LATE Twentieth Century: World History PPTS Full 13 Week Course

This resource includes a digital download of the full 13 week course: PPTs (syllabus & teacher outline can be purchased separately or via bundle) aimed at enriching your learner’s understanding of the Late Twentieth Century. Designed for companion or independent study, I provide 15-20 slides per lesson with text specific discussion questions, appropriate cultural literacy terms, supplemental videos, writing topics, recommended literature and links to middle/ high school age activities for your use. Weeks Seven, Twelve are reserved for Colloquia and Week Thirteen is reserved for final presentations with a Kahoot Review.

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-

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)

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.

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