TERMINALE OIB HISTORY
AMERICAN OPTION
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B.O. OFFICIAL ADAPTATION TERMINALE OIB HG AMERICAN SECTION PROGRAM
https://www.education.gouv.fr/bo/20/Hebdo30/MENE2017976N.htm
B.O. Official Adaptation Première OIB HG American Section Program (slightly updated version of 2019-20 syllabus)
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 - Rentrée
This is the link to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
I will give you the password personally.
http://school.eb.co.uk/storeschoolcard?id=citesi
DOCUMENT-BASED ESSAY QUESTION (DBQ)
DBQ document analysis-1.pdf
DBQ Essay Guidelines -1.pdf
THEME ONE: Challenges to Democracy, Rise of Totalitarianism, and World War II (1929 - 1945)
THEME ONE Key Content.pdf
First HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT - ANSWER ALL FOUR KEY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DEPRESSION & NEW DEAL (refer to the key content document above for the questions, and use the resources below) DUE DATE IS MONDAY OCTOBER 12th
1. The Economic and Social Impact of the 1930s Depression
- Reading Assignment: Chapter 25 (Great Depression) and Chapter 26 (New Deal) inThe Unfinished Nation by Alan Brinkley
- 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/
Watch video below (link prvided by Isabel) about how the US votes during crises, historiclly, and perhaps today
https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/how-will-americans-vote-during-a-crisis
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
Second HW Assignment: Group research and preparation to teach aspects of totalitarianism - Tuesday class = November 3rd or Friday class = November 6th
Reading Assignment: Chapters on Nazi Germany & Stalinism in the USSR in Mastering Modern World History (MMWH) by Norman Lowe
Totalitarianism definition and tasks.pdf
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/23497-the-origins-of-totalitarianism
- 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/
STUDENT TEACHING - PRESENTATIONS AND NOTES
Ian Delegue Notes on Methods of Control (Police State) .pdf
Methods for Maintaining Power and Control.pdf
Methods of control(1).pdf
Youth indoctrination notes - Methods of Control .pdf
Methods of control.pdf
- Degree of Popular Support
Degree of Popular Support - Research.pdf
Degree of Popular Support.pdf
Popular Support in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany .pdf
Popular Support.pdf
Ideology Nazi Germany and Soviet Union.pdf
Nazi Germany_ Stalin totalitarianism ideology Leane &Eloise .pdf
Violence.pdf
Third HW ASSIGNMENT: DOCUMENT BASED ESSAY QUESTION (DBQ) ON TOTALITARIANISM due Monday December 7th
DBQ Essay comparing Germany & USSR.pdf
3. World War II
Reading Assignment: Chapter 28 (America in a World War) in The Unfinished Nation by Alan Brinkley
Americanyawp (link below) - an always, an excellent source of information, including women and the war in the US, to read along with the Brinkley.
HOME FRONT WOMEN & WORK DOCUMENTS:
WWII and the Home Front .pdf
- US Government wartime propaganda film to recruit war workers - scroll down to Demographic Trends 'Manpower' video
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-ushistory/chapter/social-effects-of-the-war/
- Japanese Internment + photographs:
JAPANESE INTERNMENT Documents.pdf
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:
DOCUMENTS & ISSUES
Decision to drop the bomb.pdf
Role Play Atom Bomb Debate.pdf
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/
The Guardian news article about Hiroshima atomic bomb debate.pdf
Link to an excellent website about the history of the atomic bomb:
http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/index.shtml
Using the atomic bomb opinion article.pdf
FOG OF WAR - DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ROBERT MCNAMARA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LsRRTvPigY
THEME TWO: The Post-war Bipolar World and Challenges to Bi-polarization
THEME TWO Key Content.pdf
1. The End of WWII and the Emergence of the Cold War
Reading Assignment:
- Chapter 29 in The Unfinished Nation by Alan Brinkley
- Chapter on the Cold War: problems of international relations after WWII in MMWH by Norman Lowe
- Pages 36 - 86 + Pages 132-148 (Korea) in The World Since 1945 by T.E. Vadney
- Crash Course: The Cold War(Bi-polar world)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HjvHZfCUI
Origins of the Cold War - End of WWII and the Division of Europe:
The Creation of Bi-Polar World(1)-1.pdf
Cold War Periodization-2.pdf
Crash Course video on the Cold War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C72ISMF_D0
wartime conferences cooperation & tensions.pdf
world economic governance.pdf
world economic governance since 1944 notes.pdf
Yalta & Potsdam.pdf
Development of the Cold War:
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
Korean War & context.pdf
Atomic Bombing & Arms Race.pdf
SEMINAR ACTIVITY
Factors contributing to start of the Cold War.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
2. A New Geopolitical Order: Emergence of the Developing World 1948 - 1970
Reading Assignment:
- Chapter (first half) on Conflict in the Middle East in MMWH by Norman Lowe
- Chapter on Asia in Crisis: pages 132 - 181; Neo-Colonial World - Latin America - Revolution in Cuba: pages 282 - 300; Middle East & Suez Crisis: pages 427 - 448 in The World Since 1945 by T.E. Vadney
Decolonization Overview.pdf
Venn diagram activity.pdf
1956 & 1968 spider diagrams.ppt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2IcmLkuhG0
- Crash Course: Decolonization and Nationalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_sGTspaF4Y&t=201s
- A synthetic overview discussion of the relationship between decolonization and the Cold War can be found in
Fraser, Cary. 2013. Decolonization and the Cold War. Oxford Handbook of the Cold War.
https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/f/Fraser_Cary_2013_Decolonization_and_the_Cold_War.pdf
- Conflict in the Middle East:
ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT.pdf
ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT .ppt
Suez Crisis video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwRFhmcfHgg
1956 Suez Crisis.pdf
Eisenhower Doctrine analysis.pdf
Arab-Israeli Wars.pdf
- Emergence of Mao's China & International Relations
Crash Course: China's Communist Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCEeC4f6ts
China's international approach.pdf
Korean War & context.pdf
China's nuclear bomb development:
https://www.nti.org/learn/countries/china/nuclear/
Vietnam.pdf
Vietnam War phases.pdf
Vietnam War Notes.pdf
Vietnam War documents.pdf
Time's Up.pdf
- US Defense Department 1965 - 'Why Vietnam'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEljbPwFQ9M
- French Republic and Decolonization/Nationalist Movements in Africa - French teachers
Berlin to Cuba Evolution of the Cold War.pdf
Cuban Missile Crisis maps & documents 2.pdf
US Cuban Relations and Crisis.pdf
THEME THREE: Economic, Political, and Social Transformations: Causes and Consequences
THEME THREE Key Content.pdf
1. International Economic and Geopolitical Challenges
Reading Assignment:
EU history Intro.pptx
2. Domestic Challenges within the United States and in France 1950s to 1991
Reading Assignment:
- Chapter 30 (background) and Chapters 31, 32, 33 in The Unfinished Nation by Alan Brinkley
Truman domestic policy.pdf
Key terminology US history.pdf
- Crash Course: Civil Rights and the 1950s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S64zRnnn4Po
- Crash Course: 1960s in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkXFb1sMa38
Impact on American society
Anti Vietnam War mvt notes.pdf
- Black Civil Rights Movement:
Black Civil Rights Movement notes.pdf
Black Civil Rights Struggle-1.pptx
Black Civil Rights Struggle-1.pdf
John Lewis - Congressman from Georgia - 'Democracy is not a state. It is an act . . . .'
By John Lewis.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 1.pdf
US Women's Labor Force Participation.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
A backlash against liberalism of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and Great Society in the 1960s
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
Reagan Revolution - Reaganomics
Reagan Presidency (1980-1988)
Reagan Notes.pdf
Reagan Presidency Documents.pdf
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)
Rise of Conservatism - The New Right.pdf
Pat Buchanan culture war speech.pdf
Reagan Revolution Review - set of documents.pdf
Reagan's speech to National Association of Evangelicals (includes reference to USSR as the 'evil empire')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcSm-KAEFFA
REVIEW
Didn't start the fire_0004.wmv
Didn't start the fire lyrics.docx
OLD PROGRAM MATERIALS IN NEED OF SHIFTING TO NEW ABOVE OR CONSIGNING TO OLD PROGRAM FOLDER BELOW
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
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
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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)
Rise of Conservatism linked to 'Reagan Revolution' (1970s through 1990s)
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.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 :
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
Old Terminale syllabus
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