New York State Curriculum Notes

Between the wars

1. Human and physical geography

2. Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations

3. Modernization and westernization of a secular Turkey—Kemal Atatürk

4. Women’s suffrage movement

5. Great Depression—causes and impacts

6. Weimar Republic and the rise of fascism as an aftermath of World War I

7. Japanese militarism and imperialism

   a. Manchuria, 1931

   b . Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

8. Policy of appeasement—Munich Pact

9. Colonial response to European imperialism

10. Arabic and Zionist nationalism

Case studies: 

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Reza Khan

• Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kaishek)

• Mao Zedong.;Zionism

• Arab nationalism

• Indian nationalism: the Amritsar massacre, Salt March, civil disobedience 

• To what extent did communism and fascism challenge liberal democratic traditions?

• What impact did Japanese occupation have on China?

Suggested Documents: 

• Political maps of the Post World War I time period

• Mao Zedong, Strategic Problems of China’s Revolutionary War

• Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Opinion and The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology

• Arthur James Balfour, The Balfour Declaration