TOPIC LIST FOR HL HISTORY, 2017

First Semester Topics, 2017

Unit 2: Modern Mexico

  1. The Mexican Revolution (P2T11 and P3 T11)

  1. PanchoVilla and Emiliano Zapata (P3 T11)

  1. The Mexican Constitution of 1917 (P3 T11)

  1. Lazaro Cardenas (P3T11)

  1. NAFTA (P3 T12)

  1. PRI, PAN and the PRD, 1980-2000 (P3 T12)

Unit 3: The Global Great Depression (1930s)

  1. Stalin, Purges, and the Five Year Plans (P2 T10)

  1. Fascism (P1 and P2T10)

  1. Mussolini’s Foreign Policy (P1 and P2T10)

  1. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (P1 and P2 T11)

  1. The NAACP (P2T2) (P3T11)

  1. Munich, 1938 (P1 and P2T1)

  1. The Nazi-Soviet Pact (P1 and P2T11)

  1. Getulio Vargas (P3T9)

  1. The Good Neighbor Policy (P3T13)

  1. Herbert H. Hoover (P3T12)

  1. FDR and The New Deal (P3T12)

  1. Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression (P3T7)

  1. The League of Nations and International Response to Fascism (P1 and 2)

  1. The Sino-Japanese War (1937-1941) (P1 and P2T12)

  1. The Tripartite Pact and the Attack on Pearl Harbor (P1, P2T12, P3T13)

Unit 4: World War II and the Beginnings of the Cold War (1940s)

  1. Muhammad Ali Jinnah (P2T8)

  1. Gandhi (P2T8)

  1. Yalta and Potsdam (P2T12)

  1. The Berlin Blockade of 1948 and 1949 (P2T12)

  1. The Marshall Plan (P2T12)

  1. Josef Stalin’s Foreign Policy (P2T5)

  1. Harry Truman’s Domestic Program (P3T15)

  1. Harry Truman’s Foreign Policy (P2T12) (P3T16)

  1. McCarthyism (P3T16)

  1. Social and Cultural Impacts of Cold War (P3T10)

  1. Japanese Internment (P3T13)

  1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki (P3T9) (P3T10) (P2T5)

Unit 5: The 1950s

  1. Juan Peron (P2T3) (P3T9)

  1. Eisenhower Domestic (P3T14)

  1. Eisenhower Foreign (P2T5) (P3T10)

  1. Guatemala (P2T5) (P3T10)

  1. Chairman Mao and Maoism (P2T10)

  1. The Taiwan Straits Crises of 1954 and 1958 (P2T12)

  1. Sukarno (P2T10)

  1. Ho Chi Minh (P2T10)

  1. Gamal Nasser and the Suez Crisis (P2T12)

  1. NATO (P2T5)

  1. COMECON (P2T5)

  1. The Warsaw Pact (P2T5)

  1. Berlin (P2T12)

  1. The Korean War (P2T5) (P3T16)

  1. The Hungarian Crisis of 1956 (P2T12)

  1. Japan in the post-war era (P2T2) (P2T5)

  1. Josef Broz Tito (P2T5) and (P2T4)

Second Semester Topics, 2017

Unit 6: Vietnam (1960s)

  1. Kennedy Domestic (P3T15)

  1. Kennedy Foreign: (P2T5) (P3T10)

  1. The Cuban Missile Crisis (P2T12)

  1. Johnson Domestic (P2T2)(P3T15)

  1. Johnson Foreign (P2T5) (P3T10)

  1. Indochina and the Vietnam War (P2T11) (P3T16)

  1. The Non-aligned Movement (P2T5)

  1. Congo/Zaire/Patrice Lumumba (P2T12)

  1. Cuba (P2T5) (P3T10)

  1. Fidel Castro’s Domestic Program (P2T3) (P3T9)

  1. The Cuban Revolution: Causes and Effects on the Region (P3T9)

  1. Martin Luther King Jr. (P2T) (P3T17)

  1. The US Supreme Court and Civil Rights (P2T4) (P3T17)

  1. Malcolm X (P2T4) (P3T17)

  1. Youth and Counterculture (P3T17)

  1. The Women’s Movement in the US (P3T17)

  1. The Prague Spring (P2T12)

  1. Liberation Theology (P3T14)

Unit 7: A Decade of Turmoil (1970s)

  1. Nixon Domestic (P2T2)(P3T15)

  1. Nixon Foreign (P2T5) (P3T10)

  1. Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, and Chile (P2T10 and P3T10)

  1. Cesar Chavez (P3T17)

  1. Immigration Reform in the US, 1945-2000 (P3T17)

  1. Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik (P2T12)

  1. The Angolan Civil War (P2T12)

  1. The Nicaraguan Civil War (1976-1979) (P2T1) (P3T14)

  1. The Indo-Pakistani Wars (1947-49, 1965, 1971) (P2T1)

  1. Pol Pot (P2T10)

  1. Jimmy Carter Domestic (P3T15)

  1. The El Salvadorian Civil War (P3T14)

  1. Jimmy Carter Foreign (P2T5) (P3T10)

Unit 8: Toward the End of the Cold War (1980s)

  1. Reagan Domestic (P3T15)

  1. Reagan Foreign (P2T5) (P3T18)

  1. The Contra War, 1981 – 1990 (P2T11 and P3T12)

  1. Iran-Iraq War (P2T11)

  1. Czechoslovakia/Vaclav Havel (P2T4)

  1. Poland/Lech Walesa (P2T4)

  1. The USSR and Eastern Europe, 1981-1989 (P2T12)

  1. Nelson Mandela (P2T4)

Unit 9: The New World Order (1990s)

  1. George H.W. Bush Foreign (P2T5) (P3T18)

  1. The Balkan Wars (P2T11)

  1. George H.W. Bush Domestic (P3T12)

  1. Restoration of Democracy in Latin America (Choose one: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico) (P3T18)

  1. The impacts of technology, the media, and the internet from 1980-2000 (??)

  1. China After Mao, Deng Xiaoping (P1)

  1. Leonid Brezhnev (P1)

  1. The Gulf War (1991) (P1T11)

  1. Bill Clinton Foreign (P3T12)

  1. Bill Clinton Domestic (P3T12)

  1. The Response to 9/11 (P3T18)