Geography

We suggest that you use a good world history atlas so that your students can have practice at the skill of using maps and legends. Click the link below for our recommendation. The next choice is to use the supporting links that you find here.  Please only let your student look at the teacher map in Map Aids as a last resort.


General

Online Maps, Map Vendors, and More!

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Unit 1

Week 1:  Review

Week 2:  Roosevelt, American Imperialism, Hawaii & Crumbling Empires

  • Blank outline map of Hawaii

  • Another fun map/quiz for Hawaii

  • This is a really neat animated atlas that you can use many more times while studying the rest of this year-plan.  Don't miss it!

Week 3:  World War I: Europe in Flames

  • The Balkans in 1914

  • Detailed map of Europe before 1914

  • Blank map of Europe

  • Another blank map of Europe from which to choose

  • This site includes a listing of battles and battlefield maps (in 3 different sizes for printing), a "who's who" listing, a timeline (including day-by-day account), an encyclopedia of the war, propaganda posters (9 pages of them for the US plus more for other countries; all in printable sizes), vintage media (audio and video) and photographs, western front today (photographs of battlefields as they appear today, weapons of war, war in the air, prose and poetry of wartime, memoirs and diaries, primary documents, and more.

Week 4:  America in World War I:  Over There and Over Here

  • Excellent!  All the maps you'll need for teaching about WWI

Week 5:  The Russian Revolution

Week 6:  World War I:  Costs, Treaties, and Consequences

Week 7:  American Culture and the Return to Normalcy

  • No objectives

Week 8:  Cracks in Normalcy:  Prohibition & the Bull Market

Week 9:  Life During the Great Depression

  • Map and information showing where Dust Bowl was located.  Link contributed by Rhea.

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Unit 2

Week 10:  Franklin D. Roosevelt:  The Man and his Policies

  • No objectives

Week 11:  The Rise of Totalitarianism:  Germany, Italy, and Japan

Week 12:  The Rise of Totalitarianism:  The USSR under Stalin

Week 13:  Expansionism & Appeasement

Week 14:  Blitzkrieg!  Winston Churchill & The Battle of Britain

Week 15: World War II:  Global Conflict and the Holocaust

  • These interactive maps should help show the spread of WWII.

  • Although not assigned, you may find this map of the locations of the concentration camps to be interesting.

  • Another interactive map showing key battles of the Pacific Theater

  • One more set of maps that you will find helpful this week.

  • Map of the Balkans

  • A helpful link for learning more about the Balkans

  • Here is a pdf. file to download if you need a blank world map.

Week 16: World War II:  Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Invasion of the Philippines

  • Outline map of Asia: this will cover many of the labels in your assignment this week.

  • Repeat from last week:  Another interactive map showing key battles of the Pacific Theater

Week 17:  Allied Victory:  A New Europe

  • Map showing how the Iron Curtain fell

  • Another helpful interactive map

  • Outline maps of Europe, with or without labels

Week 18: Survey of the Middle East:  The Establishment of Israel

  • Outline map of the Middle East

  • Another choice for an outline map of the Middle East

  • Find every label in the Student Activity Pages here.

  • Use this site and click on the map of the Middle East, and then the map of Israel for location of cities.

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Unit 3

General Resources for the entire Unit:

Week 19: Gandhi's India and Pakistani Independence

  • Salt March map of India.

  • Use this site and click on the map of Asia, and then the map of India for location of cities.

Week 20: Mao's China

  • Animated map of Mao's Long March.

  • Use this site and click on the map of Asia, and then the map of China for location of cities.

  • All the outline maps, geographical information, and map labels you'll need for a study of China.  Contributed by Robin M.

Week 21: The Korean War

Week 22: Eisenhower: The 50’s Oasis

  • No objectives this week.

Week 23:  US Civil Rights Movement & African Decolonization

Week 24:  The Kennedy Years

  • Outline map of Cuba

  • Use this site and click on the map of the Islands of the Caribbean, and then the map of Cuba for location of cities.

Week 25:  The Space Race and Mutually Assured Destruction

  • Interactive quiz/puzzle about Earth

Week 26:  Lyndon B. Johnson:  The Great Society and Vietnam

  • Outline map of Vietnam from EnchantedLearning.com

  • Details about Vietnam from WorldAtlas.com

  • Blank outline map of Vietnam

Week 27:  Cultural Developments of the 1960's

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Unit 4

Week 28:  Foundering on the Rocks of Individualism

  • Here is a pdf. file to download if you need a blank world map.

  • Geography trivia game about the Middle East

  • Another download from Owl & Mouse about geography of the Middle East

  • All kinds of helpful information about the countries in the Middle East

  • Rhetoric review: although this link doesn't list all of the countries of the world, it is another option for you to use.  (pdf file)  However, here is a list of the countries of the world. 

Week 29:  The Family Adrift

  • Refer to week 28 for links for the Middle East

  • Blank outline map of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, and Antarctica

  • Please note that if you do your own internet searches for the Pacific Islands, you will often find them labeled as "Oceania".

  • Great link for your Rhetoric review of Australia and New Zealand.  (pdf file)

Week 30:  The Nixon Years

  • Good information about Israel from WorldAtlas.com

  • Outline map of Israel

  • Outline map of Asia

  • Rhetoric review for Asia (pdf file)

Week 31:  Ford's Integrity & Carter's Malaise

Week 32:  Reagan's "Revolution"

  • Outline maps of Afghanistan, Jordan and Syria

  • Don't forget to refer to Week 28 links for more helps for studying the Middle East

  • Outline map of Europe (pdf file)

Week 33:  George H. W. Bush's New World Order

Week 34:  Clinton's Opportunity

Week 35:  George W. Bush and the Early 21st Century

Week 36:  Review & Conclusions After the Second Millennium

  • A fun map game labeling the countries of the middle East. 

  • Learn facts about the Middle East at this website.  Click on the dot on each country.

  • Country statistics at a glance

  • World Almanac

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