Wednesday, 1/9 Final Draft Due. Submit in a manila envelope along with rough draft, outline, notecards, etc
Suggested topics - if underlined, click on link to see recommended websites, primary and secondary sources
| America Domestic |
America Foreign |
Africa |
Europe |
Cold War |
Israel and the Middle East |
Other |
| Women's Rights |
Dropping of the Atom Bomb |
End of Apartheid |
Northern Irelans |
Conferences of Potsdam, Yalta |
Rise of Shas |
United Nations |
| Failure of the Equal Rights Amendment |
Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis |
Decolonization – different methods, ideologies, successes etc |
Emerging Democracies in Eastern Europe |
Postwar settlement – who got what and why- Iron Curtain |
Lebanon – Civil War |
Why did Communism fail? |
| Civil Rights Movement |
Vietnam |
Democracy in Africa – failures and successes |
Collapse of the Soviet Union |
Berlin Airlift 1948 |
Iranian Islamic Revolution (1979) |
Student protests especially 1968 |
| Black/Jewish Relations |
Korea |
Kenyan Uprising against Britain |
The European Union |
NATO (1949)/
Warsaw Pact (1956) |
Syria – Baathism and Asad |
Taliban |
| Politics of AIDS |
Developments within America’s relationship with Israel |
Algerian uprising against France |
Thatcherism |
Hungarian Uprising (1956) |
Post Zionism |
The Chilean coup of 1973 |
| Gay rights |
US involvement in Central America esp. Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua |
Hutu v Tutsi - Rwanda |
The push towards regional autonomy (Scotland, Czech Rep, Slovakia, Bosnia etc) |
Czech Uprising (1968) |
Decline of Labor and Likud |
Vatican II 1962 |
| New Right |
Role of US in Chilean coup of 1973 |
Mugabi and Zimbabwe |
Yugoslavia |
Solidarity Movement (Poland 1980s) |
Iran-Iraq War |
Dictatorship to democracy in South America |
| New left |
The Iran/Contra Scandal |
Growth of Islam |
German Unification |
Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis |
The Gulf War |
Suez Crisis 1956 |
| Reaganism |
The Gulf War |
liberalization of Arab North Africa |
Relationship between Europe and America |
Vietnam |
Israel and the Territories |
Pol Pot and the Cambodian Tragedy |
| Pres. Johnson's war of poverty |
Relations with Pakistan and India |
Modern slavery |
Emergence of Europe as a military power |
Korea |
Politics of oil |
Communist China |
| Christian Right |
Relations with the UN |
AIDS |
European economic unity |
Collapse of the Soviet Union |
PLO |
Rise of Japan as a economic world power |
| Watergate |
Nixon and the Opening of China |
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Franco post WW2 |
Marshall Plan (1946) |
The Rise of Islamic fundamentalism |
Sino (China) – Soviet relations |
| Changing media |
US and the Philippines |
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Space Race |
Egypt – Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak |
John Paul II |
| Domestic plan of any president |
US role in Afghanistan during Soviet occupation |
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Nuclear Disarmament |
Saudi Arabia – the House of Fahd |
North Korea |
| Iran/Contra |
Carter's foreign policy and linkage to human rights |
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Russia invasion of Afghanistan - US aid Mujahadeen |
Jordan - Hussain |
Cuba and Castro |
| Pres. Clinton's impeachment |
Grenada |
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Velvet Revolution - Czechoslovakia |
Iraq – Baathism and Hussein |
Modern art |
| Affirmative action |
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Solidarity - Poland |
Six Day War |
Globalization |
| Pro-life/Pro-choice movements |
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Peristroika and Glasnost - Gorbachev reforms the USSR |
Yom Kippur War |
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| Jewish Politics |
Camp David Accords |
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Reagan and the 'Evil Empire' |
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| Racial politics |
American relationship with Europe |
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| McCarthyism |
Marshall Plan |
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| Suburbanization |
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| Rise of interest group politics |
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| Stock markets booms and crashes |
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| Developments in movies |
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| Education politics |
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| Welfare reform |
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