- BW 28) Look at the various electronic house chore devices on p. 468-9. How do you think these affected the role of women in society? Be specific using one of the appliances in your answer.\
- Create a Wikipedia page on “The Weimar Republic” (p. 471) focusing on the struggles of the Great Depression.
- Documents 3 & 5 WS – see me for this
5/9/12 – Wednesday
- BW 27) Read about the altered photos in Stalinist Russia. Explain how this helps us understand the way totalitarian governments work. (p.447)
- Chap in Brief – Totalitarianism Case Study w/ WS in groups
- Go over together
- The Postwar Impact
- Physics – Einstein
- Psychology – Freud
- Poetry – T.S. Eliot and William B. Yeats
- Literature – Kafka
- Philosophy – Sartre
- Art – Dali
- Music – Jazz
5/8/12 – Tuesday
- BW 26) Make a factual conclusion about the Soviet Economy from each graph on p. 444 (should be 3).
- Watched short on USSR propaganda and music
- Chap in Brief – Rev in Russia w/ WS in groups
- Go over together
5/7/12 – Monday
- BW 25) Explain how WWI affected the Russian Revolution (p. 435)
- Discuss BW with class from last week – Mao vs. Ghandi
- Who remembers Karl Marx?
- Compare Marx with Lenin p. 438
- Quick Action Chart of Russian Revolution
- Autocratic Rule under the Czar à Industrialization à Russo-Japanese War à WWI à Strikes à March Revolution 1917 àProvisional Governement à Lenin brought back into Russia by Germany à “Peace, Land, and Bread!” à October Revolution 1917 à Civil War à USSR 1922
5. A History of Russian Strong Men
- Quick Action Chart of Russian Revolution
- Autocratic Rule under the Czar à Industrialization à
Russo-Japanese War à
WWI à Strikes à March Revolution 1917 àProvisional Government à
Lenin brought back into Russia by Germany à “Peace, Land, and Bread!” à
October Revolution 1917 à Civil War
à USSR 1922
- A History of Russian Strong Men – on board
- Czar Alexander III –
- i. made Russian only acceptable language,
- ii. persecuted those who were not of the Russian Orthodox Church,
- iii. allowed pogroms against Jews,
- iv. had people spy on one another,
- v. sent political prisoners to Siberia
- Czar Nicholas II –
- i. raised taxes,
- ii. continued tough tactics
- iii. built the Trans-Siberian Railway
- iv. Outlawed unions in new factories
- v. Ordered soldiers to fire on protesting crowds in 1905
- V.I. Lenin
- i. All farmland be distributed among peasants
- ii. Factories given over to workers
- iii. Led civil war against those who opposed his leadership and creation of the USSR
- iv. Gov’t control of major businesses – NEP
- v. Head of the communist Party
- Joseph Stalin
- i. “Man of Steel”
- ii. P. 440-445
- iii. Great Purge – violence against those who opposed Stalin, especially within CP
- iv. Controlled all media
- v. Police state – used violence against protest, monitored conversations amongst citizens using technology and spying
- vi. Atheism made mandatory
- Replaced religion with theory of communism
- vii. 8-13 million deaths
- viii. Total command of economy
- Forced collectivization
- Czar Alexander III –
HW 15 – The Great Depression: A Global Economic Crisis
Often when we think about the Great Depression we tend to forget that it was of global proportions. People all across the world suffered greatly beginning in 1929 and lasting into the 1940s. For your homework this week you are to select a country other than the U.S. to do a small amount of research on how the Great Depression affected the people there. Write a 5-8 sentence paragraph summarizing your findings. You may use any source available to you but you must put the information in your own words.
5/4/12 – Friday
- BW 24) Explain how the theories of Karl Marx influenced the Russian Revolution (p. 434)
- Use this website to fill out WS: http://www.activehistory.co.uk/Miscellaneous/free_stuff/yr12_russia/frameset.htm
5/3/12 – Thursday
- BW 23) Who to agree more with and why, Mao Zedong or Mohandas Ghandi? (p. 432)
- Questions:
- using p. 424 – 427
1.Which nations made most of the decisions about the peace treaty?
2.What was the British and French attitude towards Germany?
3.What did Article 231 specify?
4.What were mandated territories?
5.Why might the mandated territories be upset with the Treaty of Versailles?
6.What was the League of Nations?
- NOTES:
- Treaty of Versailles
- i. See p. 426 for territorial changes
- Give students a few minutes to find 5 changes and class
- ii. Based on Wilson’s 14 points
5/2/12 – Wednesday
- BW 22) List five things you learned about WWI from watching All Quiet on the Western Front
- “Allies Win the War” – read together p. 420
- discuss
- Results of the War – notes on b oard
- Dead: see p. 422
- Cost: $338 billion (equivalent of $5 trillion almost today)
- Cultural disillusionment - meaning?
- Treaty of Versailles
- i. See p. 426 for territorial changes
- Give students a few minutes to find 5 changes and class
- ii. Based on Wilson’s 14 points
5/1/12 – Tuesday
- BW 21) What were the two big reasons the U.S. entered WWI on the side of the Allies? (p. 418-9)
- All Quiet on the Western Front – movie with questions
4/30/12 – Monday
- BW 20) Look at the map on. P. 418. Although the bulk of WWI was fought in Europe, explain how this map demonstrates that it was indeed a “world war” using two detailed facts.
- All Quiet on the Western Front – movie with questions