Section outline

  • The final topic in this unit focuses on the skill of argumentation and so provides an opportunity for your students to draw upon the key concepts and historical developments they have studied in this unit. Using evidence relevant to this unit’s key concepts, students should practice the suggested skill for this topic.

    LEARNING OBJECTIVE

    Unit 7: Learning Objective I
    Explain the relative significance of the causes of global conflict in the period 1900 to the present.

    REVIEW: UNIT 7 KEY CONCEPTS

    KC-6.1
    Rapid advances in science and technology altered the understanding of the universe and the natural world and led to advances in communication, transportation, industry, agriculture, and medicine.

    KC-6.2
    Peoples and states around the world challenged the existing political and social order in varying ways, leading to unprecedented worldwide conflicts.

    KC-6.2.I
    The West dominated the global political order at the beginning of the 20th century, but both land-based and maritime empires gave way to new states by the century’s end.

    KC-6.2.I.A
    The older, land-based Ottoman, Russian, and Qing empires collapsed due to a combination of internal and external factors. These changes in Russia eventually led to communist revolution.

    KC-6.2.II.D
    States around the world challenged the existing political and social order, including the Mexican Revolution that arose as a result of political crisis.