The following topics will need to be studied by the student before beginning this unit: The Enlightenment, The 18th &19th century Revolutions, ideas of Democracy & Nationalism, The Industrial Revolution, and the Age of Empire. Ideally, this unit would be followed up by “Ideology & Conflict in the Mid 20th century: 1918 to 1948”, which would cover such topics as: Bolshevism & Fascism, the new Yugoslavia, rise of Japan (Asia for Asians), and WWII & The Holocaust. Then followed by “Ethnicity, Nationalism, Ideology & Conflict in the Late 20th century: 1948 to 2001”, which would cover such topics as: the creation of Israel, the independence and partition of British India, French Indochina, Cold War, the development of Apartheid (to be compared to the American south), African wars of liberation, Arab/Israeli conflict, Personal Politics of the 1960’s, Kissenger & America’s Dirty Wars, the collapse of USSR, more Balkan Wars, Rwanda and lastly, September 11th.
