Unit 7: Global Conflict (c. 1900–Present)

AP World History: Modern

Timeline of key events

Key concepts for the AP exam

The decline of European dominance

Total war

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Ideological conflict

Mass atrocities and genocide

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How this unit connects to other units

World War I trench warfare on the Western Front
Caption: British soldiers in a trench during the Battle of the Somme, 1916. Trench warfare defined the Western Front of World War I, producing massive casualties for minimal territorial gains.

Primary sources you should know

Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points (1918)

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)

Mohandas Gandhi on violence and imperialism (1920)

Key figures

Vocabulary

Unit 7 topics

Unit 7 overview7.1Shifting Power After 19007.2Causes of World War I7.3Conducting World War I7.4The Economy After World War I7.5Unresolved Tensions After World War I7.6Causes of World War II7.7Conducting World War II7.8Mass Atrocities After 19007.9Comparison in the Age of Global Conflict
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