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U.S. History I
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Unit 1 - Roots of Revolution
Unit 2 - The American Revolution
Convention Simulation
Unit 3 - The Constitution and Government
Unit 4 - The Living Constitution
Unit 5 - The New Republic
Research Paper
Unit 6 - Nationalism, Sectionalism, and the Age of Jackson
Unit 7 - Expansion
Unit 8 - The Civil War
Final Review
U.S. History II
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Unit 1 - Reconstruction
Research Paper 1
Unit 2 - Expansion, Industrialization, Immigration
Mock IA
Unit 3 - Imperialism
Unit 4 - World War I
Unit 5 - The Roaring Twenties
Research Paper 2
Unit 6 - The Great Depression
Unit 7 - World War II
Unit 8 - Contemporary America
IB Modern World History
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1870-1914
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Europe, 1870-1914
Europe 1870-1991: a synoptic assessment
Germany under Bismarck, 1871-1890
The French Third Republic to 1914
Mock IA
1914-1939
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World War I, 1914-1919
The Interwar Years, 1919-1939
Benito Mussolini, 1922-1945
Adolf Hitler, 1933-1945
The Spanish Civil War, 1931-1939
1939-1976
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World War II
Middle East in Maps
Arab-Israeli Crisis
Japan's move to global war
The Chinese Civil War
Mao Zedong, 1945-1976
Internal Assessment
Review
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Model U.N.
Inklings
Band
In 1853, Commodore Perry's modern ships appeared in the distance to the Japanese to be "black ships"
In the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Japanese gained the Pescadores Islands, Formosa (Taiwan), and the Liaodong Peninsula.
Japanese forced concessions after the Triple Intervention
The defeat of the Russian navy in the Russo-Japanese War proved Japan's military strength.
Jiang Jieshi, leader of the Guomindang (GMD, Natioanlists)
The GMD and CCP were briefly united in the United Front in their efforts to unify China through the Northern Expedition.
Mao Zedong in 1927, leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Manchuria warlord Zhang Zuolin was initially backed by the Japanese, who tried to disarm him before Jiang could.
Prime Minister Tanaka failed to control the Kwantung Army after the assassination of Zhang Zuolin.
Prime Minister Hamaguchi Yuko angered the army with his policies and was forced to resign after an attempt on his life.
Zhang Zuolin was succeeded by his son Zhang Xueliang, who allied himself with the GMD. This prompted the Kwantung Army to plot his overthrow.
Minister of War General Jiro Minami was the next in line of politicians who failed to control the Kwantung Army.
Explosion on the South Manchurian Railway gave Japan the pretense for invading Manchuria. (Zhang Zuolin died in the explosion.)
Puyi, the boy emperor
Puyi, years later as the head of the puppet state Manchukuo
The Xi'an Incident resulted in the formation of the Second United Front.
Marco Polo Bridge
The Second-Sino Japanese War did not go well for China, and the GMD withdrew their capital to Chongqing (Chunking, or Chungking).
Wang Jingwei