Key TermsUS Emergence as a world power since 1918.pdf

Wilson's Fourteen Points http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/wilson14.asp

New York Times article on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the WWI armistice, comparing current and past US foreign policy

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/us/politics/trump-france-world-war-1.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article&region=Footer

ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: DUE TUESDAY/ THURSDAY  OCTOBER 15th & 17th

How did the United States exercise its military and diplomatic power from 1918 to 1945?

Include in your essay -

*examples of these different forms of power and the context in which they were used

*an evaluation of how successful their use was

*the degree to which World War Two was a turning point in the emergence of US power on a global scale

  US military & diplomatic power essay outline.docx

KRW VIDEOS [Note that the website link below  does not work on school computers]

YALTA & POTSDAM = Cold War  1917-1945 @30 minutes

GEORGE KENNAN AND CONTAINMENT &  Iron Curtain Speech

TRUMAN DOCTRINE & MARSHALL PLAN = Marshall Plan 1/5

KOREAN WAR = 1/5 @ 1 minute

Joseph Nye ('hard' & 'soft' power theorist) on the question of whether the US is in decline as a global power

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2010-11-01/future-american-power

 How important has American influence been in global economic governance?

How has global economic governance evolved since 1944?

Resources:

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2004/wp0475.pdf

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/06/economist-explains-20

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/EXTARCHIVES/0,,contentMDK:21826676~pagePK:36726~piPK:437378~theSitePK:29506,00.html 

A recent newspaper article about the discovery of new documents showing the extent of disagreement during the Bretton Woods conference:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/transcript-of-1944-bretton-woods-meeting-found-at-treasury.html?ref=brettonwoodssystem&_r=0

GATT/WTO an excellent power point from the web which links the GATT, WTO and US postwar role, including the Marshall Plan

HISTORY OF GATT.pptx

Bretton Woods Conference simulation - major actors and regions will represent their points of view in a debate format to elucidate the aims, structures and challenges dealing with the establishment of a new international economic order after WWII. United States (Dexter White), Britain (J.N.Keynes), France, USSR, China, African unity, South American group, East Asian group, Middle East -  "The world needs a global economic order that reflects American values."

China in comparison with the USA.docx

Carter speech.pdf

HISTORY & MEMORY

Memory & Vietnam.pdf

• May 4th 1970 - 50th anniversary - Kent State New York Times article.docx

• 'In Vietnam, turning a camera on the war' - New York Times article

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/opinion/horst-faas-photography-vietnam-war.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-4&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region

• New York Times Article about The Long History of the Vietnam Novel.docx  

CIVIL RIGHTS

2020 Seminars

Civil Right Seminer Notes 2020 Tuesday group.pdf

Civil Rights Seminar Notes 2020 Tuesday group2.pdf

Civil Rights Seminar Notes 2020 Tuesday group3.pdf

CR Seminar Notes 2020 Thursday group.pdf

CR Seminar Notes 2020 Thursday group2.pdf

2019 Seminars

Civil Rights Seminar notes.docx February 12th

History Seminar _ Civil Rights Movement.docx  February 12th

Terminale Civil Rights and ‘Civil Disobedience’ Seminar.pdf

Civil Rights - Seminar .pdf February 14th

2018 Seminars

Tuesday Feb 27th  Notes Seminar.pdf

Thursday March 1th Seminar Activity Civil Rights .pdf

January 31 2017 SEMINARS

 Student Seminar Notes Tuesday.docx 

 Student Seminar Notes 2 Tuesday.docx 

 Civil Rights Student Seminar Notes Monday class.docx

 Civil Rights Student Seminar Notes2 Monday.docx