Ms. Aydinian's Class

February 28, 2011

Pages 550-564
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March 3, 2011

Chapter 24 - first half
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March 7, 2011

Chapter 24 - second half
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March 11, 2011

Chapter 25 - first half
Pages 595 - 606 (stop @ "Mexico: Instability and Foreign Intervention")
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Four external precursors to Latin American Independence
Toussaint L'Overture
Mexican Independence
South American Independence
Gran Colombia (make sure to add as chapter goes on)
Father Miguel de Hidalgo
Augustin de Iturbide
Simon Bolivar
Jose de San Martin
Brazilian Independence (include Dom Pedro I)
Ideals and Issues of New Nations
Political Fragmentation of Latin America
Caudillos
Political systems of LA Nations (dicuss republics, liberals/conservatives, etc)
Monroe Doctrine
Latin American Economy 1820-70 (look @ pages 604-606)
Positivism (define and provide examples)

March 14, 2011

Chapter 25 - second half
Pages 606 - 619
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Mexico: 1820-1870 (include PIRATES info-focusing on ESP, famous treaties/people/events, etc)
Benito Juarez
Argentina: 1820-1870 (same stuff as mexico)
Brazilian Empire: 1820-1870 (same stuff as mexico)
Post-Independence LA Art & Culture
Women in Latin America (Post-Independence)
Race & Class in LA (Post-Independence)
In Depth: Explaining Underdevelopment in LA (what are the problems facing economic growth and stability?)
Modernization theory
Dependency theory

Latin American Economy 1880-1920
Mexico: 1880-1920
Argentina: 1880-1920
United States involvement in Latin America

March 16, 2011

Chapter 26 - first half
Pages 621 - 633 (stop @ "Jihad: The Mahdist Revolt in the Sudan"
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Decline of the Ottoman Empire
Selim III & Mahmud II
Tanzimat Reforms
Westernization in the Ottoman Empire
Young Turks/Ottoman Society for Union and Progress (make sure to say what they did)
Mamluk Egypt's fall to Napoleon
Muhammad Ali (make sure you list his reforms, westernization, etc)
khedives
Suez Canal
Khedival Rule of Egypt (domestic and international problems, etc)
Western Influence in Egypt

March 18, 2011

Chapter 26 - second half
Pages 633 - 644
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Mahdist Revolt in the Sudan (make sure to say what led to the revolt, dates, who took part,famous leaders/battles, winner and result, etc)
Mahdist State (dates, leaders, laws, etc)

Mahdi's motivations for revolt against Egyptian Rule
Mahdi (Muhammad Achmad)
Manchu conquering of China (need dates)
Banner Armies
Manchu-Chinese interaction
Qing Dynasty
Women in Qing China
Social/Household organization in Qing China
Market Economy of Qing China (goods, imports/exports, trade, compradors, etc)
Decline of the Qing (corruption, bureaucracy, infrastructure, etc)
Problems of Mandate of Heaven with Qing (yes, everyone thought the MofH would follow the normal cycle...why didn't it here?)
Opium trade b/w China and England
Social and Economic effects of Opium in China
Opium Wars (motivations for, countries fighting, dates, winner, results, etc--remember there are 2 wars, so 2 dates)
Lin Zexu
Economic/Political concessions of the Opium Wars
Taiping Rebellion
Self-strengthening movement
Cixi
Boxer Rebellion
Fall of the Qing (late 19th-early 20th century timeframe)

March 22, 2011

Chapter 27 - first half
Pages 647 - 657 (stop @ Russia and Eastern Europe)
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March 24, 2011

Chapter 27 - second half
Pages 657 - 666
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Shogunate in the 19th Century
19th Century Neoconfucianism in Japan
19th Century Japanese beliefs - National Studies and Dutch Studies (you need to state beliefs, followers, conflicts, schools, etc. of both ideologies)
Japanese Economy - 1800-1850s
Matthew Perry
Economic & Political Openning of Japan to the West
Mutsuhito/Meiji
Political Reforms of the Meiji State
Social Reforms of the Meiji State (look on pages 661-3 and "In Depth" section)
Economic Reforms of the Meiji State (look on pages 661-3 and "In Depth" section)
Military Reforms of the Meiji State (look on pages 661-3 and "In Depth" section)
Japanese Industry Post-1860 (look at economics, political incentives/help, labor, precursors to industrialization as stated in 2nd paragraph under "Japan's Industrial Revolution")
Zaibatsu
Education in the Meiji Era
Social fashions and trends of the Meiji Era
Family life of the Meiji Era
Japanese Imperialism (need to include why they haven't expanded in the past, what motivates expansion now, Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War)
Political and Social Tensions in Meiji Japan
Nationalism of the Meiji Era

March 28, 2011

Chapter 28 - first half
Pages 668 - 686 (stop @ The War's Devastations and Dislocations)
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20th Cent. Geographic Rebalancing: Decline of the West
20th Cent. increase in International Contact
20th Cent. Parallel Patterns across Civilizations
20th Cent. Phases in World History (define the three with date ranges, major trend, examples, and results)
Internationalism
Precursors to World War I (alliance systems, imperialism, nationalism, events, end of the war, treaties etc.)
World War I (western vs eastern front, technology, tactics, etc)
WWI Outside Europe
Colonial Troops in WWI
Balfour Declaration
WWI Peace Talks and Results
Isolationism

March 30, 2011

Chapter 28 - second half
Pages 686 - 704
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April 1, 2011

Chapter 29 - first half
Pages 707 - 717 (stop @ Economic Expansion)
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April 5, 2011

Chapter 29 - second half
Pages 717 - 727
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April 7, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #1 that you did not present on - first half
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April 11, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #1 that you did not present on - second half
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April 13, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #2 that you did not present on - first half
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April 15, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #2 that you did not present on - second half
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April 19, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #3 that you did not present on - first half
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April 21, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #3 that you did not present on - second half
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April 22, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #4 that you did not present on - first half
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April 26, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #4 that you did not present on - second half
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April 28, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #5 that you did not present on - first half
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May 2, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #5 that you did not present on - second half
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May 4, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #6 that you did not present on - first half
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May 6, 2011

Cross-Class Presentations - Chapter #6 that you did not present on - second half
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Chapter 30 - Russia and Eastern Europe

First half of chapter
Pages 729 - 739 (stop @ Evolution of Domestic Policies)
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Second half of chapter
Pages 739 - 751
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Chapter 31 - Japan and the Pacific Rim

First half of chapter
Pages 753 - 762 (stop @ Japan, Incorporated)
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Second half of chapter
Pages 762 - 770
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Chapter 32 - Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century

First half of chapter
Pages 773 - 785 (stop @ The Cuban Revolution)
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Second half of chapter
Pages 785 - 798
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Chapter 33 - Decolonization and the Decline of the European World Order

First half of chapter
Pages 801 - 815 (stop @ The Beginnings of the Liberation Struggle in Africa)
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Second half of chapter
Pages 815 - 828
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Chapter 34 - Africa and Asia in the Era of Independence

First half of chapter
Pages 831 - 845 (stop @ Paths to Economic Growth and Social Justice.  skip the doc on 844 and finish reading the Neocolonialism section)
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Second half of chapter
Pages 844, 845 - 857
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Chapter 35 - War and Revolution in China and Vietnam

First half of chapter
Pages 859 - 872 (stop @ "Women Hold Up Half the Heavens")
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Second half of chapter
Pages 872 - 884
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