World History Mid Term Project

Working alone or in groups of 2-3, you and your partners are going to develop a presentation (powerpoint, prezi, other) where you answer the following question: what caused World War II?

World War II was not caused by any one factor, but a series of factors. In your PowerPoint you are going to examine 8 of these factors telling me

1) a brief background of the event and
2) how this factor lead to World War II

Lastly, you are going to pick which factor you think was most important in causing World War II and why.

The topics included are:


The Peace Treaties after World War I
Failures of the League of Nations
Abyssinia
Manchuria
Stock Market Crash
The Depression
The Rise of Hitler
Hitler's Foreign Policy
Appeasement
Mussolini
The Rise of Fascism in Japan
The Rise of Fascism in Italy
United States Isolationism
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
Fear of Communism

Each presentation should include: Group names, images, and a works cited page (minimum 12 slides).

You will be graded on:
1) Following Directions
2) using your own words (copy/pasting is dumb and you don't learn anything from it).
3) using appropriate sources and telling me where you got your work from and
4) effort


This is a big assignment (WORTH A TEST GRADE) and the LAST IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENT IN THIS CLASS. YOU WANT TO PASS/GET A GOOD GRADE? SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT MY DUDE.

Appropriate Pages for Midterm

Here are some sites you can use. Click around and you can find all sorts of information on different topics. You aren't limited to these sites, but they can help you:

Assignments, the Textbook - old fashioned but works!

http://johndclare.net/

http://www.historyonthenet.com/ww2/causes.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/causes-of-world-war-two/

http://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/moderneurope/catherine-shen/

Treaty of Versailles:

http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/treaty-of-versailles
http://chapman2014.weebly.com/leading-to-world-war-ii.html

Failure of L of N:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/league-of-nations-failures/
http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/A-D/Collective-Security-The-1930s-and-the-failure-of-the-league-of-nations.html

Abyssinia/Ethiopia Invasion:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/italy-1900-to-1939/abyssinia/
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2014/01/italys-invasion-ethiopia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/manchuriarev1.shtml

Manchuria:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/manchuria.htm
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1499.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/manchuriarev1.shtml

Stockmarket Crash and Depression:
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/essays/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_subj.html
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/022516/economic-conditions-helped-cause-world-war-ii.asp

Hitler's Rise:
https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/hitlerpowerrev1.shtml


Hitler Foreign Policy:
RUT worksheet
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005203
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/hitlersaimsandactionsrev1.shtml
http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII2.htm

Appeasement:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-road-to-world-war-ii-how-appeasement-failed-to-stop-hitler-a-646481.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/chamberlainandappeasementrev1.shtml

December 6th-9th

Hey guys!

. I made this video clip for you to laugh at.

12/6
Read the following on Appeasement

Answer the following Questions:

1)Study Sources A-D and list four things British people thought about Appeasement

2) Using Sources A–E make a list of 'points for' and points against' the policy of appeasement

3)  Which of Sources A–D suggest Hitler would carry on as long as people kept appeasing him?

4) Complete this Cloze Activity using the reading

if finished, move on to next day's work

12/07 Tuesday READ Manchurian Crisis

1) create a timeline of important events related to Japan from 1853 to 1933.  Please include a symbol for each

2) Explain the cartoons on the 3rd and 4th pages.  What do they say about the League of Nations? Japan? What do you think the cartoonist thinks of everything going on?

Read this

3) If you had to pick the biggest successes of the league of Nations what would it be?  What about the biggest failures?

if finished, move on to next day's work

12/08 Wednesday READ Mussolini and Abyssinia

1) create a timeline of important events in Mussolni's life leading up to his death.  Include his rise to power and use symbols.

2) Japan, Germany, and Italy are all considered to be Fascist.  What does that mean? (you can look it up and second page of this reading may help) how are these countries different? Similar?

3) Do the Discussion Questions on the second page

4) Do the activity questions on page 59.

5) Do the activity questions on page 60.


THE END

Gilded Age Assignment 12/1 and 12/2

The Gilded Age – please answer all questions with a separate piece of paper

Textbook: http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp

Click on 36: The Gilded Age: http://www.ushistory.org/us/36.asp

1.       What was the Gilded Age?

2.       What is corruption? Why was it part of the Gilded Age?

36.a Go to this page now: http://www.ushistory.org/us/36a.asp

3.       What did the Pullman Car company produce?

4.       Why was the Transcontinental Railroad important?

5.       What is Manifest Destiny?

6.       What kind of immigrants worked on the railroads?

7.       What is the significance of Promontory Summit?

8.       Why was there a need for government to regulate railroads (Interstate Commerce Commission)?

36.b Go to this page (John D. Rockefeller): http://www.ushistory.org/us/36b.asp

9.       Who was John D. Rockefeller? What company did he control?

10.   What is a captain of industry? What is a robber baron? Are they really just the same thing?

11.   Why was oil such an important part of industrialization?

36.c Andrew Carnegie: http://www.ushistory.org/us/36c.asp

12. Who was Carnegie?

13. Why was Carnegie’s background important to him? Do you think this had to do with his giving/charities?

36.d JP Morgan: http://www.ushistory.org/us/36d.asp

14. What type of things did Morgan invest in? Why was he so powerful?

15. Was Morgan necessarily a bad guy?

37.e: New  Attitudes toward wealth: http://www.ushistory.org/us/36e.asp

                16. What is Social Darwinism?

                17. What is the Gospel of Wealth?

                18. What is meant by the “American Dream” according to this section?

EXTRA CREDIT: Columbia World’s Fair - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html

19. Why was the Chicago Fair so important and popular?

20. Also, research H.H. Holmes here: http://www.inquisitr.com/2329164/who-was-hh-holmes-meet-the-serial-killer-leonardo-dicaprio-will-bring-back-to-life/ How was HH Holmes able to take advantage of the fair?

Day Two (11/10) and Day Three (11/12)

1) The topics and sources are meant to guide you on your research

2) Assign roles to each student (read this to consider how you would like to assign these roles). One student will have to volunteer to record what is done each day. However students will be responsible to keep a journal of what they did over these two days and turn them into me at the end of Day Three.

3) Start doing research on your topic and compile a list of sources you will use for your presentation and essay. .org and .edu websites are almost always acceptable, but please check with Mr. Randall before using a source.  If you would like to use Wikipedia to familiarize yourself with the topic, go down to the resources section and check to see if there are any worthwhile sites. Do not cite Wikipedia, and Google is never cited either (google is a search engine, where you "land" from google is the source/site).

4) At the end of Day three, give me a rough draft, outline, or plan of your presentation and essay.

Thanks,

Mr.Randall

Industrial Revolution Project

The class will be divided into 5 groups. The groups will research one of the following: the telephone, the gramophone, the automobile, steel, or the textile industry. There will be 5 days of computer use in class.

The group will be responsible for (3) Journals, (1) timeline with agenda of each day, one (2) two page essay, and a presentation.

Instructions for Essay (35 points)

2 pages, typed, double-spaced. 12 point, Times Roman font. Citations in the same style you use in English class (minimum 1).

The purpose of this essay is to attempt to answer the investigative question: Why was this industry the most beneficial to Americans? You will need to introduce your topic in the context of the aftermath of Reconstruction. What was the state of the nation at this time period? What necessities led to the invention they are discussing? Who were the major players who introduced the new technologies? What major events surrounded the creation of those inventions?

Be sure to include quotes from interviews, books, or articles in their essays. Also be sure to refer to primary and secondary sources, quoting or describing them in support of your argument.

Your essay will be graded with THIS rubric

Instructions for Presentation (35 points)

Presentations may include but are not limited to the use of PowerPoint, Prezi, poster boards, videos, audio recordings or other methods approved by the instructor.

Each team member should participate in the presentation and explain the team’s research methods and work procedures. The presentation should attempt to answer the investigative question. Each group should take questions at the end of their presentations.

The presentation will be graded using the rubric from the Civil War project (without the number of slides requirement)

Group 1: Telephone

Observe A.G. Bell’s telephone patent notes and make predictions about the subject and year they were produced. What device are these notes referring to? Who might these notes be going to? What is the purpose of writing this information down? What year was this made?

This circular from 1879 details the controversy surrounding the true inventor of the telephone. Read an discuss the following questions at your table:

·Who was the true inventor of the telephone?

·Why did it matter who was granted the patent?

·What was at stake if one man lost the patent?

·How were telephones used in everyday life?                    

Group 2: Birth of the Recording Industry: Berliner’s Gramophone

This chart by Emile Berliner details the parts of his Gramophone. Browse his scrapbook to see how an inventor pieced together his work.

Here you can listen to one of the earliest sound recordings available at  the Library of Congress.

·         What type of jobs might have been created with the introduction of sound machines?

·         How were gramophones used in everyday life?

Group 3: Automobile

Here you can browse through pictures highlighting how the Ford car evolved over the years. This cartoon of a horse crying while riding in a car suggests the end of horses as the primary means of travel. Analyze the cartoon. This drawing shows that the idea of the ‘car’ goes back to the early 19^th century.

·         Why did the models of Ford’s cars change over the years?

·         Who was most affected by the change from horses to cars?

·         What type of person worked for the automobile industry?

·         How were cars used in everyday life?

Group 4: Textiles

Analyze this cover of Harper’s Weekly showing a woman working in a factory. What is meant by the title? What might ‘New South’ mean? Does that give us any clue to when this might have been made? Analyze the working conditions and the child labor of the 19^th and 20^th centuries here:

·         What were the dangers of working in a textile factory?

·         How were textile products used in everyday life?

Group 5: Steel

Read this brief detail of steel in Pittsburgh. Andrew Carnegie built his wealth with his steel company and here students can read a brief biography of the magnate. This timeline of The Homestead Strike of 1892 displays the unrest and unfair treatment in the Pittsburgh steel companies. This sheet music shows what the common man thought of working conditions in the factories. The Pullman Strike of 1894 was carried out by railway workers protesting lower wages and unfair working conditions. President Cleveland supported the Pullman Company and sent in federal troops to break up the strikes.

·         What were conditions in a steel factory like?

·         How was steel used in everyday life?

Day One

Day One -

Step 1

Read American Industry after Reconstruction using the article “America at the Turn of the Century” (paper copy given to you)

Step 2

Each group should analyze their primary source using the primary source analysis tool. Each group should have one sheet per source. Students should fill out the sheet completely, recording what they know, the questions they have, and ideas about how to answer those questions.

Step 3

Each group should select one member to give a brief presentation of one of their primary

sources, selected together by the group. Students from other groups should be encouraged to ask questions about the primary sources on display. This is not a big deal, you just have to explain what the source shows to the class.