Time Frame: 1900s-2000 (approximately, some leeway can be given)

Focus: World History 20th Century(Canadian connections/relations)

Purposes:
o To inquire about a subject of your interest by creating an essential question that will anchor your work

o To research that subject and present your findings

o If possible, to use primary sources as well as secondary in your research process o To explore the impact of your topic on the generation in which it occurred as well as on your current generation, GEN Z

Products:
o Research notes, point form, with textual references included

o A final Works Cited, on a separate page, listing all of the sources you USED, not consulted o Interview with Teacher, or Teacher-librarian about your topic, research and question(s)

o Final presentation of 5-10 minutes duration with some form of visual—poster, slide show, reenactment, performance, political cartoon, 3-D manipulative, “Heritage Minute” style video…

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Coraline***

United States and Russia in the Cold War

1.. What are the greatest factors that caused the Cold War and it’s end?

2. What are the most significant/critical roles that the USSR have played in the Cold War, militarily, economically, and socially?

3. Which major factors during the Cold War contributed the rise of the United States as a global superpower?

4. What specific social, cultural, political, and economic changes have occurred in the lives of Americans and Russians during the Cold War?

5. What are the most significant changes in United States and USSR at the end of the Cold War?

6. What were the most important events that affected Russians during he Cold War? And do the legacies of these events still affect Russians today?

T: The relationship between the United states and Russia has changed a lot since the Cold War

T: Relations between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War were driven by a complex interplay of ideological, political, and economic factors; which resulted into competition, rivalry, and distrust of each other during the this period.

Sandara***

China in the 20th Century to Today

1. What essential factors led to China’s emergence from its isolation in 1900s?

2. What are the most significant/critical roles that China played in World War One and World War Two, militarily, economically, and socially?

3. What major roles did Chinese women play in World War One and World War Two, and how did their participation in the war manifest in china’s social system during that time?

4. What specific social, cultural, political, and economic changes were developed in the lives of the Chinese people during World War One and Two?

5. What are the most significant factors which led to China become a great power today?

6. What significant effects did The Students’ Revolution have in China during World War One and World War Two? And do the legacies of these events still affect Chinese people today?

T: China has been developing from the 20th century to the present, militarily, politically and economically. After the revolution of 1911, the first and second world wars and other major reforms, China began to move from an economically closed agricultural society to an industrial one. From feudalism to democracy in politics; In terms of ideology and culture, China has established a corresponding spiritual civilization.

To sum up, China aims to build itself into a prosperous, strong, democratic and culturally advanced modern country.

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