Week of March 25

Please remember to bring permission slips with you on Monday. We will meet in the breezeway at 1:00. I will bring packed lunches, and we will return by 3:00-3:15.
 
Monday
  • Read: first 20 pages of Feitlowitz pt 1 - link below
    • if you have time you can read more, but try to at least read the introduction
  • Class: trip to SU
    • Lecture on Political Violence
Wednesday
  • Read: Merriman 928-945
  • Lecture: Russian Revolution
Friday
  • Read: Merriman 949-954, 968-977, 989-992
  • Lecture: Post-War problems of the 1920s
  • Workshop: exam prep 
  • Homework: Read the introduction in Feitlowitz in part 1 link below. Answer the following questions:
    • How is a "dirty war" different from other forms of political violence?
    • Can we extend the concept to interwar Europe? How about earlier colonial encounters?
* our next exam will be Tuesday, April 3 *
exam 7 review sheet

part 1 - Feitlowitz

part 2 - Feitlowitz pt 2




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Week of March 18

This week we begin our discussion of the first half of the twentieth century. The reading load is fairly intense this week; and class sessions will be lecture-heavy. Once we wrap our heads around the complex events of this period we can look forward to more enrichment-type activities next week.

Tuesday
  • Read: Merriman 863-888
  • Lecture: Intro to WWI
Thursday
  • Read: Merriman 888-899, 914-926
  • Lecture: Conclusion of WWI
  • Due: 3-part summary
    • identify the following terms
      • a trois
      • pan-Slav nationalism
      • Young Turks
      • Moroccan Crises
      • Gavrilo Princip
      • The Schlieffen Plan
      • Trench Warfare
      • Lusitania
      • Zimmermann Telegram
      • Western Front
      • The 14 Points
    • create a graphic organizer that portrays the system of alliances that led to WWI
    • in a 1-2 paragraph response, answer the following question(s) [either, or, or both]
      • Was it more significant to the end of WWI that the U.S. became involved, or that Russia left the conflict?
      • Were the diplomatic decisions made by Germany responsible for the outbreak of WWI, or is the entire structure of strategic alliances to blame? (in other words, was it inevitable)
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Week of March 11

Wednesday March 14
  • Exam 6 
    • modified format - 8 ids & 2 long essays
Friday March 16
  • In-class DBQ
    • review DBQ guidelines and rubric to study
    • no outside information needed
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Week of March 4

Tuesday, 3/6

  • Read: Merriman 852-859; handout
  • Lecture: Mechanisms of Imperial Rule
  • Workshop: discuss Heart of Darkness
  • Due: 3-part summary
    1. Identify the following terms:
        • Fashoda Affair
        • Boer War
        • Opium Wars
        • Boxer Rebellion
        • Indian Mutiny
        • Social Darwinism
        • White Man’s Burden
        • Orientalism
    2. Create a 2-column chart that lists the goals of European imperialism on one side, and the strategies use to attain them on the other
    3. In no less than a two-paragraph response, identify at least two inherent tensions between the rationale for imperialism and the practice of it. Be sure to address these issues from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized.

Thursday, 3/8
  • modified exam on Age of Imperialism
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