HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY

WORLD HISTORY 20TH CENTURY WORLD HISTORY U.S. HISTORY I U.S. HISTORY II

Listed below are the courses that are available for High School History.

WORLD HISTORY	20TH CENTURY WORLD HISTORY
5 CREDITS	5 CREDITS
Description: A survey course of World	Description: This course details the events
History form the beginnings of recorded	of the 20th Century beginning at the turn of
history and follows to the Modern Age.	the century in 1900 and concludes with the
TOPICS:	close of the century in 1999.
--The Beginnings of Civilization	TOPICS:
--Great Civilizations; India; China	--Empires in Conflict
--Civilizations of the Mediterranean World	--The World in the Early Twentieth Century
--Greek City-States; Rome	--Empires in the Postwar World 1917-1930
--The World in Transition	--Nationalism and Nation-States in: Asia,
--Byzantine Empire; Rise of Islam	Turkey, India, China 1918-1941
--Medieval Europe	--The Despotic Empires: Nazi Germany, the
--The Emergence of Modern Nations	Soviet Union. the Japanese Empire 1930-1941
--Renaissance; Reformation	--The Second World War 1941-1945
--Strong Monarchies	--The Beginning of the Cold War 1945-1953
--The Development of Industrial Society	--The Resurgence of East Asia
--Industrial Revolution; Reforms	--Africa and Latin America in the Third World
--Unification	--Nationalism and War in the Middle East
--World War in the Twentieth Century	--The West and the Soviet Union in the Cold
--World War I; Russian Revolution	War 1953-1991
--World War II	--Local Wars, Global Economy
--The World Since 1945	--The World in the Late Twentieth Century
--Cold War; Africa; Latin America; Asia
U.S. HISTORY I      5 CREDITS	U.S. HISTORY II         5 CREDITS
Description: This history course covers	Description: This history covers American
United States History from 1492-1877.	History from 1877 and continues to the present.
TOPICS:	TOPICS:
--The World by 1500	--Reconstruction Review
--Empires of the Americas	--The Western Crossroads
--The English Colonies	--The Transformation of America
--Independence	--Politics and Protest
--From Confederation to Federal Union	--The Age of Reforms
--A Strong Start for the Nation	--The Progressive Presidents
--Nationalism and Economic Growth	--American and the World
--Separate Societies: North and South	--World War I; A Turbulent Decade
--Working for Reform	--The Jazz Age; The Great Depression
--Expansion and Conflict	--The New Deal; Between the Wars
--Slavery’s Expansion	--Americans in World War II
--The Civil War	--The Postwar Years
--Reconstruction and the New South	--Decade of Contrasts; The Sixties
	--War in Vietnam; From Nixon to Carter
	--Regan, Bush, and Clinton