Collection Creation

In this mission your task is to create a series of 2 minute videos teaching other collectors about the topics listed. To accomplish this task you will be using Adobe Sparks (https://spark.adobe.com/sp/) to create your videos.

Video Requirements

  1. 1 - 2 minutes in length
  2. Accurate AND In depth information
  3. The Indicator number (i.e. 7.1) and the Topic (i.e. A - Rise of European Totalitarianism) must be indicated in the file title and on the screen to begin the segment
    1. EX. 7.1 A Rise of European Totalitarianism
  4. Must have Narration (speaking) and only students in the group may speak on camera
  5. Primary sources, maps, and other visuals should be present in the video.

When video is complete, download the video (should automatically save as an MP4) and upload it to this shared Google Folder.

I will link it to this page so other students can benefit from your work.

Videos will be ranked on a 3 star system.

  • 1 star - Basic Videos -accurate but no outside connections. Production value is just ok. (50XP)
  • 2 stars - Well Produced Videos that are accurate and informative (75XP)
  • 3 stars - Excellent videos that go above and beyond. These videos are accurate and also make connections to other videos topics (100XP)

7.1 -From Isolation to Intervention

A - Rise of European Totalitarianism

B- Defining Fascism

C - 1930s American Neutrality and Isolationism

D - WWII begins in Europe

E - Cash and Carry, Destroyers for Bases, and Lend-Lease

F - Undeclared War - US actions from Lend-Lease to Pearl Harbor

G - Pearl Harbor

7.2 -WWII on the Homefront

A - The US Wartime Economy

B - Citizen Sacrifices (Rations, Bonds, Victory Gardens, etc)

C - Women in WWII

D - African Americans and War Time Jobs

E- The Mexican Bracero Program

F - Civil Liberties during WWII - African Americans in the Military

G - Civil Liberties during WWII - The Zoot Suit Riots

H - Civil Liberties during WWII - Japanese Internment

7.3 -WWII Timeline

A - Differences between the US and USSR

B - Recap the Red Scare fear of Communism

C - Outline "The Big Three" leaders of Britain, Soviet Union, and US

D - WWII before American entry - Attacks on the Soviet Union

E - WWII before American entry - Battle of Britain

F - European Theater - Operation Torch

G - European Theater - The Battle of Stalingrad

H - European Theater - The Italian Campaign

I - European Theater - Operation Overlord and the 2nd Front

J - European Theater - The Battle of the Bulge

K - The End of the European Front ( and start of the Cold War)

L - Pacific Theater - Island Hopping Campaign Explained

M -Pacific Theater - Battle of the Midway

N - Pacific Theater - The Yalta Conference and US/SU Plans

O - Pacific Theater - Okinawa and Iwo Jima

P - The decision to drop the Atomic Bomb


7.4 - The Holocaust

A - German Actions against the Jews - Nuremberg Laws to Kristallnacht

B - American Response to pre-WWII actions against Jewish Germans

C - The Final Solution explained

D - The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

E - The Creation of Israel

7.5 - The Cold War

A - Compare the United States and Soviet Union and Post WWII Goals

B - Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech explained

C - The Truman Doctrine and Containment Policy

D - The Marshall Plan Explained

E - The Berlin Blockade to the Berlin Airlift to the Berlin Wall

F - The Formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact

G - The Nuclear Arms Race

H - China becomes Communist

I - The Korean War - The role of the UN

J - The Korean War - The Turning Point

K - The Korean War - The end of the conflict and a Victory for Containment

L -Sputnik and the Space Race (and the Arms Race)

M - The National Defense Education Act

N - Causes of the 1950s/60s Red Scare

O - McCarthyism

P - Crisis in Cuba - Communist Revolution to The Bay of Pigs invasion

Q - Crisis in Cuba - Soviet Assistance and the Cuban Missile Crisis

R - Crisis in Cuba - The Aftermath and the US/SU efforts

S - The Middle East - The Creation of Israel and US Support

T - The Middle East - The Suez Canal Crisis and Eisenhower Doctrine

U - The Middle East - The Camp David Accords

V - The Middle East - Iran, the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and the Hostage Crisis

W - The Middle East - USSR in Afghanistan and modern implications

X - The Fall of the Berlin Wall and End of the Cold War

7.6 - Post WWII America

A - The GI BIll

B - The Baby Boom

C -The Growth of the Suburbs

D - White Flight and the Modern Inner City

E -The Long Economic Boom 1950-1970

F - The Birth of the American Middle Class

G - A Return of the Buy Now, Pay Later Mentality

H - New Medical Technologies

I - Changing Agricultural Technology, Environmental Issues, and the EPA

J - The Rise of Feminism