Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Honors homework due Friday 9/7

Homework for the week (Yellow and Red book)
26(1) The Great War Begins (816-821). 
Identify  five of the terms, people and places. 
Draw the three images on page 815 and explain their significance. 
What was the spark of WWI (picture 816).  
Answer question 2+3 on map skills page 817.  
Why are the people picture on 818 so happy? 
Read the biography of Kaisar Wilhelm II (819) who were his two cousins and his grandmother 
Read the reasons of entering the war (820), what two powers were most responsible for starting the war? Explain your answer. 
How did people show their war enthusiasm (picture 821)? 
Answer the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences or 3 bullet facts for each question.
Separate hw grade.
Read Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (828)
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2  


26(2)A New Kind of War (822-827) 
Identify five of the terms, people and places. 
Read a soldier on the Western Front (822) what does the soldier hear that makes him happy? Read Map Skills on page 823, answer questions 2+3. 
Read the infographic (824-5), illustrate three of the changes to warfare in the Great War. Read Map Skills on page 826, who fought against the Ottoman Empire in Egypt and on the Saudi peninsula? 
Who is pictured on page 827? 
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences/or 3 bullet facts for each question 

Freshman World History Overview

Freshman World History will cover

World History from the fall of Rome (476 CE) to today. World History topics include:
The Low Middle Ages aka the Dark Ages
Vikings
Feudalism/Manorialism
William the Conqueror
The Crusades
The growth of towns in the High Middle Ages
Romanesque vs Gothic Architecture
The Renaissance
The Age of Exploration
The Scientific Revolution
The  Enlightenment
American and French Revolutions
The Industrial Revolution and reactions to it
Nationalism
New Imperialism/Colonialism
WWI
Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Capitalism
Democracy  vs. Totalitarianism 
Interwar period (the 20 year truce)
WWII
The beginning of the end of colonialism and Gandhi's Civil Disobedience
The Cold War
The World today  

The Honor's Class will have to complete a project for history day;
the topic this year

World History Grading Policy 2019-2020


Grading policy:
   Homework:   15%
   Classwork:    25%
  Tests and Quizzes:  60%

Bring a good attitude, a three ring binder, and something to write with to class every day. 

Outside extra credit reading can add up to 5% each quarter to your final average.
Nonfiction and historical fiction will be worth more points. 
The book must be discussed with me and a short writing assignment must be completed before points are added to your grade.   The book and discussion must be completed before the last week of the term to get credit for that term. 

Book Theme:  Power, Conflict/Compromise, Change, and Connection/Relevance to today.

Extra help day:  I will be available for help every day.  Just let me know you are coming.
Thursday's I will be in room  65 for the  homework club.  I encourage all students to make use of the extra help and the Tuesday/Thursday late busses

World History First Week of School 2018-19




For classroom discussion:
Does the First Amendment to the Constitution protect the right of freedom of speech?   Is the right to kneel down during the National Anthem to protest perceived civil rights disparities in America protected by the first amendment?  Are your rights to protest the same at school and work the same as the right to protest as a citizen on the street?  
Why is there controversy between President Trump and some players in the NFL and NBA?  What do you think? 

Monday, June 4, 2018

Week of June 4, 2018

DBQ 12: The start of the Industrial Revolution is past due.  Make sure to answer the question why did the IR begin in England?

Due this Friday:  DBQ 13  The Effects of the Industrial Revolution
Answer the 7 DBQ questions as well as explain the positive and negative effects of the IR
You can either write a 3 paragraph answer or use the pyramid on the last page as a model for your answer.

Your final exam review is on the blog and I will make copies of the review sheet this week.  Your notes on the review are due on the day of your exam as well as your book

Good luck, I will be after school at least until 3:00 every day before the exam if you have questions, and I will stay later on late bus school days if you need help and are working in my class.

Final Exam
Monday  June 18,  A4 + A+3
Tuesday  B4, B3
Wednesday  A1 and A2  (half day)
Thursday  B1 and B2

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Final exam 20th century review

WWI Allies vs.____________________
MAINS causes of WWI
Gavrilo Princip and Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Ultimatum from A-H to?
Mobilization
Von Schlieffen Plan
Trench warfare
Eastern Front
Western Front
Stalemate due to?
Lusitania  
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmerman Note
Propaganda
Treaty of Versailles/Reparations

WWII   Allies vs.  __________________
blitzkrieg
Manhattan Project- which bomb was built?
Yalta Conference- Who met?  What was decided? 
Big 3 Allies and their countries
3 Axis leaders and their countries
D Day
Mein Kampf
Holocaust/Genocide
Death Camps
Aryan Race/Swastika
Totalitarianism
Anschluss (union)  of Germany and _______________
Neville Chamberlain/AppeasementWWII begins with blitzkrieg of ___________________  
Japanese sneak attack here gets US involved
What two theatres was the US involved in WWII?  ____________________________
Kamikaze
Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Cold War: What 2 major countries involved?
Containment/Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Korean and Vietnam conflicts

Cuban Missile Crisis

World History Final Exam 2018 Open responses and review

1. Identify and explain 3 of the SPRITE EM causes of the French Revolution.  Identify the three estates and which of the three led the French Revolution?
What were two of the long term effects of the French Revollution?

2.  What are the three factors of production?   Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?  What two nations were the largest industrial powers by 1900?  Why?
How did the IR change life for the worker?  What two classes emerged during the Industrial Revolution?  What were two positive and two negative effects of industrialized life?

3.  What is New Imperialism?  Why did it occur after the Industrial Revolution?  How did Japan avoid being taken over by the Western powers?

4.  Who was Mahatma Gandhi?  Explain the two parts of Civil Disobedience and how it became a  powerful force in the 20th and 21st century.Wh
5.  What are the MAINS causes of WWI.

6. How was Hitler able to use the fallout from the Treaty of Versailles to come to power in Weimar Germany?  Why did the Nazi's oppose swing music?  How did the Nazi's use propaganda to come to power?

7. What was the Holocaust and why are there Holocaust deniers?   How should you respond to them?

8.  Who was a bigger villain in All Quiet on the Western Front:  Corporal Himmelstoess or Professor Kanorek?  What was Erich Maria Remarque's point?  Why did the Nazi's ban the book?

Final exam review #1

Final exam review sheets due the day of the Final Exam

Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions
anarchy
absolute monarchy
republic
theocracy
monarchy
dictator
John Locke and Natural Rights
Adam Smith’s concept of Laissez Faire (free market) means
The Enlightenment led to which two revolutions?
Republic
Suffrage
Divine Right
Limited vs Absolute Monarchy
Montesquieu’s ideas of separation of powers supported a government that…
French razor/Guillotine
Robespierre
Versailles
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Napoleon
Who made up the three estates
1st
2nd
3rd
Who made up about 90% of all French people before the French Revolution
Chronology: Louis XVI, Napoleon, Robespierre

Industrial Revolution
Where did it first begin?                                            
In what industry?
Enclosure Movement
Entrepreneur
Major uses of iron
What was a danger of working in a factory in the 19th century?
What organized to protect the workers
Urbanization
Enclosure Movement
Immigration
Karl Marx  (Com____________)
Adam Smith (Cap______________)
Slums
Entrepreneurs/Inventors
James Watt
Eli Whitney
Alfred Nobel
Louis Pasteur
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Assembly Line

New Imperialism 
How did the Industrial Revolution contribute to imperialism?
Which 20th century war did Imperialism help start?
Which 2 countries dominated African Imperialism?
Why did the Opium War start?
What methods did Gandhi use to encourage Indian Independence?

World War I  dates
Allies vs. _____________________
MAINS causes of WWI
Nationalism in the Balkans between what two nations
Franz Fedinand, vs.  Gavrilo Princip
Zwifrontenkrieg and von Schlieffan Plan
Who mobilized forces threatening Germany
What nation’s neutrality did England Protect
Eastern Front
Western Front
Stalemate
trench war
new weapons
propaganda

Chronology:
1.      Renaissance,        Fall of Rome,           Middle Ages
2.      American Revolution,      Enlightenment,       French Revolution
3.      Assassination of Franz Ferdinand,        German Reparations,           Treaty of Versailles 
4.     Anschluss with Austria,     Germany re-militarizes the Rhineland,        Blitzkrieg of Poland
5.      Rise of Hitler,         Great Depression,           Start of WWII
6.      Cold War,      WWI,            WWII


WWII  dates:_______________________
Allies vs.  ____________________     identify countries
Identify  the nations they ruled, 
Who were the Big Three (Allies) ____________________________________________________________
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
Emperor Hirohito/Hedeki Tojo

D-Day/Operation Overlord
Blitzkrieg
Pearl Harbor
Two US theatres in WWII
Blitzkrieg
Targets of the A-Bomb
Kamikaze
Genocide
Aryan Race
Swastika
Holocaust/Final Solution
Auschwitz

Cold War  dates
US vs.  ________________________
Capitalism vs. _______________________
Berlin Airlift
Vietnam War
Cuban Missile Crisis (13 Days in October)
MAD theory of deterrence

What they might say
a.       Holocaust victim
b.       Nazi
c.       Hiroshima resident
d.       Kamikaze
e.       Indian nationalism
f.        WWI soldier
g.       Russian Communist in 1917, supporter of the revolution
h.       Assembly line worker

Map of Europe:  Identify  England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia