Agenda: Week of April 1-5, 2019

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Ch. 21 "Collapse & Recovery of Europe"
Ch. 22 "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Week at a Glance:
MON: Quiz CH 22 - World Communism; Quiz Review
TUE: End of WWII - Stalingrad, D-Day, War in the Pacific; A-Bombs & V-J Day; Post War - Cold War
WED/THU: DBQ Timed-Writing Prep; Chinese Communism; Comparing Russian & Chinese Communism; Rise of the Soviet Union
FRI: Notes: 22 Cold War; The Wall; Perestroika/Glasnost;  Cold War & the Nuclear Age; Time Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Monday, April 8th: TEST CH 21 & 22 
Friday, April 12th: DBQ Timed-Writing - DBQ
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Monday, April 1, 2019
Quote: "I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake." - Lewis Black

 Agenda:
1. Quiz CH 22 - World Communism
2. Review Quiz


ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Monday, April 8th: TEST CH 21 & 22 
Friday, April 12th: DBQ Timed-Writing - DBQ
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019 
Quote: "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." - Pablo Picasso

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What are Hitler's 2 big mistakes?
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: End of WWII - Stalingrad, D-Day, War in the Pacific; A-Bombs & V-J Day; Post War - Cold War

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, April 8th: TEST CH 21 & 22 
Friday, April 12th: DBQ Timed-Writing - DBQ
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019 &
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Quote: "Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort." - Mason Cooley

 Agenda:
1. DBQ #1: Document Groups, Analysis; Group up the documents from the first question. We will work in groups to determine the best grouping for answering this question. 

Student Samples will be reviewed in class from the question. Focus on Chinese Communism Question.
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Chinese Communism; Comparing Russian & Chinese Communism; Rise of the Soviet Union

 ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, April 8th: TEST CH 21 & 22 
Friday, April 12th: DBQ Timed-Writing - DBQ
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Friday, April 5th, 2019
Quote: "Without music life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Truman's speech "Atomic Weapon - Japan. August 6, 1945"
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: 22 Cold War; The Wall; Perestroika/Glasnost;  Cold War & the Nuclear Age; Time Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945

 Cold War:
Nuclear Weapons: A Time-Lapse History
and Audio Excerpt from Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" Podcast 
Begin at 2:46:00 out of 5:58:18
What happens if human beings can't handle the power of their own weaponry?
This show examines the dangerous early years of the Nuclear Age and humankind's efforts to avoid self-destruction at the hands of its own creation.
Discussing the impact of the atomic bomb on the Japanese.

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, April 8th: TEST CH 21 & 22 
Friday, April 12th: DBQ Timed-Writing - DBQ
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Agenda: Week of March 25-29, 2019

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 6: The Most Recent Century, 1914 - 2010
Chapter 21: Collapse & Recovery of Europe
Chapter 22: Rise & Fall of World Communism
Week at a Glance:
MON - Quiz CH 21 - Collapse & Recovery of Europe - Pass out & Discuss: DBQ Question #1 - Chinese Peasants Relationship with Communism
TUE - Responses to The Great Depression; Video: Schama's Power of Art: Guernica & Video Questions for Guernica
WED/THU - WWII - War in Europe (Blitzkrieg, Battle of Britain; Pearl Harbor; Operation Torch; Operation Barbarossa) 
WWII - War in Asia (Strategy of Island Hopping; Differences between War in Europe & Asia; Soviet Advance on Japan; US Use of Atomic Weapons)
FRI - End of WWII Brings a "Cold War" - Really the "Third World War" -- as in the 'third world' or 'global south'; Finish WWII - Post war peace; Rebuilding of Europe; Introduction to Ch 22: "World Communism"
Documentary: The War of the World, Episode 5: Ice Box
Questions for the documentary: Ice Box
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 25th - Quiz CH 21 "Collapse & Recovery of Europe"
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Wed/Thu April 3rd & 4th - TEST: Unit 6 "Most Recent Century" - CH 21 & 22 & DBQ Timed-Writing
DBQ FLIP: Thursday, April 5th
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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?
Here's the Hitler Rant Video - "Hitler Hates Duez"

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Monday, March 25, 2019
Quote: "At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction." - Michelle Obama

 Agenda:
1. Quiz Chapter 21 - Collapse & Recovery of Europe

 2. Review Quiz CH 21 
Question after quiz... Pick up the DBQ Packet at the front of the classroom
Concentrate on the first question - Chinese Communism. 
ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 25th - Quiz CH 21 "Collapse & Recovery of Europe"
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Wed/Thu April 3rd & 4th - TEST: Unit 6 "Most Recent Century" - CH 21 & 22 & DBQ Timed-Writing
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The Germans perfected the use & coordination of mechanized tools for war with horrific consequences.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Quote: Quote: "There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war." -Gary Zukav

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: How did the Great Depression impact the rest of the world?

2. Video: Schama's Power of Art: Guernica & Video Questions for Guernica
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 25th - Quiz CH 21 "Collapse & Recovery of Europe"
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Wed/Thu April 3rd & 4th - TEST: Unit 6 "Most Recent Century" - CH 21 & 22 & DBQ Timed-Writing
In 1942 the world teetered on a knife's edge.
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Wednesday, March 27th &
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
Quote: "Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair." - R.D. Laing

 1. DO NOW QUESTION: Why did the German people turn to Hitler's Nazi Party?

2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: WWII - WWII - War in Europe (Blitzkrieg, Battle of Britain; Pearl Harbor; Operation Torch; Operation Barbarossa); Stalingrad & Operation Torch; D-Day Invasion & Victory in Europe
What were Hitler's 2 Big Mistakes?

3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Victory in Pacific: 
Mr. Duez's Trip to Pearl Harbor & 
War in the Pacific (Video: Making of The Pacific Anatomy of a War - HBO)
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

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 25th - Quiz CH 21 "Collapse & Recovery of Europe"
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Wed/Thu April 3rd & 4th - TEST: Unit 6 "Most Recent Century" - CH 21 & 22 & DBQ Timed-Writing
The War in the Pacific had a different DNA than the War in Europe
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Friday March 29, 2019
Quote: "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass

1. DO NOW QUESTION: 

 2. Notes, Video, Discussion - Finish WWII - Post war peace; Rebuilding of Europe

4. Documentary Study: The War of the World, Episode 5: Ice Box
Questions for the documentary: Ice Box

How did the cold war affect countries emerging from colonial rule in the second half of the twentieth century?
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Agenda: Week of March 18-22, 2019

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 - WWI Causes & Events - The Road to War - Trench Warfare; Trench War simulation
TUE - End of WWI; Versailles Treaty; Roaring 20's -> Capitalism Unraveled - Great Depression; Video: World War One in 6 Minutes by RudTheSpud
WED/THU - Video: Schama's Power of Art: Guernica & Video Questions for Guernica; Rise of Authoritarian Rulers; WWII Begins: Causes of WWII; Japanese Invasion of Manchuria 1937; Hitler; Propaganda; German invasion of Poland, 1939; The Nature of WWII: Differences between the War in Europe & Pacific Theaters
FRI - Documentary: War of the Worlds, Part II - Killing Space & Questions for War of the Worlds; End of WWII - Asian Theater of War; Recovery Brings A Cold War
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 25th - Quiz CH 21 "Collapse & Recovery of Europe"
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Wed/Thu, April 3rd & 4th - TEST: Unit 6 "Most Recent Century" - CH 21 & 22 - Plus, DBQ
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Monday, March 18, 2019
Quote: "We are masters of the unsaid words, and slaves to those we let slip out." - Winston Churchill

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: New Seats
What was the nature of Trench Warfare? 

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: WWI - Trench Warfare; Trench War simulation;
WWI Causes & Events - The Road to War - Trench Warfare

3. Trench Warfare Simulation

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 25th - Quiz CH 21 "Collapse & Recovery of Europe"
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Wed/Thu, April 3rd & 4th - TEST: Unit 6 "Most Recent Century" - CH 21 & 22 - Plus, DBQ
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Quote: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." - Adolf Hitler

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Compare the two images


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ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 25th - Quiz CH 21 "Collapse & Recovery of Europe"
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Wed/Thu, April 3rd & 4th - TEST: Unit 6 "Most Recent Century" - CH 21 & 22 - Plus, DBQ
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
and Thursday, March 21, 2019
Quote: "We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender... " - Winston Churchill

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: How did the Great Depression impact countries around the world? 
2. Notes, Video, Discussion:   How the end of WWI will spur on WWII - End of WWI; Versailles Treaty
Roaring 20's -> Capitalism Unraveled - Great Depression; Rise of Dictators in Europe
 Roaring 20's -> Capitalism Unraveled - Great Depression

Video: World War One in 6 Minutes by RudTheSpud
Pick up questions for Power of Art
Video: Schama's Power of Art: Guernica

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: World War II Begins - But where does it begin first? 
In what way was nationalist Japan most similar to fascist Italy and Nazi Germany?
The Great Depression & Rise of Dictators
How capitalism & democracy failed - but why did it fail?
Rise of Authoritarian Rulers; WWII Begins: Causes of WWII; Japanese Invasion of Manchuria 1937; Hitler; Propaganda; German invasion of Poland, 1939; The Nature of WWII: Differences between the War in Europe & Pacific Theaters

3. Notes, Video, Discussion: 2nd 45 Min: Major Battles & Course of WWII: Blitzkrieg 
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 25th - Quiz CH 21 "Collapse & Recovery of Europe"
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Wed/Thu, April 3rd & 4th - TEST: Unit 6 "Most Recent Century" - CH 21 & 22 - Plus, DBQ
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Friday, March 22, 2019
Quote: "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hindu Scripture, the Bhagavad Gita

1. DO NOW: What are Hitler's 2 big mistakes in WWII? 

2. Video w/Questions - 1st 20 Minutes: 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

 3. Notes, Video, Discussion: The end of WWII - Asian Theater of War; Atomic/Nuclear Age
Asian Theatre of War: The Pacific - Island Hopping; 
1945: Atomic Bombs Bring Final Victory in Japan; 
End of WWII - Asian Theater of War; Recovery Brings A Cold War
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 25th - Quiz CH 21 "Collapse & Recovery of Europe"
Monday, April 1st - Quiz CH 22 - "Rise & Fall of World Communism"
Wed/Thu, April 3rd & 4th - TEST: Unit 6 "Most Recent Century" - CH 21 & 22 - Plus, DBQ 
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Agenda: Week of March 4-8, 2019

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Advanced Placement WORLD HISTORY with Mr. Duez
CH 19 -  Internal Troubles, External Threats and CH 20 - Colonial Encounters
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Quiz CH 20 - Colonial Encounters
TUE - British Imperialism & India
WED -   TEST CH 19 & 20 
FRI - Introduction to WWI - VIDEO: Ferguson's War of the World: Episode One: The Clash of Empires; Video Questions & Viewing Guide.
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ASSIGNMENTS:
WED/THU: TEST CH 19 & 20
Have a wonderful SPRING BREAK! No Quiz on the Monday after the break!
No work due after the break. Enjoy your time with your friends and family!
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Monday, March 04, 2019
Quote: "History is a myth that men agree to believe." - Napoleon

Agenda:
1. QUIZ CH 20 - Colonial Encounters

 2. Review Quiz

Assignments:
WED/THU: TEST CH 19 & 20
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Quote:  "Ongoing research continues to demonstrate conclusively that your IQ is an excellent predictor of your score on an IQ test." - Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Agenda: 
1. DO NOW QUESTION: What was the result of Westernization on those who were colonized?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: 2nd Wave of Imperialism - India

3. Document Analysis: Chicken Tikka Masala - today it's the national dish of Britain.

Assignments:
WED/THU: TEST CH 19 & 20
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
and Thursday, March 8, 2019
Quote: "A life without love is like a year without spring." -Octavian Paller
Agenda:
1. TEST: CH. 19 & 20 Test

ASSIGNMENT:


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Friday, March 9, 2018
Quote: "The war has ruined us for everything." - Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front  

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up the video questions for Part 1 of War of the World, by Ferguson
Video Questions & Viewing Guide
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

2. Video Study: Niall Ferguson's The War of the World
The series begins with how the first World War ignited fires of racial animosity in people, exploited by new and more terrible nation-states that were far more preoccupied with national and racial purity. It was the beginning of an age of genocide.

Video Questions & Viewing Guide. Will collect answers at the end of the period.
Discussion and introduction of World War I. 

 ASSIGNMENT:
No assigned work over Spring Break
Enjoy your break!
Come back rested and ready for the sprint to the finish line!
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