Suggested research topics for modern history
Topic ideas (list is in progress! Please make suggestions!)
East Asia
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Central/South Asia
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Africa
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Middle East
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Western Europe
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Cold War: Europe
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South America
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Mexico/Central America/Caribbean
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Eastern Europe/Russia
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Human Rights
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- War: WWI, WWII,,
- Independence/Liberation movements: Bangladesh-India, , Emergence of Former Soviet Republics (ie Kazakhstan), Irish Independence movement/IRA,
- Oppression: Abolition of slavery in the Americas, WWII POW's,
- Labor and Rights: Women's rights movements,
- Arts: Modern European movements, Mexican revolutionary muralists, Propaganda (Soviet, Chinese, Nazi)
- Food and Environment: Indian famines, Ethiopian famines, Japan's Tsunami, Bhopal Industrial accident, Chernobyl, Green Revolution (Asia),
- Government/Politics: Saudi/Gulf monarchies,
- Economic: Cotton and industrialization, Asian "Tigers", Salvadoran drug gangs, Middle Eastern Oil,
- Cold War: Stalin, Berlin Nuclear Arms race, Margaret Thatcher, collapse of Soviet Union
- Science, ideas:
- Women, gender: Mary Wollstonecraft, Simon de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Aleksandra Kollontai, Comfort Women (Korean, Chinese), Human Trafficking, boy preference in India, Women and the Taliban,
- Migration: World War II refugees, Central American, Mexico
- Medicine, Health and Sport: The Olympics, NAZI doctors,
- Protest, Social Justice:
- Music: Reggae and Jamaican politics; Fela/Afropop and Nigerian protest;
- Climate change