Lesson Plans April 20-May 18, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
•The Road to World War I: Industrialization, Nationalism, Militarism…& War
•In-Class Read Chap 13.1 Video Presentation: Syriana. (20 minutes)
•Lecture: “The Great War”
oSerbia & Franz Ferdinand, Treaty Alliances, Schlieffen Plan, Western Front, Eastern Front, Trench Warfare (machine gun, tanks), Gallipoli, Jutland, Submarine Warfare, Trench Warfare: The Somme, the Marne, Verdun, Tannenburg, Gallipoli
•“A Peace to End All Peace”—The Treaty of Versailles
•Film Excerpts: Gallipoli & Lawrence of Arabia
HW: (1) Read Chap 13.2 (2) Research Paper due Tuesday, Apr 28.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
•In-class reading Chapter 13.3
•Russian Civil War
•Silent Reading: Lenin & Bolsheviks (), Rasputin (), Russian Civil War (), totalitarianism (), collective farms (), Great Purge (). Kuomintang & Sun Yixian (), Mao Zedong (), May Fourth Movement (), the Long March (), Mohandas K. Gandhi (), civil disobedience (), Mustafa Kemal ()
•The Russian Revolution—Bolsheviks & Lenin
•Rise of the Totalitarian State—The Rise of Stalin
•Video: Syriana
HW: (1) Read Chap 14.1 and 14.2 (2) Research Paper due Tuesday April 28.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
•In-class reading Chapter 13.
•Kuomintang & Sun Yixian (), Mao Zedong (), May Fourth Movement (), the Long March (), Mohandas K. Gandhi (), civil disobedience (), Mustafa Kemal ()
•Rise of the Totalitarian State—The Rise of Josef Stalin
oStudent Presentations
•The Rise of Mao Zedong and Communist China
oStudent Presentations
•The Collapse of China’s Imperial Rule; Nationalism in SW Asia
•Video: The Last Emperor
HW: (1) Read Chapter 14.3 and 14.2 (2) Research Paper due Tuesday April 28.
Friday, April 24, 2009
•Unit Exam: Prior Concepts: from Enlightenment, Democratic Revolutionary Ideas, Nationalism; Industrial Revolution, Capitalism, Communism, Imperialism, Socialism, World War I, Russian Revolution,
HW: (1) Read Ch. 15.1 & 15.2. (2) Research Paper due Tues April 28.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
•Age of Uncertainty; Art & Thought as Reflection of the Times:
oRealism 241 (), Impressionism 243 (), Surrealism, Modernism
•The Age of Uncertainty, 1918-1939 Chap. 15.1
oDarwinism (), Einstein & the Theory of Relativity (), Freud & Psychoanalysis (), Existentialism 416 (), Nietszche ()
•The Great Depression: What is an Economic Depression?
•Video Excerpt: Syriana
HW: (1) Read ‘Age of Uncertainty,’ 15.2 421-425 & 15.3 426-430
Thursday, April 30, 2009
•The Rise of Fascism & the Start of World War II
oAppeasement (), Axis Powers (), Francisco Franco (), Third Reich (), Munich Conference (), Japan in Manchuria: “The Rape of Nanking”
•In-Class Silent Reading 15.4 427-430
•The Road to World War II: The Road to Total War
•The German Blitzkrieg 16.1 441-446
oBlitzkrieg (), de Gaulle (), Churchill (), Battle of Britain (), Africa Campaign ()
•Eastern Front: Stalingrad, Lenigrad, Kursk
oFilm Excerpt: Enemy at the Gates Stalingrad or War: A Commentary by Gwynne Dyer
HW: (1) Read Chapter 16.1 441-446
Friday, May 1, 2009
•Japanese Expansionism 16.2 447-450
oYamamoto (), Pearl Harbor (), Midway (), MacArthur (), Guadalcanal ()
•World War II: South Pacific, the Holocaust, Hiroshima/Nagasaki
•Silent Reading Chap 16.3
•Video Excerpt: Schindler’s List
HW: (1) Read Chap 16.4 447-450 (2) Final Digital Projects: PowerPoint Collage (1) explaining what Modernism is and what influenced its development, and (2) showing the lasting effects colonialism has had on Africa. Due Friday, May 15.
Monday, May 4, 2009
•In-class Reading: Post-War World—United Nations, Cold War 17.1 475-480
•Lecture on Cold War/Hot War
oThe Berlin Airlift 1948 & the Berlin Wall 1960, 17.1 p. 478 & 543
oKorea 17.3 486-487, Vietnam 17.3 488-450
oCuban Missile Crisis, 17.4 492-493
oVietnam & Afghanistan 17.4 491-495
HW: (1) Read Chapter 17.3 488-450 & 17.4 491-495
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
•The Birth of Israel & Origins of the Modern Middle East Crisis 18.4 521-525
o1948 War, Suez Crisis, 1967 War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, Intifada
•Video Excerpt: Syriana
HW: (1) Read Chapter 18.4 521-525, Chapter 19.3, 19.4
Thursday, May 7, 2009
•Post-Colonial & Non-Aligned Nations p 491:
oIn-Class Readings: SE Asia 18.2 512-515, Latin America 492-493, Africa 18.3 516-520
oVietnam, Afghanistan, Iran, India
•Video Excerpt: Syriana
HW: (1) Read Chapter sections 17.? 492-493, 18.2, 18.3
Friday, May 8, 2009
•The Berlin Wall Falls: the End of European Communism
oCold War Thaw: Khrushchev to Brezhnev to Gorbachev
oThe Fall of the of the Soviet Union 19.3 541-545, 19.4 546-550
♣In-class reading 17.5 496-499
HW: (1) Read Chapter 19.3 541-545
Monday, May 11, 2008
•Globalization: “The World Is Flat”
oThe Rise of China & India:
♣India & Pakistan, 18.1 505-509
♣Communist Triumph in China, 17.2, p. 482-485
♣China Ascendant 19.5 551-555
•Video Excerpt: Syriana
HW: (1) Read Chapter 17.2, 482-485, 19.5 551-555
Tuesday, May 12, 2008
•Jihadism: Islamic Fundamentalism versus the West
oSeptember 11, 2001
oIraq & Afghanistan
•Video Excerpt: Syriana
HW: (1) Read Chapter 20.2 p. 565-570
Thursday, May 15, 2008
•Video Excerpt: Syriana
•Final Exam Review
Monday, May 18, 2009
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•Final Exam Review
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Above: Vladimir Lenin with Josef Stalin. Lenin warned that Stalin was becoming too powerful and called for him to be removed. Below: Sigmund Freud, father of Psychoanalysis.
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Above, clockwise from left to right: Mushroom cloud over Hiroshima moments after the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb, August 6, 1945; Mohandas Gandhi, whose nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule led India to Independence; Osama bin Laden, leader of al Qaeda and suspected mastermind of the September, 11, 2001, destruction of the World Trade Center. Panoramic view of Jerusalem, epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Above: A Vickers machine gun in the trenches of the Western Front in World War I. A defensive weapon, machine guns allowed a small number of men to hold off thousands by filling the air with deadly metal. Below: Australian light horsemen using a periscope rifle at Gallipoli in 1915 in order to keep safe from Turkish machine gunners.
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Above: Nazi rally at Nuremburg, Germany, 1934. Below: A child dying in the streets of the crowded Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, where hunger and disease killed 43,000 in 1941 alone.
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Above: An apartheid sign on a beach in durban, South Africa, written in English, Afrikaans, and Zulu, 1989. Below: Nelson Mandela, in 1939. Anti-Apartheid activist served 27 years in a South African prison; he ultimately became the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative government.
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