Semester Project/Term Paper

2. Child labor during the Industrial Revolution in England or child labor today (choose a contemporary country to write about)

3. Queen Victorian era and women and men’s fashion during the 19th century

4. The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty and where blame lied – was it really Nicholas II’s fault?

5. “Suffragettes” in France or Great Britain6. Mass culture: Age of Movies and Radio during WWII

7. India’s independence from Britain

8. Ghandi

9. Submarine warfare during WWI

10. “The Great Purge” in the Soviet Union

11.. Propaganda from either WWI or WWII

12. The Nazi-Soviet Pact

13. The Cheka (The Communist Secret Police)

14. “Blitzkrieg” (“lightning war”) warfare employed by the Nazis

15. Women’s role in either WWI or WWII (not in the U.S.)

16. Impact of the Great Depression in Germany during the 1920s

17. The push for Irish independence/Easter Rising 1914-1922

18. Albert Einstein and his departure from Germany

19. Picasso and Cubism (or other artists of the early 20th Century)

20. The failure of the Weimer Republic

21. The Zeppelin Co. and the Hindenburg

22. The Hitler Youth

23. 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and the Nazi Party

24. Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling: Sports, Race, and Nazism

25. Kristallnacht: “The Night of Broken Glass”

26. The Gestapo (Nazi Secret Police)

27. The siege of Leningrad

28. The Jews and Poles defending themselves against the Nazi regime

29. Resistance movements: the Holocaust

30. The Battle of Stalingrad

31. The Battle of Britain

32. The Spanish Civil War

33. Armenian Genocide

34. The Nazi Atomic bomb project

35. The development of the Jet Powered Plane by the Nazis

36. The KGB (Soviet version of the CIA)

37. Two Germanies: West vs. East: When Germany became divided

38. The Berlin Airlift

39. Spy tactics during the Cold War

40. Space Race: U.S. vs. USSR

41. The fall of the Soviet Union: Glasnost and Perestroika

42. The Irish Republican Army

43. The Crimean War

Step: #2: Annotated Bibliography & Outline: DUE: March 7th (20 Points) Write an Annotated Bibliography and organize research/historical fiction into a 1-2-page outline. How to do so will be discussed in class. I am requiring at least 6 resources, 2 primary. MORE IS BETTER!

Step: #3: Rough Draft: DUE: Friday, March 30th (20 pts)Your rough draft must be 5-6 pages typed. This should also include your endnotes page. (Citations should be included in your paper) Use http://citationmachine.net/ to help you. These should be in Chicago style – use superscript numbers to refer to your sources; put the sources at the end of the paper.

Step: #4: Final Paper with Bibliography: DUE Wednesday, May 9th (160pts)· Final Draft will be 5-6 pages of solid text, double-spaced, 12 pt font, Times New Roman and one inch margins on all sides. YOU NEED TO USE AT LEAST 6 SOURCES FOR YOUR PAPER. AT LEAST TWO OF YOUR SOURCES MUST BE PRIMARY RESOURCE DOCUMENTS.

Endnotes: for each quote, specific fact (i.e. numbers, statistics etc.), or borrowed idea, that you use you will need to properly cite the source of that information using endnotes (at the end of each page). These are different from the bibliography. You will need to include BOTH endnotes and a bibliography!

Please note that all work must be original and in your own words.