The following pages include a partial list of possible research topics for consideration. It is best to select at least three topics and rank them according to preference. You may select a topic not on this list, but make sure you have the permission of the instructor.
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Peter the Great Catherine the Great Lenin Stalin Kerensky Trotsky Nicholas II & Alexandra Ivan IV (The Terrible) Military History of Russia (Pre-1917) Russian Revolution: 1917 The Revolution of 1905 Russo-Japanese War Russian Industrialization (19th-20th C) Soviet Military Power Soviet Industrialization Slave Labor Camps Russian/Soviet Art Russian/Soviet Music Russian/Soviet Religion Russian/Soviet Education Russian/Soviet Literature Science in the USSR Soviet Space Program Operation of the Communisat Party Organization of the Soviet Government Gorbachev: Perestrokia & Glasnost Collaspe of Eastern Europe East Germany, Berlin and the Wall The Cold War: US-Soviet Relations The KGB Soviet-Chinese Relations |
Confucius Sun Yat-sen Yuan Shih-kai Chaing Kai-shek Mao Zedong Ming Dynasty Manchu Dynasty Military History Education Art Music Literature Industry Agriculture Geography of China Chinese Space Program Korean War Chinese-US Relations China in World War II Revolution of 1912 Nationalist Party:Kuomintang Warlord Rule Religion Sports in China Problems in Modern China (select one) Hong Kong Environmental Issues affecting this region.
Ottoman Empire Zionism Theodor Herzl Balfour Declaration Origins of the Middle East Conflict Israel, the Arabs & Oil Arab-Israeli War's Iran - Islamic Jihad Islam Judism Lebanon PLO Kuwait & Iraq (The Gulf War) Terrorism in the Middle East |
Geography of Africa Tribal Life European Colonization The European Slave Trade Boer War Dutch in South Africa Transvaal and the Orange Free State Tribalism & Natrionalism in Modern Africa Religion Art Music Industrialization Independence movement Colonialism Apartheid in South Africa Environmental Issues affecting this region. South Africa and the ANC Biographies of famous Africans
Mexican Revolution: 1910-1911 Pancho Villa E. Zapata Porfiro Diaz Music in Latin America Art in Latin America Religion in Latin America Industrialization Geography of Latin America Cuban Revolution/Castro Life in Cuba Bay of Pigs Cuban Missle Crisis Conflicts in Central America Falkland Island War The Military in Latin America Rainforest Overpopulation, Debt, and Poverty Biographies of famous Latin American's Drug Wars & Latin America |
Indian Geography British Rule in India Sepoy Mutiny Hinduism Islam Indian Independence Mohandas Gandhi Amritsar Massacre Nehru Caste System Family Structure Education Art Music Literature Modern Problems Indria Gandhi Bangaledesh (East Pakistan) Mohammed Ali Jinnah Indian-Chinese Border War Monsoon |
Meiji Restoration Militarism: 1900-1945 Allied Occupation (1945) Economic Modernization Post War Politics Education Art Religion: Shintoism Music Traditional Social Structure Parliamentary Government Geography of Southeast Asia European Colonization French IndoChina Religion in Southeast Asia Independence Movement in Southeast Asia Biographies of famous Leaders Singapore |
The Popes Lorenzo de Medici Artists Humanism Secularism Individualism Italian City- States Niccolo Machiavelli New Monarchs Hapsburg- Valois War
Luther Calvin Zwingli J. Hus Huguenots Anabaptist Peasant Revolt Edict of Nantes War of the 3 Henry's Diet of Worms Charles V Counter-Reformation Council of Trent Henry VIII English Reformation
Explorers Spain & Conquistadores France & England Portugal Slave Trade Incas Aztecs Mayans 30 yrs War Dutch Independence Spanish Armada Elizabeth I Mary Queen of Scots Catherine de Medici |
English Civil War Absolutism Louis XIV Richelieu Stuart Dynasty Oliver Cromwell Glorious Revolution The Restoration War of the Spanish Succession
Romonov Dynasty Hohenzollern Hapsburgs Revolution of Edict of Nantes Prussian Absolutism Great Northern War Baroque Art Peter the Great Maria Theresa (Austria) Frederick the Great Pragmatic Sanction War of Austrian Succession Versailles St. Petersburg
Copernicus Brahe Kepler Bacon Newton Galileo Voltaire Deism Descartes Locke Encyclopedia |
French Revolution Committee of Public Safety Guillotine Reign of Terror Great Fear Louis XVI Robespierre Third Estate
Napoleon Waterloo Continental System Invasion of Russia Battle of Trafalgar Fourth Coalation (Quad.Alliance) Napoleons Reforms (code) Peninsular War Battle of Austerlitz
Inventors Child Labor Steam Engine Capitalism Socialism Communism Karl Marx Urban Life Public Health Movement Textile Industry Reform Bill 1832
Congress of Vienna Concert of Europe Metternich Revolutionary Movements July Revolution (1830) France Greek Independence Louis Phillipe Art: Romanticism, Realism Classical Liberalism Great Famine (Ireland) Suez Canal Revolution of 1848 |
Bismarck Prussia Franco-Prussian War (1870) Garibaldi Cavor Mazzini Napoleon III Italy Alexander II (Russia)
Algecira's Conference Boxer Rebellion Congress of Berlin (1884-85) Fashoda Opium Wars Rhodes Sepoy Rebellion Taiping Rebellion White Man's Burden Africa India China
Black Hand Franz Ferdinand Kaiser Wilhelm II League of Nations Battles of W.W. Western Front Eastern Front Triple Alliance Triple Entente Technology Zimmerman Telegram Gavrilo Princip Treaty of Versailles Trench Warfare
Nicholas II Rasputin Lenin Stalin Trotsky Civil War 1918-1920 March Revolution November Revolution Alexander Kerensky Revolution 1905 Russo-Japanese War Red Army |
Post-Impressionism Feminism\Women's Movement Impression Dreyfus Affair European Immigration Third Republic (France) Music and Literature Technological Revolution
Italy-Fascism Black Shirts Mussolini March on Rome Germany Hitler Nazi Rule Gestapo Mein Kampf Nuremburg Laws Holocaust Weimer Republic USSR-Great Purge Collectivization and Mechanization Totalitarianism Great Depression Munich Conference 1938 |
Battle of Coral Sea Pearl Harbor Midway Invasion of Russia Blitzkrieg Nazi-Soviet Pact Battle of Britain D-Day Stalingrad El-Alemein S.S. Rommel Churchill Atomic Bomb Wartime Conferences Dunkirk Tojo Yalta
Berlin Crisis\Airlift Division of Germany De-Stalinization Berlin Wall Korean War Hungarian Revolution (1956) Khrushchev NATO Warsaw Pact Truman Doctrine Cuban Missile Crisis Common Market Invasion of Czechoslovakia Fall of Communism Eastern Europe USSR-Gorbachev |
China Mao Zedong Revolution 1911 Chaig Kai-Shek Civil War 1946-49 Balfour Declaration Arab League Zionism 6 Day War Israeli Independence African Independence Movement Gandhi Indian National Congress Muslim League Palestine Nasser Vietnam-Dien Bien Phu |
Acid Rain Genetic Engineering Greenhouse Effect Military-Industrial Complex Space Program Semi Conductors Computer Technology Rain Forest Family Women Chernobyl |
