🌎 9th grade Social Studies: how to help at home

What each unit covers

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

13. ⏳Revolution to Today

    Putting the major events of world history from the French Revolution to the early twenty-first century in order.