Explore how events between 1900 and 1945 continue to shape today's world.
Essay and Discussion Questions
Suggestions for essay topics that enable students to dive deeper into the material found in the module and conduct their own research and analysis.
Isolationism Op-Ed
In this lesson plan, students will compose an op-ed article, citing historical examples, arguing for or against isolationism in U.S. foreign policy today.
Communism Today
In this lesson plan, students will briefly research countries that have a communist government today and compare them to how communism was conceived and implemented in the interwar period.
Classroom Reading List
Supplemental readings and other resources to help students explore a full range of issues and debates related to the module materials. The list offers readings well suited to a wide variety of students.
America's Role in the World
In these two lessons developed in partnership with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, students will analyze and assess primary sources created between 1914 and 1941.
