Friday, May 28, 2010

HW 5/28 CL Regents Review 4

Castle Learning Assignment: Regents Review 4

Assigned: Friday, May 28th
Due: Tuesday, June 1st

60 Questions

How Will I Be Graded?: This assignment will be graded differently than the previous assignments. You will be given a grade based your raw score. What does that mean? You will be given a score out of 100 based on the number of questions you answered correctly on the first try.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

HW Castle Learning Regents Review 3

Castle Learning Assignment: Regents Review 3

Assigned: Tuesday, May 25th
Due: Friday, May 28th

60 Questions

How Will I Be Graded?: This assignment will be graded differently than the previous assignments. You will be given a grade based your raw score. What does that mean? You will be given a score out of 100 based on the number of questions you answered correctly on the first try.

Friday, May 21, 2010

HW 5/21 Castle Learning

Castle Learning Assignment: Regents Review 2

Assigned: Friday, May 21st
Due: Tuesday, May 25th

60 Questions: Golden Ages to Beginning of Industrial Revolution

How Will I Be Graded?: You will be given a grade based your score titled "Score with Retry as Half Credit." What does that mean? You have a base score of the number that you got correct, but if you got the answer correct on a re-try that will count as half credit.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

HW 5/18 Castle Learning

Castle Learning Assignment: Regents Review 1

Assigned: Tuesday, May 18th
Due: Friday, May 21st

60 Questions on early history through the Golden Ages

How Will I Be Graded?: You will be given a grade based on the number of correct responses on your Castle Learning assignment.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

HW 5/11 Ch. 35, Sec. 3 & 4

Read Chapter 35, Sections 3 & 4 in your textbook and complete the tasks listed below for each section.

Due: Thursday, 5/13*

*This assignment will not be accepted late. Failure to hand in your work on or before the due date will result in a zero for these assignments.

Chapter 35, Section 3:

1. Identify the following terms:

a. Politburo
b. Mikhail Gorbachev
c. glasnost
d. Perestroika
e. Solidarity
f. Lech Walsea
g. reunification

2. For each country discussed in the reading, identify:

a. Reforms that were made
b. Leaders of the reform (Hungary is the only country without a leader listed)
c. The results of these reforms.

You are free to create a chart to organize this information or write about these reforms in paragraph format.


Chpater 35, Section 4:

1. Identify the following terms:

a. Boris Yeltsin
b. "shock therapy"

2. In SRF Format:

Discuss the economic and cultural challenges faced by the former Soviet Union (including Russia and other territories) in the Yeltsin Era. You must include concepts about "shock therapy" and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.

REMEMBER: THIS ASSINGMENT IS DUE ON THURSDAY AND CANNOT BE HANDED IN LATE.

Monday, May 10, 2010

HW 5/10 Ch. 33, Sec. 5

Read Chapter 33, Section 5 in your textbook. As you read, complete the following tasks.

Due: Tuesday, May 11*

*This assignment will not be accepted late as we will be discussing it tomorrow in class. If you do not have the assignment with you in class, you will not be able to make it up.

Identify the following terms:

a. Nikita Kruschev
b. destalinization
c. Leonid Brehznev
d. Imre Nagy
e. Alexander Dubcek
f. detente
g. SALT
h. Star Wars

Create a chart that lists:

1. Leaders
-- You must include: Kruschev, Dubcek, Brehznev, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan)
2. Actions they took or programs they created
3. Whether this leader escalated (increased) Cold War tension or contributed to the detente of the Cold War.

You should refer to the example given in class, remember that this assignment CAN NOT be handed in late.

Study Guide: Cold War

Cold War Exam
Monday, May 17th


Those absent on Exam Day will be subject to a make-up exam.

Materials to Study:

Document Packets:
- Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
- Marshall Plan
- Truman Doctrine
- Warsaw Pact
- NATO Treaty
- Why They Call it a W-A-R
- Maps and Timelines of Korea, Germany, Vietnam

Textbook:
Chapter 33 Sections 1,3,4,5
Chapter 35, Sections 3 & 4

Class Notes:
- Yalta and Potsdam Notes
- Hot Spots of the Cold War
- Germany: Divison and Unification Packet
- Vietnam War Packet and Effects Notes
- Command Economy vs. Free Market Economy
- Cool Down of the Cold War
- Collapse of the Soviet Union


Terms to Know:

Cold War
USSR
US
Command Economy
Free Market Economy
Factors of Production
Capitalism
Democracy
Communism
Yalta & Potsdam Conferences
Iron Curtain
Churchill, Atlee, Stalin, Kruschev, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, JFK
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Containment
Domino Theory
Sputnik
Space Race
Arms Race
Korean War
-38th Parallel
Vietnam War
- N. Vietnam
- S. Vietnam
- Vietcong
- Vietnamization
- Guerilla Warfare
Developing Nations
- Nicaragua
- Cuba
- Chile
- Congo
- Egypt
- Guatemala
Nonaligned Nation
Brehznev
Dubcek
Detente
SALT
Star Wars
Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Solidarity
Walesa
Yeltsin
Shock Therapy

Short Answer Questions:

1. Discuss three examples of how the United States and other Western nations carried out the policy of containment (ex: Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Vietnam War, NATO, Korean War, Berlin Airlift).

2. Discuss the impact of the Cold War on international relations. (Examples: US or USSR relations with China, Vietnam, Korea, Nicaragua, Cuba, Chile, Egypt, Congo, Guatemala)

3. Discuss the basic differences between a command economy and a free market economy.

4. Discuss three conditions that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. (Examples: Detente, resistance in satellite nations, Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika, solidarity, reunification of Germany, Yeltsin's "shock therapy")

Exam Format:

Multiple Choice
Short Answer
Identifying Terms (Who, what, where, when, SO WHAT?-- why is this important to the big picture of the Post World War II World?)

Monday, May 3, 2010

HE 5/3 Ch. 33, Sec. 3

Read Chapter 33, Section 3 in your textbook and complete the following tasks:

Due: Tuesday, 5/4

1. Identify the following terms:
a. 38th parallel
b. Douglas MacArthur
c. Ho Chi Minh
d. domino theory
e. Ngo Dinh Hidm
f. Vietcong
g. Veitnamization
h. Khmer Rouge

2. What effects did the Korean War have on the Korean people and nation?

3. How did the domino theory encourage American involvement in Vietnam?