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What if… Blog Project
**Pick a region and the events associated with that region. YOU MAY NOT PICK A TOPIC YOU PRESENTED ON! Hypothesize that these major events in that region did not exist. Compose a blog that includes both the original history and the “altered” history of that region. Must be neat, without spelling/grammar mistakes (hint: use a word document BEFORE you post). Remember, you should make your reader WANT to read your blog, be creative yet school appropriate! Pick TWO subtopics from your region. ** **Once you have posted your "blog" you must read THREE DIFFERENT regions and reply: agree/disagree and why or why not. You may reply more than three, but you MUST do at least three for grading purposes.**

India: Indian National Congress, Act of 1919, Mohandas Gandhi, Civil Disobidience, ahimsa, Indo-Pak partition, nonalignment, Kashmir dispute, Indira Gandhi

Sub-Saharan Africa: monoculture, Ghana-Nkrumah, Kenya-1963, Belgian Congo 1959, Political Borders-Rwandan Genocide, South Africa: 1910, apartheid, African National Congress, Mendela.

Zionism & Palestinian Nationalism: Balfour Declaration 1917, Creation of Israel, Palestianian Liberation Organization.

Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh, Cold War sideshow, Revolution, Vietnam War.

Russia: March of 1917, Lenin, “peace, land, bread,” Bolshevik Govt, New Economic Policy 1921, Stalin, 5-year plan, Great Purges, Krushchev, Brenzhnev, Garbachev, perestroika, glasnot.

Eastern Europe: Soviet influence, Prague Spring, Lech Walesa, Berlin Wall, NATO, EU, International War Crimes Tribunal, Milosevic.

China: Revolution of 1911, Sun Yixian (Yat-sen), Jiang Jeishi (Chiang Kai Shek), Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, People’s Republic of China and Reforms, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution post 1960, Deng Xiaoping, Four Modernization, Tiananmen Square

Iran: Shah Reza, religious ulama v. students and intellectuals v. farmers and urban workers, Ayatollah Khomeini.