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Agenda: Week of March 28 - April 1, 2016

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 6: The Most Recent Century, 1914 - 2010
Chapter 21: Collapse & Recovery of Europe
World War II
Week at a Glance:
MON - Quiz CH 22 - World Communism
TUE - 1942- The Year WWII Begins to Turn; Stalingrad, D-Day (44); Victory in Europe; 
WED/THU - War in Asia/Pacific; Use of Atomic Weapons; Post WWII peace
FRI - CH 22 - World Communism: Russian & Chinese Revolutions compared.

 TEST OVER Chapter 21 & 22 is next Wed/Thu April 6/7.
This week is a mess schedule wise. So I am not going to do a daily agenda, but rather an overall look at what we are trying to accomplish. 

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Learning Targets:
 •  To examine the history of Europe between 1914 and the 1970s as an organic whole made up of closely interconnected parts
 •  To consider the repercussions of nationalism and colonialism in Europe and Japan
 •  To increase student awareness of the effects of the two world wars
 •  To help students imagine the appeal of totalitarian movements in the twentieth century 

 Essential Questions:
BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS
      1.   What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth century?
      2.   In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II?
      4.   In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?

 Margin Review Questions
      1.   What aspects of Europe’s nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War?
      2.   In what ways did World War I mark new departures in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
      4.   In what ways did fascism challenge the ideas and practices of European liberalism and democracy?
      5.   What was distinctive about the German expression of fascism? What was the basis of popular support for the Nazis?
      6.   How did Japan’s experience during the 1920s and 1930s resemble that of Germany, and how did it differ?
      7.   In what way were the origins of World War II in Asia and in Europe similar to each other? How were they different?
      8.   How did World War II differ from World War I?
      9.   How was Europe able to recover from the devastation of war?
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Monday, March 28, 2016
Quote: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill (speaking about the Royal Air Force)

 Agenda:
1. Quiz CH 22 - World Communism
2. Review Quiz
The Battle of Britain: German Luftwaffe vs. the British RAF
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Quote: “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” - Winston Churchill

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: What caused WWII?
2. Crash Course World History #38: World War II (10 min) Answer the How is World War II different from World War I? on a sheet of paper as you watch Crash Course. 
3. Notes, Video, Discussion: Introduction to World War II - War Begins.
Hitler’s vision of lebensraum. (War of the World: Killing Space by Ferguson)
Appeasement; Blitzkrieg; 
Fall of France; Battle of Britain; 
Hitler Takes Continental Europe; 
Japan Takes Asian Pacific; 
Hitler's 2 Great Mistakes
4. Notes, Video, Discussion: 
1942- The Year WWII Begins to Turn; Stalingrad, D-Day (44); Victory in Europe; 

 Assignments:
Pearl Harbor Article 
Quiz Friday - Chapter 22
Chapter 21 & 22: Test next Thursday 
"Motherland Calls" - Russian statue as tribute to those who fell at Stalingrad, 1942-1943.
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Wednesday, March 30th & Thursday, March 31st, 2016
Quote: "Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." - Robert H. Schuller

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: How did the World 
2. Discuss Pearl Harbor Article & Notes, Video over Pearl Harbor, 
Mr. Duez's Trip to Pearl Harbor & 
War in the Pacific (Video: Making of The Pacific Anatomy of a War - HBO)
4. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Victory in Europe: 
Stalingrad & Operation Torch; 
D-Day Invasion & Victory in Europe
5. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Victory in Japan - Nature of the fighting Island hopping; terribly brutal & deadly; finished with horrifying Atomic Weapon and final Japanese Surrender as Soviets & Americans were poised to possibly invade

 Review WWII: 
War Begins: Japanese Invasion of Manchuria & China, 1931, 1937; Japanese Imperialism takes complete control of Asian Pacific Rim; German Blitzkrieg, 1939-1940 - Hitler takes continent of Europe from France to Russia 
Battle of Britain 1940;
Escalation of War in 1941: German Invasion of USSR - Operation Barbarossa, June 1941; Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941 
Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-43; Operation Torch 1942 (Africa/Italy Invasions); Battle of Kursk (Eastern Front's D-Day Push) & D-Day June 6, 1944
US/Allies--> Push to Germany <--USSR
VE-Day: Victory in Europe, Jan. 1945 
Asian Theatre of War: - Island Hopping Attacks by US/Allies against Japan.
Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, Mariana Islands, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa - all major Pacific Battles. Brutal combat, inhospitable conditions, an enemy that would not surrender and fought to the last man for their emperor. Aug. 6 & Aug. 9, 1945 - Atomic Bombs Dropped by US on JapanVJ-Day: Victory Against Japan, August 1945
Questions for Discussion:
  • What were the 2 main mistakes that Hitler made?
  • Which battles in each theater of war proved most decisive & important?
  • What was the impact on civilian populations?
  • Did the United States make the right decision to drop the bomb on Japan? (Was it much different than the near total destruction of many German cities throughout the course of the war?) How could you argue for the decision? How could you argue against it?
The Pacific Theater of War was brutal. 
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Friday April 1, 2016
Quote: "Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." - Mao Zedong

Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: How did the World 
2. Discuss Pearl Harbor Article & Notes, Video over Pearl Harbor, 
Mr. Duez's Trip to Pearl Harbor & 
War in the Pacific (Video: Making of The Pacific Anatomy of a War - HBO)
4. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Victory in Europe: 
Stalingrad & Operation Torch; 
D-Day Invasion & Victory in Europe
5. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Victory in Japan - Nature of the fighting Island hopping; terribly brutal & deadly; finished with horrifying Atomic Weapon and final Japanese Surrender as Soviets & Americans were poised to possibly invade
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Agenda: Week of March 21 - 25, 2016

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 6: Most Recent Century, 1900 - 2013
Chapter 21: Collapse & Recovery of Europe, 1914 - 1979
First World War; Great Depression; Rise of Dictators & Authoritarian Rule
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Video: Schama's Power of Art: Guernica; Intro to WWII: Causes, Impact, & Course of the War (Compare to WWI); Finish Guernica; Roaring 20's -> Great Depression; Rise of Dictators in Europe
TUE -  WWII Begins: Hitler; Propaganda; Causes of WWII; German invasion of Poland, 1939
WED/THU - Remembering Pearl Harbor by Gladdis Smith (Looking back at the book 'At Dawn We Slept' by Gordon W. Prange.) - due during the period to the substitute.
Video Documentary: War of the Worlds: Part II - "Killing Space" w/Questions.
Documentary: War of the Worlds, Part II - Killing Space
Questions for War of the Worlds, Part II - Killing Space
FRI - NO SCHOOL - Good Friday
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Quiz CH 22 - "Communism": Monday, March 28
How depressing...
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Monday, March 21, 2016
Quote: "We are masters of the unsaid words, and slaves to those we let slip out." - Winston Churchill

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up questions over Power of Art: Guernica
2. Video: Finish the documentary over the Power of Art - Picasso - Guernica
3. Discuss the use of Propaganda in Germany: Leni Riefenstahl's "The Triumph of the Will"
View the first few minutes of the documentary. How does Triumph of the Will compare to Guernica?

Assignments:
Quiz CH 22 - "Communism": Monday, March 28
Leni Riefenstahl's masterpiece of Nazi propaganda, "The Triumph of the Will"
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Quote: "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Why does the Nazi party become so powerful in Germany? 
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: The Great Depression, Rise of Dictators, Beginning of WWII

 Assignments:
Quiz CH 22 - "Communism": Monday, March 28
Can you imagine the dollar not having any real worth? To the point of using it for kindling to build a fire?
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Wednesday, March 23 & Thursday, March 24, 2016
Quote: "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up the article -  Remembering Pearl Harbor by Gladdis Smith (Looking back at the book 'At Dawn We Slept' by Gordon W. Prange.) - due during the period to the substitute.
2. Video Documentary: War of the Worlds: Part II - "Killing Space" w/Questions.
Documentary: War of the Worlds, Part II - Killing Space
Questions for War of the Worlds, Part II - Killing Space

Assignments:
Quiz CH 22 - "Communism": Monday, March 28
There is a reason people trusted the Nazi government in Germany. They were working, eating, and more successful now.
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Friday, March 25, 2016
NO SCHOOL - GOOD FRIDAY
Assignments:
Quiz CH 22 - "Communism": Monday, March 28
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Agenda: March 7 - 11, 2016

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 6: Most Recent Century, 1900 - 2013
Chapter 21: Collapse & Recovery of Europe, 1914 - 1979
First World War; Great Depression; Rise of Dictators & Authoritarian Rule
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Reading Check Quiz CH 21; Review Quiz CH 21;
TUE -  WWI: Causes, Impact, & Course of the War
WED/THU - Nature of WWI: Trench Warfare; Conclusion, Aftermath, & Consequences of 'Great War'
FRI - Roaring 20's -> Great Depression; Rise of Dictators in Europe; Video: Schama's Power of Art: Guernica; Intro to WWII: Causes, Impact, & Course of the War (Compare to WWI)
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Assignments:
We will take the quiz this Monday over Chapter 21 on Monday... then watch the Power of Art Guernica on Friday.
Have a wonderful SPRING BREAK!
No work due after the break. Enjoy your time with your friends and family!
It sure seemed like it was going to be fun. Woops.
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Monday, March 07, 2016
Quote: "History is a myth that men agree to believe." - Napoleon

Learning Targets for Chapter 21—The Collapse and Recovery of Europe, 1914–1970s
 •  To examine the history of Europe between 1914 and the 1970s as an organic whole made up of closely interconnected parts
 •  To consider the repercussions of nationalism and colonialism in Europe and Japan
 •  To increase student awareness of the effects of the two world wars
 •  To help students imagine the appeal of totalitarian movements in the twentieth century 

BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS:
      1.   What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth century?
      2.   In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II?
      4.   In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?

Margin Review Questions:
      1.   What aspects of Europe’s nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War?
      2.   In what ways did World War I mark new departures in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
      4.   In what ways did fascism challenge the ideas and practices of European liberalism and democracy?
      5.   What was distinctive about the German expression of fascism? What was the basis of popular support for the Nazis?
      6.   How did Japan’s experience during the 1920s and 1930s resemble that of Germany, and how did it differ?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION - after the quiz: What aspects of Europe's 19th century history contributed to the First World War?
2. Reading Check Quiz CH 21
3. Review Quiz CH 21

Assignments: 
Crash Course: WWI - The Great War?
Crash Course: How WWI Started
Crash Course: Who Started WWI
Crash Course World War II
Crash Course A War For Resources - World War II
Sassoon captured the horrors of The Great War like few could.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Quote: Quote: "The war has ruined us for everything." - Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front  

Learning Targets for Chapter 21—The Collapse and Recovery of Europe, 1914–1970s
 •  To examine the history of Europe between 1914 and the 1970s as an organic whole made up of closely interconnected parts
 •  To consider the repercussions of nationalism and colonialism in Europe and Japan
 •  To increase student awareness of the effects of the two world wars
 •  To help students imagine the appeal of totalitarian movements in the twentieth century 

BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS:
      1.   What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth century?
      2.   In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II?
      4.   In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?

Margin Review Questions:
      1.   What aspects of Europe’s nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War?
      2.   In what ways did World War I mark new departures in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
      4.   In what ways did fascism challenge the ideas and practices of European liberalism and democracy?
      5.   What was distinctive about the German expression of fascism? What was the basis of popular support for the Nazis?
      6.   How did Japan’s experience during the 1920s and 1930s resemble that of Germany, and how did it differ?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: What was trench warfare like on the Western Front? Describe the sight, sounds, and feel of how it must have been.
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: First World War: European Civilization in Crisis. Causes, development, and historic difference from wars past.

MAIN - Causes of WWI: 
Militarism
Alliances
Industry/Imperialism
Nationalism
* plus assassination of Archduke FF

3. Trench Warfare Simulation.
4. Notes, Video, Discussion: End of the War; Aftermath; Repercussions of a failed peace.
Video clip from Andrew Marr's Making of Modern Britain: The Great War
Andrew Marr's A History of the World: Industry, minute 47:11 to End

Assignments: 
Crash Course: WWI - The Great War?
Crash Course: How WWI Started
Crash Course: Who Started WWI
Crash Course World War II
Crash Course A War For Resources - World War II
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
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Wednesday, March 09 & Thursday, March 10, 2016
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Learning Targets for Chapter 21—The Collapse and Recovery of Europe, 1914–1970s
 •  To examine the history of Europe between 1914 and the 1970s as an organic whole made up of closely interconnected parts
 •  To consider the repercussions of nationalism and colonialism in Europe and Japan
 •  To increase student awareness of the effects of the two world wars
 •  To help students imagine the appeal of totalitarian movements in the twentieth century 

BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS:
      1.   What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth century?
      2.   In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II?
      4.   In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?

Margin Review Questions:
      1.   What aspects of Europe’s nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War?
      2.   In what ways did World War I mark new departures in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
      4.   In what ways did fascism challenge the ideas and practices of European liberalism and democracy?
      5.   What was distinctive about the German expression of fascism? What was the basis of popular support for the Nazis?
      6.   How did Japan’s experience during the 1920s and 1930s resemble that of Germany, and how did it differ?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: End of WWI - Aftermath
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Roaring 20s, Great Depression, & Rise of Dictators.
4. Video w/Questions & Discussion at end: Power of Art: Picasso's Guernica
Video Questions for Power of Art Picasso's Guernica
Mr. Duez will show 10-20 minutes of the video and we'll discuss the impact of art on war and peace. Is Guernica propaganda?
Agree or disagree: Great art can instruct us on the obligations of being human. Explain your answer.
“Guernica is to painting what Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is to music: a cultural icon that speaks to mankind not only against war but also of hope and peace. It is a reference when speaking about genocide from El Salvador to Bosnia.” — Alejandro Escalona, on the 75th anniversary of the painting's creation
Assignments: 
Crash Course: WWI - The Great War?
Crash Course: How WWI Started
Crash Course: Who Started WWI
Crash Course World War II
Crash Course A War For Resources - World War II
"Never before has so much been owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill
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Friday, March 11, 2016
Quote: "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

Learning Targets for Chapter 21—The Collapse and Recovery of Europe, 1914–1970s
 •  To examine the history of Europe between 1914 and the 1970s as an organic whole made up of closely interconnected parts
 •  To consider the repercussions of nationalism and colonialism in Europe and Japan
 •  To increase student awareness of the effects of the two world wars
 •  To help students imagine the appeal of totalitarian movements in the twentieth century 

BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS:
      1.   What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth century?
      2.   In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II?
      4.   In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?

Margin Review Questions:
      1.   What aspects of Europe’s nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War?
      2.   In what ways did World War I mark new departures in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
      4.   In what ways did fascism challenge the ideas and practices of European liberalism and democracy?
      5.   What was distinctive about the German expression of fascism? What was the basis of popular support for the Nazis?
      6.   How did Japan’s experience during the 1920s and 1930s resemble that of Germany, and how did it differ?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: The Great Depression - World Wide global economic downturn. How did this happen and how did it impact the development of WWII?

 Assignments: 
Have a wonderful SPRING BREAK!
No work due after the break. Enjoy your time with your friends and family!
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The War of the World, Episode 1: Clash of Empires

VIDEO: The War of the World, Episode 1: Clash of Empires

 Questions to answer while viewing the video

Niall Ferguson's video series concerning the wars of the 20th century.

 The series considers the unparalleled stretch of violence as a single, unrelenting “war of the world” that began with Japan’s invasion of Russia in 1904 and continued through the Korean War all the way to an ongoing “Third World’s War.”

 Episode one, The Clash of Empires, posits that economic volatility, ethnic conflict and empires in crisis combined to spawn the 20th century’s bloodiest conflicts, leading to the rise of the brutal regimes of Germany, Japan and Russia, the “age of genocide” and a preoccupation with racial purity.
The houses caved in as they dissolved at its touch, and darted out flames; the trees changed to fire with a roar . . . So you understand the roaring wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world just as Monday was dawning - the stream of flight rising swiftly to a torrent, lashing in a foaming tumult round the railway stations . . . Did they dream they might exterminate us? 
H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
Ferguson compares "The War of the Worlds" to what he calls a "War of the World":
When I was a schoolboy, the history textbooks offered a variety of explanations for twentieth-century violence. 
Sometimes they related it to economic crisis, as if depressions and recessions could explain political conflict. A favourite device was to relate the rise of unemployment in Weimar Germany to the rise of the Nazi vote and Adolf Hitler's 'seizure' of power, which in turn was supposed to explain the Second World War. But, I came to wonder, might not rapid economic growth sometimes have been just as destabilizing as economic crisis? Then there was the theory that the century was all about class conflict - that revolutions were one of the main causes of violence. But were not ethnic divisions actually more important than the supposed struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie? 
Another argument was that the twentieth century's problems were the consequences of extreme versions of political ideologies, notably communism (extreme socialism) and fascism (extreme nationalism), as well as earlier evil 'isms', notably imperialism. But what about the role of traditional systems like religions, or of other apparently non-political ideas and assumptions that nevertheless had violent implications? 
And just who was fighting the twentieth century's wars? In the books I read as a boy, the leading roles were always played by nation states: Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the United States and so on. But was it not the case that some or all of these polities were in some measure multinational rather than national - were, indeed, empires rather than states? 
Above all, the old history books told the story of the twentieth century as a kind of protracted, painful but ultimately pleasing triumph of the West. The heroes (Western democracies) were confronted by a succession of villains (the Germans, the Japanese, the Russians) but ultimately good always triumphed over evil. The world wars and the Cold War were thus morality plays on a global stage. But were they? And did the West really win the hundred years war that was the twentieth century?
Love him or loathe him, you have to give Ferguson his due. He does his research. He takes a stand. He is a historian.
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