade 11 Open 20th Century Global and Regional History
Course Outline
This course focuses on events and issues in twentieth-century world history. Students analyse issues relating to the two world wars, the Cold War, post-1945 regional conflicts, human rights, changes in everyday life, and the problems facing developing countries. The skills and knowledge developed in the course will help students understand and analyse the challenges facing peoples, both historically and at the present time, in various parts of the world.
Units of Study
Unit 1 ~ Challenges to the Established Order: The World at the Turn of the 20th Century (1900-1919)
Unit 2 ~ The Interwar Years
Unit 3 ~ World War Two
Unit 4 ~ Global and Regional Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (1945 to Present)
Unit 5 ~ New Economic Realities: Options for the Future (1945 to Present)
Unit 6 ~ The Individual and the Twentieth Century (1945 to Present)
This course focuses on events and issues in twentieth-century world history. Students analyse issues relating to the two world wars, the Cold War, post-1945 regional conflicts, human rights, changes in everyday life, and the problems facing developing countries. The skills and knowledge developed in the course will help students understand and analyse the challenges facing peoples, both historically and at the present time, in various parts of the world.
Units of Study
Unit 1 ~ Challenges to the Established Order: The World at the Turn of the 20th Century (1900-1919)
Unit 2 ~ The Interwar Years
Unit 3 ~ World War Two
Unit 4 ~ Global and Regional Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (1945 to Present)
Unit 5 ~ New Economic Realities: Options for the Future (1945 to Present)
Unit 6 ~ The Individual and the Twentieth Century (1945 to Present)