IB HISTORYHL2015-16
REGIONAL FOCUS, AMERICAS
ROUTE 2: 20TH CENTURY WORLD HISTORY
PRESCRIBED SUBJECT 3-COMMUNISM IN CRISIS 1975-1989
Topic 1-Causes, Practices and Effects of Wars
Topic 5-The Cold War
Mrs. Giordano a/k/a “Mrs. G.”Room 906
863-471-5500 ext. 265
Course Description
This course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and knowledge required to understand History of the Americas from 1760-2000 focusing on 20th Century topics for HL Prescribed Subject 3, Communism in Crisis will focus on Causes, Practices and Effects of War and The Cold War. Students will learn to assess historical materials as to their relevance to a given interpretative problem, to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarships, to arrive at conclusions on the basis of informed judgments and to present these conclusions with articulate reasoning, supported by persuasive evidence. During the course of extensive research in preparation for the Internal Assessment Research Paper, students will learn to evaluate sources as to their origin, purpose, value and limitations, as well as the Turabian or ChicagoSchool citation methodutilized in the Social Sciences discipline.The course is taught on a college level and requires a substantial amount of reading and preparation for every class. As the International Baccalaureate examination covers a vast amount of information and requires critical analytical and writing skills, passage of the exam is not anticipated apart from asserted individual effort by the student on a continual basis.
Specific units will include discussion and written analysis of relevant historical scholarship, differing and changing interpretations of events over time and the impact of various historians on those who succeed them (historiography).
SL Topics covered in year 1 to be reviewed for IB examination:
NationBuilding Challenges
Independence Movements: (US, Latin America and Canada)
United States Civil War, Causes, Course and Effects 1840-1877
Aspects of History of the Americas Topics Covered in Year Two, HL
Causes, Practices and Effects of War
The Great Depression
The Second World War and the Americas, 1929-39
The Cold War and the Americas, 1945-1981
Communism in Crisis 1975-1989
Texts:
20th Century World History, Cannon, Oxford Press 2009
20th Century World History, The Cold War, Rogers and Thomas, Pearson 2008
The Cold War, A New History, Gaddis, Penguin Books, 2005
Grading will be as follows: Quizzes and Tests - 40%; historical essays – 40%; and Exams – 20%. All essays, except those written in class must be typed (double-spaced). Essays will be graded on a rubric designed to measure the following factors: content; use of documentary and supporting evidence; grammar; spelling and depth of analysis. Multiple choice and essay questions will be of the type used in the IB exam.
Grading Scale:90-100A
80-90B
70-80C
60-70D
0-60F
*Acceptance of assigned work after due date is at the sole discretion of the instructor and if accepted will be subject to an 11 point penalty per day for each day after due date.
Individual Student Electronic Devices
Use of an individual student electronic device in class is at the sole discretion of the instructor on a daily basis and requires specific permission. Unauthorized use of individual student electronic devices during class will result in disciplinary action. Use of an individual student electronic device without specific permission by instructor is presumed unauthorized.
Academic Ethics Policy
The faculty of SHS is committed to a policy of honesty in academic affairs. Conduct for which you may be subject to administrative and/or disciplinary penalties, up to and including suspension or expulsion, include:
1. Dishonesty consisting of cheating of any kind with respect to examinations, course assignments, or illegal possession of examination papers. If you help another to cheat, you will be subject to the same penalties as the student assisted.
2. Plagiarism consisting of the deliberate use and appropriation of another’s work without indentifying the source and the passing off such work as your own. If you fail to give full credit for ideas or materials taken from another, you have plagiarized.
Consequences of cheating or plagiarism:
The first offense of willful plagiarism or cheating (verified by the instructor) will result in a grade of "F" (0 value) for the specific assignment. All instances of plagiarism and other forms of cheating will be referred to the appropriate instructional supervisor and/or Dean.
All of the assigned readings should be completed by the beginning of the week during which they will be discussed. Readings from other sources, will either be read and discussed in class or copies of readings will be distributed and assigned as directed. Test dates will be announced in advance, with weekly quizzes over the readings, vocabulary and class discussion. Assignments may be omitted, substituted or added as scheduling allows. Refer to teacher webpage for updated assignments and links to supplemental readings.
SEMESTER ONE
WEEK ONE-TWO8/19-8/30/2015:Review and Internal Assessment
Review of Russian Revolution
Reading:
The Cold War Quiz
Peer review of Internal Assessment, revisions
Debate: To what extent were Marx' goals accomplished by the Russian Revolution?
Final draft of Internal Assessment due September 1, 2015
WEEK THREE-SIX9/1-9/25
WORLD WAR I 1914-1918
Review, discussion and quiz over summer assignment
Reading:20th Century World History, Cannon, Oxford Press 2009 p.203-215
, America at War, WWI-all readings
, WWI, all readings
The Economics of Prohibition
Prohibition Personal Stories
Reading: 20th Century World History, Cannon, Oxford Press 2009 p. 13-75
Kennedy, Bailey: Chapters 29, 30
Wilsonianism, Idealism, Pragmatism
Woodrow Wilson, The Old Order Changeth
Foreign Policy Compare/Contrast Chart-Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
DBQ#9-The US as a World Power
Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points
Causes of WWI Debate
World War I Chart
Federal Reserve Act 1913
Roberts, Toward Renewal
PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1918-1936 VERSAILLES PEACE TREATY
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
INTERNATIONAL POLICIES OF EUROPE
INTERNATIONAL POLICIES OF UNITED STATES
RISE AND ROLE OF FACISM IN GLOBAL RELATIONS
Debate: Reducing Arms Guarantees Peace
League of Nations Scorecard and Quiz
Unit Test 9/30
WEEK SEVEN9/28-10/2
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Reading:
all sections
20th Century World History, Cannon, Oxford Press 2009 p. 263-267
The Great Depression
Kennedy, Bailey: Chapters 33, 34
Hoover v. Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
N.L.R.B. versus Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
New Deal Programs and Laws Chart
Free response question-effects on the US had Roosevelt’s New Deal Legislation never been passed?
Franklin Roosevelt, The Quarantine speech
Franklin Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms speech
Case Study:Alphabet Agencies/First and Second New Deal
Case Study: Vargas and Brazil
Case Study: Concordancia and Argentina
Canada in the Great Depression-King v. Bennett
Great Depression Game
Debate:Causes of Great Depression and role of government in relief
Unit Test 10/6
WEEK EIGHT-ELEVEN10/5-10/30
THE RISE AND GLOBAL IMPACT OF FACISM
Readingall sections
Adolph, Hitler, Mein Kampf
Hitler Data Base:
Hitler's Rise to Power
WORLD WAR II 1939-1945 ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FACTORS
LEADERSHIP
WAR IN EUROPE
WAR IN PACIFIC
UNITED STATES INVOLVEMENT
CANADIAN INVOLVEMENT
LATIN AMERICAN INVOLVMENT
Case Study:Pearl Harbor
Debate:Drop the Bomb? Reasons and Effects
Practice Paper 3, 2015
Road to WWII:
WWII game:
Unit Test 10/29
WEEK TWELVE –THIRTEEN11/2-11/13
Reading:
all sections
20th Century World History, Cannon, Oxford Press 2009 p. 263-298
POST WWII
YALTA AND POTSDAM CONFERENCES
DECOLONIZATION
UNITED NATIONS
THE MARSHALL PLAN
DOCTRINE OF CONTAINMENT AND BRINKSMANSHIP
Kennan long Telegram
NSC-68
SOVIET UNION
LEADERSHIP-Krushchev (1958-1964)
Breshnev (1964-1982)
Debate:The Marshall Plan-US/Soviet-The Warsaw Pact
Stop Disasters Game/UN
Read content on
Answer questions:
Unit Test 11/20
WEEK FOURTEEN-SEVENTEEN11/16-12/11
Reading:
all sections
POST WWII UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP
Reading:The Miller Center
topics: A Life In Brief; Domestic Affairs and Foreign Affairs
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
THANKSGIVING BREAKNOVEMBER 23-29, 2015
SOCIETAL CHALLENGES
Women’s Rights
Civil Rights
Native Americans
Latinos
Globalism
POST WWII CANADA AND LATIN AMERICA1945-2000
Reading:
all sections
all sections
CANADA 1945-2000
Renewal and the Modern Constitution
CASTRO, CUBA AND THE CRISIS
POST-PERON ARGENTINA
ECONOMIC, MILITARY AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES
Unit Test 12/17
CHRISTMAS BREAK 12/21-1/4/2016
WEEK EIGHTEEN-NINETEEN
REVIEW MID-TERM EXAMSJANUARY 11-15, 2016
IB exam essay format
SEMESTER TWO
WEEK ONE-FOUR1/19-2/12
THE COLD WAR
Reading: 20th Century World History p.451-503
all sections
The Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels
Mao's Little Red Book
The Writing of Stalin
The Writings of Castro
ORIGINS- Political, Economic, Military, Ideological
FOREIGN POLICY
GERMANY’S ROLE
IMPACT ON ARM’S RACE
IMPACT ON UNITED NATIONS
CHINESE REVOLUTION
CHINA-Mao (1949-1976)
Deng Xiaoping(1978-1992)
KOREAN WAR
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
VIETNAM WAR
Unit Test 2/12
WEEK FIVE-EIGHT2/15-3/11
COMMUNISM IN CRISIS 1976-1991
Reading:
20th Century World History p.141-202
CAUSES AND EFFECTS
Political, Economic, Military, Ideological
DÉTENTE
HUMAN RIGHTS
SECOND COLD WAR
GORBACHEV
COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION
POST-SOVIET STATES
POST-MAO CHINA
Case Study:Economic Demise of the Soviet Union
Economic Rise of China
Unit Test 3/11
SPRING BREAKMARCH 14-20, 2016
WEEK NINE-TEN3/21-4/1
CONTINUE COMMUNISM IN CRISIS
Unit Test 4/1
WEEK ELEVEN-FOURTEEN4/4-4/29
CAUSES PRACTICES AND EFFECTS OF WARS 1900-2000
Reading:20th Century World History p.203-262
Sun Tsu, The Art of War
Alfred T. Mahan, Mahan on Naval Warfare
Geneva Conventions
Protest Song and Propaganda Focus
War Review Chart
20th Century World History p.451-503
all sections
ORIGINS
Political, Economic, Military, Ideological
FOREIGN POLICYThe Cold War, Chapter 1, 2, 3 & 4
GERMANY’S ROLEThe Cold War, Chapter 8
IMPACT ON ARM’S RACE
IMPACT ON UNITED NATIONSThe Cold War, Chapter 14, 15
KOREAN WARThe Cold War, Chapter 5, 6, 7
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
VIETNAM WAR
Digital History:
Post-War America 1945-1960
America in Ferment, The Tumultuous 60s
Vietnam
ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF AUTHORITARIAN AND SINGLE PARTY STATES
Reading:20th Century World History, Chapter 6, p. 325-367
CHINESE REVOLUTION
CHINA-Mao (1949-1976)
Deng Xiaoping(1978-1992)
The Cold War, Chapter 11, 12
WEEK FIFTEEN5/2--5/6
POST WWII UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP
Reading:The Miller Center
topics: A Life In Brief; Domestic Affairs and Foreign Affairs
Carter
Reagan
Clinton
The Bushes
Clinton
CIVIL RIGHTSMOVEMENTS-independent study
Women’s Rights
Civil Rights
Native Americans
Latinos
Globalism
Reading:
20th Century World History, Chapter 9, p. 451- 502
REVIEW:
CAUSES PRACTICES AND EFFECTS OF WARS 1900-2000
Reading:20th Century World History p.203-262
War Review Chart
REVIEW
IB HISTORY HL PAPER 1: FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2016
IB HISTORY HL PAPER 2: MONDAY, MAY 9, 2016
IB HISTORY HL PAPER 3: THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016
ASSESSMENTS
A variety of assessments and analytical strategies such as: study questions; unit projects; cartoon, map and primary source analysis; debate; role playing exercises; historical research papers; free response essay questions; documents based essay questions; past IB examination papers; quizzes; unit tests; mid-term exams and final exams will be used to demonstrate mastery of content and skills.
IB HISTORY ROUTE 2, TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD HISTORY
ASSESSMENT:
EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT80%
PAPER 120%
Document based paper on a prescribed 20th century topic
Section A:4 questions on prescribed subject 1
Section B:4 questions on prescribed subject 2
Section C:4 questions on prescribed subject 3
PAPER 225%
An essay based on the 20th century world history topics
30 questions-5 questions for each of the six 20th century topics
2 questions-each from a different topic
Maximum mark per question = 20
Maximum mark for the paper = 40
PAPER 335%
Five separate essays based on the regional option of the Americas
Each exam paper has 25 questions from which 3 must be answered
Maximum mark per question = 20
Maximum mark for the paper = 60
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT20%
A historical investigation that is internally assessed and externally moderated. Paper is required to be 1500-2000 words.
Timeline for the Historical Investigation
Introduction and explanation of assessment:3rd quarter, year 1
Research Question finalized:4th quarter, year 1
Research and Rough Draft due: 1st quarter, year 2
Paper submitted: 2nd quarter, year 2
The assessment is based on the following:
Criterion A:Plan of Investigation
Criterion B:Summary of Evidence
Criterion C:Evaluation of Sources
Criterion D:Analysis
Criterion E:Conclusion
Criterion F:Sources and Word Limit
PAPER ONE60 MINUTESFRIDAY MAY 6, 2016
SUBJECT MATTER:COMMUNISM IN CRISIS
DOCUMENT INTERPRETATION AND SYNTHESIS
ORIGIN, PURPOSE, VALUE AND LIMITATION
PAPER TWO90 MINUTESMONDAY, MAY 9, 2016
SUBJECT MATTER:20TH CENTURY HISTORY
SIX QUESTIONS FOR EACH OF FIVE TOPICS
YOU MUST ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS, EACH QUESTION FROM A DIFFERENT TOPIC, ITEMIZED BELOW: SOME QUESTIONS WILL REQUIRE TWO EXAMPLES, EACH FROM A DIFFERENT REGION ie. Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa
1. Causes, practices and effects of wars;
2. Democratic states—challenges and responses;
3. Origins and development of authoritarian and single-party states;
4. Nationalist and independence movements in Africa and Asia and
post‑1945 Central and Eastern European states;
5. The Cold War.
PAPER THREE150 MINUTES (2.5 HOURS) THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016
SUBJECT MATTER:HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS
TWO QUESTIONS FOR EACH OF TWELVE TOPICS ON HISTORY OF AMERICAS FROM COLONIZATION-21ST CENTURY.
YOU MUST ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS, YOU MAY ANSWER BOTH QUESTION FROM ONE TOPIC. TOPICS ARE ITEMIZED BELOW
1.Independence Movements;
2.NationBuilding and Challenges;
3.United States Civil War: causes, courses and effects 1840-77;
4.The Development of Modern Nations 1865-1929;
5.Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs, 1880-1929;
6.The Mexican Revolution, 1910-40
7.The Great Depression and the Americas 1929-39;
8.The Second World War and the Americas 1933-45;
9.Political developments in the Americas after the Second World War, 1945-79;
10.The Cold War and the Americas, 1945-1981;
11.Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas;
12.Into the 21st Century-from the 1980s to 2000.