core knowledge studies
Here is an outline of major topics covered in 7th grade:
History and Geography
I. America Becomes a World Power
II. World War I
A. History
B. Geography of Western and Central Europe
III.The Russian Revolution
A. History
B. Geography
IV. America from the Twenties to the New Deal
A. America in the Twenties
B. The Great Depression
C. Roosevelt and the New Deal
V. World War II
A. The Rise of Totalitarianism in Europe
B. World War II in Europe and at Home, 1939 - 45
C. World War II in the Pacific, and the End of the War
VI. Geography of the United States
History and Geography
I. America Becomes a World Power
II. World War I
A. History
B. Geography of Western and Central Europe
III.The Russian Revolution
A. History
B. Geography
IV. America from the Twenties to the New Deal
A. America in the Twenties
B. The Great Depression
C. Roosevelt and the New Deal
V. World War II
A. The Rise of Totalitarianism in Europe
B. World War II in Europe and at Home, 1939 - 45
C. World War II in the Pacific, and the End of the War
VI. Geography of the United States
american imperialism
United States Imperialism
Expansion of the U.S. Navy, Captain Alfred T. Mahan U.S. annexation of Hawaii U.S. Territory maps The Spanish-American War Cuban War for Independence, Jose Marti Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders Spain gives Guam, Puerto Rico, and Philippines Complications of Imperialism War with the Philippines Anti-Imperialist League Panama Canal Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” |
IMperialism Presentations
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world war I
Serbian Issues
Tumultuous past History of Regicide and Assassination European Nationalism National pride Patriotism Greed as a cause? Bismarck and Germany Bismarck unifies Germany War against France France cedes Alsace-Lorraine England and Italy The British Empire, Queen Victoria Italy becomes a nation, Garibaldi European Imperialism Rivalries in Africa Stanley and Livingstone British invade Egypt to protect Suez Canal French in North Africa Berlin Conference and the scramble for Africa Entangling Treaties and Assassination Allies vs. Central Powers Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated Western Front Eastern Front Trenches Design Chemical Weapons Tunnellers Warfare USA enters the War Sinking of the Lusitania “Make the world safe for democracy” Home Front Treaty of Versailles Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates New countries and boundaries German reparations and disarmament Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points League of Nations |
WWI Presentations
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the russian revolution
Russian Tensions
Westernizers vs. Traditionalists
War of 1905
Bloody Sunday
Russo-Japanese War
Economic Stress
World War 1 effects
Rise of opposition
Bolsheviks/Communism/Marxism
Civil War
Revolutions of 1917
March Revolution outs Czar
October Revolution
Bolsheviks, Lenin and Marxism
Reds vs. Whites
Bolsheviks become Communist party
Creation of Soviet Union
Westernizers vs. Traditionalists
War of 1905
Bloody Sunday
Russo-Japanese War
Economic Stress
World War 1 effects
Rise of opposition
Bolsheviks/Communism/Marxism
Civil War
Revolutions of 1917
March Revolution outs Czar
October Revolution
Bolsheviks, Lenin and Marxism
Reds vs. Whites
Bolsheviks become Communist party
Creation of Soviet Union
america in the 1920s
Isolationism
Restrictions on immigration Red Scare Sacco and Vanzetti Ku Klux Klan Roaring 20s Flappers Prohibition Gangsterism St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Al Capone The Lost Generation: Hemingway, Fitzgerald Scopes “Monkey Trial” Women’s Suffrage 19th Amendment The uphill battle Key figures “New Negro” Movement and Harlem Renaissance African American exodus from South W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk NAACP Zora Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes The Jazz Age: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong Marcus Garvey, black separatist movement Technological Advances Henry Ford and the Model T Residential electricity Radio, Will Rogers Movies: silent to sound, Charlie Chaplin Pioneers of flight: Lindbergh, Earhart Decline of Rural population |
1920s Presentations
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the great depression
Stock Market Crash of ‘29
Wall Street “Black Tuesday” Hoover insists on European payment of war debts Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Mass Unemployment Agricultural prices collapse following peace Factory mechanization eliminates jobs Bonus Army “Hoovervilles” The Dust Bowl Causes, region “Okie” migrations Side-effects Radicals Huey Long American Communist Party Sinclair Lewis Franklin Delano Roosevelt Biography “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” Eleanor Roosevelt Biography The New Deal New social welfare programs: Social Security New regulatory agencies: Securities and Exchange Commission, National Labor Relations Board Tennessee Valley Authority Growth of Unions John L. Lewis and the CIO A. Philip Randolph Memorial Day Massacre Imperial Presidency Roosevelt’s use of executive power “Court packing” |
Great Presentations :)
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world war II
Mussolini
Biography
Situation in Italy
Establishing fascism
Attack on Ethiopia
Stalin
Biography
Communist totalitarianism
Collectivization of agriculture
Five-year plans for industrialization
The Great Purge
Franco
Biography
Spanish Civil War
International Brigade, Guernica
Weimar Republic
Leadership
Economic repercussions of WWI
Rise of Hitler
Biography
Adolf Hitler and the rise of Nazi totalitarianism
Cult of the Fuhrer
Mein Kampf
Fascism in contrast to communism and democracy
The Third Reich
Racial doctrines of the Nazis: anti-semitism
Lebensraum for the “master race”
Kristallnacht
Gestapo
Propaganda and book burning
Underlying Issues- the Holocaust
Gradual Beginnings
Ghettoes
Concentration Camps
Genocide
Aftermath- the Holocaust
Social Consequences
International Response
Survivors
Founding of Jewish state in Israel
Breaking of Versailles Treaty
Reoccupation of Rhineland
Anschluss, annexation of Austria
Appeasement: Munich Agreement, “peace in our time”
Soviet-Nazi Non-aggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
Invasion of Poland
Fall of France
Dunkirk
Battle of Britain
Air, bombings
Winston Churchill
Homefront
American Home Front
Lend-Lease supplies
Atlantic Charter
America First Movement
U.S. mobilization for war: desegregation of defense industries, “Rosie the Riveter,” rationing, war bonds
Western Front
Partisans
Key People
Major Battles
Eastern Front
Hitler invades Soviet Union
Leningrad and Stalingrad
North Africa Campaign: El Alamein
D-Day and Surrender
Normandy, D-Day
General Dwight Eisenhower
Battle of the Bulge
Bombing of Dresden
Yalta Conference
Surrender of Germany, Soviets take Berlin
Japan’s Rise
Historical background
Geography of Japan
High population density, limited farmland, heavy reliance on imports
End of isolation, Commodore Matthew Perry
Meiji restoration: end of feudal Japan
Industrialization and modernization
Japanese imperialism: occupation of Korea, invasion of Manchuria, Rape of Nanking
Japanese-Soviet neutrality treaty
Pearl Harbor
Dec. 7, 1941, “A day that will live in infamy.”
Internment
Japanese-American internment
Reasons
Conditions
After-math
War in the Pacific
Fall of the Philippines: Bataan Death March, Douglas MacArthur, “I shall return”
Battle of Midway
Island amphibious landings: Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima
Surrender of Japan
Atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Enola Gay
U.S. dictates pacifist constitution for Japan, Emperor Hirohito
Potsdam Conference, Nuremberg war crimes trials
Creation of United Nations, Security Council
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Biography
Situation in Italy
Establishing fascism
Attack on Ethiopia
Stalin
Biography
Communist totalitarianism
Collectivization of agriculture
Five-year plans for industrialization
The Great Purge
Franco
Biography
Spanish Civil War
International Brigade, Guernica
Weimar Republic
Leadership
Economic repercussions of WWI
Rise of Hitler
Biography
Adolf Hitler and the rise of Nazi totalitarianism
Cult of the Fuhrer
Mein Kampf
Fascism in contrast to communism and democracy
The Third Reich
Racial doctrines of the Nazis: anti-semitism
Lebensraum for the “master race”
Kristallnacht
Gestapo
Propaganda and book burning
Underlying Issues- the Holocaust
Gradual Beginnings
Ghettoes
Concentration Camps
Genocide
Aftermath- the Holocaust
Social Consequences
International Response
Survivors
Founding of Jewish state in Israel
Breaking of Versailles Treaty
Reoccupation of Rhineland
Anschluss, annexation of Austria
Appeasement: Munich Agreement, “peace in our time”
Soviet-Nazi Non-aggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
Invasion of Poland
Fall of France
Dunkirk
Battle of Britain
Air, bombings
Winston Churchill
Homefront
American Home Front
Lend-Lease supplies
Atlantic Charter
America First Movement
U.S. mobilization for war: desegregation of defense industries, “Rosie the Riveter,” rationing, war bonds
Western Front
Partisans
Key People
Major Battles
Eastern Front
Hitler invades Soviet Union
Leningrad and Stalingrad
North Africa Campaign: El Alamein
D-Day and Surrender
Normandy, D-Day
General Dwight Eisenhower
Battle of the Bulge
Bombing of Dresden
Yalta Conference
Surrender of Germany, Soviets take Berlin
Japan’s Rise
Historical background
Geography of Japan
High population density, limited farmland, heavy reliance on imports
End of isolation, Commodore Matthew Perry
Meiji restoration: end of feudal Japan
Industrialization and modernization
Japanese imperialism: occupation of Korea, invasion of Manchuria, Rape of Nanking
Japanese-Soviet neutrality treaty
Pearl Harbor
Dec. 7, 1941, “A day that will live in infamy.”
Internment
Japanese-American internment
Reasons
Conditions
After-math
War in the Pacific
Fall of the Philippines: Bataan Death March, Douglas MacArthur, “I shall return”
Battle of Midway
Island amphibious landings: Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima
Surrender of Japan
Atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Enola Gay
U.S. dictates pacifist constitution for Japan, Emperor Hirohito
Potsdam Conference, Nuremberg war crimes trials
Creation of United Nations, Security Council
Universal Declaration of Human Rights