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Unit 7: Global Conflict

🕓 Time Period: 1900-Present

Chapters

7.1: Shifting Power

7.2: Causes of World War I

7.3: Conducting World War I

7.4: Economy in the Interwar Period

7.5: Unresolved Tensions after World War I

7.6: Causes of World War II

7.7: Conducting World War II

7.8: Mass Atrocities

7.9: Causation in Global Conflict

Context

Shifting powers: long lasting empires like the Ottoman Empire collapsed and communism replaced existing forms of government in China and Russia

Rapid advances in technology

Communication, transportation, industry, agriculture, medicine helped people
Military advancements made war more deadly

Mass atrocities committed

Rise of totalitarian governments (such as Stalin’s Russia)

Topics

Changes in the global political order after 1900

World War I: its causes and how it was fought

The interwar period

World War II: its causes and how it was fought

Mass atrocities after 1900