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20th Century World History - grade 12
20th century = 1901-2000
July 3rd: Primary and Secondary Sources
July 4th: Primary and Secondary Sources Test, timelines, Charts, timelines, maps, graphs, tables
July 5th: Data Interpretation Test, Global conflicts, World War I
July 8th: Global conflicts, World War II
Overview
-Video - Overview of WW2
-Timeline - WW2
-Video: WW2 Crash Course
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Axis and Allies
-Satirical Article: Axis of Just as Evil
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Types of Warfare
-Video: Blitzkrieg
-Video: Pearl Harbor
-Video: Controversy over bomb
-Video: What happens during an atom bomb
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Social Connections
-Operation Shamrock
-1938 letter
-1942 letter
-Royal Visit 1939
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July 9th: Data Presentation Test
July 9th: How to write a research essay, part 1
July 10th: Global conflicts, the Cold War
July 11th: The rise and rule of authoritarian regimes: North Korea and the Kim dynasty, China and Mao
July 12th: The rise and rule of authoritarian regimes: Soviet Union from Lenin to Gorbachev, Germany and Hitler, Italy and Mussolini, Chile and Pinochet, Cambodia and Pol Pot, Cuba and Castro
July 15th: Bloom’s Questions – significance and perspectives test (based on previous classes), practice writing a research essay
July 16th: Human rights movements, including those of indigenous peoples: Africa (segregation and desegregation), struggle against apartheid
July 17th: Human rights movements, including those of indigenous peoples: US civil rights movement (segregation and desegregation), struggle against apartheid
July 18th: Human rights movements, including those of indigenous peoples: women’s movement toward equality, Social and Cultural Developments - changing role of women - suffrage, pay equity, 'second wave' feminism of the 1960's
July 19th: Religious, ethnic, and/or cultural conflicts, including genocide: genocide in Armenia, in Cambodia, in Rwanda, separatist movements (e.g., Quebec, Basque, Catalan, Ireland)
July 22nd: In-class research essay (based on research given to students, based on three previous classes)
July 23rd: Finish Research Essay
July 24th: Religious, ethnic, and/or cultural conflicts, including genocide: cultural genocide of indigenous peoples, the Holocaust. Human rights movements, including those of indigenous peoples: Latin-American workers’ movements, Canada and First Nations
-Holocaust-
-Japan, Unit 731-
-Indigenous Peoples-
July 25th: 1920's boom, 1950's suburbanization and car culture, scarcity of goods in post-war WW2.
*Migrations, movements and territorial boundaries; suburbanization of the United States and Canada
July 26th: *Bloom's Questions - communicate findings test (based on previous lessons)
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*Separatist movements (e.g., Quebec, Basque, Catalan, Ireland)
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July 29th: Migrations, movements, and territorial boundaries: post-World War I Middle East, Palestine/Jewish settlement
July 30th: Interdependence and International co-operation: UN peacekeeping missions, European Union, Free trade, WTO.
July 31st: Bloom's questions - defend positions test.
Communication and transportation technologies: propaganda in democratic and totalitarian regimes, role of media in shaping response to international conflicts
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August 1st: Globalization - change from nation state to internationalism, Communication and transportation technologies - social impact of the automobile, role of television and radio in creating mass culture
August 2nd: Bloom's Questions - continuity and change test.
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Civil Wars, Independence Movements, and Revolution: Soviet Union, 1917–21, China, 1945–49, decolonization, Iranian Revolution, guerilla warfare in Central and South America, Vietnam, 1945–75. Interdependence and international co-operation: Soviet Satellite states
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August 6th: Movie and Documentary
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Joyeux Noel
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History Channel: A Century of Warfare
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