Introduction to BiblioPlan, Year Four

MODERN AMERICA AND THE WORLD
U.S. and World History, 1850-2000, with Missionary Highlights
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BiblioPlan's fourth Year covers U.S. and World History, 1850-2000, with Missionary Highlights. Fourth Year students will cover:
  • Victorian England and the Crimean War
  • The secession of the American South and the U.S. Civil War
  • Reconstruction, Westward expansion, the Gilded Age and the Great Depression in America
  • The European powers' Scramble for Africa, Belgian King Leopold II's personal conquest of the Congo and South Africa's Boer War
  • German Kaiser Wilhelm II and Word War I
  • German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and World War II
  • Struggles against Communism in the Cold War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War
  • Many other topics from Russia, China, Japan, Australia, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Africa and elsewhere

Year Four students will begin with a look at the mighty British Empire during its golden age under Queen Victoria. They will watch Britain and France join forces with the tottering Ottoman Empire to thwart Russia's ambitions in the Crimean War. At the same time, they will see how conflicts over Slavery and States' Rights in the USA, which have been brewing since the nation's founding, finally boil over with the secession of the South and the terrible American Civil War.

Next, Year Four students will study the USA's Reconstruction era, Westward expansion on the pioneer trails and Indian wars in the West. They will see millions of immigrants from all over the world go to work in American factories. They will watch unfettered competition in the world of business and industry lead to the rise of extremely wealthy "robber barons" like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. They will look on as America abandons its former isolation and becomes a world power in the Spanish-American War.

Back in Europe, Year Four students will watch the clever Prussian chancellor Otto van Bismarck maneuver to organize a chaotic and divided mass of German states into a strong and united German Empire. They will witness Bismarck's humiliation of France as Germany occupies Paris and crowns its first emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm I, in Sun King Louis XIV's extravagant Palace of Versailles. They will see the continued weakness of the Ottoman Empire lead to chaos in the Balkans and the fateful assassination of Austria's Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand. Then they will watch German Kaiser Wilhelm II, a friend of Ferdinand's, support a vengeful Austrian attack on the Balkan nation of Serbia, igniting a chain reaction that will explode into World War I.

After World War I, Year Four students will see different results in different places:
  1. In America, far from the terrible battlefields of WWI, they will see prosperity-- until overexuberance leads to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and America's longest economic depression.
  2. In Russia, they will see conflicts before, during and after the war lead to the overthrow of the Tsars and the rise of Communism under Lenin and Stalin.
  3. In Germany, they will see the harsh punishments imposed by the Treaty of Versailles leave the German people poor, angry and vulnerable to the nationalist, race-proud rantings of the Fascist Adolf Hitler.

Year Four students will watch a second German ruler lead the world into a second World War. They will look on as the free peoples of the world struggle to retain their freedom and very nearly lose. In the aftermath of World War II, they will watch a revitalized American economy strengthen a badly damaged Western Europe to protect it from the grasp of Communism. They will see Eastern Europe caught in that grasp and sealed behind the U.S.S.R.'s Iron Curtain. After Asia, too, becomes Communist, they will see America fight two wars in Korea and Vietnam, trying to prevent Communism's further spread.

Year Four students will also witness several other struggles:
  • The Jews' struggle to survive Hitler's Holocaust
  • The struggle to establish a Jewish homeland in Israel
  • The Cold War struggle and the nuclear arms race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • The struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S.
  • Struggles against terrorism in the Middle East and around the world

Most weeks also include Missionary Highlights, which are detailed and inspiring life summaries of church leaders and missionaries of the Gospel like:
  • George Muller
  • David Livingstone
  • Mary Slessor
  • Charles Spurgeon
  • Abraham Kuyper
  • Hudson Taylor
  • Lottie Moon
  • Nate Saint
  • Billy Graham
  • and many others

Here is a sampling of the age-appropriate literature selections outlined in the Guide for Year Four:

K-2
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War (Moore)
Follow the Drinking Gourd (Winter)
Make Your Mark, Franklin Roosevelt (George)
The Story of Ruby Bridges (Coles)		3+
Courage to Run: A Story Based on the Life of Harriet Tubman (Lawton)
Twenty-One Balloons (Pene du Bois)
The Hidden Jewel (Jackson)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Adler)
5+
Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
Around the World in 80 Days (Verne)
Corrie Ten Boom: Keeper of the Angel’s Den (Benge)
America and Vietnam: The Elephant and the Tiger (Beautiful Feet- Marrin)		8+
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
Family Read-Alouds
Shoes for Everyone (Mitchell)
The Winged Watchman (Van Stockum)
Nate Saint: On a Wing and a Prayer (Benge)
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