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COLD WAR UNIT ASSIGNMENT
Below, you will find many links to a Cold War Documentary Series. For a short synopsis of each episode click here. Mr P suggests all humans watch each episode. Lots of interesting history covered here. Not all will and can be covered in class, but if any student would like to talk about the content covered in any of the documentaries or the Cold War in general, set up a P7 chat time with Mr P.
1) Table of Contents
2) CW Vocabulary (Vocab Game Power Point - Thanks Danish) (CW Leader Timeline)
3) CW Overview: (Worksheet) & (Power Point)
4) Contrasting CW Terms (Front) & (Back)
5) CW Terms (8 of Them) (Power Point) (it works now!)
6) CW Map & Timeline (Front = Map) (Back = Timeline) (Event Cards) (1-3) (4-6) (7-9)(10-12)And... Dedicated to immigrants like T. Smith = (Power Point)
8) Iron Curtain Video Notes
9) Arms Race Video Notes & McCarthyism Video (6 minutes) (10 minutes)
10) Communists In China (Power Point) (Front) (Back) (Video)
12) Korean War (Worksheet) & (Power Point) (Video)
13) Vietnam Timeline (Video) Pick ODD or EVEN questions to answer and attach to assign 13
14) Quickwrite (Space Race)
15) Latin America Background Notes (Video) & Guatemalan Coup (Video)
16) Cuban Missile Crisis Video Notes (Video)
17) Berlin Wall Video Notes
18) CW Thaws (Worksheet) (Power Point) & Detente 1969 -1975 (Video) & Freeze 1977-1981 (Video) Red Spring (Video) Good Guys & Bad Guys -Angola War 1967-68 (Video) Make Love Not War 1960s (Video)
19) Middle East (Video - 20) Soldiers of God
20) Gorbachev, Reagan & The CW Conclusion - Video Note Packet
20A) Star Wars Video Notes (Part 1) & (Part 2) / Click here to see the entire Star Wars video
20B) Wall Comes Down (Part 1) & (Part 2) / Click here to see the entire Wall Comes Down video
20C) Soviet Union Dissolution (Part 1) (Part 2) & (Part 3) / Click here to see the entire Cold War Conclusion video
Chomsky Explains Cold War in 5 minutes
Great Article on Diplomacy from Vanity Fair Magazine on the behind the scenes of the Gorbachev & Reagan Summits near the end of the Cold War
LOOKING TO STUDY COLD WAR & OTHER TOPICS?
1) Cold War Summaries with practice quizzes
2) Cold War Vocab Game (Thanks Danish)
3) Super Star Trivia Competition & Answers
Go to Technical Thompson's Site if sites above do NOT work
PREPARATION FOR FINAL EXAM
HEY! Want to get ready for the Final Exam? Here is some practice Multiple Choice sites
OK folks! The final stretch is here. Most of you have opted to take the final exam. Below are links to practice multiple choice exams. The questions for the final will cover unit content from 2nd semester. These units include:
a) WWI (MC1) (MC2)
b) 20th Century Revolutions and Nationalism - Russian, Chinese, India & Algeria
c) Global Depression / Pre WWII / Between the Wars
d) WWII (Europe & Pacific)
e) Holocaust & Genocide
f) Cold War (CW 2) (CW 3)
g) Contemporary Issues
Study Guide for 2nd Semester Final Exam
MULTIPLE CHOICE (MC) ONLINE QUESTIONS
Mr P suggests checking out the following units to prepare for the final exam:
WWI (Textbook Quiz) (Flip Cards) (Crossword Puzzle)
20th CENTURY REVOLUTION & NATIONALISM
(Textbook Quiz) (Flip Cards) (Crossword Puzzle)
A) Russian Revolution
B) Chinese Communist Revolution
C) Colonial Independence / Collapse of Imperialism
WWII MC QUESTIONS
(Flip Cards) (Crossword Puzzle) (Crossword Puzzle 2)
A) Between The Wars (Textbook Quiz)
B)WWII (Textbook Quiz)
COLD WAR MC QUESTIONS
(Textbook Quiz 1) (Textbook Quiz 2) (Crossword Puzzle) (Crossword Puzzle 2)
A) Cold War (Flip Cards)
B) Collapse of Communism (Flip Cards) (CW 3)
Please email Mr P if you discover any other quality online MC questions. Thanks!
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES OF WORLD HISTORY
What will be the next chapter of World History? What will happen in the next 30-50 years? What will future students one day study about the year 2000 to 2040? These are the years you will likely live through. Here is a list of topics and video links that may give insight of the significant events and issues happening now. If you have any other topics or videos that go with the topics already listed, please email Mr P so he could add it to this list. Thanks and enjoy.
1) TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA
1) Neil Postman's 6 Questions to ask of any technology
2) Neil Postmans's Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the past can improve our future
3) Neil Postman's Lecture on Surrender of Culture to Technology
4) Marshall McLuhan's 1977 - The Medium is the Message
5) Plato's Allegory of the Cave
6) Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent
7) Snowden, NSA, etc
8) Death of Print Media... Birth of Internet Media
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2) ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
1) Climate Change
2) Sea Level
3) Droughts
4) Unstable Situations
5) Environmental Denial
6) Here Comes the Sun - Solar Documentary
7) Nuclear
8) Inefficient Energy Use vs Efficient Energy Use
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3) POLITICAL ISSUES
1) Military Industrial Complex
2) Propaganda
3) Election Reform
4) Comparative Politics - compare political systems of various nations
5) Privacy (NSA, Snowden, etc)
4) ECONOMIC ISSUES
1) What the hell is Austerity?
2) Debt (Various Forms & Its Impact)
3) 2008 Meltdown - Planet Money, etc
4) What the hell is an economic bubble?
5) Student Debt
6) TPP
7) Madoff Affair
8) Is Walmart Good For America?
9) Zero Marginal Cost Society
10) 3rd Industrial Revolution
11) The Corporation
12) 1% & 99% (Wealth Disparity)
13) Is continual economic growth possible?
14) Privatization
5) SOCIAL ISSUES
1) Over 30% of Americans live alone
2) Homelessness
3) Student Debt
4) Issues in Education
5) Theory of Everything - Wilbur
6) Refugees & Migrants
7) Century of the Self
8) Merchants of Cool - PBS Frontline
6) SCIENCE & INNOVATIONS
1) The World before & After Youtube, Google, etc.
2) Algorithm
3) Singularity
4) Zero Marginal Cost Society
5) 3rd Industrial Revolution
6) Death of TV
7) REGIONAL ISSUES
MIDDLE EAST
1) ARAB SPRING?
a) How Facebook Changed the World? - Arab Spring - BBC 1 hour
b) Seth Jones: The Mirage of the Arab Spring - World Affairs Council
c) Robert Fisk: Arab Awakening
2) ISRAEL & PALESTINE
1) 60 Minutes
2) TED Talk
3) Walt Book
4) Carter Book
5) Chomsky vs Dershowitz
6) Basics by Mathis
3) 9/11
1) The Basics
2) The Man Who Knew - PBS Frontline
3) The 28 Pages
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4) TERRORISM
1) Rise of ISIS - PBS Frontline
2) The Trap - Adam Curtis
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AFRICA
1) Aide vs No Aide
2) Economic Development
3) Good, The Bad & Ugly
4) Spotlight Africa
5) 21st Century Imperialism (US & China Style)
6) Drones in Africa
7) Border Problems
8) Progress & Changing Diets?
ASIA
1) Rise of the sleeping giant - China & the 21st Century
2) TPP
3) Tank Man - PBS Frontline
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EUROPE
1) Austerity
2) EU and its future?
3) Carbon Free?
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NORTH AMERICA
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SOUTH AMERICA
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MISC REGIONAL ISSUES
1) Ocean of Plastic - Vice News
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Use C-SPAN Links to News Sources
This is a quality starting point for many but not all good news sources.
From the above link, students can find newspapers, magazines, journals, websites, think tanks, book TV blogs, podcasts, radio broadcasts and more.
POLITICAL SPECTRUM
Students can find Left, Center & Right Wing News Sources (Left, Center & Right Radio)
TOPICS BOTH NEAR & FAR
Local, State and National New Sources as well as International Sources.
Some News Sources might be broad in scope and others very narrow.
NEWS IN ENGLISH BUT FROM OUTSIDE THE US
1) CBC = Canada
2) BBC = Britain
3) CCTV = China
4) RT = Russia
5) Al Jazeera = Middle East (Doha, Qatar) American Version / Al Jazeera Arabic Version in English
MEDIA REVOLUTION
21st Century Journalism Revolution - How the world of media is changing
C-SPAN Student Journalism
Music to organize a packet
Education & Public School Issues
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