Agenda & Homework

10/2 - Read Ch 3 section 2 and take notes

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

9-4 Cultural and Intellectual Trends

Cultural and Intellectual Trends
ENTERTAINMENT: Propaganda’s best friend
• 1920’s – mass production of radios begin and countries build broadcasting facilities
– Presidents and leaders use it to broadcast speeches and messages
• Full length motion pictures (silent and talkies) began appearing
– By the beginning of WWII, almost half of the people in any country go at last once a week
– Propaganda films are used to support the government
Joseph Goebbels – Hitler’s propaganda minister
-Created a specific film division
-Created both documentaries and popular films
• “Triumph of the Will” – a documentary of the a Nuremberg Rally
– Depicted national socialism
LEISURE (or, what I did during my Summer Vacation)
• The new 8 hour work day left people with free time
• Professional sports gain popularity
• People start taking vacations to beaches and holiday resorts
• Totalitarian states offer activities that help instill their beliefs
– (ex: Strength through Joy): concerts, tours, films, sporting events, and cheap vacations
ART, MAN. It’s Abstract
Art began to reflect people’s beliefs that life didn’t make any sense…so their art didn’t either
Dadaism – life has no purpose
Surrealism – used fantasy, dreams, and nightmares to show the reality beyond reality
German art – folk art that showed the Germans as a strong, healthy, heroic people
OTHER STUFF
• New architecture: modernism
– Clean look, horizontal lines
• New literary style: stream of consciousness
– Shows the innermost thoughts of people
• Hermann Hesse – used Freud and Buddhist ideas in his work
– Admired by German youth
• New physics: uncertainty principal
– Atoms are made of unstable, unpredictable particles

Friday, September 20, 2013

Chapter 2 Review

CHAPTER 2 REVIEW
English Civil War
• Divine Rights of Kings
• Charles I: what happened to him?
• Cavaliers vs. Roundheads: who were they?
• Cromwell: what kind of leader was he – how did he take over England?
• Rump Parliament: what was it?
• Military dictatorship
Glorious Revolution
• Charles II
• James II
• William and Mary – why did they take power?
• Bill of Rights what was it?
• Constitutional monarchy – what document created one?
The Enlightenment
• Beccaria and his thoughts on crime and punishment
• Rousseau and the social contract
• Montesquieu and the separation of powers – how his work influenced later governments
• Locke and the idea of natural rights
– His blank mind theory
• Where did the Enlightenment start?
• Wollstonecraft –what did she do?
• Laissez-faire
• absolutism
• Declaration of Independence
• Treaty of Paris –what did the new Americans get?
Essay Questions:
1. Describe the major ideas of the Enlightenment in detail
2. Describe John Locke's theories on knowledge
3. How did the Enlightenment ideas influence the colonists and contribute to both the American Revolution and the creation of the new government?

Friday, August 16, 2013

Current Event Assignment

For one week, you are in charge of providing the class with knowledge of a current event.
Go online to a reliable news source, read a paper, or check out a news magazine (like Time or Newsweek).  Choose a current event (related to history, politics, or the economy) that you find interesting.
Write a 1-2 paragraph summary of the article in your own words.  Make sure you include why you chose that event - why is it significant?
 You will present your current event to the class on the Friday of your assigned week.

Total Points:  50     (25 for the article, 25 for presenting)

Dates:     PERIOD 3      PERIOD 4      PERIOD 6
8/23 -      Kenny          Francisco      Nestor
8/30 -   Esmerelda       Juan G        Oscar
9/5 -   Oscar              Desmin         Daniela
9/13 -    Mark         Andres             Rosa
9/20 -     Derrick       Yesenia        Dante
9/27 -     Helen          David       Steven
10/5 -     Maria        Angel         Aleah
10/11 -      Miguel                      Edwin
10/18-    Nathalie      Anthony     Daniel
10/25 -    Scott       Juan C       Andres
11/1 -    Roxan        Vanessa      Alexis
11/8 -    Wayne      Gino         Shawn
11/15 -     Alberto        Luis     Enrique
11/22 -   Beethoven      Francesca   Zoe
12/6 -       Tania                  Jose     Erick C
12/13 -   Andrew      Rebeca      Omar
1/14                                          Cesar
1/24 -  Dakar      Treasure     Miguel
1/31  -    Kevin      Emily       Erick R
2/7 -      Solome       Enrique      Jamie
2/14 -    Elizabeth      Jayleen      Evelin
2/21 -     Ana           Gloria     Jake
2/28 -    Linda      Jimmy      Jason
3/7 -     Christopher    Jonathan    Rosie 
3/14 -     Damar    Martha     Ricardo
3/21 -     Mina       Stephany    Hugo
3/28 -                     Andy          Tyson
4/4 -                      Brandon      Raul
4/11                                         Virel

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

World History CST Review...Let's Try this Again :)

Change of Plans...I'm gonna post up the questions. You guys type up your answers in the "COMMENTS" section at the bottom of this post. Make sure you include the NUMBER of the QUESTION YOU'RE ANSWERING and YOUR NAME! Otherwise I won't know who you are. :)


10.1 Students relate the moral and ethical principles in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, in Judaism, and in Christianity to the development of Western political thought.



1. Analyze the similarities and differences in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman views of law, reason and faith, and duties of the individual.



2. Trace the development of the Western political ideas of the rule of law and illegitimacy of tyranny, using selections from Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics.


3. Consider the influence of the U.S. Constitution on political systems in the contemporary world.


10.2 Students compare and contrast the Glorious Revolution of England, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution and their enduring effects worldwide on the political expectations for self-government and individual liberty.


1. Compare the major ideas of philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America (e.g., John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison).


2. List the principles of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights (1689), the American Declaration of Independence (1776), the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789), and the U.S. Bill of Rights (1791).


3. Understand the unique character of the American Revolution, its spread to other parts of the world, and its continuing significance to other nations.



4. Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.



5. Discuss how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon but was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.



10.3 Students analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States.

1. Analyze why England was the first country to industrialize.



2. Examine how scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change (e.g., the inventions and discoveries of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison).


3. Describe the growth of population, rural to urban migration, and growth of cities associated with the Industrial Revolution.


4. Trace the evolution of work and labor, including the demise of the slave trade and the effects of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, and the union movement.


5. Understand the connections among natural resources, entrepreneurship, labor, and capital in an industrial economy.


6. Analyze the emergence of capitalism as a dominant economic pattern and the responses to it, including Utopianism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and Communism.



7. Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature (e.g., the poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth), social criticism (e.g., the novels of Charles Dickens), and the move away from Classicism in Europe.

10.4 Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism in at least two of the following regions or countries: Africa, Southeast Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the Philippines.


1.Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonialism (e.g., the role played by national security and strategic advantage; moral issues raised by the search for national hegemony, Social Darwinism, and the missionary impulse; material issues such as land, resources, and technology).

2. Discuss the locations of the colonial rule of such nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the United States.


3. Explain imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term responses by the people under colonial rule.



4. Describe the independence struggles of the colonized regions of the world, including the roles of leaders, such as Sun Yat-sen in China, and the roles of ideology and religion.


10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.


1. Analyze the arguments for entering into war presented by leaders from all sides of the Great War and the role of political and economic rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, domestic discontent and disorder, and propaganda and nationalism in mobilizing the civilian population in support of “total war.”


2. Examine the principal theaters of battle, major turning points, and the importance of geographic factors in military decisions and outcomes (e.g., topography, waterways, distance, climate).


3. Explain how the Russian Revolution and the entry of the United States affected the course and outcome of the war.



4. Understand the nature of the war and its human costs (military and civilian) on all sides of the conflict, including how colonial peoples contributed to the war effort.


5. Discuss human rights violations and genocide, including the Ottoman government’s actions against Armenian citizens.


10.6 Students analyze the effects of the First World War.


1. Analyze the aims and negotiating roles of world leaders, the terms and influence of the Treaty of Versailles and Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, and the causes and effects of the United States’s rejection of the League of Nations on world politics.


2. Describe the effects of the war and resulting peace treaties on population movement, the international economy, and shifts in the geographic and political borders of Europe and the Middle East.


3. Understand the widespread disillusionment with prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians.



4. Discuss the influence of World War I on literature, art, and intellectual life in the West (e.g., Pablo Picasso, the “lost generation” of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway).


10.7 Students analyze the rise of totalitarian governments after World War I.



1. Understand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin’s use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control (e.g., the Gulag)


2. Trace Stalin’s rise to power in the Soviet Union and the connection between economic policies, political policies, the absence of a free press, and systematic violations of human rights (e.g., the Terror Famine in Ukraine).


3. Analyze the rise, aggression, and human costs of totalitarian regimes (Fascist and Communist) in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, noting especially their common and dissimilar traits.


10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.


1. Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.


2. Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.



3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.



4. Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower).



5. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.



6. Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.



10.9 Students analyze the international developments in the post–World War II world.

1. Compare the economic and military power shifts caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan.



2. Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition for influence in such places as Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile.


3. Understand the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the pattern for America’s postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia (i.e., the Korean War, Vietnam War), Cuba, and Africa.



4. Analyze the Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and economic upheavals in China (e.g., the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square uprising).


5. Describe the uprisings in Poland (1956), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968) and those countries’ resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control.


6. Understand how the forces of nationalism developed in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding the need for a Jewish state, and the significance and effects of the location and establishment of Israel on world affairs.


7. Analyze the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the weakness of the command economy, burdens of military commitments, and growing resistance to Soviet rule by dissidents in satellite states and the non-Russian Soviet republics.


8. Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States.


10.10 Students analyze instances of nation-building in the contemporary world in at least two of the following regions or countries: the Middle East, Africa, Mexico and other parts of Latin America, and China.


1. Understand the challenges in the regions, including their geopolitical, cultural, military, and economic significance and the international relationships in which they are involved.

2. Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns.



3. Discuss the important trends in the regions today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual freedom and democracy.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Interactive Notebook directions

  1. Notebooks must be kept for the entire year. Students are responsible for keeping their notebooks up to date with notes and assignments.
  2. Notebooks must be neat and easy to read. Coloring and illustration is allowed on the left side of the notebook only.
  3. Notebooks will be collected on Fridays unless otherwise noted by the teacher, but assignments will be checked on the day they are due.
  4. Scoring: In addition to individual grades on assignments, the completed notebook will be graded based on the attached rubric.
  5. The interactive notebook must contain: 1) table of contents, 2) author page, and 3) all assignments, as well as an envelope in the back to store works in progress.
  6. All work must be your own. No copying from other students or sources is allowed.

These are the types of assignments that will be completed on the left-hand side of the book:

  1. Maps – illustrate an area, its events, and importance
  2. Brainstorming on a specific topic
  3. Caricatures – draw caricatures to present the main characteristics of a group in history or how an individual or group was perceived by another group.
  4. Obituaries – write obituaries to show the virtues of prominent historical figures or civilizations.
  5. Charts and Graphs – create charts or graphs to show relationships between things or to show steps in a sequence.
    1. Spoke Diagrams – create spoke diagrams as a visual alternative to outlining.
    2. T-Charts – create T-charts to compare classroom experiences with historical details, to look at advantages and disadvantages of a topic, or to compare and contrast two different items.
    3. Venn Diagrams – create Venn diagrams to compare and contrast people, concepts, places, or groups.
  6. Forms of Poetry – write various forms of poetry to describe a person, place, event, or feeling of a moment.
  7. Historical Journals – assume the role of a historical figure to keep a journal that recounts the figure’s feelings and experiences in language of the era.
  8. Illustrated Timelines – create illustrated timelines to sequence a series of events in chronological order.
  9. Invitations – design invitations that highlight the main goals and key facts of important historical events.
  10. Mind Notes – draw and label outlines of the heads of important historical figures. Fill in the outline with quotations and paraphrased thoughts from the figure.
  11. Perspective Pieces – design drawings or write newspaper articles to represent different perspectives on controversial figures, events, and concepts.
  12. Political Cartoons and Comic Strips – create political cartoons and comic strips to provide social or political commentary on important historical events.
  13. Posters – draw posters to emphasize key points about political ideas, a political figure’s point of view, or reasons behind important historical events.
  14. Provocative Statements – react to provocative statements to introduce historical themes or to critically assess a historical period.
  15. “What If?” Statements – use “what if?” statements to apply newfound knowledge to hypothetical historical situations.

How the notebook works:

Left side: assignments are completed or worksheets are glued or stapled in.

Right side: classroom notes, outlines, and assessments.

Notebooks will be completed once or twice a month and checked, but assignments will be checked as they are assigned.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

The Fall of the Soviet Union

Key Terms:
-detente
-dissident
-perestroika
________
1970-1979 = detente - a period of relative peace between the US and the USSR, where their relationship improved.

-why did the period of peace end?
1979 - USSR declares war on Afghanistan
-in retaliation, the USA (Pres. Carter)boycotted the 1980 Olympics and stopped exporting grain to the Soviet Union

1980 - Reagan became president, and started a negative campaign against the USSR
-called the USSR an "Evil Empire"
- built up the military
-restarted the arms race (Star Wars)

What happened to the Soviet Union?
1970's - BREZHNEV - supported communism
-Brezhnev Dovtrine - USSR supports any communist country that is threatened
-focused on heavy industry
-allowed some western ideas to come in, but still strict
-country faced food shortages, bad working conditions, poor economy

1980's - GORBACHEV - wanted radical reform
-perestroika (restructuring) - wanted to fix the economy
-also reformed the government:
-allowed non-communist political parties to exist
-created new parliament elected through voting
-created the positi0n of president, was elected (the ONLY President of USSR)

-the conservative leaders of the gov't and army didn't like his changes because it threatened their power and position
-1991 - they arrest Gorby and try to take over the government, but he's freed and put back in power

-Under his more relaxed policies, the other republics in the Soviet Union started to push for independence
-in Dec 1991, they are allowed to vote for independence....this marks the end of the soviet union
BEFORE: USSR
AFTER: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Moldavia, Latvia, Estonia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Lithuania

1990's - YELTSIN - president of the Russian Republic
-introduced a free market economy (anyone can buy/sell/own)
-it causes chaos, and the economy gets worse
-results: corruption in gov't and a rise in organized crime
-uses force to keep Chechnya part of Russia (why? doesn't want to lose more power)
-opposes NATO
2000's - PUTIN - makes real changes
-emphasizes Russia's role in the international forun, joins NATO, WTO
-also tries to keep Chechnya in Russia
- reforms to improve the economy succeed, and the Russian economy goes up
-allowed a limited market economy

Friday, April 23, 2010

Main Events of the Cold War

Major Cold War Events:

ARMS RACE – The Soviet Union and the USA were in a race to develop bigger and better weapons, starting with the atomic bomb.
- both countries had big piles of weapons that they didn’t use because the other side had just as many weapons and any attack would end in total destruction.


SPREAD OF COMMUNISM – all of Eastern Europe except Albania and Yugoslavia were under the control of soviet dominated communist governments.
-Albania was communist, but became independent, and didn’t allow the Soviets to control them.
-Yugoslavia was also communist, but the leader, Tito, refused to give in to Stalin.

THE KOREAN WAR – After WWII, the USSR and the USA divided Korea in two. The North part became communist, and the south was somewhat democratic. The North Koreans invaded the south, hoping to make one big communist Korea, so the US and the UN sent in forces to fight them back. Then the Chinese sent troops to help the North Koreans. Fighting continues from 1950 to 1953, when fighting stops, and both sides are back to their original positions. (see p. 727 in the textbook)

Eastern European Protests -
Poland – after protests, the Communist party tried to break away from the USSR, but backed down because they were afraid of being invaded. (1956)
Hungary – after revolts, Hungary was declared a free nation and tried to have free elections. The Soviets attacked and re-took control of the country
(1956)
Czechoslovakia – Novotny, a communist put in power by Stalin, was forced to resign after a rebellion in 1968. A new leader relaxed strict policies and promised eventual democracy, but the country was invaded by the USSR and the movement was crushed.
-Prague Spring – Czechoslovakia’s brief period of
democratic happiness


CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS – After Castro took power in Cuba, he allied with the Soviet Union, JFK approved a plan to send Cuban exiles (people who fled from Cuba after Castro took over) into Cuba to start a revolt that would cause Castro to lose power. The invasion failed, and the exiles were killed or arrested when they landed. This was known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
After that, the USSR sent nuclear missiles to Cuba, where they were set up and aimed at the US. (This was a response to the fact that the US had missiles in Turkey aimed at the USSR).
In 1962, the USA set up a blockade (where they wouldn’t allow any ships, supplies, etc to get to Cuba) to keep a ship filled with Soviet missiles from reaching Cuba. The US and USSR worked to reach and agreement, and finally decided that the if the US promised not to invade Cuba, the USSR would remove its missiles from Cuba.
This is the closest the two countries came to nuclear conflict during the war.

VIETNAM WAR – began as a response to the “domino theory” that if one Asian country became communist, all of them would follow.
North Vietnam was communist, and South Vietnam had a ruler put in place & supported by the USA. When Ho Chi Minh’s forces and communist groups in S. Vietnam started trying to take over, the US sent troops to help fight Communism. Eventually, the US withdrew their troops, and all of Vietnam became communist.