1. Watch the lecture in its entirety.
2. Determine what the main argument is.  In other words, all academic lectures have a key point (unless you have a terrible professor and they ramble on without a clear direction or purpose) that is being supported by evidence, which is what we call the argument.  Figure out what that argument is.
3. In your discussion post, explain the argument by analyzing the evidence. As you are explaining the argument, you should discuss how that argument is significant for world history.  In other words, tell me why this topic is important for world history.
4. Next, make a connection between the topic and any political, social, or cultural issue that we face today in the world.  You should explain how and in what ways the past informs or have shaped the present.
5. Your discussion post should reflect on how you interpret the past and connect it to present events.

1. Watch the lecture in its entirety.
2. Determine what the main argument is.  In other words, all academic lectures have a key point (unless you have a terrible professor and they ramble on without a clear direction or purpose) that is being supported by evidence, which is what we call the argument.  Figure out what that argument is.
3. In your discussion post, explain the argument by analyzing the evidence. As you are explaining the argument, you should discuss how that argument is significant for world history.  In other words, tell me why this topic is important for world history.
4. Next, make a connection between the topic and any political, social, or cultural issue that we face today in the world.  You should explain how and in what ways the past informs or have shaped the present.
5. Your discussion post should reflect on how you interpret the past and connect it to present events.

Examine one state’s declaration from The Declarations of Causes of Seceding States on the American Battlefield Trust website and scan the various excerpts from the National Park Service’s Why Confederate Soldiers Fought document. In your first post, explain to what degree you think the aims of the average soldier and the aims of the state secession conventions were the same or different.

Analyze the early Cold War years and explain the emergence of the two major superpowers, the United
 
States and Soviet Union. What was the Truman Doctrine? Analyze the Cold War in Europe. How was
 
Germany and the rest of Europe divided? What was the Berlin Airlift? Analyze the proxy wars between
 
Communist and anti-Communist forces in Latin America. What was the Cuban Missiles Crisis, and how
 
was it resolved? Explain the Cold War in Asia. How did the U.S policymakers respond to the Communists?
 
victory in China? How did the United States become involved in the Korean War, and what was the
 
consequences?