TERMINALE OIB HISTORY
AMERICAN OPTION
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MOCK ORALS -TOPICS
January Mock Oral Topics .pdf
March/April Mock Oral Topics .docx
March/April Mock Oral Topics .pdf
Spring 2014 mock orals schedule .docx
DOCUMENT-BASED QUESTION HOMEWORK FOR 'S' STUDENTS DUE MONDAY NOVEMBER 25th:
DBQ Truman to Nixon.docx
If for some reason you are unable to download the document you can get a hard copy from me Monday morning Nov. 18th
OIB American Option HG grading criteria for the written exam.doc
DBQ essay question-1.pptx
DBQ essay question-1.pdf
Example of a DBQ: DBQ .docx
Emergence of the United States as a world power in the 20th century
Première Class materials on the Cold War
The Creation of Bi-Polar World.ppt
The Creation of Bi-Polar World.pdf
Germany 1945-9-1.ppt
Germany 1945-9-1.pdf
Berlin Crisis.ppt
Berlin Crisis.pdf
Vietnam.ppt
Vietnam.pdf
Vietnam War phases.docx
Vietnam War phases.pdf
Vietnam War 1963 - 1975 Notes.docx
Vietnam War Notes.pdf
For a review of some Key questions about the Cold War:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/coldwar/
Key TermsUS Emergence as a world power since 1918.pdf
Wilson's Fourteen Points http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/wilson14.asp
A compelling video showing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and testing between 1945 and 1998
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U8CZAKSsNA
Link to an excellent website about the history of the atomic bomb
http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/index.shtml
GEORGE KENNAN AND CONTAINMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvmYAtiz1sg
MARSHALL PLAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DQTilkyIp0
KOREAN WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV6mtuhfQ94
Cold War chronology.doc
Detente notes.docx
Link to website below contains excellent Cold War videos (including Yalta & Potsdam conferences and Vietnam War):
Website link to an enormous selection of Cold War documentation
Gulf War.pdf
Global Economic Governance -Key Questions:
How important has American influence been in global economic governance?
How has global economic governance evolved since 1944?
global economic governance.pptx
global economic governance.pdf
World Economic Governance since 1944 notes.docx
A recent newspaper article about the discovery of new documents showing the extent of disagreement during the Bretton Woods conference:
GATT/WTO
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/guides/gattwto/gatt_1.html
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 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."
United States History since 1945
COMPARE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTY PRINCIPLES IN THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.doc
intro US political system.pdf
OVERVIEW OF PRESIDENTS.ppt
OVERVIEW OF PRESIDENTS.pdf
2012 Elections Seminar.ppt
These two sites provide a good overview of the period 1945 - 1975
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog23/index.html
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog24/index.html
Reading Assignment - an overview of the Reagan Revolution and the end of the Cold War
Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and Great Society
Johnson's Message to Congress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQKueSDpvI
University of Michigan commencement speech by LBJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2l2rdMiL-4
Johnson's Great Society Notes.pdf
Johnson Documents.doc
A recent article about Michael Harrington - author of a 1962 book about poverty - 'The Other America'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/post_3167_b_1378516.html
Great Society assessment.doc
Recent newspaper article about legacy of Great Society programs & the current level of poverty in the USA:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/business/50-years-later-war-on-poverty-is-a-mixed-bag.html?hp&_r=0
USA Poverty Map:
http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/01/05/poverty-map/?hp
Reagan Revolution
Reagan's First Inaugural speech
Speech to National Association of Evangelicals (includes reference to USSR as the 'evil empire')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcSm-KAEFFA
Reagan Notes.doc
Reagan Documents.doc
1987 magazine article about the 'Reagan Revolution:'
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1987/01/the-new-shape-of-american-politics/303363/
Rise of Conservatism
THE NEW RIGHT.doc
Pat Buchanan culture war speech.docx
The Influence of Religion on American Society
Religion in the USA.pdf
ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: This will be due on April 2nd (the third Wednesday back from winter vacation)
Analyze the evolution of the ideologies and policies of the two major political parties
in the United States - the Democratic and Republican - from 1945 through the 1990's.
Discuss general trends and use examples of the Presidential administrations in your essay.
Civil Rights Movement:
Class Notes
civil rights.doc
1960s Black Civil Rights Struggle-1.pptx
1960s Black Civil Rights Struggle-1.pdf
See link below for an article about the debate 50 years ago to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and contemporary issues:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/dignity-is-a-constitutional-principle.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0
Document-Based Question:
LBJ Howard speech 1965 & Carmichael Black Power 1966.doc
Early Civil Rights protests 1960
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTvmBclBL8E
Birmingham 1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCxE6i_SzoQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lD37bq8YI
Selma to Montgomery March 1965 Videos
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/10_march.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM-tfj6lp6w [Glory Hallelujah -King]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS57Svuipas
Malcolm X speaks "By any means necessary" Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhg6LxyTnY8
Black Panther Party Platform Document
http://caho-test.cc.columbia.edu/ps/10127.html
Malcolm X & King debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4PqLKWuwyU
Secondary source: Analysis of two leaders - King and Malcolm X
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/Souls.The_Unfinished_Dialogue.pdf
Women's Liberation Movement :
NOTES on Women's Lib Mvt.docx
Women's Liberation Movement.odp
Women's Liberation Movement.odt
Jimmy Carter's 'Crisis of Confidence' or 'Mal;aise' speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOd-qWZB_g
HISTORY & MEMORY
Memory & Vietnam.pptx
Memory & Vietnam.pdf
Recent revelations about Nixon's attempts to prevent Vietnam peace negotiations in 1968 (LBJ's taped conversations just released)
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21768668
Other Course Notes
Truman domestic policy.pdf
CHICAGO
Notes: Chicago notes.doc
Link to website below for information relating to the Chicago video:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago
Immigration ((Italian) and Chicago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeikaWQCyo
JFK and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley
Al Capone 1960 Presidential campaign
EUROPEAN UNION CONSTRUCTION
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