Can you read? I've got a book recommendation for you. It's a thick one, so you might have to buy the AUDIO book version, but it will lay out for you pretty much what is currently happening and what will likely happen next.
New York: Knopf, 2000. First American edition. 8vo. xviii , 795 pp. Illustrated. Cloth in dustwrapper, near fine copy. 80687 . Item #2883
www.bauerrarebooks.com
It's worth a read, or to have someone who can read read it to you.
If you are a teacher how could you not know basic history?