History 12
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1.Paris Peace Treaty
The Motives of the USA
The Motives of France
The Motives of Great Britain
The Big Three
Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
The War Guilt Clause
Nationalism and the Formation of New Countries
War Reparations
The Treaties with the Lesser Powers
The Formation of the League of Nations (Collective Security)
Changing Role of Women
2.Russia
Abdication of the Tsar, Feb./March Revolution 1917
The Provisional Government
The Bolsheviks:October/November Revolution 1917
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918 (Outcomes)
Vladimir Lenin
The New Economic Policy
Russian Civil War 1919-21
War Communism
“Socialism in One Country”Lenin’s Death and the Power Struggle
Leon Trotsky vs. Josef Stalin
Industrialization, 5 year plans 1928-1941
Collectivization
Show Trials and the Great Purges
Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
Operation Barbarossa
Stalingrad
3.USA in 20's & 30's
A Consumer Society
Henry Ford, Assembly Lines and the Model T
Isolationism
The Washington Naval Conference, 1921
The Dawes Plan, 1924 The Young Plan, 1929
Buying on the Margin
Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929:Stock Market Crash
Herbert Hoover and Hoovervilles
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 100 Days
The New Deal
Alphabet Agencies
Fireside Chats
John Maynard Keynes
4.The Rise of Fascism.
The Weimar Republic
The Maginot Line
The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) and Mein Kampf
Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism
Locarno and Kellogg-Briand Pacts
Gustaf Stresemann and The Dawes Plan
Early Acts of Appeasement
Final Acts of Appeasement
The Spanish Civil War
Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
5.World War II
The Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Norway and Low Countries
Invasion of France (Dunkirk)
The Battle of Britain (Operation Sea Lion)
The Battle of the Atlantic
North Africa
Italy in Greece and Yugoslavia
Operation Barbarossa
Pearl Harbor
Japan’s Need For Natural Resources
Turning Point 1943: Stalingrad, Kursk, El Alamein
Island Hopping
Invasion of Italy
D-Day
The Battle of the Bulge
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
The Manhattan Project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Wartime Conferences: The Opening Shots of the Cold War
The Nuremburg Trials
Advances in Technology
6.Early Cold War
A Bi-Polar World
The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
1948 Coup in Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia and Albania“Cracks in the Iron Curtain”
The Berlin Blockade/Airlift 1948
NATO and Warsaw Pact
The Korean War, 1950-53
Nikita Krushchev and De-Stalinization
The Hungarian Uprising, 1956
Eisenhower Doctrine
The Space Race and Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM’s)
The Rise of John F. Kennedy
The Berlin Wall, 1961
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963
7.Late Cold War
The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh and Vietcong
Vietnamization
The Leonid Brezhnev Era
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
Czechoslovakia, 1968
Richard Nixon and Detente
The Helsinki Accords, 1975
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) I and II 1972, 1974
Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
Ronald Reagan
Star Wars and Strategic Defense Initiative
Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestoika and Glasnost
The Falling of the Berlin Wall, 1989
Coup in Russia, 1991
8.China
Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang
The Japanese and Manchuria
The Stimson Doctrine
The Long March, 1934
Chinese Civil War, 1946-1949
Mao Zedong
The Korean War and Yalu River
The Great Leap Forward, 1956
The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
Mao dies, 1976
Deng Xiaoping takes over, 1978
Special Economic Zones
Tiannamen Square, 1989
9.The Middle East
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Breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the French and English Mandates
The Balfour Declaration, 1917
The Israeli War of Independence, 1948
The Suez Crisis, 1956
The Six Days War, 1967
Anwar Sadat
The Yom Kippur War, 1973
The Camp David Accords, 1978
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
Yasser Arafat
The Iran-Iraq War,1980-1988
Saddam Hussein
Kuwait and the Gulf War, 1991
10.Human Rights
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Apartheid and South African Human Rights Violations
African National Congress (ANC)
Nelson Mandela
Role of the United Nations (UN)
Pass Laws
Sharpeville Massacre
Soweto Massacre
The End of Apartheid
Amritsar, 1919
Mohandas Ghandi
Self Rule and the Salt March, 1929
Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League, 1947-48
Partition
India and Pakistan (Bangladesh)
Little Rock
Martin Luther King
Great Society
Black Panthers
Malcolm X
Universal Suffrage and the Right to Vote
Margaret Thatcher (The Falkland Islands War, 1982)
Ghandi and Women’s Rights
Golda Meir
Birth Control
Equal Pay
Benazir Bhutto