Tuesday, April 25, 2017

4/24-4/28


Tuesday 4/25
1. Wednesday, April 26th---Review Quiz for 1450-1750.
2. Read the four assigned documents.  HIPP each document and then use the documents to write a thesis/argument to answer the question:

"Use the documents to identify the issues the 20th century Muslim leaders in South Asia and North Africa confronted in defining nationalism." 

Wednesday 4/26
1. Friday, April 28th---Review quiz for 1750-1900


Monday, May 1st---Cold War due!!!


Thursday, April 20, 2017

Cold War assignment---Due May 1st

Cold War Hot Spots/Key Events
From the end of World War II to the early 1990s, the Cold War dominated world affairs.  The struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States, communism and democracy, spurred a series of actions and reactions on both sides.  Listed below are important events associated with the Cold War.  You will create an historical atlas of the Cold War detailing these events and the role they played in the Cold War.
Requirements:
·       The atlas must have a cover and a back page.
·       The atlas has to have four pages.  Each page has a map on front and explanations on the back.
·       On the map show the major Cold War events that occurred in the world during that decade.  You need a map for the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
·       On the back of the map should be the explanation of the events shown on the front on the map.
This assignment is due on Monday, May 1st .
DO NOT CUT and PASTE your explanations!  I will know and you will receive a zero.  There are sources other than the internet! Use your textbook and review book too!
Events to include:


Korean War
Sputnik
Cuban Revolution
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
U-2 Spy Plane Incident
Prague Spring
SALT
Nixon’s visit to China
Cambodia (1975)
Invasion of Afghanistan
1980 Olympic Games
Solidarity
Star Wars
Gorbachev Comes to Power
INF
Berlin Wall Comes Down

Monday, March 13, 2017

WWI assignment

World War I
You can complete all of this in your notebook.

1. Schools of Thought Handout:
1.      Read the sources that describe the long-term causes of WWI and explain how each helped to cause the war.
M (militarism)
A (alliances)
I (imperialism)
N (nationalism)
2.      
      2.   Go to the sheet Teacher Copy Guns of August and complete the assignment.  This is the list of dates of the immediate cause of WWI.

3.   3.    Using the sheet with the slides on it go to the website www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/weapons.htm to complete the chart on weapons.  Also, on that website click on the picture “What is a Trench?” and take notes on the second slide.  Complete the back of the paper as well.  Read the poem and answer the questions.


4.   4.    Read the packet that starts with President Wilson’s Declaration of Neutrality.  Read each section and answer the questions on the bottom (first reading does not have questions).  Be able to explain the answer to these questions: Why does US join the War?  Why does Russian leave the war early?




Please have all this ready to go by hopefully Wednesday.  We really cannot afford to lose class time.  Have fun shoveling and be sure to help your parents and neighbors.  You can talk about WWI to lighten the mood J

Friday, March 10, 2017

Week of 3/13-3/17

Monday 3/13
1. Stimulus Test Today---review your notes and study guides and think about what we did in class on Friday with the sources.
2. Textbook assignment #1 DUE today!


Tuesday 3/14:


Wednesday 3/15: 
1. Textbook assignment #2 DUE today
2. WWI assignments due today!!!


Thursday 3/16:
1. Read Wilson's Fourteen Points first.  What words would you use to describe this plan for peace?  What are the positives to this peace plan? 
2. Read Clemenceau's Plan for Peace (Treaty of Versailles).  What are the problems with this plan for peace? How may Wilson react to this plan? 
3. Textbook assignment due today.


Friday 3/17: 
1. Textbook assignment #3 DUE today
2. DUE on Monday 3/20---Nationalism packet

Textbook questions 1900-Present

Textbook Assignments: 1900 – present

#1 Read pages 668 – 675 in the textbook. 
·         Create 5 multiple choice questions.  Provide the answer and an explanation for each.
·         Examine the map on page 675.  Choose one place highlighted on the map.  Find a recent newspaper article on the region (from within the past three months) – provide a brief update as to what is going on in that area – include the copy of the newspaper article.

#1 Due:     Monday 3/13

#2 Read pages 677 – 689 (World War I and a bit more)
·         List the causes of World War I
·         Explain the impact of WWI on the global economy.

#2 Due:        Wednesday 3/15


#3 Read pages 730 – 751 (Russia and Eastern Europe)
·         Discuss the aspects of traditional Russian culture and politics retained by the Soviet Union and the ways in which the Soviets most departed from the past.
·         What was the basis of Stalin’s domestic and economic policies?
·         In what ways was the SU different after 1945?
·         Why did the SU disintegrate?

#3 Due:       Friday 3/17


#4 Read pages 687 – 699 (World War II)
·         How were the diplomatic problems of WW II settled?
·         In what ways did the period 1914 – 1945 mark the end of the old world order?

# 4 Due:


#5  Read pages 859 – 875 (Revolution in China)
·         What elements led the Guomindang to seize power in the 1902s?
·         How did Mao’s political beliefs affect the nature of Communist reforms until 1957? (Examples?)
·         What gains did women make in China under communism?

#5 Due:


#6 Read pages 753 – 771 (Japan and the Pacific Rim)
·         What accounts for the enormous economic growth of Japan after 1945?
·         What themes were common to the states of the Pacific Rim?

#6 Due:

#7 Read pages 801 – 828 (Decolonization)
·         Discuss the common elements of colonization movements in south Asia, the Middle Eat, and Africa.
·         In your opinion, were the decolonization movements the result of growing strength among colonial populations or of progressive Western weakness? Explain.

#7 Due:


#8 Read pages 699 – 704 (The Cold War and Decolonization)
·         Outline the information
·         Create five multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations

#8 Due:



#9 Decline of the West (page 722); 20th Century Revolutions (p. 733); Women in Asia & Africa (p. 817)
·         Outline each reading
·         Answer questions at the end

#9 Due:

#10 Read pages 831 – 857 (Africa and Asia in the Era of Independence)
·         Were the problems in newly-independent Asian and African nations the creation of imperialism or the result of indigenous factors? Explain.
·         Why did new African states have such difficulty in establishing national identities?
·         What influences contributed to the gaining of power by Islamic fundamentalists in Iran?

#10 Due:



#11 Read pages 773 – 799 (Latin America)
·         Discuss the various political responses to the political, social, and economic problems in Latin America.  In your opinion, which response(s) has been most successful?
·         How did populist governments in Brazil and Argentina attempt to rule?
·         Discuss the role of the United States in Latin America during the 20th century.

#11 Due:  

                       
#12 Read pages 887 – 900 (A 21st Century World)
·         What trends in political organization and economic development can be identified in the 20th century world?
·         In what ways has the 20th century offered evidence of human progress? In what ways has humanity regressed?
·         Read “Evaluating the Conditions of Women” and answer the questions at the end

#12 Due:





Friday, March 3, 2017

week of 3/6-3/10

QUIZAM is on 3/9. Stimulus test is on 3/13.
Writing Workshops afterschool is on Monday and Wednesday 

Monday 3/6:
All this is DUE on Monday
1. Revolution 1906 reading for Russia
2. Period 1: The CCOT Essay thesis shhet on Japan or China is DUE today.
3. Period 4:  The redo of the CCOT essay from the writing workshop is DUE today.

Review Sheet 1750-1900


QUIZAM is Thursday March 9th
Test (stimulus) is on Monday 13th. 

REVIEW SHEET
Time Period: 1750-1900 CE

Industrial Revolution:

  • For each region: Great Britain, United States, Japan, France, Germany, Russia
    • Time Period
    • Impact
    • Results (globally and nationally)
    • What events/circumstances caused changes in global commerce, communications, and technology?
    • What events caused changes in patterns of world trade, including effect of demographic increase on consumerism and migration?
    • Changes: Changes in social and gender structure and work patterns and ideas about gender.
    • Changes: Changes in Commercial and demographic developments.
  • Major Comparisons: Compare causes and early phases of the industrial revolution in Western Europe and Japan.
  • Changes: Changes in patterns of world trade Industrial Revolution (transformative effects on and differential timing in different societies; mutual relation of industrial and scientific developments; commonalities)

Rise of Western Dominance:

  • For each region: South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, East Africa, Middle East, Russia, Japan, Latin America
    • Causes/Motives
    • Social Darwinism
    • Impact of Technology
    • Patterns of expansion, imperialism and colonialism
    • Economic, Political, Social, Cultural, and Artistic examples of Western Dominance
    • Examples of different cultural and political reactions (reform, resistance, rebellion, racism, nationalism, social Darwinism, Marxism)
    • Impact on both the colony and Mother Country
  • Compare forms of western intervention in Latin America and Africa (ANC)
  • Compare Foreign domination in: Ottoman Empire (Decline and Reform); China (Opium War, Treaty of Nanjing, Taiping Rebellion, Boxer Rebellion, Sun Yixian & 1911 Revolution); India (Sepoy Mutiny, Indian National Congress), Japan (Meiji Restoration) 

Political Revolutions & Independence Movements (and New Political Ideals):

·         Enlightenment, Philosophers, Enlightened Despots & Impact
·         For each region: United States, France, Haiti, Latin American independence movements, Mexican Revolution of 1910, Chinese Revolution of 1911
o    Time Period
o    Influences and Causes (It can include…Influence of the Enlightenment & Growth of the Middle Class)
o    Leader/Support groups,
o    Results and who benefitted
o    Effects
·         Compare revolutions: (possibly two of the following: Haitian, American, French, Mexican, Chinese)
·         Comparative Nationalism
·         Also, French Revolution of 1789 (Not 1830) and Jacobins

·         Rise of Nationalism, Nation-States, and movements of Political Reform
o    German states/ Bismarck -- Unification
o    Italy -- Unification
o    Comparative Nationalism

·         Overlaps between nations and Empires

·         New Ideals and Impact
o    Socialism/ Engels
o    Thomas Malthus
o    Karl Marx/ Marxism/ Communism
o    Adam Smith/ Capitalism
o    Radicalism
o    Conservativism
o    Liberalism
o    Rise of Democracy and its limitations: reform; women; racism

·         Egypt, Muhammad Ali and Suez Canal (Also, impact of Suez Canal)

Diverse Interpretations: Changes and Comparisons
  • New Directions in Artistic Expression (ie Romanticism, Impression, etc)
  • Changes in social structure: Emancipation of serfs and slaves.
    • What are the debates about the causes and slave emancipation in this period, and how do these debates fit into broader comparisons of labor systems?
  • Changes in Gender Roles:
    • Women’s emancipation movements
    • Compare the roles and conditions of women in the upper/middle classes with peasantry/working class in Western Europe.
    • What are the debates over the nature of women’s role in this period, and how do these debates apply to industrialized areas, and how do they apply to colonial societies. 
  • Demographic and Environmental Changes
    • Migrations
    • End of the Atlantic Slave Trade
    • New Birthrate Patterns
    • Food Supply
·         What are the debates over the utility of modernization theory as a framework for interpreting events in this period to the next?
·         Continuities and breaks, causes of changes and continuities from the previous period and within this period

Questions of periodization: What is unique to this time period that leads it to have its own “time?”
·    The west (Europe & the U.S.) becomes the major “player” in world events
·    Beginning in the early 1700s, Europeans truly had a hold on “colonies” around the world.
·    World trading networks were dominated by the west, but they still impacted the world.
·    Countries either “have” industrialization and economic development or were “have nots”
·    Political, social, and economic revolutions swept the world during this time period.
o Enlightenment
o American and French Revolutions
o Haitian Revolution
o Industrial Revolution
o Rise of Capitalism and Adam Smith
o Unification of states (Germany, Italy, United States)
o Nationalism
o Imperialism
o Colonialism

Other major changes:
·    Suez and Panama Canals allowed for quicker travel times.
·    Technological advances in travel – ships, railroads, etc., increase travel of humans and goods worldwide.
·    Huge migration movements to the Americas from Europe and Asia.
·   Industrial Revolution set up mother countries who would have factories and they needed raw materials – colonies that only were used for raw materials. Economic advances and development were not carried out in countries controlled by Europe. Led to lack of development that still plagues Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia today.
·   Serf and slave systems ended in most parts of the world.
·   Political revolutions and independence movements



GOOD LUCK!!!