Early Twentieth Century World History BUNDLE Course- PPTs and Teacher's Guide

This bundle includes a digital download of the full 13-week course PPTs, complete syllabus & teacher guide aimed at enriching your learner’s understanding of the Early Twentieth Century World History 1900-1945. Designed for companion or independent study, I provide 15-22 slides per lesson with discussion questions, appropriate cultural literacy terms, supplemental videos, writing topics, recommended age-appropriate activities and literature for your use. Weeks Eight and Twelve are reserved for Colloquia and Week Sixteen wraps up the course with final presentations and a Kahoot Review. Colloquia texts are suggested memoirs/ historical fiction for this time period.

Required text: 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

Topics of discussion include:

Week One: The Titanic; Triple Alliance vs. Triple Entente; WWI: Beginnings, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary vs. Serbia, Allies vs. Central Powers, Trench Warfare, RMS Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram

Week Two: Spanish Flu Epidemic, End of WW1: ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’, Purposes of Propaganda, Armistice, Woodrow Wilson, Paris Peace Conference, League of Nations, Treaty of Versailles, Fall of Ottoman Empire

Week Three: Russian Revolutions: Romanovs-Republic-Communism, “Peace and Bread”, Bolsheviks, Avant-garde, Vladimir Lenin, Red vs. White Army

Week Four: Roaring 20s to Depression, Spirit of St. Louis- Charles Lindbergh; Women’s Suffrage; Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Republic: Deutschmark, Runaway Inflation; Andrew Carnegie: Philanthropy; Investment; Great Depression: Stock Market Crash 1929, Dust Bowl, FDR’s New Deal, Keynesian vs. Austrian Economics

Week Five: Totalitarianism: Italian Fascist Party, Mussolini; Russia: Lenin’s New Economic Policy, Stalin, Collectivization, Holodomor, Solzhenitsyn; Germany: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kompf, Nazi Party, Reichstag, Enabling Act, Kristallnacht, 1930s- Third Reich, Aryan Race, Fascist/ Nazi Propaganda, Secret Service ‘SS’, Rome-Berlin Axis, Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

Week Six: WW2 Pacific: Second Sino-Japanese War, Asian New Order, Pearl Harbor, Kamikaze, Midway, Western Front: Blitzkrieg, Winston Churchill, Dunkirk, Valkyrie, D-Day, Normandy; Nuremburg Laws; Underground Resistance

Week Seven: WW2 Germany: New Order, Final Solution, Holocaust, Aryan Race, Ghettos, Concentration Camp, Auschwitz, Anne Frank; Japan: Labor & Internment Camps; Manhattan Project: Albert Einstein, Atomic Bomb, Los Alamos, Oppenheimer, ‘Little Man’ & ‘Fat Boy’, Hiroshima, Nagasaki; The Big Three, Iron Curtain, United Nations

Week Eight: Colloquia Discussion on Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl) OR Dietrich Bonheoffer: In the Midst of Wickedness (Benge) OR The Hiding Place (Ten Boom); Epiphany Presentations & Memorial Gallery Walk

Week Nine: Fall of Ottoman Empire: Armenian Genocide, Palestine: Balfour Declaration, Zionism, Jewish State

Week Ten: India: Mohandas Gandhi, Salt March; Africa: Education Breeds Independence; Japan: Rise of Military State; Latin America: Oligarchy, Good Neighbor Policy

Week Eleven: China: Communist International, National and Communism Parties, Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek; Japan: Militarized Executive Branch & Expansion

Week Twelve: Colloquia Discussion & Epiphany Presentations- Unbroken (Hillenbrand) OR Boys on the Boat (Brown) *young adult adaptations OR Gladys Aylward (Benge)

Week Thirteen: Final Presentations & Kahoot Review!