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Understanding the Modern World

America, 1840-1895: Expansion and Consolidation

Expansion: Opportunities and Challenges

North America

• Geography
• Great American Desert
• Manifest Destiny

Going West

• Early American Settlers
• Mormons
  • The Mountain Meadows Massacre
• Journey
• Pioneer Migrant Farmers
• Miners

Plains Indians

• Culture and Way of Life
• Early Government Policy
• Permanent Indian Frontier
• Relationship with the Plains Indians

Conflict across America

Conflict on the Plains

• Fort Laramie Treaty
• Policy of Concentration
• The Indian Wars
  • Causes
  • Consequences
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Fetterman’s Trap

American Civil War

• Differences between North and South
• Slavery
• Westwards Expansion
• Free States Abolitionism
• Missouri Compromise
• John Brown
• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis
• Social impact of the Civil War
• Economic impact of the Civil War

Aftermath of the Civil War

• 13th Amendment
• Civil Rights Act
• Rebuilding the South
• 1866-1877
• Carpetbaggers
• Federal and State Powers

Settlement of the West

• The Homesteaders
• Why West?
• Government Actions and Laws
• Land and Railroads
• Farming Problems
  • Farming Solutions

The Resolution of the ‘Indian Problem’

• The Small Reservations Policy
• Attitudes towards Native Americans
• Battle of the Little Big Horn
• The Dawes Act
• Battle of Wounded Knee
• The Closing of the Frontier
  • The Impact on Native Americans

Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship

Germany and the growth of democracy

Ruling Germany

• Germany
• Kaiser Wilhelm
• Difficulties in Ruling Germany
• Rise of Parliamentary Government
• Influence of Prussian Militarism
• Industrialisation in Germany
• Social Reform
  • The Growth of Socialism
• Navy Laws

WWI

• War Weariness
• Economic Problems caused by WWI
• Defeat in WWI
• The End of German Monarchy
• The Crisis of 1923
  • Reparations
  • The Occupation of the Ruhr
  • Hyperinflation

Weimar Democracy

• Political Change and Unrest in Germany, 1919-1923
  • Spartacists
  • Kapp Putsch
  • Munich Putsch
• Economic Recovery and Developments under Stresemann
• Gustav Stresemann
  • Reichsmark
  • Dawes Plan
  • Young Plan
  • International Impact
• Weimar Culture

Germany and the Depression

• Great Depression
• Adolf Hitler
• National Socialism
• Rise of Extremism in Germany
  • Right-Wing Extremism
  • Rise of the National Socialists
    • Role of the SA
• Hitler’s Appeal to the Masses

The Failure of Weimar Democracy

• Election Results
• Franz von Papen
• President Hindenburg
• Hitler becomes Chancellor

===[[Establishing Hitler]s Dictatorship]]

• Reichstag Fire
• Enabling Act
• Elimination of Political Opposition
• Trade Unions in Germany
• Ernst Rohm
• Night of the Long Knives
• Führer

The Experiences of Germans under the Nazis

Economic Changes under the Nazis

• Economic Benefits
• Economic Drawbacks
• Employment under the Nazis
  • Public Works Programmes
• Rearmament
• Self-Sufficiency
• Economy during the War

The Impact of War on the German People

• Bombing
• Rationing
• Labour Shortages
• Refugees

Social Policy under the Nazis

• Joseph Goebbels
• Nazi Propaganda
• Censorship under the Nazis
• Nazi Culture
• Repression and the Police State
• Heinrich Himmler
• SS
• Gestapo

Opposition to the Nazis

• White Rose Group
• Swing Youth
• Edelweiss Pirates
• Stauffenberg Plot

Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and Communism

The End of Tsardom

=Russian Economy and Society

• Russia
• Tsardom
• Absolutism
• Russian Industrialisation
• Living and Working in Russia

Nicholas II

• Autocracy in Russia
• Nicholas’ Court

Revolutionary Tensions in Russia

• Revolution
• Growth of Revolutionary Tensions
• 1905 Russian Revolution
• October Manifesto
• Attempts to reform Russia
• Dumas
• Pyotr Stolypin
  • Stolypin’s Policies

WWI

• Impact of WWI on Tsarist Government
• Social Effects of WWI in Russia
• Economic Effects of WWI in Russia
• Unpopularity of the Romanovs
  • Rasputin
• Abdication of Nicholas I

Lenin’s New Society

The Provisional Government

• Failure to deal with Russia’s problems
  • Social
  • Economic
  • Military
• Leon Trotsky
• Vladimir Lenin
• Rise of the Bolsheviks
• October Revolution

Lenin’s Dictatorship

• Dictatorship
• USSR
• End of WWI
• Cheka
• Red Army
• Russian Civil War
  • Causes
  • Events
  • Consequences
• Bolshevik Propaganda

Social and Economic Developments under Bolshevism

• War Communism
• Kronstadt Rising
• New Economic Policy
• Achievements of Lenin and Trostsky

Stalin’s USSR

Joseph Stalin

• Lenin’s Succession
• Communist Control of Government
• [[Red Terror]
• The Purges
• Stalin’s Army
• Stalin’s Secret Police
• Labour Camps under Stalin
• Censorship under Stalin
• Stalin’s Cult of Personality
• Propaganda under Stalin

Stalin’s Modernisation of the USSR

• Collectivisation
• Five Year Plans
• Kulaks
  • Social and Economic Consequences for Kulaks
• Society under Stalin
  • City Dwellers under Stalin
  • Women under Stalin
  • Workers under Stalin
• Results of Modernisation

Impact of WWII on USSR

• Stalin’s Wartime Leadership
• Great Patriotic War
• Problems caused by WWII in Russia
  • Economic Effects of WWII in Russia
  • Social Effects of WWII in Russia
  • Political Effects of WWII in Russia