VIRTUAL CHAN: DOWNLOADS: HISTORY 12

June 10: Mao to Now

Download China - postMAo.ppt

June 3: Decolonization in India

Download Gandhi-Jinnah speeches

June 1: Detente

Watch the full Nixon visit to China

•Read Pages:

–168-171 –
211-228

•Do:

–P 173 #1-3 –
P 216 #1-3
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P 220 #1a, 2
–P 226 Map Study #1-2
–P 228 #1,3,4 –
P 229 Map Study #1-3

May 29: American/ African Civil Rights

1. Read pp 292-301 of Viewpoints

2. Read/listen to the "I have a dream" speech

a. To what "dream" is King referring to? (summarize his dream)

b. What does King propose to do in order to achieve the dream?

3. Explain how each of the following terms relates to the struggle for civil rights (what is the significance?).

-Rosa Parks

-Martin Luther King Jr

-school desegregation

-1964 Civil Rights Act

-Sharpeville and Soweto

-Nelson Mandela

-ANC

May 26: Vietnam

Download VietnamDocuments

May 22: Ich Bin Ein Berliner!

British Propaganda

Download Berlin Wall Stories

May 20: Khruschev and the Warsaw Pact

Soviet Firsts

RUSSIA

USA

•April 1961 First man in space, Yuri Gagarin's one-orbit flight (Vostok 1)

•1961 First full day in orbit, Gherman Titov (Vostok 2) •

1962 First two-spacecraft mission (Vostoks 3 and 4) •1963 First long-duration mission, five days in orbit (Vostok5)
•1963 First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova (Vostok 6)

•March 18, 1965, Aleksei Leonov became the first person to venture outside an orbiting spacecraft.

•May 1961--American astronaut Alan Shepard went briefly into space, but not into orbit, Mercury 3

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•February 1962--John Glenn spent five hours in orbit on Mercury 6.

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June 1965--Gemini IV astronaut Edward White made the first U.S. spacewalk.

Firsts Continue

RUSSIA	USA
• September 1968 unmanned Zond spacecraft circles the moon and returns to Earth • (Russia lacked a rocket reliable enough to land on the moon but they had everything else, suit, orbiter, etc.) • • • 1970 landing of robotic rover- photos and analyze rock samples (overshadowed by the American landings)	• October 1968 unmanned circumlunar flight • December 1968 Apollo 8 orbits moon with crew and returns safely • May 1969 lunar descent module is tested to a low altitude above the moon • July 21, 1969 America’s Apollo 11 mission lands on the moon and the space race ends

U2 Spy Planes 1956

•Flies higher than fighter planes • • • • •
Equipped with the highest resolution cameras

May 19: Korean War

Korean War stories

May 14: Berlin Airlift & NATO

May 11: Iron Curtain

"Sinews of Peace" - Churchill 1946

Stalin's Interview in the Pravda - 1946

May 8: Cold War Beginnings

1.1. Read the excerpt from Peter Moss’s textbook History Alive 4: 1900-1970s (1977)

2.2. Create a list of evidence that reveals a bias in this excerpt. 3.
3. Using what you learned in today’s lesson, assess the validity (correctness) of the excerpt in note form. Take notes on points you believe are invalid.
a. What further questions would you need to answer to assess the validity. Use the internet to find the answers for homework. 4.
4. Answer the following in a paragraph: Is Peter Moss’s textbook a reliable source for understanding the differences between Russia and America that lead to the Cold War?

1.Bonus:
Create a simple comic strip with one Russian and one American having a conversation about their countries

2.Have your comic show the growing tension between the two characters as they criticize the other country.
3.Include differences in beliefs, different aims, discuss historical events, actions at conferences. 4.
Include illustrations, not just words and people.

May 7: Deconlonization

Anti-Decolonization opinions

Pro-Decolonization

April 24: Hiroshima

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=77A781A0B7195F77&search_query=bbc: hiroshima

April 22: Battles of the Pacific

Download The Battle of Coral Sea

Download Battle of Midway

Download The Battle of Leyte Gulf

Download The Battle of Iwo Jima

April 9: American attitudes during WWII

Worker Towns:

Defeatism:

Japanese:

War Bonds:

Advertisements:

Attitudes about Women

Attitudes about Youths:

April 8: Why was D-Day successful?

Why was D-Day successful?

Create a storyboard that shows 6 reasons why D-Day was successful with a 50 word description/ caption.

Mar 26: How worried was Britain about an invasion?

How Worried Was Britain?

Multi-paragraph composition to answer the key quesetion DUE MONDAY!

Mar 24: Road to war - Reasons for the Nazi-Soviet Pact

Time to prepare for war •
Stalin said: ‘We got peace for our country for 18 months, which let us make military preparations’. Hope to gain
•‘Stalin was sure that Russia could only gain from a long war in which Britain, France and Germany exhausted themselves.’
Unhappy with Britain •
Stalin was insulted by Britain’s slowness to negotiate, and did not trust Britain. When the Anglo-Soviet alliance failed, he turned to Germany.
Germany •
Hitler wanted the alliance because only Russia could keep Britain’s promise to defend Poland. He believed that, if he got a promise of peace with Russia, Britain would be forced to back down over Poland and Danzig

Failure of Anglo-Soviet Talks:

Suspicion
a.  Chamberlain did not trust Stalin, who was a Communist and a dictator. In particular, he would not ever have allowed Russia to control Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
b.  The Russians thought Britain wanted to trick them into war against Germany.
c.  Poland did not trust that the Russians (who wanted to send troops into Poland), once in, would ever leave.
Choice
a.   Britain could not send troops to fight in Poland, so if Stalin supported Britain, he would end up fighting a war in Poland on Britain's behalf
b.   On the other hand, Hitler was promising him peace, half of Poland and a"sphere of influence over eastern Europe

Appeasement

After Munich (being left out), Stalin was convinced that Britain would break its promise to Poland. He was convinced that Britain would leave Russia fighting Hitler alone.

Britain delayed

a. At first, Lord Halifax (secretary of state) refused Stalin’s offer of a meeting.
b. When the British sent an official, he could not make any decisions. Staling got fed up with the British delay.
Invasion of Czechoslovakia:
reasons:

lebensraum
no fear of opposition from Britain (appeasement precedent has been set)
defend Germans in Poland against the Poles
defy Treaty of Versailles
oppose Communism in Poland
part Nazi-Soviet agreement

all linked to Mein Kampf

after Germany took Czechoslovakia, Britain promised to defend Poland if Germany invaded it
Germany invades on Sept 1, 1939, Britain declares war Sept 3