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…

Adjectives to add into essay – https://i.pinimg.com/736x/76/06/e9/7606e947b0a1f1c244bc7e9a32bae0a9.jpg

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.

Thesis examples:

https://history12me.weebly.com/thesis-statements.html

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/thesis-statement-examples.html

1. How is the NATO expansion of a continuation of the Cold War struggle for territory? Why did the expansion anger Russia?

2. There are many legal questions about violating sovereignty in the name of protecting human rights. Can we? Should we? When? Who should do it?

3. What countries do you see as powerhouses in the 21st century? Why? Consider geostrategic positions, military, economy, political culture, etc.

In the following questions, please use terms, conceptions, important figures, and dates of events from the textbook to support you answers.

Remember, this is practice for the final essay so make sure that you provide your own personal opinions and evidence from the readings/videos/discussions in class, thanks!

Essay Questions (Pick 1 Out of the 2, make sure that your response is at least 200 words):

1. What does the designation of intellectual property as a tradable good tell you about the international economy at the end of the twentieth century? Given the trend toward nuclear proliferation, do you think it is possible to prevent nuclear war?

2. What does the outbreak of genocide, ethic cleansing, and terrorist bombings in the 1990s tell you about the nature of the post-Cold War world? Do you think the rise in nationalist violence and the growing number of regional and international organizations signals the end of the nation-state as the most important actor in the international arena?

1. How does the Chernobyl accident demonstrate increasing globalization by the mid-1980s?

2. What does this Solidarity poster tell you about the role of globalization in the unraveling of the Iron Curtain?

3. How did glasnost and perestroika challenge the traditional concept of Soviet communism? Explain why the turn away from communism across Eastern Europe was so sudden. Why was it violent in some countries and peaceful in others?

4. How much of the Cold War decision making was based on Ideology? On military/security concerns? On economic/trade considerations?

5. Did the end of the USSR mean the United States was the only superpower? Or did it completely restructure the international arena?

1. In the context of the Cold War, why was it so important to the Untied States to broker a peace settlement between Israel and Egypt?

2. Why did religion confuse Cold War decision maker?

3. What factors prevented President Carter from accurately assessing the political situation in Iran?

4. Why did the United States use the CIA to participate in Afghanistan? Why open relations with a dictator in Pakistan? What are the long-term consequences of these decision?

1. What were the short-term economic and social effects of the black market in the USSR? Can you envision what the long-term consequences might be?

2. What is the legacy of the NPT? Was the NPT a useful tool during the Cold War? Should the NPT a useful tool during the Cold War? Should the NPT be maintained or abolished now that the Cold War is over?

3. Why use the CIA to intervene in Latin American affairs instead of the U.S. military or political diplomacy?

4. How much of the “Space Race” do you think was political or ideological, and how much was strategic?

1. What effect did decolonization have on the structures and processes of the United Nations?

2. What effect did decolonization have on decision making and power within the United Nations?

3. How did the wording of the Geneva Agreements affect Soviet and American actions in the late 1950s and early 1960s?

4. Why wasn’t the United States able to defeat North Vietnam? How did the media and expanding communications affect the decision making of the parties involved in Vietnam?

5. Why did the United Nations take the lead role in decolonization? What was its goal for new countries?

6. What do you think might be the long-term effects of “Divide and rule” policies?

7. Is Pan-Africanism a reasonable goal, why or why not?

8. How did U.S. Soviet and Chinese intervention in Vietnam affect the images of these countries around the world? Why the difference?

9. What do you think was the greatest challenge to creating stable states in Africa in the 1950s though the 1970s?

10. What might be the long-term consequences for the United States in the Cold War if it consistently bases foreign policy decisions on the “Domino Theory”?

1. What was Khrushchev trying to prove in the “Kitchen Debate”?

2. How did the U-2 spy plane incident affect intelligence gathering?

3. Why were Soviet Nuclear missiles a bigger threat to the United States when placed in Cuba?

4. What did Khrushchev hope to gain with “de-Stalinization”? Did he succeed?

5. What effect did it have on nationalism in satellite states?

6. Why were the Cuban people willing to follow Castro even into communism?

7. What were the short- and long-term consequences of the Berlin Wall?

8. Why did the United States believe that WWIII would begin in Berlin?

9. Why did Khrushchev support “peaceful coexistence”? Did it change the Cold War as he hoped?

10. How might the U.S. embargo and quarantine of Cuba affect its image across Latin America?

Please watching the videos and do the readings for the following questions:

1. In your opinion, based off of the readings, should the United States and the USSR have invested so much money in expanding nuclear technology that they could not use without world-wide devastation?

2. What were the differences between Stalin’s version of communism and Mao’s?

3. How did the Sino-Soviet split affect US decision making?

4. Why wasn’t Korea granted full independence immediately following WWII?

5. Should UN troops have stopped at the 38th parallel or tried to reunite Korea?

6. Was the battle by proxy a reasonable way to prevent WWII?

7. How did the arms race affect national security concerns in Europe and Asia?

Questions for homework:

1. Why was the United Nations created after the failure of the League of Nations.

2. How did the Great Depression of the 1930s lead to the Bretton Woods system.

3. Explain in your own words what the IFM and World Bank is about. In your opinion, what are the positives and negative perceptions of the two organizations.

Questions for readings:

1. How did WWII affect European civilians? What were the implications of the East/West divide into Spheres of Influence? What were the immediate effects of decolonization for people in the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia?

2. How did the victorious Allies settle land disputes at the end of WWII? What were the short-term effects of occupation zones? What were the geographic consequences of decolonization from 1945-1950?

3. In your own words, based off of the textbook, why was there an increase in regional organizations in the post-war era? What were the ramifications of the linkage between cold-war politics and economics?

Please watch these videos and answer the questions on the worksheet, thanks!

Worksheet-

Video Links

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/image/empires-world-war-i

Imagine that you are a reporter during World War 1.  What kind of writer would you be?  What type of things would you like to write about?  In this assignment you will write as if you were a reporter during the War.  First, you have to decide if you will be writing from the perspective of a reporter on the battle field or at the Homefront.  Then you have to give your newspaper a name such as the “New York Times”.  Your newspaper will contain pictures and events from one battle in WWI history.  You need to write the events as if the events you described happened just a few days ago.  Your newspaper should be a minimum of 200 – 300 words.

Your grade will be determined by how well you describe the events, how many details you provide in your articles and the thoroughness of your research.   Each part should also have a headline.   Grammar, spelling and punctuation errors will result in a loss of points for each individual. There should be no excess white space in your newspaper. You may choose to include pictures with captions, political cartoons, advertisements, etc. to complete your newspaper.  All pictures, political cartoons, advertisements, etc.  must be relevant to the time period. 

You must use 2 resources other than your textbook for the newspaper.  Internet sources are acceptable as long as they come from reputable academic sites and are properly cited.  (Do not cite Wikipedia as a source)  On a separate sheet of paper you need to list your resources in a works cited page.   Failure to attach a works cited page will result in the loss of one letter grade. 

The Basic Story Outline

The best way to structure a newspaper article is to first write an outline. Review your research and notes. Then jot down ideas for the following six sections. Remember, this is just a foundation upon which to build your story.

I. Lead sentence

Grab and hook your reader right away.

II. Introduction

Which facts and figures will ground your story? You have to tell your readers where and when this story is happening.

III. Opening quotation 

What will give the reader a sense of the people involved and what they are thinking?

IV. Main body

What is at the heart of your story?

V. Closing quotation

Find something that sums the article up in a few words.

VI. Conclusion (optional—the closing quote may do the job)

What is a memorable way to end your story? The end quote is a good way to sum things up. That doesn’t always work. If you are quoting more than one person with different points of view in your story, you cannot end with a quote from just one of them. Giving one of your interviewees the last word can tilt the story in their favor. In this age of the Internet, you can also end your story with a link to more information or even your own behind-the-scenes blog post.

Please take a look at the sample newspaper here.

https://www.makemynewspaper.com/

Follow the instructions said in class and feel free to ask any important questions, thanks!

How to do citations for MLA format

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html

Making a Newspaper Website (Please use this website!)

https://www.newspaperclub.com/

Here’s the video of the assassination of arch duke Ferdinand

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1b4wmDxGaMjB3wPG92s_qer9DBl_0Aq0n4bWFrRvSodw/edit#slide=id.g625b39f1c3_0_84

Here’s the PowerPoint for WWI, feel free to ask any questions or concerns to Mr. Sha in class, thanks!

Based on your readings in your text book and the resources given to you, your task is to prepare the following sections on your poster. This poster should take the form of a three dimensional model, a series of cartoon frames, pictures, or maps or famous people’s quotes or stories or a combination of these.

1.      Location. Draw a series of maps to show important events and places in the Empire. Be sure to elaborate on these places and events and discuss their importance. 20 marks

2.      Time line. Choose a minimum of ten and a maximum of 15 time line events you consider important to understand the Empire. Elaborate on these events.20 marks

3.      Daily Life. Family Life, work, entertainment, architecture, achievements, art.20 marks

4.      Important people: Writers, Historians, Emperors. 20 marks

5.      Politics. Causes of political tensions, expansion, power struggle. 20 marks

This project can be done alone or in groups of no more than four students. For this project to be successful, you must do the following:

1.      Form a group and plan out what you want to do and who will be doing it.

2.      Take notes based on your research and write the ideas in your own words.

3.      Do not copy and pretend the work you have plagiarized is yours. You and your entire group will receive a zero (0) mark.

4.      Each member of the group is directly responsible for the success of the whole group. If you do not contribute, your group mark will be lowered.

5.      If you miss class time while your group is preparing or you are not present during the presentation, your group mark will be lowered. Medical reasons will be excused.

6.      In any case, if you know you will not be there on presentation day, you must give your materials to another student who can present your part for you.

7.      Marks for each section will be awarded as follows: 1. Oral presentation, based on an introduction, main facts, and conclusion (10 marks). 2. Written work, done neatly and with effort, focussing on a clear theme (10 marks).

100 MARKS TOTAL

Please download the course outline here:

If you have any questions, please send an email to tom.sha@franklinschool.ca. Thanks!

Please download the word file and complete the self-assessment individually. If you have any questions, feel free to ask Mr. Sha. We will be conducting semester end exit interviews on Jan 16-17.