Monday, March 19, 2012

Cold war points for discussion.

Why do you think Stalin didn't want to follow the Yalta plan?
What is the 'war on terror'
How is the cold war different than the war on terror?
What are the options other than 'Containment' and the Truman doctrine?

Get in groups of 4.
Each person will create a political cartoon for one of the 4 parts of this section.
Turn in. Graded on presentation/quality, clarity of thought, and originality. 10 pts.

P. 542
what is the significance of the 38th parallel.
What were the goals of North Korea
What happened in the UN, and why (2 sentences)
Who is Douglas MacArthur, and why important
What was Inchon
Chinese and Korea
Who is Kim Il Sung
Who is Ho Chi Minh.
Dien Bien Phu
What is Domino Theory
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Cold War.

What is the fundamental conflict between America and USSR?
Explain the Yalta Plan?
Draw a graphic (picture) of how the UN Worked
Make two columns. ON the left, USSR goals,and reasons, on the Right, USA
What was the Iron Curtain.
What is containment?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What is the Marshall plan. Look at the Graph
-what country received the most aid from the US?
-Why did Great Britain and France receive so much aid?
What is the Cold War?
NATO?
Warsaw Pact?
Nuclear Arms race?
Brinkmanship?
SPUTNIK
U2.
Make a time line of 7 key cold war events.

Monday, March 12, 2012

chapter 16, p. 514

examples of destruction
'interpret the chart', p. 515
impact to economy
growth of communism? (why, where)
nuremberg trials- describe in 3 sentences

japan:
demilitarization
democratization

paragraph about:
change to emperor
change in government

would use of a biological weapon against an enemy be justified?
what would the world be like with another Hitler today?

test thursday, 15&16.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

p. 506 The allied Victory

What did Stalin want?
Where did Churchill want to attack?
El Alamein
Operation Torch?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stalingrad - Why attack? Why defend?
What turned the tide for the germans?
What happened in Italy to mussolini
Examples of total war (p. 509)
How were japanese-americans treated in US?
D-Day. When. Where. What.
Battle of Bulge
V-E Day
Leyte Gulf and the Kamikazes
Iwo Jima
Atomic Bomb
Aug 6, Aug 9. Death Toll.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Holocaust

What was the Nazis racial view of Europe?
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht?
Why did Western nations close their doors to Jewish Refugees
Ghettos
Final Solution
Genocide
Concentration Camp
Auschwitz
List the death total of the concentration camp

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Japan strikes in the pacific

Japan's goals for Southeast Asia?
Isoroku Yamamoto
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
Infamy
Summarize the Tide of japanese victories with a small timeline.
Bataan Death March
Doolittle's raid
Coral Sea
Midway
Douglas MacArthur
Island Hopping
Guadalcanal