Check email for DBQ!!!

Yes, that means you. Making this post on my iPhone with my shaky-a$$ hands has taken like three years so bye.

Vlog and Rap Showcase

Click through the playlist below for some entertaining stuff. It includes:

• Rachel and Ashley 
• Bianca, Dana, and Emma 
• Frankie, Hanson, and Oliver 
• Natalie, Ye Jin, and Caitlin and... 
• OMG!! RUN!! Two Darwinian Primates (a.k.a. Sam and Phillip laying down some shizzle for your edumacation.)

Bam! Che, Iran, Indonesia, Vietnam, Chile, Afghanistan, 9-11, Iraq '03

Here's the exam review guide. If you want one more practice on the Lunchroom Fight for the Habits of Mind section on the test, it's here. I'll send the key (answers) for anybody who sends me their answers first.

Take notes as we watch the short overview of Cold War hotspots up to the end. I'll collect your notes at the end of class, and give them back to you on exam day for the MCQ section.

HW: pp. 32-end: Detente and End of Cold War
Hand-write notes 

Arms Race Terms (pp. 11-16)

Peaceful Coexistence (12)

Strategic Superiority

“New Look” Policy (13)

Deterrence Policy (“MAD”)

V-2 Rockets

Space Race

ICBM

Sputnik

Cosmonaut (Yuri Gagarin) (14)

“Ballistic”

“Missile Gap”

Kitchen Debate

McCarthyism (15)

CND

Duck and Cover

Bomb Shelters

U2 Incident (16)

Pentagon

Dwight Eisenhower’s “Military-Industrial Complex” speech*

Cuba Terms:

Berlin Wall

“Dollar Imperialism” in Cuba: Battista dictatorship

Fidel Castro

Land reform

Nationalization

Cuban exiles

John F. Kennedy

Nikita Khrushchev

CIA

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Turkey missiles

Quarantine

13 days

Solution

Lesson: DBQ Final Exam Prep: Cold War Europe and Korea

Update Thur. night:

In Class: Download this document. Hand-write your answers to questions after the Europe and Korea sections. You will be allowed to use your hand-written notes on the final exam.

Consolidation in class of Europe and Korea sections; short intro to Cuba.


HW: Watch Cuba video below + read Cold War textbook packet pp. 11-24 (skim Arms Race, slow down for Cuba), collect evidence for which side was more blameworthy for the crisis from both film and DBQ). Bring Korea notes/timeline from last class as well.








See below the fold ("Read more...") for optional background on start of Cold War in Europe after WW II. Most of that info is in the doc linked above, so again, the stuff below is optional.

Cold War 1: Background

Download this Cold War DBQ. Read Unit 1 and timeline it by month.

We'll be discussing the question: Who started the Cold War? And to what degree was each side justified in a) Korea, b) Cuba, and c) Vietnam? 

HW:

Watch Korean War, below (45 min), then read pp. 7-10 in Cold War packet (Unit 2: Korea).
In class Panel discussion next class (Thursday):

Was the US justified in getting involved in the Korean War? 
Optional reading: Korean War opposing viewpoints
A1: Girls are US Capitalists, Boys are Communists
A4: 

 

Weekend HW: Sexy Hitler, Sexy Hungary, Sexy Communists

HW:
Watch remainder of Hitler documentary, below, and answer questions on this worksheet.

Here's Part I of the Hitler video (see worksheet for where to start):

   

And here's Part II: for weekend HW:

Depressions and Politics, 1930s and Today

UPDATE: HW: **Check your SAS Gmail**

Miss Class? (Shiv, Jake):

We read and discussed the Krugman article about economics and politics in today's Recession/Depression Europe (download the article/worksheet here), then started watching the following film about the relation of depression economics to society and politics--in the rise of Hitler.

You'll be writing a paper on this, so be sure you can discuss the relevance of Hitler's rise to today's Europe (and the U.S.).

We also watched these doozies about right wing Tea Party protesters confronting center-left (moderate) Democrats in the U.S. after the Recession hit there:

 

Optional: Name that philosopher...

...and learn about one of the key conflicts of the world today: Neo-Liberalism v. Social Democracy.

But more interesting to me is how many of you can answer these two questions:

1. What Enlightenment philosopher's idea is actually making a sudden radical difference in Quebec this year?

2. These students are only five or six years older than you. How much of their interview is over your head?

(Hit "reply" and share your thoughts below, if you like.)

It's interesting stuff. (Like we touched on in class, and saw in Russia: students often push the world in new directions.)

Friday: Lunchroom 2 + Lenin/Stalin

You're unclear on what the Habits of Mind mean. So download this.



HW: Russia/USSR Unit 4 (pp. 65-85, 12 pages of text) and Unit 5 (pp. 86-96, 8 pages of text. You have 5 days for this.)

REMINDER: Next class: Panel Discussion to assess your views on the French-Russian Revolutions "Model." Use the handout linked in last class to gather your thoughts about both. 25 points.

RLAH 1; USSR + France Chart 2: Lenin Years

L.8: Wed., May 2:
In class: RLAH exercise 1; Russia/USSR + France chart cont'd: read Unit 3: "How Did the Bolsheviks come to Power and How did They Consolidate Their Rule?", pp. 48-64 (only 13 pages of text). Enter in NEW chart (simpler).

Finish as HW and bring to class next time.