9th grade Social Studies
13 units matched to the Alabama Course of Study.
Focus areas
- Course: World History and Geography: Age of Revolution to Present
- Revolutions and the Industrial Revolution
- Imperialism and the world wars
- The Cold War, globalization and the world today
Units
Unit 1
Age of Revolutions
The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, revolutions in England, America, France, Haiti and Latin America, the Industrial Revolution, and the end of slavery and serfdom.
Content standard: 9.1; 9.2; 9.3 · the Enlightenment, and the American, French, Haitian and Latin American revolutions
Unit 2
The French Revolution & Napoleon
The causes of the French Revolution and the influence of the American Revolution, the factions (Jacobins, Girondins, sans-culottes, émigrés), the Reign of Terror, Napoleon's rule and wars, and the Congress of Vienna.
Content standard: 9.2 · the causes and consequences of the French Revolution
Unit 3
The Industrial Revolution
Inventions and labor conditions of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, the growth of cities and classes, and the ideas of capitalism, utilitarianism, socialism and Marxism (Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Robert Owen, Karl Marx).
Content standard: 9.4 · how the Industrial Revolution changed Europe's economies, societies and politics
Unit 4
Nationalism, 1848–1914
The revolutions of 1848, the unification of Italy and Germany, the decline of the Ottoman Empire, and the rise of Japan after the Meiji Restoration.
Content standard: 9.5 · how nationalism transformed the world from 1848 to 1914
Unit 5
The Age of Imperialism
The motives and ideas behind late nineteenth century imperialism, the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa, spheres of influence in China, and resistance such as Adwa, the Indian Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion.
Content standard: 9.6 · how imperialism transformed Africa, Asia and the world
Unit 6
World War I
The long-term causes and the spark of World War I, trench warfare and new weapons, the Russian Revolution and the Bolsheviks, and the Treaty of Versailles.
Content standard: 9.7 · the causes and consequences of World War I
Unit 7
Between the Wars
Communism, fascism and social democracy after World War I, the end of the Ottoman Empire and the mandates, the global Great Depression, and the rise of Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and Japanese militarism.
Content standard: 9.8; 9.9 · the world after World War I, the Great Depression and the rise of totalitarian states
Unit 8
World War II
Axis and Allied leaders, the turning points in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific, civilians' experiences, VE Day, the atomic bombs, and the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials.
Content standard: 9.10; 9.12 · World War II's turning points and consequences, and how it ended in Europe and the Pacific
Unit 9
The Holocaust
The Holocaust as the state-sponsored persecution and murder of Europe's Jews and other victims by Nazi Germany: antisemitism and propaganda, the Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, ghettos, the Final Solution and the camps, told plainly and respectfully.
Content standard: 9.11 · the Holocaust as the systematic persecution and murder of Europe's Jews and other minorities
Unit 10
The Cold War
How the Cold War grew out of World War II, NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the United Nations, communist China under Mao, the Korean War and Cuban Missile Crisis, the arms and space races, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Content standard: 9.13; 9.15 · the origins and course of the Cold War to the collapse of the Soviet Union
Unit 11
The End of Empires
How colonies in Asia, Africa and the Middle East won independence after World War II (India, Israel, Ghana, Kenya, Algeria, Vietnam), the Suez Crisis, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the end of apartheid.
Content standard: 9.14 · realignment after World War II and the decline of colonial empires
Unit 12
Our Connected World
Conflicts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, economic interdependence and globalization, and how people and the environment affect each other today.
Content standard: 9.16; 9.17; 9.18 · recent conflicts, globalization, and people and the environment today
Unit 13
Revolution to Today
Putting the major events of world history from the French Revolution to the early twenty-first century in order.
Content standard: 9.5; 9.7; 9.10; 9.15 · putting the events of modern world history in order
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