HOTA Assignments 1/8-1/26

Due Thursday 1/8
Cuba
Read pgs. 332-338 in textbook and be prepared to answer questions in class.

Due Friday 1/9
Read pgs. 338-340 and 321-323 in textbook; read pgs. 110-112 in CWP and be prepared to answer questions in class.

Due Monday 1/12
Read pgs. 119-126 in CWP and answer questions 1-7 on pg. 124. Kennedy’s Peace Speech will be discussed in class.

Due Tuesday 1/13
Cuba Summary. Argentina Handout #1 will be given out.

Due Wednesday 1/14
Argentina
Read pgs. 90-99 in Argentina #1 and be prepared to discuss in class.

Due Thursday 1/15
Read pgs. 99-111 and outline in your notes (checked for a grade):
Argentina Handout #2 will be given out.

Due Friday 1/16
Read pgs. 133-142 in Argentina #2 and be prepared to discuss in class.

Due Tuesday 1/20
Read pgs. 143-150 in Argentina #2 and be prepared to discuss in class.

Due Wednesday 1/21
Read pgs. 151-154 and 162-168 in Argentina #2 and be prepared to discuss in class.

Thursday 1/22
Cuba/Argentina Test

Due Friday 1/23
U2 Affair/Berlin Crisis
Read pgs. 319-320 in textbook and pgs 105-110 in CWP and answer questions 1-6 on pg. 110.

Due Monday 1/26
Read pgs. 116-119 and 127-128 in CWP and answer questions 1-6 on pg. 119 and 3, 5, 6 on pg. 128.

HOTA Assignments 12/1/08-1/7/09

Due Monday 12/1
Japan ’45-‘52
Chapter 22
Read pgs. 344-349 and be prepared to discuss in class.

Due Tuesday 12/2
Answer questions #1-10 in the Japan ’45-’52 handout.

Due Wednesday 12/3
Early Cold War
Read pgs. 5-7 in Cold War Packet (CWP) and answer questions #1-7 on pg. 7.

Due Thursday 12/4
Read pgs. 7-12 in the CWP and answer questions #5-7 on pg. 10 and #2-5 on pg. 12.

Due Friday 12/5
Chapter 19
Read chapter 19 and outline pgs. 294-299.

Due Monday 12/8
UN
Read UN Handout and answer questions #1-3 on pg. 169 of the handout.

Due Tuesday 12/9
Chapter 20
Read pgs. 304-314 and pgs. 13-20 in the CWP and answer questions #1-8 on pgs. 19/20.

Due Thursday 12/11
Early Cold War
Read pgs. 24-28 in the CWP and answer questions #1-6 pgs. 26 and #1-5 pg. 28.

Due Friday 12/12
Chapter Eighteen
Read pgs. 28-39 in the CWP and answer questions #1-7 on pg. 37. Questions about the Cominform will be asked/discussed in class.

Due Monday 12/15
Read pgs. 39-44 in the CWP and answer questions #1-5 on pg. 42. Questions about the Treat of Brussels will be asked in class.

Due Tuesday 12/16
Read pgs. 44-52 in the CWP and answer questions #3-5 on pg. 46; #1-6 on pg. 49; and questions about the NATO alliance will be asked/discussed in class.

Due Wednesday 12/17
Communist China
Chapter 22
Read pgs. 349-354 and pgs. 52-60 in the CWP. Answer questions #1-6 pg. 55 & #1-4 pg. 57. Questions about the USSR/China alliance will be asked/discussed in class.

Due Thursday 12/18
Korean War
Chapter 22
Read pg. 361-368 and pgs. 65-71 in the CWP. Answer questions #1-6 pg. 69.

Due Friday 12/19
Read pgs. 71-73 in the CWP and answer questions #1-8 on pg. 73.

Due Monday 1/5
Chapter 20
Read pgs. 314-319.

Due Tuesday 1/6
Read pgs. 81-89 in the CWP and answer questions #1-6 pg. 84 and #1-6 pg. 86. Questions about Stalin’s crimes will be asked/discussed in class.

Due Wednesday 1/7
Read pgs. 90-94 in the CWP and answer questions #1-6 on pg. 94.

HOTA Assignments 10/27-11/26

Due Monday 10/27
Chapter Twelve
Read pgs. 177-182 and answer the following questions in your notes:
1. Describe the First New Deal (be sure to give specifics).
2. Was the First New Deal successful? Why or why not?
3. What happened with the Wagner Act?
4. What was the Second New Deal and what did it entail?
5. Describe FDR’s Court Packing Plan.
6. What were the twin engines in Mexico?
7. Briefly outline the course of the Mexican Revolution and its legacies.

Due Tuesday 10/28
Chapter Twelve
Read pgs. 182-189 and answer the following questions in your notes:
8. Describe the Good Neighbor Policy.
9. What problems existed in Brazil?
10. Describe Vargas’ actions in Brazil.
11. What did Alessandri do in Chili?
12. Compare Canada’s development after WWI with the U.S.’s.
13. What was Canada’s role at the beginning of WWII?

Due Wednesday 10/29
Chapter Thirteen
Read pgs. 190-198 and outline those pages in your notes.

Due Thursday 10/30
Chapter Thirteen
Read pgs. 198-202 and answer the following questions in your notes:
1. What demands did Japan make at the Paris Peace Conference & what did they get?
2. How did democracy grow in Japan in the 1920s?
3. What weaknesses existed in Japanese Democracy? Why?
4. How did the Great Depression impact Japan?

Due Friday 10/31
Chapter Ten
Read pgs. 139-152 and be prepared to discuss in class.

Due Monday 11/3
Chapter Sixteen
Read pgs. 228-234 and answer the following questions in your notes:
1. What steps were taken toward dictatorship in Germany (probably easiest to outline)?
2. Describe the Nazi ideology.
3. How did Hitler isolate and degrade the Jews?
4. List the main reasons for Hitler’s success.
5. What was Mussolini’s “corporate state?”
6. List and briefly describe the other authoritarian governments taking over other places in Europe.

Due Wednesday 11/5
Chapter Sixteen
Read pgs. 234-238 and answer the following questions in your notes:
1. Outline Stalinism in the Soviet Union from ’33-’39. OVER →
2. What was the Great Terror?
3. Make a chart comparing and contrasting Nazism and Stalinism.
4. How did European democracies change (be specific as to country & changes)?

Due Thursday 11/6
Chapter Seventeen
Read pgs. 241-245 and answer the following questions in your notes:
1. How did Japan take over Manchuria?
2. Why did the government react the way it did?
3. Describe Japan’s incursions into the rest of China.
4. How did China react?
5. What happened in China during the war?
6. Why was this a war of attrition?
7. What did the KMT and CCP do during WWII?
8. What steps did the US take to confront Japan?

Due Friday 11/7
Chapter Seventeen
Read pgs. 246-253 and be prepared to discuss in class.

Due Monday 11/10
Chapter Eighteen
Read pgs. 255-262 and be prepared to discuss in class.

Wednesday 11/12 & Thursday 11/13
Video on the Holocaust/primary sources on Holocaust

Due Friday 11/14
Chapter Eighteen
Read pgs. 262-267 and answer the following questions in your notes:
1. How did the US relate to Europe in 1940 and 1941?
2. Describe the confrontation(s) between the US and Japan.
3. Why did Japan attack the US?
4. List and briefly describe the Japanese conquests in the Pacific (’41-’42).
5. What was the Grand Alliance and why was it created?
6. What arrangements did the agree on?
7. Why did they fight over strategic priorities?

Due Monday 11/17
Chapter Eighteen
Read pgs. 267-271 and be prepared to discuss in class.

Due Tuesday 11/18
Chapter Eighteen
Read pgs. 271-275 and be prepared to discuss in class.

Wednesday 11/19-Tuesday 11/25
Videos and primary sources on D-Day and the atomic bombing of Japan.

Tuesday 11/25
Review for test

Wednesday 11/26
World War II test in class.

HOTA Assignments 10/10-10/24

Friday 10/10, Tuesday 10/14
Primary sources continue in class.

Due Wednesday 10/15
Chapter Eleven
Read pgs. 154-160 and answer the following questions in your notes:
1. Who was at the Paris Peace Conference and who was not?
2. List all of the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles (this should be pretty long).
3. How did imperialism impact the Paris Peace Conference?
4. What happened with minorities in various countries? What specifically happened in Yugoslavia?

Due Thursday 10/16
Read pgs. 160-166 (through Eastern Europe) and answer the following questions in your notes:
5. Describe one of the greatest problems European governments faced after the war?
6. What was the problem with inflation?
7. What changes occurred in relation to class distinction and the general power of the masses?
8. How were women impacted by the end of the war?
9. What is Dadaism? How did literature evolve after the war?
10. Where did monarchies collapse?
11. Explain why Mussolini was able to rise to power.
12. What problems were the Weimar Republic facing?
13. Describe Hitler and the Nazis rise to power.
14. What trends were occurring in Eastern Europe?

Due Friday 10/17
Read pgs. 166-171 and answer the following questions in your notes:
15. What was going on with the Irish in Great Britain after the “Great War?”
16. What problems existed in France?
17. What actions did France take to insure its security?
18. What were the Locarno treaties?
19. Why was international stability illusory?

Monday 10/20
Test on World War I. Items to study for the test will be provided in Friday’s class.

Due Tuesday 10/21
Chapter Nine
Read pgs. 122-130 and answer the following questions in your notes:
1. List the deadly weapons that “progress” created.
2. How did consumer goods impact daily life (list examples of some of the goods)?
3. How did radio and film change society?
4. What was the downside of the mass media?
5. How did inflation become a problem (describe)?
6. Why was there high unemployment and how did it impact society?
7. What was the immediate cause of the Great Depression?
8. How did the Depression impact Germany?
9. Politically, what did the Depression allow to happen (dictators, Marxist goals)?

Due Wednesday 10/22 (Period 3) – Thursday 10/23 (Period 4)
Read pgs. 131-137 and answer the following questions in your notes:
10. Describe the rise of anti-colonialism/decline of imperialism.
11. What were the goals of the League of Nations? How successful was it?
12. Extreme nationalism led to military buildups again. Where was this occurring?
13. How did secularism impact society?
14. Describe the changes in music.
15. What were the Roaring Twenties like (should be a long list/outline/paragraph)?
16. What was Gandhi doing in India?
17. How did western influences effect China?

Due Friday 10/24
Chapter 12
Read pgs. 173-177 and be prepared to discuss in class.

HOTA Assignments 9/29-10/9

Due Monday, 9/29
Chapter Three
On Friday you were assigned a country to read about in Chapter 3. Make sure you have read it.
Great Britain: pg. 32-35
France: pg. 35-37
Germany: pg. 37-38
Russia: pg. 38-40

Due Tuesday, 9/30
Monday’s work will be continued. Be prepared.

Due Wednesday, 10/1
Chapter Seven
Read pgs 96-103 and be prepared to discuss. You will answer questions in class on the reading. Answers will be checked on Thursday.

Due Thursday, 10/2
Chapter Eight
Read pgs. 105-111 and answer the follow questions:
1. What was the Schlieffen Plan?
2. How did the Allies counter the success of the Schlieffen Plan?
3. Describe the battlefronts of the war in 1915 & 1916.
4. List Japan’s actions in Asia at this time.
5. What was happening on the Arabian Peninsula?
6. List the unusual locations of troops around the world at this time.
7. Why was WWI a total war?
8. Briefly describe the war on land and troop conditions.
9. List the new weapons that were invented.

Due Friday, 10/3
Read pgs. 111-118 and answer the following questions:
10. Outline, briefly, the war at sea.
11. How did the people back at home support the war effort?
12. What was the decisive point of the war?
13. How did the restarting of unrestricted sub warfare impact Britain?
14. What happened to Tsar Nicholas & Russia?
15. How did the war end?
16. What were the human and economic costs of the war?

Due Monday, 10/6
Be prepared to discuss World War I

Due Tuesday 10/7-Thursday 10/9
Primary sources on World War I in class

HOTA Assignments 9/18-9/26

Due Thursday, 9/18:
Chapter Six
Homework is to read pgs 70-75
*There will be questions to answer in class based on this assignment. They will be collected by the sub for a grade.

Due Friday, 9/19:
Homework is to read pgs. 75-82
*There will be questions to answer in class based on this assignment. They will be collected by the sub for a grade.

Due Monday, 9/22:
No homework. We will go over the answers to the class questions from pages 70-82.

Due Tuesday, 9/23:
Read pgs. 82-88 and answer the following questions:
1. How did Hinduism & Islam influence India’s society?
2. List all the ways Great Britain intervened/changed India.
3. What role did nationalism play after 1900 in India?
4. What reforms/changes did Indians gain on their way to independence?
5. Describe what was going on in the Persian and Ottoman Empires in 1900.
6. What was the “great game” and how did it relate to the Ottoman and Persian Empires?
7. What did Great Britain do to “protect” India from Russia? Why did it feel the need to do this?
8. Describe the “death throws” of the Ottoman Empire.

Due Wednesday, 9/24:
Read pgs. 88-91 and answer the following questions:
9. Briefly highlight the development of Australasia around 1900.
10. How did France gain French Indochina?
11. How did the Vietnamese react to France’s control starting in 1905?
12. How did the Dutch rule the East Indies?
13. How did they react starting in 1910?

Due Thursday, 9/25:
Read pgs. 91-94 and answer the following questions:
14. Outline how the USA obtained Hawaii.
15. What did the USA get as a result of the Spanish-American war?
16. Outline the pro and anti-imperialists’ positions regarding the Philippines.
17. What did the USA do in the Philippines from 1899-1907?
18. What did the USA do to “make up” for it’s behavior from 1899-1907.

We will also briefly review in class for the test. Test questions will be distributed after review.

For Friday, 9/26:
Test on Imperialism. Questions will be handed out Thursday after review.

HOTA Assignments 9/8-9/17

Due Monday, 9/8:
Chapter One
Read pgs 1-4 and answer the following questions:
1. Describe the promises of the early 20th Century.
2. Describe the problems of the early 20th Century.
3. Who was Emma Goldman & how did she fit in to this time period?

Due Tuesday, 9/9
Read pgs. 4-6 and answer the following questions:
4. What was the Boxer Rebellion & how did it reflect the time?
5. Who was Nietzsche & how did his ideas influence the early 20th Century.

Due Wednesday, 9/10
Chapter Two
Study the time chart on pgs. 8-9; read pgs. 10-15 and answer the following questions:
1. Describe the major developments in science & technology in the early 20th Century.
2. What were the major economic trends?

Due Thursday, 9/11
Read pgs. 15-21 and answer the following questions:
3. What were the major social and political trends of this time period?

Due Friday, 9/12
Read pgs. 21-30 and answer the following questions:
4. What was going on in international relations?
5. List the major cultural trends of the time.

Due Monday, 9/15
Chapter Five
Read pgs. 55-62 and answer the following questions:
1. Compare the Populist, Labor & Progressive struggles in the Americas in the early 20th Century.
2. What were the racial & ethnic divisions at the time?
3. Why did the US turn towards imperialism?
4. Describe Latin America during this time period.
5. What was the liberal revolution?

Due Tuesday, 9/16
Read pgs. 62-68 and answer the following questions:
6. Describe the aftermath of the Spanish (Cuban) American War.
7. What was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine & how did TR use it?
8. What were the major impacts of US Imperialism?
9. Briefly outline the major events in Canada at the turn of the century.

Due Wednesday, 9/17
Chapter Four
Read pgs. 42-54 and be prepared to discuss in class on Wednesday.

Return textbooks & pay for IB Stoles

Remember to return "The Earth and its Peoples" to me ASAP. The school will not give out diplomas to students who owe money or books.

Over 1/2 of you haven't paid for your IB Stoles yet. Please do so ASAP!

Early 1990s timeline link

Here's a link to a decent timeline of the early 1990s. It wouldn't hurt to click on 1990 through 1995 just so you have some more historical context for the upcoming exams.

Recent Assignments

Korea Questions - due 4/8
Argentina Otl - due 4/10
Sino-Soviet Relations - due 4/11
Detente - due 4/14
SALT questions (optional) - due 4/15
Reykjavik Summit questions (pg. 229) & Reagan's "Tear Down Wall" speech questions (pg. 231) - due Monday, 4/21
Opening of Berlin Wall questions (pg. 245), NATO Declaration questions (pg. 247) & German Unification questions (pg. 250).

Review Schedule

Thursday, 4/24 & Friday, 4/25: Paper 1
Monday, 4/28; Tuesday, 4/29 & part of Wednesday, 4/30: Paper 2
part of Wednesday, 4/30; Thursday, 5/1 & Friday, 5/2: Paper 3

Friday, 5/2: Unofficial last day of class.

Assignments due 3/31-4/4

The Argentina handouts (which were given out on Friday, March 14 in class) will be due in class on Thursday, April 3 for a QUIZ grade. You should read the entire two packets (it will help you with both single party states and multiparty states for Paper 2 of the final).

You are to outline page 90 (The Fall of the Concordancia) through page 111 (The Regime Crumbles) in the first packet and page 162 (The Peronist Revival) through page 173 (Reforms and Scandals). The outlines do NOT have to be in complete sentences. You can bullet point out information and only outline the major points.

On Monday, March 31 we will start Japan '45-'52, then we'll go back to Argentina on Thursday, April 3, then back to Japan on Friday, April 4.

It's awkward, but otherwise this would be due the day you get back from break....

Have a fantastic St. Patrick's Day and spring break!

Cold War Outline

The Cold War Outline is due in class on Tuesday, March 11, 2008. It is worth a quiz grade.

General Outline for remainder of the year

Subject to change. Homework and other necessary details will be posted later.

March 6: Berlin Wall/Cuban Missile Crisis
March 7 & 11: Outline of textbook - end of Ch. 20 - Cold War (NATO, SEATO, Warsaw Pact, Hungarian Rebellion....)
March 12-14: Argentina, Cuba, Canada
March 31 & 4: Japan '45-'52
April 3: Argentina
April 7: Korea
April 8-9: Vietnam
April 10-14: Detente and Sino Soviet Relations
April 15 & 16: SALT/START
April 17, 18, 21, 22: End of Cold War
April 23: United Nations
April 24-May 2: Review

Assignments 3/4 - 3/5

Due in class on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 are questions 1-8 pg. 119 Cold War Packet #4
Due in class on Thursday, March 6, 2008 are questions 1-7 pg. 124 Cold War Packet #4

Early Cold War Test - Monday, March 3, 2008

You will choose one of these questions. Feel free to study/google/write out or outline your answers. HOWEVER, you will only have a pen and a blank sheet or two of paper on Monday.

1. Assess the part played by differing ideologies in the origin of the Cold War.

2. In what ways, and with what results, was Germany the key focus of the early stages of the Cold War?

3. Analyze the responsibility of the USA and the USSR for the outbreak and development of the Cold War, up to 1949.

4. Compare and contrast the economic policies and military alliances of the USSR and USA after 1947.

5. Examine the part played by economic issues in the development of the Cold War.

6. “An unnatural alliance that was bound to fall apart after the defeat of the common enemy.” To what extent does this statement explain the origin of the Cold War?

Assignments 2/26-2/29

Tuesday 2/26: Cold War Packet #3: pg. 39 #1-6 & pg. 42 #1-5
Thursday 2/28: CW Packet #3: pg. 44 #1-5; pg. 46 #1-5 and pg. 49 #1-6
Friday 2/29: CW Packet #3: pg. 52 #1-6; read 53-55 (questions need not be answered); pg. 57 # 1-4 and pg. 60 #1-6.

By the end of this week, we will be right on track with last year's class. Which means we will have more than ample time to review for the IB HOTA exam.

Internal Assessment Suggested Word Count

A: 100-150 words
B: 500-600 words
C: 250-400 words
D: 500-650 words
E: 150-200 words
Total Count: 1500-2000 words

Assignments 2/4-2/25

Monday, February 4: Final Rough Draft of Internal Assessment due in class.
Tuesday, February 5: #1-7 pg. 7 - Cold War Packet #1
Wednesday, February 6: #1-7 pg. 10 - Cold War Packet #1
Friday, February 8: #1-5 pg. 12 - Cold War Packet #1
Monday, February 11: Hand out Cold War Packet #2
Wednesday, February 13: #1-5 pg 14 - CW Packet #2
Thursday, February 14: #1-8 pg. 19/20 - CW Packet #2
Wednesday, February 20: #1-7 pg. 23 & #1-6 pg. 25 - CW Packet #2
Friday, February 22: #1-5 pg. 28 - CW Packet #2
Monday, February 25: #1-7 pg. 37 - CW Packet #2 INTERNAL ASSESSMENT FINAL COPY DUE!!!

Conclusion due date - CHANGE

The conclusion section of your papers will not be turned in separately. You will turn in the conclusion with the final, rough draft of your paper on Monday, February 4, 2008.

Assignments 1/2-1/18

Wednesday, January 2: Answers to questions in Hitler/Churchill Handout
Thursday, January 3: Read handout from book
Monday, January 7: Evaluation of Sources Due
Wednesday, January 9: Reading on African Americans During WWII
Friday, January 11: FINAL, FINAL, FIXED Extended Essays



Friday, January 18: IB Test on World War II