Highlighted History

What role has fundamentalism played in the growth of terrorism? Why is the United States currently at war with Afghanistan?

What are the major environmental threats to our planet? What are some of the problems keeping nations in poverty?

What is globalization and how is it changing relationships between countries?

How did Boris Yeltsin try to reform Russia’s economy? What is the European Union and what challenges does it face?

Why did dictatorships develop in Latin America? How did Cold War tensions lead to civil wars in Latin America?

How did China try to reform after the death of Mao Zedong? How did Chinese people respond to these changes? What has happened to the population and economy of India since independence?

What was the green revolution? How has rapid population growth raised concerns in developing nations? How is the status of women’s changing in developing nations?

What is a cause of continued conflict in Iraq after the removal of Saddam Hussein? What are the obstacles to peace in Israel? Why is Jerusalem significant for Muslims, Jews, and Christians?

What was South Africa’s apartheid and how did it come to an end? What caused the genocides of Rwanda, Burundi, and Sudan?

How has ethnic, religious, and regional differences led to conflict in the modern world?

What resources have caused foreign interest in the Middle East? Why was Egypt considered an early leader in the Arab world? How did foreign intervention contribute to Iran’s Islamic Revolution?

Why do many African nations gain their independence peacefully? How do one-party dictatorships impact newly independent African nations? Why do African economies still depend on foreign nations?

Why was British India partitioned into two new nations? How do religions and border disputes fuel current conflicts?

How did Gorbechev’s glasnost and perestroika impact the Soviet Union? What was Poland’s solidarity movement and how was it reflective of the Eastern European countries after the fall of the Soviet Union?

What was the Vietnam conflict about and why was the Tet Offensive a turning point? Who was Pol Pot and what was the goal of the Khmer Rouge?

Who was Mao Zedong and how did the Great Leap Forward affect China? What is a proxy war and how is the Korean War and example of it?

How did western democracies recover after World War II? When did the Berlin Wall come down and what allowed this to happen? What is a welfare state and why was it set up in Europe?

What was the importance of the Berlin Wall? How did the Cuban Missile Crisis increase the likelihood of mutually assured destruction? What was the goal of detente?

How did the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan shape rebuilding efforts in Europe after WWII? Who were the two opposing sides of the Cold War and what early areas of conflict?

What was the island-hopping strategy that the United States used in the pacific? What was the project that produced atom bombs that would be used in the pacific?

How was the battle of Stalingrad and the Normandy invasion a turning point for the Allies?

What atrocities did the civilian populations endure during World War II?

What was the significance of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor?

How does the blitzkrieg contribute to the fall of Poland and France? What was Germany’s goal in bombing Britain during the blitz?

Why was the Spanish Civil War important for the German military? How did Anschluss, the Czech crisis, and the Nazi-Soviet Pact lead to World War II?

What were the struggles of the Weimar Republic? What were the goals of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists?

How did Mussolini rise to power in Italy? What are key characteristics to fascism?

How did Britain, France, and the United States respond to the Great Depression? What was the purpose of the Kellog-Briand Pact?

How did Stalin use terror as a weapon? What were the results of the great purge? How did the totalitarian state affect industry and agriculture?

What role did the Amritsar massacre play in Indian independence? How did Gandhi bring attention to Indian independence?

What two groups are engaged in a civil war? Who are the nationalists and communists? How did they respond to war lord uprisings and foreign imperialism?

How does industrialization and military expansion lead to Japan becoming a world power?

What were the two revolutions in Russia? Who was Lenin and how did he gain power and rule?

What was the outcome at the Paris Peace Conference? What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points?

How does total war affect the home front? How does propaganda affect the war effort? How does collapsing morale and U.S entry into the war affect the outcome?

How do developments in technology affect the war? What were the different experiences in the eastern and western fronts?

How did Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism contribute to the outbreak of the First World War?

How did Siam maintain its independence? Why were imperial powers in the region? How did the United States become an imperial power?

How did China respond to the various domestic issues and foreign interventions? What happened to the Imperial Chinese government?

What were the positive and negatives of British rule in India?

What contributed to the continued decline of the Ottoman Empire? What fuels European interest in Egypt and Persia?

What was the Berlin Conference and who benefitted from it? What is paternalism? Why was the Belgian Congo a horrific example of European Imperialism?

What were the motives for New Imperialism?

Italy unifies. Russia attempts to reform.

What are the causes of the decline of the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires? How do they address these problems?

Who was Otto Von Bismarck? What was his role in unifying Germany? How did Bismarck deal with the Catholic Church and socialists?

Interesting information beyond the focus of our class.

How did city life improve?

Which new nations emerged as Industrial powers? How does technology spark industrial growth?

What solutions were proposed by Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and Karl Marx to address social inequalities during the industrial revolution?

What is urbanization? What new social class emerges in Britain? What were working conditions like and how did they change?