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Period 6:  Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, 1900 to present

Chapter 28- World War I

-Chapter 28 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  How World War I started

-Crash Course:  Who started World War I?

-Crash Course:  Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I

-Crash Course:  Nonviolence and Peace Movements

-Securing the Peace Handout

-Securing the Peace Questions

-Biography of Gandhi

-India/Gandhi timeline- answers

 

Documents

-The Covenant of the League of Nations

-British Soldiers on the Battle of the Somme

-Excerpt from Four Weeks in the Trenches (1915) Fritz Kreisler

-The Balfour Declaration, 1917

-George Clemenceau, "French Demands at the Peace Conference"

-Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918)

Chapter 29- The World between Wars

-Chapter 29 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions

-Ch. 29 Outline Review

-Metaphor for the Russian Revolution

 

Documents

-A Statement on Chiang Kai-Shek’s Statement (1936) Mao Zedong

-Benito Mussolini, from "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"

-Joseph Stalin, Five Year Plan

-Speech to Spaniards (1936) Francisco Franco

-Stalin Demands Rapid Industrialization of the USSR (1931) Stalin

Chapter 30- World War II

-Chapter 30 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  World War II

-History of India Timeline

-Holocaust Round Table Discussion

-WWII Battle chart- answers

-Ch. 28-30 Test Review

 

Documents

-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1923)

-Adolf Hitler, The Obersalzberg Speech, 1939

-Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, "Leningrad Diary"

-Gandhi on Civil Disobedience (1910s)

-Gandhi Speaks against the Partition of India (pre-1947)

-Heinrich Himmler, "Speech to SS Officers"

-Indian Declaration of Independence (1930)

-Jinnah, the "Father" of Pakistan (1947) Mohammed Ali Jinnah

-Neville Chamberlain, In Search of Peace

-The Buchenwald Report

-The Holocaust: Memoirs from the Commandant of Auschwitz (1940s) Rudolf Hess

-Winston Churchill, "Their Finest Hour"

Chapter 31- Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War

-Chapter 31 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  The Cold War

 

Documents

-Iron Curtain Speech (1946) Winston Churchill

-Nikita Khrushchev Challenges the West to Disarm and Advance World Prosperity (1960) Nikita Khrushchev

-Nikita Khrushchev, Speech to the Twenty-Second Congress of the Communist Party, 1961

Chapter 32- Latin America:  Revolution and Reaction

-Chapter 32 Reading Questions

-Chapter 32 Short Answer and KIM

 

Documents

-Fidel Castro: History Will Absolve Me, 1953

Chapter 33- Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the era of Independence

-Chapter 33 Reading Questions

-Chapter 33 Short Answer and KIM

-South Africa questions

 

Documents

-A Liberal White Journalist on Apartheid (1970s-1980s) Donald Woods

-Islam and the State in the Middle East: Ayatollah Khomeini's Vision of Islamic Government (mid-20th c.)

-Israel's Proclamation of Independence, 1948

-Nelson Mandela, excerpt from Freedom, Justice and Dignity for All South Africa

-Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 1988

-Release From Prison (1990) Nelson Mandela

Chapter 34- Rebirth and Revolution:  Nation Building in East Asia and the Pacific

-Chapter 34 Reading Questions

-Chapter 34 Short Answer and KIM

 

Documents

-China's One-Child Family Policy

-Ho Chi Minh on Self Determination - Ho Chi Minh

-Deng Xiaoping, on introducing capitalist principles to China

-Mao Zedong, "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire," 1953

-Mao Zedong, "Jian Jieshi is China's Number One War Criminal," 1949

-The Constitution of Japan (1947)

-Vietnamese Declaration of Independence (1945) Ho Chi Minh

 

Chapter 35- Power, Politics, and Conflict in World History (1990-2010)

-Chapter 35 Reading Questions

-Ch. 31-35 Test Review

-Semester 2 Final Review

 

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Chapter 36- Globalization and Resistance

-Chapter 36 Reading Questions

 

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