Social Studies Seminar
Selected Novels
Potential Research Topics: Events That Changed the World
1) Battle of Thermopylae
2) Assassination of Julius Caesar 3) Pope Urban II Preaches the 1st Crusade 4) Tokugawa Ieyasu Wins the Battle of Sekigahara 5) The Declaration of Independence 6) Fall of the Bastille 7) Battle of Waterloo 8) Perry's Black Ships Visit Japan 9) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 10) Election of 1876 11) Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand 12) The Russian Revolution |
13) The Treaty of Versailles
14) Women's Suffrage 15) Scopes Monkey Trial 16) Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic 17) The 1929 Stock Market Crash 18) Gandhi’s Salt March 19) Kristallnacht 20) Einstein Writes a Letter (The Manhattan Project) 21 ) Rise of the Berlin Wall 22) JFK Assassination 23) One Small Step... 24) Nixon Resigns 25) Fall of the Berlin Wall |