ANCIENT HUMANS
1. ANCIENT HUMANS – hominids and man some 4 million years old; dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS
1. EGYPT – Nile River Valley
2. CHINA – Yellow River Valley
3. INDIA – Indus River Valley
4. IRAQ – Tigris-Euphrates River Valley
• Babylon
• The Bible – Old Testament
LATER CIVILIZATIONS
1. GREEK CIVILIZATION
• Mycenaean Period (1600 BC-1100 BC)
• Persian-Greek Wars
• Age of Pericles (448 BC-429 BC)
• Battles between Athens, Sparta and Thebes
• Alexander the Great (336 BC-323 BC)
2. ROMAN CIVILIZATION
• Foundation of a Roman Republic
• Foundation of the Roman Empire
• Rise of Christianity
• Fall of the Roman Empire (180-476)
3. BYZANTINE EMPIRE (476-1453)
4. RISE OF ISLAM (and Spanish Reconquista)
MEDIEVAL AGES
1. EUROPE
• England, Scotland, Ireland
• Scandinavia
• France to Age of Discovery
• Italy and Germany
• Russia
• Poland
• Romania
• Bulgaria
• Serbia (& others)
• Turkey
• Hungary
2. CHINA & MONGOLIA
3. INDIA (711-1526)
4. JAPAN (711-1526)
RENAISSANCE AND RELIGIOUS REFORMATIONS
1. RENAISSANCE, ITALY
2. REFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT
3. CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION
4. ENGLAND TO AMERICAN REVOLUTION
5. FRANCE & HOLLAND TO FRENCH REVOLUTION
6. SPAIN & PORTUGAL
7. GERMANY
8. POLAND
9. RUSSIA & TURKEY TO FRENCH REVOLUTION & BEYOND
10. INDIA
11. JAPAN
AGE OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT
1. EARLY EXPLORATION
2. SETTLEMENT OF MEXICO
3. USA & CANADA TO AMERICAN REVOLUTION
4. LATIN AMERICA
5. AUSTRALIA
REVOLUTION AND AFTERMATH
1. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775-1782)
2. FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789)
3. AGE OF NAPOLEON
4. EARLY YEARS OF USA & CANADA
5. VICTORIAN ENGLAND TO WWI
6. FRANCE
7. CRIMEAN WAR
8. ITALY (1789-1878)
9. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
• Prequel
• Bloody Kansas
• Civil War Begins and Ends
10. SIAM & BURMA (Nowadays Thailand & Myanmar)
• Burma
• Thailand
11. POST-CIVIL WAR PERIOD (USA & OTHERS)
• USA: Reconstrucion & Separate but equal
• USA: Cowboys
• Australia
• Canada
• Others
12. INDIANS
• Comanche and Cheyenne
• Custer and the Sioux
• Apache
• Other
• Canada
• Argentina
13. MEXICO UNDER JUAREZ (1858-1872)
14. FRANCE
• Third French Republic (1870-1940)
• French Art Scene (Birth of modern art)
15. RUSSIA AND TURKEY
• Alexander II (1855-1881)
• Others
16. WORKERS’ STRUGGLE
17. RACE TO THE POLES (North and South)
AGE OF IMPERIALISM
1. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
• USA
• Philippines
• Hawaii
• Other events
2. AFRICA
3. BRITISH PERIOD OF INDIA (1757-1947)
4. CHINA & FRENCH INDO-CHINA
5. JAPAN
6. KOREA
WORLD WAR I & AFTERMATH
1. WORLD WAR I
• Assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
• Austria-Hungary
• Gallipoli and Turkey
• Armenia
• Western Front 1916 onwards
• USA
• Canada
• The Air War
• Others
2. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, CIVIL WAR & SOVIET UNION
3. INDEPENDENCE FOR IRELAND
INTERWAR PERIOD
1. USA: 1920s
• Gangsters: Prohibition
2. USA: GREAT DEPRESSION
3. GREAT BRITAIN & AUSTRALIA
4. USA: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
5. HITLER’S RISE
6. MUSSOLINI’S RISE
7. FASCISM IN ARGENTINA
8. PRE-WAR JAPAN
9. PRE-WAR GREECE & MACEDONIA
10. SPANISH CIVIL WAR
WORLD WAR II
1. THE FIGHT AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY
• Germany
• Naval Warfare
• Germans Kicked out of Africa
• Allied Invasion of Italy
• Russian Front
• Allied Invasion of France
• German Counter-Attack (Battle of the Bulge)
• Air War
• Others
• Hitler’s Last Days
• Italy’s Last Days of Fascism
• Holocaust
2. THE FIGHT AGAINST JAPAN
• The War in China and Burma
• The USA finally gets into the war
• The USA strikes back
POST-WAR PERIOD
1. JAPAN
2. CHINA
• Communist Rule (1949-today)
• Taiwan
• Tibet
• Korea
3. PHILIPPINES
4. ENGLAND
5. GERMANY
• West Germany
• East Germany
• Austria
6. ITALY
7. FRANCE
8. GREECE & MACEDONIA
9. SPAIN & PORTUGAL
10. SOVIET UNION/RUSSIA
11. INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA (1947)
12. INDEPENDENCE FOR ALGERIA (1962)
THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM (I)
1. USA: LOSS OF CHINA, KOREAN WAR & MCCARTHYISM DURING COLD WAR
• The Korean War
• McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklists
• Other
2. TEEN REBELLION & ROCK AND ROLL
THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
1. USA
• JFK (1961-1963)
2. NORTHERN IRELAND
3. GREAT BRITAIN
4. SOUTH AFRICA
5. CANADA
6. AUSTRALIA
7. SPAIN
8. GAY RIGHTS
THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM (II)
1. USA STRUGGLE TO STOP ALL LEFTISTS IN LATIN & SOUTH AMERICA
2. VIETNAM WAR
3. HIPPIE ERA
USA (70’s-TODAY)
1. NIXON & THE 70’s
2. POST-WAR VIETNAM
3. RONALD REAGAN (1981-1989)
4. GEORGE BUSH I (1989-1993)
5. BILL CLINTON (1993-2000)
6. GEORGE BUSH II (2001-2009)
REVOLT AND FREEDOM IN THE SOVIET BLOC
1. HUNGARY
2. CZECHOSLOVAKIA
3. POLAND
4. ROMANIA, BULGARIA & OTHERS
YUGOSLAV WARS
TROUBLES IN AFRICA
AMERICANISM VERSUS RADICAL ISLAM
1. ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
2. EGYPT
3. SYRIA, TURKEY AND LEBANON
4. AFGHANISTAN
5. IRAN AND IRAQ
• Iran
• Iraq
6. OTHERS