- 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