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Cold War Page: Please see Erin if you have any questions about Homework assignments. Please be prepared to discuss the readings in class.
You can access questions sheets by going to this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AAhfEySsjheKOeebTg7fNYS8C3LgvcXl?usp=sharing
You can access questions sheets by going to this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AAhfEySsjheKOeebTg7fNYS8C3LgvcXl?usp=sharing
Assignment #1 : Due Monday March 25, 2024
Complete Part I: A brief History of War and Study Guide. drive.google.com/file/d/1Rc2ODG5eLNlfABLRIwiMO_f-o-IEyolO/view?usp=sharing
Questions are linked below: TRI 3 - Cold War Reading #1
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13fftvciNgqd2JgsU6ny7o1-Uz4QcDOObyD2MIQgF3Vw/edit?usp=drive_link
Due Monday April 1, 2024
Complete Part II: World War II and the Atomic Bomb. reading is linked below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19GGDXSQbYvOSr6PB9BA1f5O7TRk5WWvp/view?usp=sharing
Questions are linked below: TRI 3 - Cold War Reading #2
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NQ5LIQk0D7ZwQE69lMeJXrnD2FArDfeGDwlU7D3clqY/edit?usp=drive_link
I have also given you a Chronology that might be helpful as you are reading...you can see that here:
Due Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Tell President Truman what he should do regarding the use of the Atomic Bomb.
Write a minimum of a four paragraph essay on the decision to use the Atomic Bomb in WWII. In this essay, explain what the options are for President Truman. You must choose one of the options available to President Truman in July 1945. Your essay must defend your choice and convince Truman of why your option is the best choice. Remember to use the option sheet that is at the end of the second reading. Please see Erin if you need help or want her to go over the essay with you before it is due.
Due Wednesday May 8, 2024
Cold War Who's Who, What's What - Here is the link to the assignment sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n11sHJjBt8p-PeFUXaOOMN2LVMoweUFIpA9x9BGWdWQ/edit?usp=drive_link
If you have any questions about it, please see or email Erin for Help!
Due Wednesday May 15, 2024 - Review/Essay on Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
In a thoughtful and well reasoned essay, write a review of how the movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, captures the underlying fear of a communist takeover in 1950s America. How does the story reflect this fear? What techniques in the movie are used to enhance the fear an audience my be feeling? Why is this movie important to our understanding of the way America felt in the 1950s about the state of the world and America?
Timeline of the Cuban Missile Crisis: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wwZpmg5Jor2kf4KEh6g30JHuTv27O77m/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103951432096539748733&rtpof=true&sd=true
Due Wednesday May 22, 2024
Please complete the Study Guides I and II questions for class on May 22, 2024...The questions go with the Study guide readings handed out in class. Please make sure you bring both the readings and finished questions to class.
Due Wednesday May 29, 2024 - Review/Essay on Fail Safe
In a thoughtful and well reasoned essay, write a review of how the movie, Fail Safe captures the underlying fear of a catastrophic Nuclear Bomb incident. How does the story reflect this fear? What techniques in the movie are used to enhance the fear an audience my be feeling? Why do you think this movie was important when it first was shown and to us today?
_____DO NOT USE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE - IT IS FROM A PREVIOUS CLASS______________
Due Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Write a minimum of a four paragraph essay on the decision to use the Atomic Bomb in WWII. In this essay, you must choose one of the options available to President Truman in July 1945. Your essay must defend your choice and convince Truman of why your option is the best choice. Remember to use the option sheet that is at the end of the second reading. Please see Erin if you need help or want her to go over the essay with you before it is due.
Due Wednesday May 4, 2022
Cold War Who's Who, What's What - Please find this assignment in the Cold War folder...If you have any questions about it, please see or email Erin for Help!
Due Wednesday May 18, 2022
Please complete the Advanced Study Guides I and II questions for class on May 18, 2022...The questions go with the Advanced Study guide readings handed out in class. Please make sure you bring both the readings and finished questions to class.
Timeline of the Cuban Missile Crisis: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wwZpmg5Jor2kf4KEh6g30JHuTv27O77m/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103951432096539748733&rtpof=true&sd=true
Final Essay: This essay should follow Humanities Department rules: minimum 4 paragraphs, 6-8 sentences per paragraph, correct grammar. Please write an analysis of the response of President Kennedy to the discovery of the Soviet Missiles on Cuba. He had several options that he could use to react to the crisis. Analyze his actions and responses to the information that he was given, and the advice that he received from the Executive Committee. How do you think he did? Would you have done anything different? What was at stake during the crisis? What was at stake for history or how did this crisis affect the world after it was over and for all time? This is due Wednesday May 25, 2022.
Final credit deadline for all assignments for third trimester is Wednesday June 1, 2022 without exception...you need to have completed all assignments in order to earn credit in this class...see Erin if you need help on any assignment.
Due Wednesday May 13, 2020: Please read the article called Forty Years Ago. It is in the Cold War Folder above. Please also look over the Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline that is also in the folder...you may want to have this document open and available when we discuss this event next week in class. There are no questions for this article but you will need it to complete the next essay assignment. You will be assigned this essay next week.
Due Friday May 22, 2020: Cuban Missile Crisis Essay: In a thoughtful and well written essay of 5 paragraphs, please discuss and advise the President of which Option he should choose to end the Crisis. Option I is to perform an Airstrike and Invade Cuba, Option II is to Blockade Cuba and Option III is to use Diplomacy to resolve he Crisis.
Outline of Essay:
Paragraph One: Introduce the Crisis and all that is happening and what options the President has to resolve the Crisis.
Paragraph Two- Paragraph Four : Outline the pros and cons of each option the President can decide to use to resolve the Crisis
Final Paragraph is for you to present which Option is the best and why the President should choose your option suggestion.
Please talk or email Erin if you have any questions...you can find copies of the Crisis letters between Kennedy and Khrushchev on the JFK Library site and in the National Archives...
Due Wednesday April 4, 2018
Please read the Preface and the Prologue of the Cold War Book.
Due Wednesday April 11
Read chapter I of the Cold War book.
Write out an outline of 2/4 items for each section of the
chapter...this is also due on the same date.
Due Wednesday April 25, 2018
Please have read Chapters 2 & 3.
Write out an outline of 2/4 items for each section of each
chapter...this is also due on the same date.
Due Wednesday May 2, 2018
Please have read through Chapter 4
Write out an outline of 2/4 items for each section of each
chapter...this is also due on the same date.
Due Wednesday May 9, 2018
Please have read through Chapter 5
Write out an outline of 2/4 items for each section of each
chapter...this is also due on the same date.
Due Wednesday May 16, 2018
Please have read through Chapter 6
Write out an outline of 2/4 items for each section of each
chapter...this is also due on the same date.
Due Wednesday May 23, 2018
Please finish the book, Chapter 7 and Epilogue
of the Cold War Book -- Write out an outline of 2/4
items for each section of each chapter...this is
also due on the same date.
Cold War Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22KIQ1QNnhE&list=PL3H6z037pboGWTxs3xGP7HRGrQ5dOQdGc
I think this will bring you to the You tube page...if it does not...just search for Cold War on the site...the channel is steviea427. Please watch episode 2/Iron Curtain and Episode 3/Marshall Plan this week. Each episode is about 47 minutes long. Write down questions and things you find interesting for discussion in class.
Please watch episode 4/Berlin for Friday April 17. Write down questions and things you find interesting for discussion in class.
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