LATE Twentieth Century World History **FREE** Syllabus
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Description
This free resource includes a digital download of the 13-week course syllabus aimed at enriching your learner’s understanding of LATE Twentieth Century World History, 1945- Modern Day. Designed for group instruction or independent study, this syllabus gives text specific discussion questions, time period cultural literacy terms, writing topics, recommended age-appropriate activities (weeks seven, eleven & twelve) and recommended literature to provide more depth and breadth. Weeks seven and twelve are reserved for Colloquia and week thirteen wraps up the course with final presentations and a Kahoot Review.
Additional literature (AR) of historical fiction, classics and biographies are given as individual reading or family read aloud suggestions which can provide a better understanding of this Modern Age experienced firsthand.
The text is Glencoe World History by Jackson J. Spielvogel, Ph.D. ISBN 9780078745256 You can find similar online edition of the ebook here for free download- https://epdf.pub/queue/glencoe-world-history.html
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Topics of Discussion Include-
First Colloquia: Red Scarf Girl (Jiang), A Long Way Home (Brierley) & To Destroy You is No Loss (Criddle)
Second Colloquia: Long Walk to Water (Park), Kisses for Katie (Davis) & Running for My Life (Lomong)
Week One- Anglo-American Saeculum, Turnings, Generation: Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Y, Archetypes: Prophet, Nomad, Hero, Artist; Thinking Like a Historian: Storyteller, Scientist, Lawyer
Week Two- Capitalism vs. Communism: Iron Curtain, Propaganda, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Policy of Containment, Korean War, East and West Germany, Berlin Airlift & Wall, NATO vs. Warsaw Pact; The Arms Race: Space Race, Sputnik, Apollo 11
Week Three- USSR: Khrushchev, De-Stalinization, Solzhenitsyn; Britain’s Welfare State; European Economic Community (EEC); Keynesian vs. Austrian Schools of Economics; Scandinavian Socialism: Democratic Socialism vs. Social Democracy
Week Four- Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis, Day of Pigs; Vietnam War: Domino Theory, Vietcong, POW/ MIA, Anti-War Sentiment, Memorial; Red Scare, Alger Hiss, Joseph McCarthy, Jim Crow Laws, Martin Luther King, Jr; John F. Kennedy/ JFK
Week Five- USSR: Expansion, Détente, Premier, KGB, Dissident, Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika & Glasnost, US President Ronald Reagan, Peace Through Strength; Chernobyl; Economic Challenges, Organized Crime; Eastern Europe Paths to Independence: Germany, Fall of Berlin Wall; Balkans- Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia; Romania, War with Ukraine
Week Six- European Union, Brexit; Keynesian vs. Austrian Schools Economics: Liberal vs. Conservative Policies; Thatcherism; Watergate, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, NAFTA; Women’s Liberation Movement; Terrorism, 9/11; Science & Technology: Pros/ Cons- Environmental Damage, GMOs. Christian Revival; Pop Culture/ Art- Abstractionism, Postmodernism, Olympics
Week Seven- First Colloquia Discussion Epiphany Presentations
Week Eight- Latin American Economics, Population Growth, US Involvement; Cuba: Batista, Fidel Castro, Ché Guevara, Bay of Pigs; Panama Canal; Argentina: Juan Peron, Evita, Falkland Islands; Chilean Oligarchy, Military Coup; Columbian Drug Cartel
Week Nine- Algeria, Rwanda, Ghana, South Africa: Apartheid, Nelson Mandela; Pan-Africanism; Egypt, OPEC, Zionism, Israel: Jerusalem, Palestine, PLO, Six Day War 1967, Suez Canal War, Pan-Arabism, Yasir Arafat, Intifada; Iran: Shiite; Iraq: Sunni, Saddam Hussein, Kuwait, Persian Gulf War; Afghanistan: Taliban, Osama bin Laden; Islamic Militancy & Women’s Roles
Week Ten- China, Communist Party, Mao Zedong, People’s Revolution, People’s Republic of China, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Little Red Book, The Four Olds, Deng Xiaoping, Tiananmen Square, Tank Man, Hong Kong; India; Pakistan: Bangladesh; Vietnam War: Vietcong, Cambodia: Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge; Japanese Miracle; Four Asian Tigers: Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea; Lands Down Under
Week Eleven- Global Progress vs. Environmental Impact, Ecology, Developing vs. Industrialized Nations; United Nations: Security Council, UNESCO- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNICEF- United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Book of Daniel- Biblical Prophecy
Week Twelve- Second Colloquia Discussion Epiphany Presentations
Week Thirteen- Final Presentations & Kahoot Review
