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Researching Cold War Conflicts Research Link:
 
 
Another Good Reference Site - Spartacus Educational
 

Korea

   Textbook 542-544

   Spartacus Site

 

Vietnam

   Textbook 544-547

    About.com article   (2 Pages)

 

Congo

Textbook p. 581

   Spartacus site

Spartacus - Tshombe

 Spartacus - Mobutu

 

Cuba

Textbook 550-551

Spartacus

 

Iran

"Cold War Heats Up"

 

 

Afghanistan

   Textbook 591-593

   Cold War Museum

 

China

   Textbook, 538-541

   Spartacus

   F Smith   (11 pages at bottom)

 

Nicaragua

   Textbook 551

   F Smith

    Spartacus - Nicaragua

   Spartacus - Sandinistas

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Final Notebook Check!
 
Make sure you're ready to go. Complete your Study Guide. It's due Friday.

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You will need headphones.
 
Find the handout that will be turned in for a grade at the end of the period.
 

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Complete notes for pages 548-553.

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Notes for pages 531-537 are due WEDNESDAY IN CLASS.
 
THERE WILL BE A QUIZ.

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DO NOW: Crashcourse US: Cold War
 
1. What was the Cold War?
2. What were the goals of each superpower?
3. What were the two purposes of the policy of containment?
4. Why is the Middle East important?
5. What were the effects of the Truman Doctrine?
6. According to official US documents, who were the sides of the Cold War?
7. Why did the US Congress add “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance?
8. How did the Cold War change the USA?

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DO NOW:  Warning, you have a notebook check soon, so complete this assignment thoroughly.
 

1. What effect did World War II have on empires? Be specific.

 

2. Who was responsible for finally getting Egypt away from being dependent on Britain?

 

3. How was geography one of the great problems left behind by colonialism?

   Hint: You may need to look up the words used by John Green.

 

4. Who was Gandhi? What were his goals?
 
5. What religious problem did India have?
 
6. How did Gandhi try dealing with continued violence in his country?

 

7. Make a list of other countries that sought their independence from European colonizers after World War II. Include which country ruled them initially, and the year they finally became independent.

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Guided Reading on the Holocaust
 
Page 502-505. Due Wednesday. Quiz!!

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Please take notes for pages 481-485.

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Asia Map quiz on Wednesday!
 
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Takes notes for pages 440-447. Quiz in class!!

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In your notebook!
 
Crashcourse: Capitalism and Socialism  LINK
 
  1. How does John Green define "Industrial Capitalism"?
  2. What are the factors for why industrialization began in Europe, particularly England?
  1. What were some of the criticisms of Capitalism?
  2. What are the two forms of Socialist thought? Be sure to make note of at least two different thinkers.
  3. Identify 2-3 important ideas from Karl Marx.
 

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Practice with the following games to learn Asian Countries:
 

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Do Now:
 
 
Answer the following four questions in your notebook:
 
1. What are the characteristics of Totalitarianism?
2. How did Mussolini establish a Fascist dictatorship?
3. What realities in Germany allowed for Hitler to take power?
4. What were the Nuremberg laws?

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Read and take notes for pages 470-475
 
 

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World War I Final Study Guide - Due end of week, in your notebook

Define

  1. Triple Alliance
  2. Triple Entente
  3. Kaiser Wilhelm
  4. Central Powers
  5. Allied Powers
  6. total war
  7. propaganda
  8. armistice
  9. Fourteen Points
  10. League of Nations
  11. Treaty of Versailles
  12. War Guilt Clause

 

Short Answer:

  1. Why was the Balkans known as “the powder keg of Europe”?
  2. What 'sparked' the beginning of the Great War?
  3. Where was the Western Front? the Eastern Front?
  4. What was the significance of the Battle of Tannenberg?
  5. What was the purpose of the Gallipoli campaign?
  6. What did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk accomplish?
  7. How did the United States affect World War I?
  8. What was the mandate system, and why did it leave many groups feeling betrayed?

 

 

Longer Response - 6-8 sentences, please!

 

  1. Explain what were the MAIN causes of World War I and how each contributed to the conflict.

 

  1. How did the war have both a positive and negative impact on the economies of Europe?

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DO NOW:
 
Crashcourse - WORLD WAR I
 
1. What does John Green blame for World War I?
2. How many people died, and what were the causes?
3. What were the outcomes of World War I?

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Trench warfare:  Paths of Glory
 
RESEARCH
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Use the following sites to do research for the letter: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Example of a soldier's poem:  Wilfred Owen

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First map quiz next week!
 
 
Practice with countries HERE

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Notes for pages 407-410.

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In-Class Station Work: Crashcourse, "HOW World War I Started"
 
 
1. What are the various easy explanations for when WWI started?
2. How did nationalism figure into the relationship between Austria and Serbia? What was so explosive about the situation there?
3.Outline the steps that led to the confrontation known as the Great War.

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Notes p. 382-387 
 
Due WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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In Class Work:
 
 
Yes, write down the questions.
 
1. What was the first logical response Asians had to European imperialism?
 
2. How did China attempt to engage in "self-strengthening"?
 
3. What new idea developed after European imperialism began?
 
4. Which countries were most successful with this new idea?
 
5. What new non-Western models were attempted? Where? Be specific.
 

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Notes for pages 371-375, "China Resists Outside Influence"

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Notes due at the beginning of class. P. 357-361, Imperialism in India.

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Reading Quiz - you may use your homework notes ONLY

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Homework due 
 
P. 352-356 notes!

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Do Now:  Crashcourse Islam
 
 
1. What did Muhammed wish to accomplish by spreading his message?

2. What are The Quran's most important messages?

3. Briefly explain the Five Pillars of Islam.

4. How did Islam spread around the world. Be detailed.

5. Explain how religion and politics were mixed in Islam from the beginning.

6. Explain the basic disagreement between the two major sects in Islam.

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Read and take notes for pages 339-344. Chapter 11, Section 1.

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Get out headphones. Watch the video with subtitles. Answer the following questions in your notebook. YES, write down the questions.
 
1. Why was the Second Agricultural Revolution so important to industrialization?
2. Why was coal even more important to industrialization?
3. What improvements did James Watt bring to industrial technology?
4. What were the social effects of the industrial revolution?

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Do Now
 
Crashcourse: Capitalism and Socialism  LINK
 
  1. How does John Green define "Industrial Capitalism"?
  2. What are the factors for why industrialization began in Europe, particularly England?
  1. What were some of the criticisms of Capitalism?
  2. What are the two forms of Socialist thought? Be sure to make note of at least two different thinkers.
 

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HOMEWORK
 
Read textbook pages 300-307.
 
Take notes using the notes style we've practiced - Harvard notes.

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 DO NOW
 
Crashcourse: Economic Systems  (LINK HERE)
 
1. What are the three basic questions that an economic system answer?
2. How does the video explain the free market mechanism of the invisible hand?
3. Who actually controls the economy in a pure free market? Why is that most efficient?
4. What is the role of the government in most modern mixed economies?

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Ch 9, Sec 2 notes due!

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Reading notes due for pages 283-288.

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Study Guide for the Unit Final Tomorrow!!!!

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Homework:  Reading notes for Ch 7, Sec. 5

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IN CLASS WORK
 
Artice Link with video (play it quietly)
 
Review Questions:
1. What words in the 14th amendment has Trump made a national issue?
2. What is nationalism?  Think of a definition, and elements that are important for a nation to exist.
2. How is nationalism at issue in this current controversy?
 
Additional article if your have time, and are interested:  Can Trump end birthright citizenship?
 
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Exit Slip question:  Analyze how the concept of nationalism (remember its elements) is connected to the current controversy over birthright citizenship here in the United States.
 
-Make explicit connections to at least TWO core elements of nationalist ideology.

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In Class Work:
 

Focus: the Unifications of Italy and Germany

Directions:  Create a narrative outline of significant events that led to the national unification of Italy and Germany.   Make two separate narratives, one for Italy and another for Germany.

 

Example:  Break-up of the Austrian Empire due to nationalism

1500s - Hapsburgs are the most powerful royal family in Europe, controlling Austria, Hungary, Spain, and the New World as part of the Holy Roman Empire.

1516 - Martin Luther begins the Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire. This leads to an eventual split between Catholics and Protestants.

Late 1600s - The Prussian Hohenzollern family builds a strong army and becomes a powerful monarchy in the German-speaking lands.

Mid 1700s - The Wars of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War significantly weaken the Austrian monarchy.

1800 - Austria is indirectly controlled by Napoleon.

1866 - Prussia defeats Austria in the Austro-Prussian War, giving Prussia control over the Northern German Confederation.

1867 - Hungary is given semi-independence as a member of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Early 1900s - Serbian nationalist movements in the Balkan peninsula eventually lead to World War I. The empire ends.

Note:  Events and people are always followed up with impact statement

 
1) Create a narrative outline for German Unification (10 minutes)
 
 
2) Create a narrative outline for Italian Unification (15 minutes) - Open the textbook section attached. below.
 
 

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Reading Notes, p. 258-263.

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Station:  Crashcourse Video
 
 
Answer the following questions in your notebook. (Hint: Turn on the captions)
 
1. What is the definition of a modern nation state?

2. How does a country become a nation? Look for 4-5 different causes.

3. How did nationalism affect the Ottoman Empire?

4. Who were the Samurai? What were they really like?

5. What two foreign events changed Japan?

6. How did contact with Americans change how the Japanese thought?

7. What changes in government followed?

8. How did public education change Japan?

9. What 'dark side' of nationalism did Japan begin to practice?
 

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1st Crash Course Video
 
 
1. Summarize Charles Tilly's theory of how a nation-state forms.
 
2. What is a bureaucracy?  Stop the video and look it up.
 
3. What is the stereotype about Latin American governments that John Green questions?
 
4. Why was the racial hierarchy in Latin America a reason why they did not become strong nations?
 
 
 
2nd Crash Course Video
 
 
Answer the following questions in your notebook. (Hint: Turn on the captions)
 
1. What is the definition of a modern nation state?

2. How does a country become a nation? Look for 4-5 different causes.

3. How did nationalism affect the Ottoman Empire?

4. Who were the Samurai? What were they really like?

5. What two foreign events changed Japan?

6. How did contact with Americans change how the Japanese thought?

7. What changes in government followed?

8. How did public education change Japan?

9. What 'dark side' of nationalism did Japan begin to practice?
 

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Notes for Ch 8, Sec 1 due by WEDNESDAY.

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Notes due entirely by you. 

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Notes due tomorrow. We started these in class.

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Review words you don't know!
 
Questions:
1. Which was the firstly truly 'radical' change made during the French Revolution?
 
2. What factors drove the French Revolutionary government to become more 'revolutionary', and move away from a simple Constitutional Monarchy?
 
3. What changes did Napoleon's government make that undid many of the more revolutionary laws passed?
 
4. Summarize John Green's argument for why the French Revolution was more 'revolutionary' than the American Revolution.
 

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Read and take notes for pages 222-227. These Harvard notes should be in your notebook at the beginning of class.

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Please take Harvard-style notes from p. 218-221.

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Answer the following questions in your notebook:
 
1. How did Hobbes describe the state of nature?
2. How did morality emerge, according to Hobbes?  Look up "morality" if you need to
3. The narrator uses the concept of trading as a way to understand the social contract - come up with two or three more examples in which you participate in a 'social contact' in your life.
4. Thinking about the prisoner's dilemma, do you trust people, in general, to uphold the various 'social contracts' that exist in our society?  Defend your opinion with evidence - what experiences or ideas make you believe what you do?

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IN CLASS WEDNESDAY
 
Use the link to Tom Richey's lecture on Hobbes and Locke to complete the notes sheet.

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Read textbook pages 18-23 (we did the first two pages in class), and take notes using the Harvard notes style we've been practicing in class.
 
Reading is attached below.

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IN CLASS STATION:  on laptop
 
Answer the following questions in complete sentences in your notebok. Please write down the questions, too.
 
Title:  CRASHCOURSE - RENAISSANCE
 
 
1. How does John Green define "Renaissance"?
     Please look up the word he uses, "efflorescence," to make sure you understand and explain the definition.
 
2. Why did Italy experience a "renaissance"?  Explain with more than a single word...
 
3. How did the Muslim world help create the Renaissance in Europe?
 
4. Why does John Green argue that the Renaissance was not really a 'thing'?
 
5. How did the Renaissance encourage the development of the belief in individualism   [this one's not directly addressed in the video]
 

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p. 5-11 from the textbook
 
  • Read the text and identify:

1.Greek political developments

2.Roman political developments

3.Why each of these was significant