Final review

World War I

Tension over colonies

Militarism

Nationalism

Entangling alliances

Triple Entente

Triple Alliance

The Balkans

The Ottoman Empire

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Allied Powers

Central Powers

Trench warfare

Weapons technology

No man’s land

Total war

The Allied blockade

US economic interests

The submarine issue

Lusitania

Zimmerman Telegram

Propaganda

Treaty of Versailles

Woodrow Wilson

14 Points

League of Nations

Reparations

Russian Revolution

Karl Marx

Czar Nicholas

Tsarina Alexandra

Russo-Japanese War

The Duma

Rasputin

Soviets

Communism

Vladimir Lenin

Bolsheviks

March Revolution

October Revolution

Russian Civil War

Red Army

White Army

Joseph Stalin

World War II

Weimar Republic

Great Depression

Fascism

Nazi Party

Adolf Hitler

Czechoslovakia Crisis

Sudetenland

Munich Pact

Appeasement

Nonaggression Pact

Invasion of Poland

Phony war

Battle of Britain

The Holocaust

Japanese expansion

Rape of Nanking

Pearl Harbor

Atomic Bomb

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Middle East

Zionism

Balfour Declaration

1947 UN Partition

Israel

Palestine

Six-Day War

Yom Kippur War

West Bank

Gaza Strip

Golan Heights

Sinai Peninsula

Intifada

Iran

Mohammad Mossadeqh

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

John Foster Dulles

1953 coup d’etat

Mohammad Reza Shah

Iranian Revolution

Ayatollah Khomeini

Iran Hostage Crisis

Iran-Contra scandal

Final project - propaganda

As you learned in class, propaganda is any kind of media that tries to manipulate or influence people to change their views on an issue.  Your task for the end of 2^nd semester is to create a piece of propaganda and write an accompanying explanation of your propaganda.  You have several steps to accomplish:

1)      Choose a topic that we have studied: Imperialism, Colonialism, Nigeria, the Congo, World War I, the Russian Revolution, World War II, the Middle East, etc.

2)      Decide who the author is: For example, if you decide to pick the Congo, is your propaganda written from the point of view of Belgium?  Or will it represent the views of the Congolese?

3)      Decide what your message is going to be: What are you trying to convince people of?  If you choose the Congo, your message might be that King Leopold should give the Congolese their independence.  Or it might be set in more recent times, with the message being that electronics companies shouldn’t buy coltan from mines controlled by warlords.

4)      Decide on a type of media: Do you want to make a poster?  A leaflet?  A brochure?  A comic book?  A political cartoon?  Write a speech?  Film a press conference?  Make a commercial? Example: http://youtu.be/jIWaxwyKRtI

5)      Decide what methods you will use to convey your message: Do you want to use negative propaganda (condemning your enemy) or positive propaganda (praising your own people)?  Do you want to use fear of imminent danger to your homeland?  Promote unity?  Dehumanization through animal characteristics?  Slogans?  Symbols?

 6)      Create your propaganda

 7)      Write an accompanying piece explaining your propaganda: This will be approximately 3 pages typed, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font.  This is not a formal essay – you may use bullet points if you wish.  You must explain the following about your piece of propaganda:

a.       Which topic you chose (and the reasons why you chose it)

b.      Who the author is (and why you chose them)

c.      What your message is (what are you trying to convince the audience to think, and why you chose it)

d.      What methods you chose to use in your propaganda, and why you chose them

e.       How your chosen methods convey your message

f.       How your propaganda piece relates to what we studied in class

Your propaganda and accompanying explanation are due on Monday, June 11

1953 US-backed coup in Iran

Date assigned
Friday, June 1


Assignment
Read the chapter from Overthrow about the 1953 Iran coup.  Answer the following questions:

1) What kind of a man was John Foster Dulles?  What influences most strongly shaped him?  How did he view the world?  How did his personal and professional background influence his time as Secretary of State?

2) What kind of a man was Mohammad Mossadegh?  What did he want for Iran?  How did his actions as the Iranian Prime Minister lead to conflict with Britain? 

3) What did Britain do in response to Mossadegh’s actions?  What did Britain do that lead to the United States getting involved in the conflict between Britain and Iran? 

4) How did the CIA bring about the fall of the Iranian government?  What tactics did they use?  Compare and contrast these tactics to US actions involving Cuba and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.  How were they similar?  How were the different?  Why was it necessary for the United States to assert control in foreign countries in new and different ways after World War II?

5) Ultimately, the United States overthrew a democratically elected leader for being a Communist and replaced him with a monarch, all at the request of the British government.  How many levels of irony can you detect in this episode in our history?

Due date

Tuesday, June 5