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.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
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.
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.
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