Mayan Archaeology 

 1-What an archaeologist does  W1

2-Drawing conclusions of the past using material remains W1

People and Society

3-Definition of civilization  W2

4-City-States  W2

5-Historical, geographical, and cultural information pertaining to the Maya civilization W3

6-The greater time-line of early Mesoamerican development  W3 7-Common roles of people in Maya society  W4

8-How Maya civilization changed over time  W4

9-Chichen Itza, Copan, Caracol, Palenque, Tikal, Uxmal W5 

10-Mayan writing system W5  

11-Uses of writing W6

12-Cultural and societal significance of language  W6

13-Maya trade goods  W7

14-Mayan mathematical system  W7

15-Cacao W7

16- GENERAL REVIEW W8

UNRESOLVED GLOBAL CONFLICT (1914–1945) 

World War I (1914 – 1918 C.E.) .

1- Human and physical geography (pre and post-war political maps, diagrams of trenches and trench maps)  

2- Causes of war  

3- Effects of war  

4- Effects of technological advances on warfare  

5- Armenian Genocide (1915)  

6- Collapse of Ottoman Empire  

7- The war as reflected in literature, art, and propaganda 

Revolution and Change in Russia (ca. 1905 – 1939 C.E.) 

8- Czar Nicholas II  

9- The Revolution of 1905  

10- March Revolution and provisional government  

11- Bolshevik Revolution  

12- Modernization of a feudal society  

13- Education, healthcare Lenin’s rule in Russia  

14- Stalin and the rise of a modern totalitarian state  

15- Development of ideology and nationalism under Lenin and Stalin  

16- Russification of ethnic republics  

17- Forced famine in Ukraine  

18- Reign of Terror 

Interwar Period (1919 – 1939 C.E.) 

19- Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations  

20- Modernization and westernization of a secular Turkey (Atatürk)  

21- Women’s suffrage movement  

22- Great Depression  

23- Influence of the Great Depression on the rise of totalitarian dictators  

24- Weimar Republic and the rise of fascism  

25- Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939) 

26- Japanese militarism and imperialism (Manchuria, 1931 and Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937 – 1945)  

27- Policy of appeasement (Munich Pact)  

28- Arab nationalism and Zionism 

World War II (Causes and Impact) 

29- Human and physical geography (pre and post-war political maps)  .

30- The Nazi and Japanese states  

31- Key individuals (Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Tojo)  

32- Atrocities and genocide (The Holocaust – Jews, Poles, Roma, homosexuals, Ukrainian Holodomor)  

33- Resistance  

34- Japan’s role (Nanjing, Bataan, Pearl Harbor) 

Connection Between World War I and World War II 

35- Use of total war  

36- Comparisons and contrasts of the long- and short-term causes and effects for World War I and World War II  

37- Comparisons and contrasts of the technologies utilized in both World War I and World War II 

UNRESOLVED GLOBAL CONFLICT (1945–1991: THE COLD WAR)

Cold War Balance of Power (1945-1991 C.E.) 

38- Human and physical geography of the world in 1945 (North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)/Warsaw Pact, Iron Curtain)  

39- Origins of tensions at end of WWII (Yalta and Potsdam)  

40- Emergence of the superpowers and the ideological differences between the United States and the Soviet Union  41- Political climate of the Cold War (Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Berlin airlift/blockade, and a divided Germany)  42-United States occupation of Germany and Japan Cold War Confrontations and Attempts at Peace 

43- Policy of containment and efforts to expand communism  

44- Nuclear weapons proliferation, rise of the military-industrial complex and space race  

45- Hungarian Revolt (1956)  

46- Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)  

47- Surrogate superpower rivalries (Egypt, Congo, Angola, Chile, Iran, Iraq, Korea, Vietnam, Guatemala)  

48- Military technology of the cold war  

49- Role of nonaligned nations (Egypt and India) 

Economic Issues in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Era 

50- Market vs. command economies  

51- Economic recovery in Europe and Japan  

52- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and oil crisis of the 1970s  

53- Pacific Rim economies and economic crisis  

54- North America Free Trade Agreement 

Collapse of Communism and the Breakup of the Soviet Union 

55- Human and physical geography (changing political boundaries)  

56- Background events, 1970 to 1987  

57- Poland’s Solidarity and Lech Walesa  

58- Influence of political reforms of glasnost and economic reforms of perestroika (Mikhail Gorbachev)  

59- Fall of Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany  

60- Velvet Revolution  

61- Ethnic conflict in former satellite states  

62- Challenges faced by postcommunist Russia (Boris Yeltsin) 

-GENERAL REVIEW W8

DECOLONIZATION AND NATIONALISM (1900–2000)

India and Indochina— Independence (1931 – 1975 C.E.)

1. Collapse of European imperialism

2. Muslim/Hindu conflicts

3. Status of the caste system

4. Roles of Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru

5. Nonviolent movement/ civil disobedience

6. Amritsar massacre, Salt March

7. Nonalignment

8. Kashmir and Punjab

9. Partitioning of India/ creation of Pakistan (role of Muslim League)

10. French colonialism in Indochina

11. Ho Chi Minh vs. Wilson on self-determination

Vietnam War (1954-1975)

12. United States involvement Guerilla warfare

13. War of liberation

14. Southeast Asia (Vietnam/Ho Chi Minh, Cambodia/Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge, Aung San Suu Kyi— Myanmar)

15. Vietnamization

16. Fall of Saigon

African Independence Movements (1884 – 1994 C.E.)

17. Changing political boundaries in Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya)

18. Pan Africanism

19. Roles of Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah

20. Economic links to former colonial powers

21. Ethnic tensions vs. nationalism (Nigeria and civil war)

22. Apartheid

23. Freedom Charter (1954)

24. Economics: mines, labor

25. Townships, Passbooks, Bantustans

26. South African Constitution (1996), election (1994), Truth and Reconciliation Commission

27. Political and economic instability

Conflicts and Change in Middle East

28. Human and physical geography (natural resources, Aswan Dam, remapping after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Suez Canal)

29. Overthrow of the Egyptian monarchy (1952), Gamal Nasser

30. Role of religious beliefs and secularism

31. Creation of State of Israel, Arab Palestinians, and Israel’s Arab neighbors

32. Roles of individuals and organizations (Golda Meir, Yasir Arafat, Anwar Sadat, King Hussein, Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization)

33. Arab-Israeli wars

34. Persian Gulf War (Saddam Hussein)

35. Islamic fundamentalism

36. The Iranian Revolution (Ayatollah Khomeini vs. Shah) compared to Turkey under the rule of Kemal Atatürk

Chinese Communist Revolution (1936 – 1997 C.E.)

37. Chinese Civil War and creation of Peoples Republic of China and Taiwan

38. Communist rise to power (1936–1949), Long March, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek), Mao Zedong

39. Communism under Mao Zedong

40. Communism under Deng Xiaoping

41.  Fifth modernization: Democracy (Tiananmen Square, April/May 1989)

42. Return of Hong Kong (July 1, 1997)

43. Social system

Political and economic change in Latin America (1930-1999 C.E.)

44. Argentina (Eva Peron, Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo)

45. Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution (causes and effects, U.S. embargo)

46. Dominican Republic under Rafael Trujillo

47. Nicaragua’s Sandinistas and U.S. backed Contras

48. Guatemala’s indigenous rights campaign

49. Colombian Civil War (militia and FARC)

50. Mexico (fall of PRI, gang violence, government corruption)

51. Changing role of Roman Catholic Church in Latin America

52. Latin American immigration to the United States

53. Return of the Panama Canal

GENERAL REVIEW W8