The Modern World 1800 to 2000

An exciting new Modern History resource that has a wide range of sources, both primary and secondary, that span many of the major events, issues and personalities in Modern World History. Each internet site has been trialled, verified and tested for the classroom. Every source document will provide an insight into the areas that are covered in most Modern History curricula. In the teachers textbook, useful exercises and questions have been created and classroom-tested to provide a means of objectively evaluating their values and limitations and in so doing, helping students to decide on the usefulness of the source documents for a given purpose.

1. Introduction
2. France in the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries
   1. Robespierre and the Reign of Terror
   2. Napoleon Bonaparte
3. The 1848 Revolutions
4. The Unification of Italy Giuseppi Garibaldi
5. The Unification of Germany
   1. The Ems Telegramme
   2. Otto von Bismarck
6. The Economic Revolution in Britain
   1. Social consequences
   2. Growth of Trade Unionism
7. Russia in the Nineteenth Century Emancipation of the Serfs
8. India in the Nineteenth Century The Indian Mutiny
9. The United States of America in the Nineteenth Century
   1. The Transatlantic Slave Trade
   2. The Civil War
10. Japan in the Nineteenth Century The Meiji Revolution
11. China in the Nineteenth Century
    1. The Opium Wars
    2. The Boxer Rebellion
12. World War One
    1. Causes - Diplomacy
    2. Course - The Somme
    3. Aftermath - The Treaty of Versailles
13. The League of Nations Woodrow Wilson
14. Germany 1919 - 1939
    1. Rise of Nazism
    2. Leni Riefenstahl
15. Russia and the Soviet Union 1917-1941
    1. The October Revolution
    2. Leon Trotksy c. Josef Stalin
16. China 1921-1949
    1. Mao Zedong
    2. The Long March
17. The United States of America 1919-1941
    1. The New Deal
    2. J Edgar Hoover
18. Japan 1904-1945
    1. The Growth of Militarism
    2. Emperor Hirohito
19. India 1919-1947
    1. The Road to Independence
    2. Mohammed Ali Jinnah
20. World War Two
    1. The Battle for Stalingrad
    2. Hiroshima
21. Indochina 1954-1979
    1. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
    2. Ho Chi Minh
22. Cuba 1901-1962
    1. The Cuban Missile Crisis
    2. Fidel Castro
23. The United States of America 1945-1991
    1. The Civil Rights Movement
    2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
24. The Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948-2004
    1. The Yom Kippur War 1973
    2. Yasser Arafat
25. The Cold War 1945-1991
    1. A cartoon History
    2. Mikhail Gorbachev
26. China 1946-1989 The Cultural Revolution
27. Indonesia 1959-1998 East Timor