Unit 1 – Islam and Cultural Identity in Europe -- Islam, Muslim, headscarf, veil, hijab, identity, secularism
Unit 2 – Latin American Immigration in Editorial Cartoons -- immigration, U.S. Mexico border fence, separation barrier, border patrol, border protection, anti-terrorism, Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, Secure Fence Act of 2006, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency
Unit 3 -- Food Crisis in Africa -- food crisis, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food aid, agricultural inputs, strategic food reserves, global energy crisis, biofuel, World Bank, food price index
Unit 4 -- India’s Rise in the Global Economy -- outsourcing, overheated economy, growth bubble, global recession
Unit 5 – Islamic Majorities and Minorities in Southeast Asia -- Shariff Kabunsuan Festival, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Bali Conscience Forum, Ahmadiyah sect

Lesson 1 -- Unearthing Stereotypes -- continent, geography, diversity, culture, stereotype, perspective Countries: Egypt, The Gambia, Morocco, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Lesson 2 – African Money –  African fish eagle, African Wildlife Foundation, Arabic, American Colonization Society, Byzantine Empire, cash crop, chariot, Christianity, Christians, climate, cocoa, colony, constitution, copper, copra, Coptic Christians, cotton mill, date palm, dhows (“daus”), diverse, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, economy, endangered species, export, fertile, flora and fauna, geometric, Haile Selassie, herding, idolatry, import, independence, Iron Age, Islam, J.J. Roberts, John F. Kennedy, Middle Ages, military coup, minaret, mines, mosque, Muslim, nomadic, Ottoman Empire, Pharaoh Seti I, Pharaoh Tutankhamun, poverty, President Kenneth Kaunda, Queen of Sheba, rainforest, Ramesses II, reliefs, resource, Roman Empire, rubber, safari, Sunni, timber, Temple of Seti I, tourism, United Nations, wood stork, World Wildlife Fund
Money: birr, cedis, dinars, francs, kwacha, leones, maloti, nakfa, naira, pounds, shilingi, shillings
Countries: Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, The Comoros, Cote D’Ivoire, Egypt, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia Nigeria, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Geographical Terms/Places: archipelago, Atlantic Ocean, Bangui, Bight of Benin, Blue Nile, Danakil Depression, equator, Freetown, Gold Coast, grassland, Great Rift Valley, Gulf of Aiden, Gulf of Guinea, Horn of Africa, Indian Ocean, highland, Lake Chad, Lake Nyasa, Lake Tana, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Volta, landlocked, lowland, Mediterranean Sea, Mount Kenya, Mount Kilamanjaro, Nairobi, Nile River, plains, plateau, Nubia, Red Sea, Sahara Desert, Suez Canal, Ubangi River, Victoria Falls, Volta River

Unit 1 – Introducing the Middle East – assumption, misperception, Near East, chador  Muhammad, ethnocentrism, euro-centrism, generalization, keffiyeh, monotheism, mosque, Muslim, Roman Empire, Western Wall, racism, Arab, ethnicity, political geography, Christian, Jew, Muslim,
Unit 2 – Israel/Palestine Histories in Conflict – British, Canaanite Arabs, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Saladin, Suez Canal, al Nakba (the Great Catastrophe), creation of modern Israel, diaspora, Jewish settlements, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian refugees, 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Judea and Samaria, Occupied Territories, The Gaza Strip, Palestine Liberation Organization, Golan Heights, Nasser, West Bank, 1967 boundaries, Intifada, Israeli occupation, terrorist attack, Fedayeen, militant Palestinian nationalists, religious Zionists, Israeli peace movement, r ight of return, Al Quds, refugee camps, security barrier, Western Wall
Unit 3 – War in Iraq – Whose Voice, Whose Story? -- Amariyah Shelter, Gulf War, Norman Schwarzkopf, Operation Desert Storm, U.N. sanctions, Baath Party, invasion of Kuwait, U.N. security resolutions, chemical warfare, Iran-Contra scandal, UNSCOM, Coalition forces, Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction, DU weapons, Kurds, totalitarianism, Iranian Revolution, censorship, press pools, U.N. Security Council, George H.W. Bush, oil, public relations (PR), al-Jazeera, embedded reporting, Stockholm syndrome, al-Qaeda, USS Cole, axis of evil, Fox News, WMDs, editorial decisions, causalities, Fallujah, Iraqi elections, shock and awe, collateral damage, Fedayeen, Imam Ali Mosque, Sunni and Shiah split, Najaf, docudrama, video news release, credibility, documentary, target audience, Abu Ghraib, human rights, torture, war on terror, Geneva Convention
Unit 4 – Militant Muslims and the U.S. – Allah, Mecca, Muhammad, Shari’ah, five pillars of Islam, monotheistic, Quran, Sunna, imam, mosque, Ramadhan, Islam, Muslim, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), counter-stereotype, keffiyeh, stereotype, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), jihad, axis of evil, coup in Iran, Mohammed Khatami, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mohammed Mossadegh, Salman Rushdie, hostage crisis, Mohammed Reza, International Atomic Energy Commission, mullahs, SAVAK, chador, Iran-Contra Affair, Shah of Iran, CIA, Iran-Iraq War, nationalize, Shiah, Cold War, Islamic Revolution, oil, Council of Guardians, Persia, White Revolution, 9/11, covert operation, Mullah Omar, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, historical context, Osama bin Laden, Taliban, blowback, jihad, Operation Enduring Freedom, stingers, CIA, war on terrorism, Cold War, mujahidin, extremists, Taliban, Islamic fundamentalism, “clash of civilizations”, suicide bombers, World Trade Center

Unit 1 � Vietnam War � Agent Orange, bogged down, Lt. William Calley, casualties, censor, Cold War, Commander in Chief, communism, containment of communism, domino theory, draft, exit strategy, French Indochina, French Indochina War, Geneva Accords, genocide, guerilla war, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Ho Chi Minh, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Kent State, Robert McNamara, missing in action (MIA), My Lai Massacre, napalm, National Guard, Richard M. Nixon, North Vietnam, Pentagon Papers, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), quagmire, Saigon, Secretary of Defense, South Vietnam, Tet Offensive, Truman Doctrine, Harry S. Truman, Uncle Sam, Viet Cong (VC), Viet Minh, Vietnamization, War Powers Act, Watergate, Gen. William Westmoreland, whistle-blower
Unit 2 � Gulf War � air-raid shelter, air strike, Arab, autonomous areas, Ba�ath Party, Basra Road, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, causalities, cease-fire agreement, censor, civilian, William J. Clinton, Coalition forces, Commander in Chief, dictator, dissent, economic sanction, ground offensive, Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Iran-Iraq War, Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kurds, Middle East, no-fly zone, Operation Desert Storm, preemptive military action, press briefing, press pool, prisoner of war (POW), public relations (PR), smart bomb, sortie, sovereignty, U.N. weapons inspectors, War Powers Act, weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
Unit 3 � War in Afghanistan � Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, burka, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush William J. Clinton, commando, covert operations, Islamic fundamentalists, jihad, Kabul, Hamid Karzai, loya jirga, militant, mujahideen, Muslim, Northern Alliance, sanctuary, September 11th, Soviet Union, Taliban, War on Terrorism, World Trade Center

Unit 1 – The Birth of the USSR -- Russia, feudal monarchy, World War I, Czar, Bolsheviks, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, communism, Karl Marx, capitalism, capitalist system, proletariat, exploited, bourgeoisie, class struggle, Communist Party, Marxism, Lenin, St. Petersburg, Whites, civil war, famine, Red Army, media, nationalizing, creating a centrally planned economy, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, totalitarianism, Russian Orthodox Church, atheist, new socialist morality, USSR
Unit 2 – Stalin – Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Cult of Personality, totalitarian dictatorship, Man of Steel, state control, secret police, prison camps, Trotsky, show trials, Stalinists, purges, Gulag, New Economic Policies, Five-Year Plan , command economy, forced collectivism, Kulaks, famines, rapid industrialization, forced laborers,
Unit 3 – The Great Patriotic War – World War II, The Great Patriotic War, Adolf Hitler, fascist dictator, Nazi Germany, anti-communist militia, Lebensraum, non-aggression pact, September 1, 1939, Axis, June 22, 1941, Eastern Front, blitzkrieg, Russian winter, prolonged war, Leningrad, 900 days, Battle of Stalingrad, Elba River,
Unit 4 – The Cold War – Cold War, nuclear, superpower, Red Army, Eastern Europe, divided Germany, Iron Curtain, NATO, Warsaw Pact, deterrent, nuclear arms race, President Kennedy, Castro, Cuban Missile Crisis, Fall of China, President Truman, containment, Korea, Vietnam, Central America, Africa, the Middle East, Afghanistan, propaganda, Berlin Wall, 1989
Unit 5 – The End of the USSR – Soviet bloc, bureaucracies, stagnation, political life, totalitarian, Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika, capitalist, political reforms, Glasnost, Chernobyl, censorship, media, Eastern Europe, nationalist and democratic movements, Berlin Wall, multi-party democracies, Yeltsin, 15 Republics, Russia