Week of February 24, 2013

Welcome back from vacation.  We will wrap up the 20th century in the next three weeks.
Current event due this week 3-2

Due Tuesday
30(1) The Cold War Unfolds (966-974) (Double homework grade)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Read Witness History (966) what metaphor did Churchill use to describe the area sealed off by Soviet domination?
*Look at the picture on 967, when is the major Soviet holiday? Why did they show their nuclear might?
*Look at the chart on 968, what type of weapon was limited by arms control agreements?
*Look at the Cold War World , 1977, on page 969. Where is the Soviet soldier pictured? List 10 Cold War conflicts. Why do you think the US and USSR did not want to fight each other directly?
* Read the Infographic on page 971. Answer Thinking Critical questions #1+#2.
*Look at the picture of the supermarkets on page 972. How do the two types of stores differ?
* What are children practicing for in the picture on page 973?
* What is pictured on page 974?
*Answer the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Wednesday
30(2) The Industrialized Democracies (976-984)
Identify the terms, people, and places.
*Read the Marshall Plan (976) Why do you think the US built up Western Europe after WWII? Who were we afraid of taking over the region?
*What is pictured on page 977? What is a suburb and why did people move there?
*Look at the picture on 978. Why did long gas lines appear in the 1970's?
*Read biography on MLK (979) What issue is MLK most associated with?
*What is picture on page 981? Why rebuild Germany after WWII?
*What is pictured on page 981?
*Why are doves, small farmersand workers pictured on 983+984? What nation was rebuilding?
Answer the 4 checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Thursday
30(3) Communism spreads to East Asia (985-991)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Look at the pictures on 985, what does the Little Red Book contain?
Look at the Mao biography (986) how did he treat critics?
Look at the picture on page 987, what did the littlr red books urge?
Answer questions 1,2, 3 on page 989.
Look at the pictue on page 990. Describe the weather conditions.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Week of February 11, 2013

Due Wednesday:
29(5) The End of WWII (952-956)

Identify the terms, people, and places.

Look at the picture on page 952, what happened on V-J Day?

Look at chart on page 953, which nation suffered over 22 million deaths and 14 million wounded?

What does the Soviet poster pictured on page 954 warn against?

Read about the Berlin Airlift (955) How were Germany and Berlin divided?

What threat to America does the Red Menace (956) warn against?

Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences

Due Thursday
Chapter Assessment : Complete  questions #1-6 on the Chapter Assessment (p. 960)

Be ready for a quiz on Friday on WWII

Due Tuesday after vacation
30(1) The Cold War Unfolds (966-974) (Double homework grade)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Read Witness History (966) what metaphor did Churchill use to describe the area sealed off by Soviet domination?
*Look at the picture on 967, when is the major Soviet holiday? Why did they show their nuclear might?
*Look at the chart on 968, what type of weapon was limited by arms control agreements?
*Look at the Cold War World , 1977, on page 969. Where is the Soviet soldier pictured? List 10 Cold War conflicts. Why do you think the US and USSR did not want to fight each other directly?
* Read the Infographic on page 971. Answer Thinking Critical questions #1+#2.
*Look at the picture of the supermarkets on page 972. How do the two types of stores differ?
* What are children practicing for in the picture on page 973?
* What is pictured on page 974?
*Answer the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Week of February 4, 2013

Current event term 3 week 2  will be due this week.

Homework due  Tuesday
29(3) The Allies Turn the Tide (939-945) 
Identify the terms, people, and places. 
Read Witness history (939) why did WWII become a total war for the US?  
Read the infographic (941) identify three new WWII technologies and explain how they were used to win the war. 
Read the three biographies on page 944, identify each of the 3 Allied leaders, their country and two facts about the leaders from each reading.
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences: be sure to restate the question in your own words. 

Separate homework grade: 
Read D-Day 946-7, answer the three thinking critically questions on page 947

Homework due Thursday

29(4) Victory in Europe and the Pacific (948-951)

 Identify the terms, people, and places.

Answer map skills question #3 on page 949.

Draw the shape of the nuclear cloud on page 950.

Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences. 

Homework due next Tuesday:
29(5) The End of WWII (952-956)

Identify the terms, people, and places.

Look at the picture on page 952, what happened on V-J Day?

Look at chart on page 953, which nation suffered over 22 million deaths and 14 million

     wounded?

What does the Soviet poster pictured on page 954 warn against?

Read about the Berlin Airlift (955) How were Germany and Berlin divided?

What threat to America does the Red Menace (956) warn against?

Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Week of January 29, 2013

This week we will be broken into groups to recreate the 1932 Weimar election that allowed the Nazis to come to power in Germany.  They would not release their hold on Germany until they were defeated in WWII.

Due Tuesday, assigned last week
29(1) From Appeasement to War (924-929)
Identify the terms, people and places
Look at the picture on page 925. What did Neville Chamberlain think he had brought Britian in September 1938 with his agreement with Hitler?
Look at the picture on 925, what treaty did Germany break by rearmament?
Look at the picture on page 926. List the four fascist leaders and their countries.
Why is the woman crying on page 927?
Look at the map on page 928. Answer questions #1+2.
Look at the chart on page 929. Identify what you think are the top two reasons to appease (give into) Hitler.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences

Homework due Friday

29(2) The Axis Advances (930-938)

Identify the terms, people, and places.
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 933.
Answer Thinking Critically #1 on page 935.
Read the picture caption on 936, how did the Japanese treat the Chinese?
Read the caption to the picture on 938, answer the question.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences: be sure to restate the question in your own words.

Homework due next Tuesday
29(3) The Allies Turn the Tide (939-945)
Identify the terms, people, and places.
Read Witness history (939) why did WWII become a total war for the US? 
Read the infographic (941) identify three new WWII technologies and explain how they were used to win the war.
Read the three biographies on page 944, identify each of the 3 Allied leaders, their country and two facts about the leaders from each reading.
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences: be sure to restate the question in your own words.

Separate homework grade:
Read D-Day 946-7, answer the three thinking critically questions on page 947

Current event term 3 week 1  will be due this week.

Week of January 22, 2013

This week we will recreate the 1932 Weimar election which led to the Nazi take-over of Germany.
A quiz grade will be given based upon your participation in the simulation. We will also have an in class essay and a quiz based upon the simulation.
You will have to understand the basic political positions of the Nazis, Socialists, Communists, and Center Party to complete the quiz.

Assigned last week. Due Wednesday

28(5) Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany (912-917)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Look at the picture on 912, how did Hitler give hope to the Germans? Who did he blame?
Look at the picture on 913, what is inflation and how did it impact prices?
Read the biography of Hitler on 914. List three adjectives to describe his personality.
Look at the picture on 915. What happened on Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)?
Look at the picture on page 916. Why were books like All Quiet on the Western Front burned?
Look at the chart on page 917. Why were Jewish books also burned? What Jewish scientist exiled from Germany came to the US to teach at Princeton University?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Friday:
29(1) From Appeasement to War (924-929)
Identify the terms, people and places
Look at the picture on page 925. What did Neville Chamberlain think he had brought Britian in September 1938 with his agreement with Hitler?
Look at the picture on 925, what treaty did Germany break by rearmament?
Look at the picture on page 926. List the four fascist leaders and their countries.
Why is the woman crying on page 927?
Look at the map on page 928. Answer questions #1+2.
Look at the chart on page 929. Identify what you think are the top two reasons to appease (give into) Hitler.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences

Week of January 14, 2013

Current event week #5 this week.
Interviews are past due

Homework due Friday

28(2) The Western Democracies Stumble (891-897) (Double homework grade)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Look at the picture on 891. What is a soup kitchen?
Look at the picture on page 892. What were the Irish Republican Army trying to resist?
Look at the political cartoon on 893. What point is the cartoonist trying to make?
Read the infographic (894-5). In which country did the Great Depression begin?
What country had the highest unemployment (line graph on 895)
Describe the woman pictured on page 896.
Look at the Economic Theory bloc on page 897. What does John Maynard Keynes think the government should do during depressions?
Answer the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences.
Read Pablo Picasso (p.890) . How do you think cubism got its name?

28(3) Fascism in Italy
Identify the terms, people, and places
How is Mussolini pictured on page 898 and 899?
Look at the infographic (900-901) What is a cult of personality?
What happened to Osip Mandelstam (900)?
Look at the picture on 902, what were children required to carry?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

28(5) Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany (912-917)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Look at the picture on 912, how did Hitler give hope to the Germans? Who did he blame?
Look at the picture on 913, what is inflation and how did it impact prices?
Read the biography of Hitler on 914. List three adjectives to describe his personality.
Look at the picture on 915. What happened on Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)?
Look at the picture on page 916. Why were books like All Quiet on the Western Front burned?
Look at the chart on page 917. Why were Jewish books also burned? What Jewish scientist exiled from Germany came to the US to teach at Princeton University?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Week of January 7, 2013

Interview projects due Friday.

Due Tuesday 26(5) Revolution in Russia previously assigned.

WWI quiz on Wednesday. Focus on Sections #1-4

Due Thursday-
28(1) Postwar Social Changes. (884-889)
Identify the terms people and places.
Who is pictured on age 884? What type of music did he play?
Look at the picture on 885, what is a speakeasy?
Read about the Jazz Age (886-7) How did flappers shock their elders?
Illustrate three changes in technology pictured.
Read Marie Curie (888) what was she best known for?
Read abstract art, why is Kadinsky's art (889) and Picasso's art (890) called Cubist?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Read the Infographic on page 900-901

Complete the 6 features of a Totalitarian State (900) shared by Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Communist USSR.

       Single party ________________ with _________ obedience to a single leader.
 

  _________________ control of the economy.

       Use of ____________ spies and ____________ to enforce the will of the state.

 Government control of the ______________ to indoctrinate and mobilize citizens

       through_______________________

 Use of ____________________ and youth organizations to spread __________________ to children

 Strict ____________________ of the artists and ______________________ with dissenting opinions.

Due Friday:

Read 28(4) The Soviet Union under Stalin (904-911)

Identify the terms, people, and places.

Read Witness History (904) How is Stalin portrayed in the picture?

Look at the picture (905). What did Stalin see as the key to success of the USSR?
Why are the people pictured on page 906 starving? What happened to their crops?
Look at the map on 907? How did Stalin use Gulags?
What tools are being raised by the factory worker and the farmer on page 908?
Look at the picture (909) What happened to the Russian Orthodox Church?
Look at the picture (910) Why were Soviet cities so crowded?
Complete the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences. Kick back the question.

Honors reading on FDR due next Wednesday.