Unit 7: Global Conflict
Unit 7 takes place c. 1900 to the present and will make up 8-10% of the AP Exam weight.
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.
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KC-6.2.IV.B.i The causes of World War I included imperialist expansion and competition for resources. In addition, territorial and regional conflicts combined with a flawed alliance system and intense nationalism to escalate the tensions into global conflict.
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KC-6.2.IV.A.i World War I was the first total war. Governments used a variety of strategies, including political propaganda, art, media, and intensified forms of nationalism, to mobilize populations (both in the home countries and the colonies) for the purpose of waging war.
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KC-6.3.I.B Following World War I and the onset of the Great Depression, governments began to take a more active role in economic life. Examples of government intervention in the economy include the New Deal, the fascist corporatists economy, and government with strong popular support in Brazil and Mexico.
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KC-6.2.I.B Between the two world wars, Western and Japanese imperial states predominantly maintained control over colonial holdings; in some cases, they gained additional territories through conquest or treaty settlement and in other cases faced anti-imperial resistance. Examples of territorial gains include the transfer of former German colonies to Great Britain and France under the system of League of Nations mandates and the Manchukuo/Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Examples of anti-imperial resistance include the Indian National Congress and West African resistance (strikes/congresses) to French rule.
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KC-6.2.IV.B.ii The causes of World War II included the unsustainable peace settlement after World War I, the global economic crisis engendered by the Great Depression, continued imperialist aspirations, and especially the rise to power of fascist and totalitarian regimes that resulted in the aggressive militarism of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.
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KC-6.2.IV.A.ii World War II was a total war. Governments used a variety of strategies, including political propaganda, art, media, and intensified forms of nationalism, to mobilize populations (both in the home countries and the colonies or former colonies) for the purpose of waging war. Governments used ideologies, including fascism and communism to mobilize all of their state’s resources for war and, in the case of totalitarian states, to repress basic freedoms and dominate many aspects of daily life during the course of the conflicts and beyond. Examples of Western democracies mobilizing for war include Great Britain under Winston Churchill and the United States under Franklin Roosevelt. Examples of totalitarian states mobilizing for war include Germany under Adolf Hitler and the USSR under Joseph Stalin.
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KC-6.2.III.C The rise of extremist groups in power led to the attempted destruction of specific populations, notably the Nazi killing of the Jews in the Holocaust during World War II, and to other atrocities, acts of genocide, or ethnic violence. Examples of genocide, ethnic violence, or attempted destruction of specific populations include the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I, in Cambodia during the late 1970s, the Tutsi in Rwanda in the 1990s, and Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
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