Authoritative K–12 history teaching sequence
Modern World History: 1750 to the Present
How have industrialization, empire, revolution, and global interdependence shaped the modern world?
Viko teaches these units in order while historical-reasoning skills develop alongside them. Factual packets and source adaptations remain marked for qualified expert review before production learner use.
Historical thinkingcomplex causation · periodization · quantitative and primary-source evidence · competing interpretations · argument
1c. 1750–1850
Revolutions in an Atlantic and Global Age
EuropeUnited States and CanadaLatin America and the CaribbeanAfrica
How did universal claims collide with unequal societies?
Compare political and social revolutions and their global contexts.
Required anchors: American, French, Haitian, Latin American revolutions
2c. 1750–1914
Industrialization and Social Transformation
EuropeEast AsiaSouth AsiaUnited States and CanadaGlobal
Why did industrialization begin unevenly, and how did people respond?
Analyze energy, capital, empire, labor, gender, urbanization, environment, and industrialization beyond Britain.
Required anchors: Britain, United States, Meiji Japan, Russian industrialization, colonial deindustrialization in India
3c. 1800–1914
Imperialism and Resistance
AfricaEast AsiaSouth AsiaSoutheast AsiaPacific and Oceania
How was imperial rule built, justified, contested, and adapted?
Compare formal empire, economic domination, settler colonialism, local intermediaries, and resistance.
Required anchors: India, China, Southeast Asia, Congo Free State, Ethiopia, southern Africa, Pacific annexation
41914–1945
Global War and Revolution
Global
How did war and revolution reorder states and societies?
Connect world wars, anticolonial politics, economic crisis, fascism, communism, genocide, and civilian mobilization.
Required anchors: World War I beyond Europe, Russian and Chinese revolutions, Great Depression, fascism, Holocaust, Japanese empire
51945–1991
Decolonization and Cold War
AfricaEast AsiaSouth AsiaSoutheast AsiaLatin America and the CaribbeanWest and Central Asia
How did new nations navigate independence and superpower rivalry?
Compare negotiated and violent decolonization, nonalignment, proxy wars, development projects, and popular movements.
Required anchors: South Asian partition, Ghana, Algeria, Congo, Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Middle East conflicts
61945–present
Rights, Migration, and the Global Present
Global
How have people expanded rights while confronting new inequalities?
Study human-rights frameworks, civil and Indigenous movements, migration, globalization, environmental change, and digital connections.
Required anchors: anti-apartheid, women's movements, Indigenous rights, refugee histories, global supply chains, climate history