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!!!

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Week of 2/27-3/3

Monday:

Tuesday 2/28:
1. HW tonight:  Read the article and use the sheet to compare the reaction and responses to the West by the Japanese and the Chinese.

Wed 3/1:


Thursday 3/2:


Friday 3/3: Periodization QUIZ TODAY!!!!!

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Week of 2/13-2/17

Monday 2/13: 

Tuesday 2/14: 
1. Finish Fil Resistance reading.

Wednesday 2/15: EXTRA HELP PERIOD 4
1. DUE: Fil Resistance reading
2. HW: Assignment #5A is due tomorrow
3. HW: China packet #1 and #2

Thursday 2/16:
1. DUE: Assignment #5A
2. DUE: China packet #1 and #2

Friday 2/17:  HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUEZ!
SUEZ canal is DUE

Monday, January 23, 2017

Work for Monday 1/30

Here is the work that is DUE on Monday 1/30:


1. Time Period Quiz.  25 Statements/people/ideas and you need to identify the time period.

2. Marx vs Smith conversation

3. Read the article that compares the Industrial to the Atlantic Revolutions. Create a t-chart with similarities/differences.  The write a thesis statement.  Remember the Rule of Three...2 similarities, 1 difference OR 2 differences, 1 similarity. 

Thursday, January 19, 2017

NO QUIZ ON MONDAY 1/23

NO QUIZ ON MONDAY 1/23...rescheduled for 1/30

HOMEWORK FOR 1/19 due 1/20--Cottage Industry and Luddites

HOMEWORK due tomorrow 1/20.

1. Answer the two questions below using the reading titled The Domestic System.

2. Listen to the podcast (after the reading) and answer the questions. 

PART 1 of homework 

A. What was the domestic system (or putting-out system or cottage industry)?  What was the primary industry involved?  Who usually participated in the work?

 B. What was good about the domestic system?  What was bad about it?



The Domestic System

Citation: C N Trueman "The Domestic System"
historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 31 Mar 2015. 16 Aug 2016.


Before factories as we would identify them, all manufacture of products like textiles was done at home and on a small scale. Work was confined to a cottage with everybody doing their bit. Work done at home – hence the “domestic” in the title – was slow and laborious. Daniel Defoe, of “Robinson Crusoe” fame -wrote about his journey through Yorkshire in about 1720 and described how he saw small cottages, small scale production and each family working for itself. However, not everything was done under one roof. Defoe noted that in Norfolk those employed in spinning worked elsewhere to those employed in weaving.
The process in the making of wool for clothes was as follows :
cleaning of the wool after it had been sheared from the sheep. carding of the wool – this was brushing it to separate the fibres. If a comb was used, this would be to get the fibres parallel. The cleaned and carded wool would then be spun by spinsters. This was frequently done by young girls. If these girls had not got married at a young age, it was believed that they would remain unmarried all their life – hence the term spinster today. The finished product of the spinsters was called yarn. the yarn would then be woven by a skilled weaver using a handloom. The finished product would then be sold to a clothier.
Each of these processes probably took place in separate cottages and spinning was seen as a job for women while weaving was seen as a man’s job.
The picture shows a typical domestic system home. The single room is dominated by a spinning wheel which is being worked by a young lady – the spinster. Food is being cooked in the same room. A ladder on the left of the picture will take the workers to their bedrooms once work for the day is finished and a window allows for light and ventilation. The amount of yarn produced in such a situation is clearly minimal.
If a worker did not work in his own home, he might work in a small workshop. Everything was done on a small scale. Even the coal mines – to fuel local cottages rather than send coal further afield – were small with shallow bell pits being the favoured type of mine as opposed to deep coal mining.
What was so good about the domestic system ?
the workers involved could work at their own speed while at home or near their own home. children working in the system were better treated in this system than they were to be in the factory system. As the women of a family usually worked at home, someone was always there to look after the children. conditions of work were better as windows could be open, people worked at their own speed and rested when they needed to. Meals could be taken when needed. as people worked for themselves they could take a pride in what they did. Tension in the work place was minimal as the family worked as a unit. the best home produced goods were of a very good quality – though this probably was not true at a general level.
However, the domestic system did have a number of major weaknesses in the growing industrial power that was the United Kingdom :the production was very slow and the finished product was simply not enough to, in the case of textiles, cloth the fast growing population of the United Kingdom . A better and faster system of production was needed.the complete process of production was usually done in several cottages and time was lost as materials were taken from cottage to cottage as one stage progressed to the next. the power of water was being developed and small cottages could not possibly take advantage of this source of power. the image of nice quaint country cottages giving workers a quality lifestyle (if not well paid) simply is not a correct one. Defoe witnessed children as young as four working in the domestic system and the waste that gathered around country cottages which did not improve the standard ad quality of life for those who had to live near such waste.
With a growing population that needed feeding, clothing etc. a new way was needed to meet the demands that a growing population would make on Britain. This would lead to the new factories, large and deep coal mines, huge ship building ports and the growth of our industrial cities with all the problems they were to bring.
PART 2 of homework http://podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hsw/podcasts/symhc/2013-07-03-symhc-luddites.mp3



production was very slow and the finished product was simply not enough to, in the case of textiles, cloth the fast growing population of the United Kingdom . A better and faster system of production was needed.the complete process of production was usually done in several cottages and time was lost as materials were taken from cottage to cottage as one stage progressed to the next. the power of water was being developed and small cottages could not possibly take advantage of this source of power. the image of nice quaint country cottages giving workers a quality lifestyle (if not well paid) simply is not a correct one. Defoe witnessed children as young as four working in the domestic system and the waste that gathered around country cottages which did not improve the standard ad quality of life for those who had to live near such waste.
With a growing population that needed feeding, clothing etc. a new way was needed to meet the demands that a growing population would make on Britain. This would lead to the new factories, large and deep coal mines, huge ship building ports and the growth of our industrial cities with all the problems they were to bring.







A. What was the domestic system (or putting-out system or cottage industry)?  What was the primary industry             involved?  Who usually participated in the work?



            B. What was good about the domestic system?  What was bad about it?


The Domestic System” (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/domestic_system.htm