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Unit 7 Overview

Unit 7 Overview

The long nineteenth century came to a violent end in 1914 with the beginning of a 30-year period of global conflict that launched new ideologies and two world wars.

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.

Key Ideas

Think about the following questions as you watch the video


  1. 02:41 How does the scale of the First World War compare to that of the Second World War, according to the video?
  2. 03:26 What were some problems left by the First World War that contributed to the Second World War?
  3. 05:10 What kinds of intellectual ideas and economic situations helped to drive the rise of nationalism in this era?
  4. 05:44 What were some horrors of the Second World War that resulted from this extreme nationalism and from authoritarianism?
  5. 06:47 What does the data about the number of democracies in the world show for the period from 1930 to 1944?
  6. 10:09 Why did Emperor Haile Selassie travel to Geneva? Did he succeed? Why or why not?