We suggest that you use a good world history atlas so that your students can have practice at the skill of using maps and legends. Click the link below for our recommendation. The next choice is to use the supporting links that you find here. Please only let your student look at the teacher map in Map Aids as a last resort.
General
Online Maps, Map Vendors, and More!
- Euratlas
- Outstanding interactive map quizzes, puzzles and downloads!
- HyperHistory: Main page for links to resource maps, online time lines, much much more! Easy to use. Great online resource!
- Maps.com: Buy some, print some: all the maps you ever wanted in one place.
- National Geographic: All the modern source maps you could want. Black & White: print at will for private use!
- Map of Colonial Africa in 1930.
- From Susan in Florida: This should be of help to those wanting to printout their maps online. US 50 States, Counties of the US
- Knowledgequestmaps.com: black outline maps to purchase.
- A fantastic site which will be lots of help in all four of our year-plans.
- MegaMaps: print up maps from the size of a single page to 7 feet across!
- Imperial History of the Middle East: Who has conquered the Middle East over the course of world events? View this 90-second flash presentation!
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- Great site: includes helpful text and maps.
- Here is a .pdf file to download if you need a blank world map.
- A helpful site for geography terms.
- Blank outline map of the United States.
- Simple map showing the British Empire.
- Map of Europe in 1900: This map will be key to your review this week.
- US Territorial Map: 1900
- African Imperialism
- Map and information about Eastern Africa
- Map and information about Central Africa
- Map of Africa, Imperial boundaries, 1914
- European Colonies in Africa and Asia
Week 2: The Progressive Era
- Map of the Baltics
- This is a really neat animated atlas that you can use many more times while studying the rest of this year-plan. Don’t miss it!
- Country size comparison: Russia Compared to Japan
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- Detailed map of Europe before 1914
- Blank map of Europe
- Allied and Central Powers
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- Excellent! All the maps you’ll need for teaching about WWI.
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- Outline map of Russia
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- Map of Europe after WWI
- Europe: Before and after WWI
- Blank map of Europe
Week 7: Postwar America
- No objectives for this week.
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- No links for this week.
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
General Resources for this Unit
- Outstanding site has many maps and other geographic information on WWII.
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- Dust Bowl
- This map should help you discover the location of totalitarian governments.
- Map of Interwar Europe
- Blank map of Europe
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- No objectives for this week.
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- Earhart’s Around the World Flight: Interactive map. Scroll down to go from her starting point to her final destination.
- Here is a .pdf file to download if you need a blank world map.
- Use this site and click on the map of Europe, and then the map of Spain for location of cities.
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- WWII Blitzkrieg! 1939-1940 maps
- Blank map of Europe.
- Maps of key WWII battles: click here and here.
Week 15: World-Wide War
- These interactive maps should help show the spread of WWII.
- One more set of maps that you will find helpful this week.
- A helpful link for learning more about the Balkans.
- Here is a .pdf file to download if you need a blank world map.
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- No objectives for this week.
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- Outline maps of Europe, with or without labels.
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- Outline map of the Middle East
- Another choice for an outline map of the Middle East
- Find every label in the Student Activity Pages here.
- Predominant religions and ethnicity of the Middle-east here
- Operation World: click country lists. Click on Asia to find individual middle-east countries. National pages have information regarding people, languages, and religions of a particular area.
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- Salt March of India and map
- How to make a Salt Map.
- A salt dought map example.
- Use this site and click on the map of Asia, and then the map of India for location of cities.
- Outline map of India
- Map of India
- Monsoons: information and pictures.
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- How to make a Salt Map.
- A salt dough map example.
- Animated map of Mao’s Long March.
- Use this site and click on the map of Asia, and then the map of China for location of cities.
- All the outline maps, geographical information, and map labels you’ll need for a study of China.
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- Wonderful interactive map of the stages of the Korean War from PBS.
- Use this site and click on the map of Asia, and then the map of North or South for location of cities.
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- Outline map of Cuba
- Use this site and click on the map of the Islands of the Caribbean, and then the map of Cuba for location of cities.
- Information on Cuba
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- Outline map of the Southern states
- South and Central America
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
- Outline map of Vietnam from EnchantedLearning.com
- Details about Vietnam from WorldAtlas.com
- Blank outline map of Vietnam
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
- No links for this week.
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- Outline Map of United States (pdf file)
- Map of United States and capitals (pdf file)
- Outline Map of the World (pdf file)
- List of world capitals
- Capitals of the World game
- Outline map of the Middle East (pdf file)
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- Decolonization of Africa (Northern)
- Decolonization of Africa (Southern)
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- Outline Map of the United States (pdf file)
- Map of United States and capitals (pdf file)
- Outline Map of the World (pdf file)
- Outline Map of the World (pdf file)
- List of world capitals
- Outline map of the Middle East (pdf file)
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- African National Independence
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Outline Map of the United States (pdf file)
- Map of United States and capitals (pdf file)
- Outline Map of the World
- List of world capitals
- Outline map of the Middle East (pdf file)
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- African National Independence
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- Outline Map of the United States (pdf file)
- Map of United States and capitals (pdf file)
- Outline Map of the World
- List of world capitals
- Outline map of the Middle East (pdf file)
- Map of Middle East and capitals
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- Outline Map of the United States (pdf file)
- Map of United States and capitals (pdf file)
- Outline Map of the World
- List of world capitals
- Outline map of the Middle East (pdf file)
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- African National Independence
- Interactive map showing the fall of Communism
- Ex-USSR and Iron Curtain Countries
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- Outline Map of the United States (pdf file)
- Map of United States and capitals (pdf file)
- Outline Map of the World
- List of world capitals
- Outline map of the Middle East (pdf file)
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- African National Independence
- Interactive map showing the fall of Communism
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- Outline map of the Middle East (pdf file)
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- Map of Afghanistan (Note that the Hari River is also called “The Harirud River”)
- Outline map of Afghanistan
- Map of Iraq
- Outline map of Iraq
- Map showing the Zagros Mountains in Iraq
- George Walker Bush
- Guantanamo Bay
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- Outline map of the Middle East (pdf file)
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- Outline Map of the World
- List of world capitals
- Read about Mao Zedong’s legacy in China
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
- Find the continents game
- A fun map game labeling the countries of the Middle East.
- More Games to review the Middle East
- Outline Map of the World
- List of world capitals