History 12
Unit 2: Russia 1917-1945
Abdication of the Tsar, Feb./March Revolution 1917
The Provisional Government
The Bolsheviks:October/November Revolution 1917
Outcomes (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918)
Vladimir Lenin
Russian Civil War 1919-21
War Communism
New Economic Policy
“Socialism in One Country” Lenin’s Death and the Power Struggle
Leon Trotsky vs. Josef Stalin
Collectivization
Industrialization, 5 year plans 1928-1941
Show Trials and the Great Purges
Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
Operation Barbarossa
Stalingrad
Europe in the 20s & 30s
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
Unit 5: WWII
Invasion of Poland
Invasion of Norway and Low Countries
Invasion of France Dunkirk
Battle of Britain (Operation Sea Lion)
Battle of Atlantic
North Africa
Italy in Greece and Yugoslavia
Operation Barbarossa
Pearl Harbor
Japan's Needs for Natural Resources
Turning Point 1943: Stalingrad, Kursk, El Alamein
Island Hopping
Invasion of Italy
D-Day
The Manhattan Project
The Battle of the Bulge
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
The Fall of Germany and Hitler's Death
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Wartime Conferences: The Opening Shots of the Cold War
Advances in Technology
The Nuremberg Trials
Unit 6: The Early Cold War
A Bi-Polar World
The Truman Doctrine & the 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 Kruschev and De-Stalinization
Eisenhower Doctrine
The Hungarian Uprising 1956
The Space Race and Intercontinental 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
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
Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) I and II 1972, 1974
The Helsinki Accords, 1975
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Ronald Regan
Star Wars and Strategic Defense Initiative
Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestoika and Glasnost
The Falling of the Berlin Wall, 1989
Coup in Russian, 1991
China
Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuonmintang
The Chinese Communist Party
The Japanese and Manchu
The Stimson Doctrine
The Long March, 1934
Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong)
Chinese Civil War, 1946-1949
Taiwan
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
Tiananmen Square, 1989
Unit 9: The Middle East
Breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the French and English Mandates
The Balfour Declaration, 1917
The Israeli War of Independence 1941
The Suez Crisis, 1956
The Six Days War, 1967
The Yom Kippur War, 1973
Anwar Sadat
The Camp David Accords, 1978
The Palistinean Liberation Organization
The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
Yasser Arafat
Saddam Hussein
Kuwait and the Gulf War, 1991
Middle East Blog
Socialism in One Country
Stalin gained power through role as Secretary General