TERMINALE OIB HISTORY
AMERICAN OPTION
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June 29th unofficial draft guidance Terminale HG THEMES ONE.pdf
June 30th unofficial draft guidance Terminale HG THEMES TWO.pdf
BACKGROUND MATERIALS FROM PREMIERE:
http://www.americanyawp.com/text/22-the-twenties/
- Characteristics of economic prosperity
http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/prosperity/text1/text1.htm
- READ PART II - ORIGINS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION - TO UNDERSTAND UNDERLYING ECONOMIC WEAKNESSES IN THE 1920S CAUSING THE 1929 WALL STREET STOCK MARKET CRASH
http://www.americanyawp.com/text/23-the-great-depression/
- Crash Course: US and World War Two - introduction at end of Première
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Objoad6rG6U
BEGINNING IN TERMINALE
This is the link to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
I will give you the password personally.
http://school.eb.co.uk/storeschoolcard?id=citesi
OIB Grading Criteria for Essay and DBQ.pdf
OIB US HG ORAL exam grading criteria.docx.pdf
THEME ONE: Challenges to Democracy, Rise of Totalitarianism, and World War II (1929 - 1945)
1. The Economic and Social Impact of the 1930s Depression
- Link to resources about the 1929 Crash
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/beginning-of-great-depression-stock-market-crash-of-october-1929/
https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/primary-resources/great-depression-new-deal-welfare-state
- Crash Course: Great Depression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQfMWAikyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMq9Ek6jnA
- Impact & Legacy of New Deal
https://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/impact-and-legacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LaB44r98oU
- Impact of economic depression in France
https://www.britannica.com/place/France/The-Great-Depression-and-political-crises
VIDEOS and Summary
http://history.searchbeat.com/greatdepression.htm
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pres10.socst.ush.dww.newdeal/fdr-new-deal-programs/
Article analyzing and comparing 1936 Paris and 1937 Flint, Michigan factory strikes and occupation
https://libcom.org/files/The%20Occupation%20of%20the%20Factories%20Paris%201936,%20Flint%201937.pdf
- Crash Course: Economic Schools of Thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvjh1dxz08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
2. Totalitarian Regimes
Totalitarianism definition and tasks.pdf
- Definition and philosophical discussion
Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism.pdf
Nazi Germany.pdf
Stalinism.pdf
Fascism in America today - New York Review of Books.pdf
June 2020 New York Review of Books article: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/22/american-fascism-it-has-happened-here/
3. World War II
Teaching Japanese internment NYTimes article and links.pdf
https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs
- Decision & use of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
Link to an excellent website about the history of the atomic bomb:
http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/index.shtml
A short video about the atomic bombing:
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pres10.socst.ush.dww.atomicbomb/truman-and-the-atomic-bomb-world-war-ii/
Using the atomic bomb opinion article.pdf
THEME TWO: The Post-war Bipolar World and Challenges to Bi-polarization
1. The End of WWII and the Emergence of the Cold War
- The End of WWII and the Division of Europe:
The Creation of Bi-Polar World(1)-1.pdf
Yalta & Potsdam.pdf
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QuSXZTo3Uo
Iron Curtain map.pdf
Containment Policy.pdf
Truman Doctrine Speech (text and video)
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdd7NSQphyg
Marshall Plan.pdf
Germany 1945-9-1.pdf
Cold War 1945-1949-2.pdf
Cold War Periodization-2.pdf
Korean War & context.pdf
Arms Race.pdf
- Reference materials: review of some key questions about the Cold War:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/coldwar/
- Website contains an enormous selection of Cold War documentation, including atomic bomb
world economic governance.pdf
world economic governance since 1944 notes.pdf
2. A New Geopolitical Order: Emergence of the Developing World 1948 - 1970
Decolonization Overview.pdf
1956 & 1968 spider diagrams.ppt
- Conflict in the Middle East:
ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT.pdf
ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT .ppt
1956 Suez Crisis.pdf
Arab-Israeli Wars.pdf
- Emergence of Mao's China & International Relations
Vietnam.pdf
Vietnam War phases.pdf
Vietnam War Notes.pdf
- US Defense Department 1965 - 'Why Vietnam'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEljbPwFQ9M
- French Republic and Decolonization/Nationalist Movements in Africa
Berlin to Cuba.pdf
Cuban Missile Crisis 2.pdf
THEME THREE: Economic, Political, and Social Transformations: Causes and Consequences
1. International Economic and Geopolitical Challenges
EU history Intro.pptx
2. Domestic Challenges within the United States and in France 1950s to 2001
Truman domestic policy.pdf
Key terminology US history.pdf
- Crash Course: 1960s in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkXFb1sMa38
- Black Civil Rights Movement:
Black Civil Rights Movement notes.pdf
Black Civil Rights Struggle-1.pptx
Black Civil Rights Struggle-1.pdf
Useful civil rights protest movement information, including photos:
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/wAISrcNZWvYdJg
See link below for discussion of how to interpret Brown court decision.
http://www.law.virginia.edu/HTML/alumni/uvalawyer/f04/klarman.htm
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
Extra Materials:
LBJ Howard speech 1965 & Carmichael Black Power 1966.doc
Civil Rights Movement docs and videos (Eyes on the Prize series)
How the Civil Rights Movement got started in the 1950s: OIB.HIST.CIVIL rights.odp
Birmingham 1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCxE6i_SzoQ
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 & 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
Wage Gap Inequality
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/race-wage-gap.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Wage Gap Inequality Black & White Men.pdf
- WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES - 1960s &70s liberation movement
Women's Legal History Timeline.pdf
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT - 50 YEARS AFTER STONEWALL - the early movement
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/06/stonewall-at-50-gay-rights-revolution?CMP=share_btn_link
OLD PROGRAM MATERIALS IN NEED OF SHIFTING TO NEW ABOVE OR CONSIGNING TO OLD PROGRAM FOLDER BELOW
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®ion=Footer
DOCUMENT-BASED ESSAY QUESTION (DBQ)
Document Question - some guidelines
DBQ essay question-1.pdf
Specific DBQ Essay Guidelines .docx
Example of a DBQ: Roosevelt and Eisenhower documents : DBQ .docx
DBQ Truman to Nixon.docx
Detente notes.docx
US in Latin America post WWII.docx
Carter speech.pdf
Gulf War.pdf
Gulf War Notes.docx
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.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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOUpVm_lf0I
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:
New York Times Article about New Deal Federalism (Liz Cohen) April 29, 2020.docx
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
WATERGATE: THE ROLE OF MEDIA AND ITS IMPACT ON PUBLIC OPINION
Watergate.pdf
See link below for chronology of Washington Post newspaper reporting on the Watergate break in and the subsequent events leading to the scandal:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/timeline.html
The media and US Presidents during the Vietnam War, and today.
Role of the Media.docx
Jimmy Carter's 'Crisis of Confidence' or 'Malaise' speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOd-qWZB_g
START OF REMOTE LEARNING DUE TO COVID CONFINEMENT
google meet access code:
https://meet.google.com/ize-ihzr-qpb
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Write a 'skeletal' essay answering the History DBQ - Follow this structure: an introduction, including thesis statement, a topic sentence and 3 bullet points (examples that would be developed normally) for each paragraph, a brief conclusion. Also, write a paragraph evaluating the usefulness of the documents. You may use your notes and think about it for as long as you like, but try to write the essay in two hours. DUE TUESDAY APRIL 7TH OR THURSDAY APRIL 9th
BAC BLANC:
Reagan Presidency (1980-1988)
- Instructions: read or listen and answer questions & feedback in google meet class time
Reagan Notes.pdf
Reagan Presidency Documents.pdf
Reagan's First Inaugural speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcSm-KAEFFA
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 linked to 'Reagan Revolution' (1970s through 1990s)
- Instructions: read or listen and answer questions & feedback in google meet class time
Rise of Conservatism - THE NEW RIGHT.doc
Rise of Conservatism - The New Right.pdf
Pat Buchanan culture war speech.pdf
Reagan Revolution Review - set of documents.pdf
Speech to National Association of Evangelicals (includes reference to USSR as the 'evil empire')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcSm-KAEFFA
The Influence of Religion on American Society linked to Rise of Conservatism
- Instructions: presentation (KW) and discussion of this topic
Religion in the USA.pdf
Go to link below for a review of a new book on Evangelicals shaping American society
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/books/review/evangelicals-struggle-to-shape-america-frances-fitzgerald.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below
Document Based Essay assignment using the Reagan and Clinton documents
Evolution of Republican & Democratic domestic policies DBQ.docx
Evolution of Republican & Democratic domestic policies DBQ.pdf
To what extent did the domestic policies of the Democratic and Republican Parties in the US change between 1945 and the 1990s?
Consider the political, economic and social issues of the period.
Use your own knowledge and the documents to answer the question. Include an assessment of the value and limitations of the documents in your essay.
Economic Policies.pdf
Women's Liberation Movement :
NOTES on Women's Lib Mvt.docx
POWERPOINT Women's Liberation Movement.odp
Women's Liberation Movement.odt
- 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
Didn't start the fire_0004.wmv
Didn't start the fire lyrics.docx
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