Euro-American conflict with the Native American tribes
the Boxer Rebellion
World War I
the Russian Revolution
the Soviet Union
the Great Depression
the New Deal
civil war in Spain
the Axis and the Allies
World War II
Nazi Germany/Hitler
the Holocaust
Zionism/the Jews’ return to Palestine
apartheid/South African segregation
China under Mao
the Korean War
the civil-rights movement
the Vietnam War
landing on the moon
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
fall of the Berlin Wall
9/11
Primary Sources
Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman” (1851)
Abraham Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address” (1863)
Susan B. Anthony, “On Women’s Right to Vote” (1873)
Florence Nightingale, “Rural Hygiene” (1894)
Mohandas K. Gandhi, “Indian Home Rule” (1909)
Proclamation of the Abdication of the Manchus (February 24, 1912)
Private Donald Fraser, “War Diary, September 1915” (1915)
John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields” (1915)
Proclamation of the Irish Republic (Easter 1916)
Tsar Nicholas II, “Abdication” (March 15, 1917)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “First Inaugural” (March 4, 1933)
Neville Chamberlain, “Peace in Our Time” (1938)
Winston S. Churchill, “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” (June 4, 1940)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy” (December 8, 1941)
U.S. Declaration of War on Germany (December 11, 1941)
Bishop Desmond Tutu, “The Question of South Africa” (1984)
George W. Bush, “Post 9/11 Speech” (2001)
Memorization
the dates of service for British prime ministers
Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone, Stanley Baldwin,
Nevile Chamberlain, Winston Churchill,
Margaret Thatcher, and John Major
the German rulers of the Weimar Republic
(Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenberg)
the dates of the Third Reich
the dates of Charles de Galle
and Francois Mitterand of France
the tsars of Russia
from Alexander II through Nicholas II
the "effective rulers" of the USSR
from Vladimir Lenin through Mikhail Gorbachev
the presidents of the United States
from Millard Fillimore through the present
the dates of the Crimean War,
the American Civil War,
World War I, World War II,
the Six-Day War, the Korean War,
the Vietnam War, and the Iran-Iraq war
the dates of the first orbiting of the earth
by a man-made satellite
and the first moon landing