Option 1: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Examine Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

1. What is PTSD?

2. When was it first diagnosed?

3. What happened to those who suffered from its symptoms before it was discovered?

4. How does it occur and what are the impacts on a person’s life and those around them?

5. What treatments or solutions are there for those who suffer with it?

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NCSS Standards:

4K 2, 3 & 5; 4P 2 & 4

Option 2: The Industrial Revolution and Warfare

How have the technologies of the Industrial Revolution (IR) changed warfare?

1. How have weapons technologies changed? How are these changes linked to the IR?

2. How have tactics evolved to match these technologies?

3. What ethical issues were raised, if any, as a result of these technologies and tactics? Why?

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NCSS Standards:

8K 2, 4, 7, 11; 8P 1, 2, 4, 6 & 7

Option 3: War and Borders

Compare and contrast the effect on political and ethnic borders in at least one war from EACH of the following timeframes (3 wars in total):

• 19th Century

  • The German Wars of Unification

  • The Boer War

  • The Crimean War

• 20th Century

  • World War I within Europe and/or the Middle East and/or Asia and/or Africa

  • The First Iraq War

  • The Korean War

• Modern Day

  • ISIS and the Levant

  • The South Ossetian War

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NCSS Standards:

9K 3, 5; 9P 4, 7, 10

Option 4: War and Women

Examine how the role and rights of women have changed in times of war from wars in the 19th century to the present day.

• Include examples from at least 4 different wars in your research

• Include at least one war prior to World War One (1914)

• Include at least one war from contemporary times (2000 to the present)

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NCSS Standards:

10K 2, 6; 10P  2-5, 7