Teacher & Student Resources
If you are a teacher, feel free to use any of my lesson plans! If you are a student and missed a class, use the information below to make up your assignment.
Colonization: Australia/US Comparison
This class explored the similarities and differences of settler colonialism in the US and Australia with particular focus on nationalism and indigenous rights.
Constitutionalism: Economic Political Spectrum
This class evaluated the pros and cons of government regulation and free market capitalism by using case studies from Chinese, British and US history.
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Colonization: Africa/Namibia and the Berlin Conference
This class explored the causes, policies and ramifications of the Berlin Conference on Africans, and used Namibia as a case study to identify the roots of Nazism.
Constitutionalism:
The War of 1812 and Historiography
This class evaluated the varying narratives of the War of 1812 from the point of view of the US, Britain, Canada, and Native Americans.
Constitutionalism: Comparative Government
This class compared the constitutions and roads to democracy (or lack there of) in the US, Britain, South Africa, South Korea, and China.
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Sectionalism:
African American agency in the Civil War
This class explored shifting agency away from Abraham Lincoln and towards African-American civil rights and grass roots leaders.
Sectionalism:
The Mexican American War
This class explored the root causes and consequences of the war while exploring themes of federalism, settler colonialism, and nationalism.
Causes of WWI:
The Russo-Japanese War
This class examined competing Russian and Japanese imperial ambitions in China while exploring industrialism and modernization.
The World Wars:
The Armenian Genocide
This class traced the systematic killings of 1.5 million Armenians during the last years of the Ottoman Empire as well as contemporary genocide denial.
The World Wars:
The Rise of Nazi Germany
This class traced the roots of Nazi ideology and the methods that Hitler used to gain power to reverse the Treaty of Versailles.
The World Wars:
WWII in Asia and the Pacific
This class explored the role of battles, propaganda, espionage, women, technology, colonised people, art, diaries, & atrocities.
Cold War:
Communism and Capitalism
Cold War:
Communism and Capitalism
Cold War:
Communism and Capitalism
This class described the fundamental differences between capitalism, socialism and communism in theory and practice.
This class described the fundamental differences between capitalism, socialism and communism in theory and practice.
This class described the fundamental differences between capitalism, socialism and communism in theory and practice.
Cold War:
Mutually Assured Destruction
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This class explored the MAD theory of deterrence, its paradoxes, critiques, environmental consequences, and contemporary proliferation.
Cold War:
Cuban Missile
Crisis
This class explored the history of Cuba under Batista, Castro, and its relationship to the US and USSR in context of MAD theory.
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Cold War:
Iranian
Revolution
This class evaluated the impact of the overthrow Mossadegh in 1953 on the 1979 Iranian Revolution and subsequent Iran-Iraq War
Cold War:
The Prague
Spring
This class explored the shrinking of the Aral Sea as well as the failed Czechoslovak attempt to marry communism with democracy
Cold War:
Break up of the Soviet Union
This class explored Gorbachev's last ditch attempt to save communism, the revolutions of 1989, and the collapse of the USSR itself.
Cold War:
The Iraq
Wars
This class traced American involvement in Iraq from 1980 to 2011 as Saddam Hussein went from an ally against Iran to a tyrant that must be overthrown.
Causes of WWI:
Causes of the Spanish American War
This class explored the rising power of the US, declining strength of Spain, American ambitions in China, and Yellow Journalism prior to 1898.
Causes of WWI:
The Rise of Imperial Germany
This class evaluated the role that Germany played in the root causes of WWI: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism.
The World Wars:
Foundations of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
This class examined British imperialism in creating the conflict as well as exploring the reasons why Palestine is such a controversial topic today.
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The World Wars:
Totalitarianism in Japan and the USSR
This class compared and contrasted the totalitarian states of Hirohito's Japan and Stalin's Soviet Union during the 1930s.
The World Wars:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This class evaluated reasons why the United Nations has such difficulty enforcing human rights by examining the post-war trials & security council.
Cold War:
Iron
Curtain
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This class traced Soviet-American relations from the Bolshevik Revolution, through World War Two, and the post-war division of Europe
Cold War:
Berlin
Airlift
This class defined the Truman Doctrine of Containment and used Stalin's Blockade of West Berlin as a case study for containment's first test.
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Cold War:
Vietnam
War
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This class explored how the world's most powerful army was defeated as well as the impact of the war on American civil rights & society.
Cold War:
Decolonisation
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This class used the assasination of Patrice Lumumba as a case study to understand the wider global struggle against colonialism
Cold War:
The Berlin
Wall
This class looked at art expressed on the Berlin Wall before and after it fell. Students got an opportunity to design their own art pieces for a paper 'wall.'
Cold War:
Yeltsin, Putin, & Chechnya
This class followed US-Russian relations in the 1990s and used LGBTQ+ rights as a measurement of democratic progression & regression.
Causes of WWI:
Legacies of the Spanish American War
This class evaluated the consequences of the war after 1898 by dwelling into the controversy surrounding US territories and Guantanamo Bay.
The World Wars:
Battlefields of the First World War
This class explored trench warfare on the western front, new technologies, PTSD, and the impact of the war on Europe's colonies and social minorities.
The World Wars:
Battlefields of the First World War
This class explored trench warfare on the western front, new technologies, PTSD, and the impact of the war on Europe's colonies and social minorities.
The World Wars:
Treaty of Versailles & Weimar Republic
This class examined the consequences of the Paris Peace Conference on Germany and its impact on the Weimar Republic's economy and society.
The World Wars:
WWII in Europe and Africa
This class explored the role of battles, propaganda, espionage, women, technology, colonised people, art, diaries, & atrocities.
Cold War:
April to June
Syllabus
This document contains our schedule, grade policy, and contact information.
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Cold War:
Space
Race
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This class explored the origins of NASA as a reaction to Sputnik and other Soviet achievements in space from 1957 to the present day.
Cold War:
Korean
War
This class explored the only attempt at rollback by the US as well as its impact on Koreans, Chinese, and the United Nations.
Cold War:
Two
Chinas
This class explained China's place in the Cold War as well as the causes of the Sino-Soviet split
Cold War:
The Hungarian Revolution
This class explored Soviet oppression within the Eastern Bloc and Imre Nagy's failed attempt to breakaway from the Warsaw Pact
Cold War:
Soviet War in Afghanistan
This class traced Afghanistan's history throughout the Soviet occupation, Taliban rule, and contemporary American occupation.'
Cold War:
Crises in the European Union and Ukraine
This class evaluated Ukraine's struggle between the European Union and Russia before Putin's annexation of Crimea 2014.
Cold War:
Russia and America in Syria
This class answers the following: how did ISIL come to power, how does this affect US-Russian relations, & how is the world responding to refugees?.