Research Topics for Western Civilization 102

roots of Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Stalin’s purges
Stalin’s five-year plans
King Henry VIII and religion
King James Bible
Napoleon Bonaparte (as military and statesman)
OPEC
Opium Wars
Women’s Rights movements
Holocaust
Nazi Germany
Hitler’s Youth movement
medical experiments during Holocaust
Marshall Plan
Treaty of Versailles as cause of WWII
Soviet space program
Peter the Great and Russian reform
the problem with Ivan the Terrible
Rasputin and the downfall of the Romanovs
Reign of Terror (French Revolution)
nationalism and the arts
mujahideen
nuclear proliferation
compare and contrast the French Revolution
    and the American Revolution
Cold War
Lusitania – its mission
Bolshevik revolution
relationship of the  Big Three
  (Stalin/Churchill/F.D. Roosevelt)
Berlin Airlift
Senator Eugene McCarthy and communism
African apartheid
fall of communism
story of the Berlin Wall
Chernobyl – Soviet nuclear disaster
fall of Saigon
AIDS in Africa
global warming
Siberian exile
diamond mining in Africa
plight of the Cossacks
Henry VIII and his wives
Louis XIV as an absolutist
Leopold