Monday, January 11, 2016

2nd quarter slide presentations

Causes of World War I - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Zi8wV_7PZ-EfAeWKRt2zvqOhHS3ulp7xhPjjvj7-2Ao/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

How World War I was fought - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CaA3un0WgYR0X6XG_0VYR8MMGeUm0YHN72w7S4c5KyE/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Why America entered World War I - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14wd5XKustjZIbruG6tuYwpX9mRDcT59pe416D-3lSCE/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

End of World War I - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qfxJbpmH2DR06Ye2ULQFQa5LSiKPspZTlqfWoGI07K0/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Russian Revolution - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yl_oIWQLUjyTY77_c4um4REq3NN4uxBBps9VmPNrHCM/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Life in the Soviet Union - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MqbDjbKGWL0bUlxXHOKi56g8ImP32t0JQNnN6AvYDU8/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 and https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LkDuBRvq55OdII8qNPHLQtjuNYtHTDe0oDUDvNEDMAc/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Germany Rises Again - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ft4WZ-WyQk8V4d9lEP3ie8J4H23U7mJo-N6JZpsyU1o/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Fascism, Hitler, and Nazi Germany - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Li7VYuFJQZueoa54Gu8uORFBOyn6zmkpFV4-LRd7J-0/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Pearl Harbor - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vc14ajJzAMidzwdgl0LmJZHQugeg6AKUpqP0msZEIK0/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Atomic bomb - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17A6Xya3RK-dAyehlS5UZWkDRdbXwSA1xOK6DD61qdWs/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

The Holocaust - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z5lQqtpF0AHVASa0c_XNtNCS9gtbd4-2qT997VfT-OI/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Cold War - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XWasTQQNis7nrkqpQwZfm42cDO-egu1CKN_-fbcXeR4/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

United Nations - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CnKvwo0dLh2odhfDeI9Wwk--5F23Yks-RwuQ4JHzkcE/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Mutually assured destruction, proxy wars, assassinations, and coup d'etats - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hxP_1IYSQ9fIoPvi1H_AwF8JjtB7dvBXbcfTV05qHSw/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Vietnam War - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IFZeuldOWEYIBQWAV1UdnxEy7r6d3onUHPrrYMLTteY/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

End of the Cold War - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13eWKC5dZYIOvxuHs0T9cvzCKS2kcnmlnOnyhWVFPiZQ/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Homework: "Despotism and Godless Terrorism"

Date assigned
Thursday, January 7


Assignment
Read "Despotism and Godless Terrorism" about the United States overthrowing the government of Iran in 1953 by class on Monday.  Then, after we've discussed the reading in class on Monday, answer the questions.  This assignment should be typed, because there is a minimum word count of 500 words.  Email me the assignment when you are finished.


Due date
Reading should be finished by the beginning of class on Monday, January 11
Questions should be emailed to me by the beginning of class on Wednesday, January 13

Homework: Chapter 17.1 outline

Date assigned


Assignment
Read chapter 17.1 in the textbook.  For each subsection, each section, and the chapter as a whole, write a one sentence summary (16 total sentences).


Due date
Thursday, January 7, beginning of class

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

In class: Fog of War free write

Date assigned
Wednesday, Dec. 16


Assignment
Watch the clip from Fog of War: https://freedocumentaries.org/documentary/the-fog-of-war#watch-film


We started at 30:48 and stopped at 43:15.


Then write a response to the following two questions that McNamara himself asks during the film:


1) "In order to win a war, should you kill 100,000 civilians in a single night?"


2) "What makes it immoral if you lose, but not immoral if you win?"


Due date

Wednesday, Dec. 16, end of class

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Homework: Chapter 16.3 outline

Date assigned
Thursday, December 10


Assignment
Read chapter 16.3 in the textbook.  For each subsection, each section, and the chapter as a whole, write a one sentence summary (9 total sentences).


Due date
Friday, December 18, beginning of class