World History Unit 5 – The Contemporary World March 6 – June 5
Wed., March 6 – View From World War to Cold War & Crash Crouse - Cold War
HW - Complete guided reading on Ch. 15, Sect. 1 – Beginnings of the Cold War (479 – 83). Textbook questions start on p. 3.
Thurs., March 7 – Go over Ch. 15, Sect. 1. on the Cold War; View Korean War (6 – 7)
HW - Complete guided reading on Ch. 15, Sect. 2 – Superpower Rivalries (484 – 89)
Fri., March 8 – Go over Ch. 15, Sect. 2 – Superpower Rivalries; View a cold war timeline where we will analyze the trends. View Cuban Missile Crisis (8) & the Berlin Airlift/Berlin Wall (2)
HW – Complete guided reading on Ch. 15, Sect. 3 – Changing Societies (490 – 95)
Mon., March 11 – Discuss Ch. 15, Sect. 3; View Civil Rights Movement
Tues., March 12 – Complete guided reading on Ch. 15, Sect. 4 – After the Cold War (496 – 501)
Wed., March 13 – Discuss Ch. 15, Sect. 4; View Persian Gulf War, 9/11, & Iraq War
Thurs., March 14 – Complete guided reading on Ch. 16, Sect. 1 – South Asia after Europe (511 – 15) with discussion to follow.
Fri., March 15 – View short Video clips on Mohandas Gandhi , Mother Teresa, Indira Gandhi &Civil War in Pakistan Gandhi Trailer
Mon., March 18 – Complete a Vietnam War reading with questions on p. 9 – 13 & 27 - 28.
Extra Credit due on Friday. (p. 2)
Tues., March 19 – View WWII to Vietnam War that reviews the major events of the Cold War
Wed., March 20 – Thurs., March 21 – Read articles on Kent State & Crankshaft cartoon series on May 4th. View Kent State video
Fri., March 22 – Complete guided reading on Ch. 16, Sect. 3 – Communist China (522 – 26) with discussion to follow. History of China Cultural Revolution
Wed., April 3 – Discuss Communist China; Begin Ch. 16, Sect. 4 – The Rise of Pacific Rim Economies (527 – 31)
Thurs., April 4 – Go over the rise of Pacific Rim economies
Fri., April 5 – Complete guided reading on Ch. 17, Sect. 1 – African Independence Movements (539 – 43) with discussion to follow.
Mon., April 8 – Complete guided reading on Ch. 17, Sect. 2 – Post-Colonial Africa (545 – 49) with discussion to follow.
Tues., April 9 – View video clip Crash Course – Decolonization & Nationalism; The Legacy of Apartheid Mandela We are the World video
Wed., April 10 – Read Ch. 17, Sect. 3 – Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa (551 – 55) & Ch. 17, Sect. 4 – Conflicts in the Middle East (556 – 61) Muammar Gaddafi
Thurs., April 11 – Complete a Middle East/Israel reading with discussion to follow. (14 – 17, 25-26)
Fri., April 12 – View Jerusalem: 4000 Years in 5 Minutes
Israel and Palestine: The Roots of Conflict; Israel & Palestine – Why is this clip controversial?
Mon., April 15 – Ch. 18, Sect. 1 – Revolution & Intervention (569 – 574) Che Guevara; Castro
Tues., April 16 – Ch. 18, Sect. 2 – The Rise of Dictatorships (575 – 79) Eva Peron
Wed., April 17 – Dictators & Terrorists: Finding Patterns (The World’s 10 Worst Dictators) (18)
Thurs., April 18 – Ch. 18, Sect. 3 – Democratic and Economic Reforms (580 – 85) Business cycle expansions & contractions
Fri., April 19 – Ch. 19, Sect. 1 – Trade Globalization (593 – 97) Crash Course – Globalization I Crash Course – Globalization II
Mon., April 22 – Work on review for Unit 5 test (23 – 24)
Tues., April 23 – Ch. 19, Sect. 2 – Social Challenges (598 – 601) United Nations
Wed., April 24 – View a video on the relationship the U.S. has with Europe
Thurs., April 25 – Ch. 19, Sect. 3 – Threats to World Security (602 – 06)
Fri., April 26 – Video on the Roots of 9/11
Mon., April 29 – Work on review for Unit 5 test
Tues., April 30 – Ch. 19, Sect. 4 – Environment & Technology (607 – 10)
Wed., May 1 – View a video on Outsourcing Outsourcing ; Outsourcing
Thurs., May 2 – Work on review for Unit 5 test
Fri., May 3 – Work on review for Unit 5 test
Mon., 6 – Review for Unit 5 test
Tues., May 7 – Review for Unit 5 test
Wed., May 8 – Unit 5 Test
Thurs., May 9 – Fri., May 10 – Work on AMELA essay (21 – 22)
Mon., May 13 – Tues., May 14 – Wed., May 15 – Where to Build a Factory Project (19 – 20)
Thurs., May 16 – Fri., May 17 – Mon., May 20 – Where to Build a Factory Project Presentations
Tues., May 21 – Fri., May 24 – Read article on the stages of genocide; View Hotel Rwanda; complete comparison between Rwanda & Holocaust. (Handouts)
Tues., May 28 – Fri., May 31 – Work on AMELA essay and/or review for the final. AMELA Essay and Extra Credit (2) due on Friday.
Mon., June 3 – Wed. June 5 – 2nd Semester Finals
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3rd Grading Period World History Extra Credit
WWII National Essay Contest
http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/essay-contests/high-school.html
Due Date: Fri., March 22
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4th Grading Period World History Extra Credit – “What if”
You are to complete a typed, double-spaced research essay that is a minimum of 200 words. How much extra credit you will earn is dependent on the quality of work that you do.
Find a topic that we have covered in this grading period. Research the topic so you understand these items about it: Who it was? What is was? Where did it happen? Why did it happen? When did it happen? How did it happen? What is its significance? You are then to rewrite history so that the event does not turn out the way it did or never occurred at all. You must demonstrate knowledge on the topic. To be successful, you should understand the impact your topic had on history.
Examples: What if the Cold War was still ongoing? What if we had not invaded Iraq?
What if JFK was not assassinated? What if 9/11 had not occurred?
Approval Date: Wed., May 22nd
Due Date: Fri., May 31st
Ch. 15, Sect. 1 – Beginnings of the Cold War (479 – 83)
1 - What countries were on the eastern side of the iron curtain?
2 – How was Germany and Berlin divided?
3 – What were the Nuremberg Trials?
4 – What is the Cold War?
5 – What is the iron curtain?
6 – What did the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan each do? Why did the U.S. put these in place?
7 – What is containment?
8 – What was the Berlin Airlift?
9 – What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
Ch. 15, Sect. 2 – Superpower Rivalries (484 – 89)
1 – What is the hydrogen/H-bomb?
2 – What is deterrence?
3 – What is the arms race?
4 – What was Sputnik?
5 – What was the Red Scare?
6 – What was the Vietnam War?
7 – What was the Berlin Wall? Why was it erected?
8 – What happened in 1959 in Cuba? How did the U.S. respond to it two years later?
9 – What was the Cuban missile crisis?
10 – What are nonaligned nations?
11 – What is détente?
12 – What were some of the arms control agreements reached during the Cold War?
Ch. 15, Sect. 3 – Changing Societies (490 – 95)
1 – What happened in Brown v. Bd. Of Education?
2 – What did the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act accomplish?
3 – What is counterculture?
4 – What was the Quiet Revolution?
5 – From the p. 493 chart, what would be the advantages disadvantages of command market economies?
6 – Who was Nikita Khruschev and what was destalinization?
7 – How did many E. European countries react to Stalin’s death? How did the U.S.S.R. respond to these events?
8 – What is Solidarity? Who was Lech Walesa?
9 – Who was Mikhail Gorbachev? What was glasnost and perestroika?
10 – What was the Velvet Revolution?
11 – How did the Cold War symbolically end?
Ch. 15, Sect. 4 – After the Cold War (496 – 501)
1 – How did the Soviet Union fall apart?
2 – Why was Boris Yeltsin able to come to power? What reforms did he enact?
3 – What has happened in Chechnya?
4 – What happened to Yugoslavia once communism collapsed?
5 – What is the European Union (EU)? Why is it significant today?
6 – What was the Persian Gulf War? How was it provoked?
7 – Who or what are al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban?
8 – Why did the U.S. attack Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003)? What were the results of each?
Ch. 16, Sect. 1 – South Asia after Europe (511 – 15)
1 – What did the British Parliament decide to do regarding the soon to be independent India?
2 – What was the religious make-up of India in 1940?
3 – Why did the Muslim League propose the partition of India?
4 – How has the dispute over Kashmir affected the relationship between India & Pakistan?
5 – What happened to Indira Gandhi in 1984 that was so significant?
6 – Who was Mother Teresa?
7 – What happened to Pakistan in 1947 and later in 1971? What was the result?
Ch. 16, Sect. 2 – Independence Struggles in Southeast Asia (516 – 21)
Vietnam War will be covered with the reading in the packet.
1 – What did the Khmer Rouge do in Cambodia? Who is Pol Pot?
Ch. 16, Sect. 3 – Communist China (522 – 26)
1 – What is the “Little Red Book”?
2 – China had a civil war in the late 1940s. Who was the winner? Who led them? Why did they win? Who lost? What eventually happened to the loser?
3 – What were the costs of Mao’s new programs?
4 – What was the Great Leap Forward?
5 – What was the Cultural Revolution? Who was the Red Guard? How were they involved?
6 – Who was Deng Xiaoping? What were the Four Modernizations?
7 – What happened at Tiananmen Square?
Ch. 16, Sect. 4 – The Rise of Pacific Rim Economies (527 – 31)
1 – What role did the U.S. play in postwar Japan?
2 – Why did Japan make such an impressive economic recovery after WWII?
3 – What problems do the Philippines face today?
4 – What issues are ongoing with North & South Korea?
5 – What are the Asian Tigers?
Ch. 17, Sect. 1 – African Independence Movements (539 – 43)
1 – How did the process of gaining independence differ for British and French colonies in Africa?
2 – What was apartheid?
3 – How were the lives of blacks in South Africa restricted by apartheid laws?
4 – How did homelands deny citizenship to blacks in South Africa?
Ch. 17, Sect. 2 – Post-Colonial Africa (545 – 49)
1 – What was the African National Congress?
2 – Who is Nelson Mandela?
3 – What was the Sharpeville Massacre? What was the result of it?
4 – Who is F.W. de Klerk? What significant actions did he take?
5 – What political trends did many of the African nations endure after gaining independence?
6 – What economic and environmental problems do many African nations face today?
Ch. 17, Sect. 3 – Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa (551 – 55)
& Ch. 17, Sect. 4 – Conflicts in the Middle East (556 – 61)
Complete a timeline on Israel & Palestine. Begin the timeline with 1945. Include significant events, people, organizations, wars and agreements. The items listed should be explained. Use both section 3 & 4 for this activity.
Ch. 18, Sect. 1 – Revolution and Intervention (569 – 574)
1 – What area consists of Latin America?
2 – During the mid-1950s, who was the leader of Cuba? What kind of leader was he?
3 – Who would eventually gain control of Cuba? How was control gained?
4 – Who is Che Guevara? Why is he important?
5 – What was the Bay of Pigs?
6 – What happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
7 – Why might Guatemalans dislike the U.S.?
8 – Why might those in El Salvador dislike the U.S. as well?
9 – What factors led to the failure of the Sandinista government?
Ch. 18, Sect. 2 – The Rise of Dictatorships (575 – 79)
1 – What is a populist?
2 – Who were the Perons?
3 – What caused Brazil’s economic problems, which included hyperinflation?
4 – Who is Augusto Pinochet? What was unique about his rule compared to other dictators?
5 – Who is Manuel Noriega? What eventually happened to him?
6 – What similarities did you see in the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Haiti, Panama and Peru in both politics and economics?
Ch. 18, Sect. 3 – Democratic and Economic Reforms (580 – 85)
1 – What failures caused the fall of dictators in Latin America?
2 – What factors made possible a peaceful transition to democracy?
3 – What is NAFTA?
4 – Why was the vote for Vicente Fox so important to Mexico?
5 – Who is Hugo Chavez? Why is he so important in Latin America?
Ch. 19, Sect. 1 – Trade Globalization (593 – 97)
1 – What is globalization?
2 – How are multinational corporations an example of economic interdependence between developed and developing countries?
3 – What are some benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing?
4 – What are the major trade organizations and agreements? What does each do?
Ch. 19, Sect. 2 – Social Challenges (598 – 601)
1 – What is the purpose of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
2 – What role do NGOs play in protecting human rights?
3 – What are some of the main challenges facing certain people and countries around the world today?
4 – Based on the map on p. 600, in what areas of the world is average life expectancy the lowest? How long does one expect to live in these countries? Why do you think that might be?
Ch. 19, Sect. 3 – Threats to World Security (602 – 06)