U.S. HISTORY SAMPLE TOPICS

• The Canandaigua Treaty of 1794: Compromise • No Taxation Without Representation: The Failed After Conflict Compromise That Led to a Revolution

• The Government Versus the Farmers: George • Conflict in Salem: The Witchcraft Trials Washington’s Lack of Compromise in the • Preventing Conflict: The Compromise of 1850 Whiskey Rebellion • Antebellum Politics: The Nullification Controversy • The Treaty of Mortefontaine: Compromise to End the Quasi-War • The Revolution of 1800

• The Second Great Awakening: Religious Conflict • The New York City Draft Riot of 1863 Driving Social Compromises • The Indian Removal Act of 1830 • Conflicting Ideas over Religion: New Immigrants Challenging the Protestant Ideal • Reconstruction: Conflict and Compromise in the South • Fighting in World War I and Not Compromising Ideals: The Harlem Hellfighters • The Compromise of 1877

• The Conflict of Monopoly and the Compromise of • The Pullman Strike the National Association of Theatre Owners • The Silver Question: Farmers Versus Industrialists • Social Conflict During War: Japanese Internment • The Burlingame Treaty and Chinese Exclusion • Conflicting Opinions, Compromised Values: • The Big Three: Conflict and Compromise at Yalta The Vietnam Generation • Dollar Diplomacy: Ending Conflicts Through • Rodgers and Hammerstein: From Lighthearted Economic Investment Musicals to Serious Social Issues • UAW v. General Motors: Sit Down for Compromise • Ronald Reagan and the Berlin Wall • Conscientious Objectors in World War II • The Camp David Accords • Taking the Fight off the Ice: The Creation of • Theodore Roosevelt and the Completion of the the NHLPA Panama Canal • The Truman Doctrine • The Connecticut Compromise: The Prevention of Conflict • The Marshall Plan

• Opposing the War of 1812: The Hartford Convention • The Compromise to End All Conflict: The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928

National History Day 2018 | 11 EUROPEAN HISTORY SAMPLE TOPICS

• The End of Compromise: Boudicca’s Fight • George Fox and the Quakers: Conflict with Society, Against Rome Compromise with a New Faith

• Charlemagne’s Conquest and the Spread of • Selling Souls for Sugar: Slavery and the Sugar Islands Architectural Ideas • The Conflicts and Compromises Needed to Unify Italy • The Crusades: No Compromise for Faith • The Munich Agreement: Appeasing Conflict • Martin Luther’s Refusal to Compromise His Ideals • The Treaty of Versailles: Prelude to the Second • Otto von Bismarck and the Unification of Germany World War

• The Congress of Vienna: The Legacy of • Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Militant Struggle for Napoleon’s Downfall Suffrage in Great Britain

• The Edict of Nantes: Compromise to End Conflict • Henry II and Thomas Becket: A Conflict That Led to Compromise • For the Sake of Divorce: Henry VIII Versus Rome • Catherine de’ Medici and the Huguenots • Bloody Mary: A Catholic Who Refused to Compromise • Conflict and Compromise in the Restoration of King • Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I: Conflicts Charles II of England and Compromises • The Troubles: The Conflict and Compromise of Ireland • Conflict at Sea: How the British Defeat of the Spanish Armada Changed the Face of Naval Warfare • The Glorious Revolution: A Conflict That Led to the English Bill of Rights • Isabella, Ferdinand, and the Spanish Reconquista • The Treaty of Madrid: The Compromise to End Conflict • Galileo: The Conflict and Compromise Between Science and Catholicism • The Treaty of Paris: The Uneasy Peace of the Seven Years’ War • The Division of Berlin After World War II • Settlement of New Land: Conflict and Compromise • The Castle Hill Rebellion: Conflict Without Compromise of the Treaty of Tordesillas • The European Coal and Steel Community That Led to a Union

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WORLD HISTORY SAMPLE TOPICS

• The Unbalanced Compromises of the Opium Wars • Resolution 181: The Conflict and Compromise of Creating a Nation • King Rajaraja Chola I Conquers Ceylon • United Nations Peacekeeping Missions: Compromising • Buddhism and Hinduism: Conflicting Ideas and to Avoid Conflict Their Cultural Impacts • The Iran Hostage Crisis: Coming to a Compromise • Sikhs and Hindus: A History of Conflict and Compromise • Nelson Mandela and the Fight for Equality in South Africa • The Forced Compromise of the Boer Wars • “Men and women are equal; everyone is worth his • Conflicts over Religious Interpretation: Sunnis and (or her) salt”: Mao Zedong’s New Marriage Law Shi’ites in Islamic Tradition • Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan: Ending • Conflicts over Borders Necessitate Compromise: the Cold War Through Conflict and Compromise The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 • King Bhumibol of Thailand: The Conflict and the • Constantine’s Conflict and Compromise over the Compromise of General Srimuang Date of Christmas • Desmond Tutu’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission • The Paris Peace Accords: Compromises to End the Vietnam War • Zapatista National Liberation Army and the Conflict and Compromise of the 1994 North American Free • The Conflict and Compromise of Repatriation Trade Agreement of Ancient Artifacts: Howard Carter and King Tut’s Treasure • The Conflict and Compromise That Led to Rwanda’s Arusha Accords • Athens, Sparta, and the Battle of Marathon • The Conflict of Blood Diamonds and the Compromise

• The Rule of Akbar: “The Great Mughal” over India of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme • The Establishment of the Manchu Dynasty in China • The Internal Settlement: Conflict in Rhodesia Leads • The Japanese Constitution of 1889 to the Compromise of Zimbabwe

• The Crimean War • Filipino Insurrection: Compromise with America to • The Six-Day War Win a Conflict Against Spain • Colonization Conflicts: King Leopold’s Vision in the Congo

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