The document outlines 12 topics related to the Cold War and regional conflicts that students will be assigned to research and develop into lectures. The topics include: New Conflicts Develop in Europe and Asia in the aftermath of WWII; Changing Political climates in Africa and Asia as European colonial empires ended; the Korean War; Containment and superpower proxy conflicts; conflicts in Latin America; the Space Race and technological developments; the Vietnam War; major civil rights issues in America and globally; African struggles and developments; challenges facing developing nations; conflicts in the Middle East; and the downfall of the Soviet Union and conflicts in Yugoslavia. Students will research their assigned topic, develop a lecture, outline, and two essay test questions.

1. Cold War and Regional Conflicts
Honors World History
Ms. Engel
Alas, your final major project for HWH. Now you will be the teachers! You will
each be assigned a topic and you will research, develop a lecture, develop an
outline (for student use) and develop two test questions (essay) from your
“teaching”---
The Topics:
1. New Conflicts Develop-Brianna/Mary
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Germany-A nation divided-Berlin airlift
• Military Alliances-NATO, Warsaw Pact
• Propaganda-Capitalism and Democracy v. Communism and Totalitarianism
2. Changing Political climate-
• Ending European colonial empires-
Nationalisms and independence
Algeria
French Indonesia,
Global impact
Ethnic Conflicts-Kurds, East Timor
• Congo today
3. Korean War-Bernadino
4. Containment-DeLorean/Ashley
• Superpowers
• Nonaligned nations
Cuban Missile Crisis
• Fidel Castro
Batista Regime
Cuban Revolution
• Bay of Pigs
John Kennedy
Superpower Proxy Conflicts
5. Latin America-Danae
• Opposition to the US
• Salvador Allende

2. • Military Coups
• Panama
Gen. Noriega
• Organization of American States
• Development vs., environment
• Migration
• Haiti
Patterns of Dictatorship
Economic Interdependence Today
6. Science/Technology/Space Race-Vaun/Dina
• Satellites
Sputnik
Man on the Moon
• Diseases and medical breakthroughs
Genetic engineering
Antibiotics
• The Green Revolution
Deadly Weapons Today
7. Vietnam War-David
8. Emergence of Major Civil Rights Issues-Jazz/Lynette
• American
• Asian, Latino, Black American
• Women
• Gays
Civil Rights Today
9. African Struggles-Caroline
• AIDS
• Eboli
• TB
• Apartheid
Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe
Majority Rule
• Human Rights
• Black Resistance: African National
Congress (ANC)
• Nelson Mandela
FW deKlerk
Desmund Tutu
• Economic sanctions and boycotts
• Outlook and gains

3. Education and healthcare
Economic opportunity
10. Developing Nations-Korianna
• African Nations
Unity and stability
Civil wars
One party rule
• Socialism or capitalism
• Old and new patterns
Urbanization
Effects on women
Islamic revival
11. Middle East-Hannah/Michelle
• Arab-Israeli Conflict
Occupied territories
Palestinian resistance
Peace efforts
• Lebanon
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
• Persian Gulf War
Kuwait
Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Terrorism today
12. Downfall of the Soviet Union-
Yugoslavia
• Homeland for the Slavs
Ethnicity and religion
• Civil wars
Muslims, Serbs, Croats
• Bosnia
Ethnic Cleansing
• Fighting in Kosovo
Pres. Milosevic
Massacres
NATO as peacekeepers
• War Crimes