Sunday, March 14, 2010

HW Assignments/Announcements Week of 3/15/2010

Hello, APUSHers:

Announcements:
1. At this point, you should begin the process of reviewing your notes, etc. as we prepare for the AP exam. We're less than 60 days away.
2. Extra Help is available EVERY DAY after school (except Wednesday).
3. As a reminder, please note that late work will only be accepted if students attend an afterschool session in order to make up the work.
4. Major Assessment this week - WWI WebQuest. Links to follow! If you want to get started early, here's a link to the project. Due Date is MONDAY MARCH 22nd. NO EXCUSES! NO KIDDING!
5. Website of note: http://www.colinjeanne.net/apus/history/notes.htm - Download notes in "Text File" format, and you can upload them on your iPod. Read 'em while you're on the bus, at the gym, at lunch, wherever, whenever!

Assignments:

Monday Night - Due Tuesday 3/16:

MOVIE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE!!! Choose ONE of the following films. Go the Extra Mile, and get extra credit for doing both! Remember, you need a POWER MEDIA PLUS account in order to complete the assignment. Please make sure that you complete the PODCAST/VIDEO SHEET.

World War I:

The Unfinished Nation: The Road to War

Examines the factors and influences behind World War One, beginning with the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip and the complex system of alliances among Germany, England, Serbia, and Russia. Through expert interviews and archival footage, the program focuses on the U.S. perspective on European nationalism, including Woodrow Wilson’s resistance to American involvement in the war and pleas for neutrality at home. After investigating the roles of the Lusitania and Zimmerman note in Congress’s decision to declare war, a feature on the War Industries Board and new technology imparts the revolutionary changes the war had on African Americans and immigrants. Special emphasis on the Progressive Era and such political forces as anarchism and socialism considers a revisionist perspective on the social impact of the war on the home front. Play

The Unfinished Nation: To End All Wars?

Chronicles the people, events, and movements surrounding U.S. involvement in World War One and the consequences of America’s new position as a dominant world power. The program begins with a look at the Russian Revolution and Lenin’s effects on the war, as well as the labor problem at home and the work deportations in Bisbee, Arizona. Archived footage presents General Pershing’s final push on the Western Front before delving into the troubled Paris peace negotiations. Historians discuss Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the Senate’s refusal to approve the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations. Noting the political unrest in such nations as Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria after the war’s end and the red scare and race riots occurring in the U.S., the program communicates the disillusionment and anger that remained after the end of “the war to end all wars.” Play

Tuesday:
1. Podcast - Pick ONE. Go the extra mile, and do both! Complete a Podcast Sheet for each one that you do.

The Illusion of Victory
Talking History's Bryan Le Beau and historian Thomas Fleming discuss some fresh perspectives on Woodrow Wilson and World War 1. Thomas Fleming is author of The Illusion of Victory. Airdate: February 16, 2004.

Influenza
Talking History's Fred Nielsen and author John M. Barry discuss the flu epidemic of 1918 that swept across the world killing an estimated 100 million people worldwide. According to our guest, it was the world's most lethal epidemic- responsible for the deaths of more people in 24 weeks than the Black Death killed in a hundred years. John Barry is author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. Airdate: November 14, 2005.

2. Continue Working on the WWI Webquest.

Podcast Due THURSDAY!
WebQuest is due on MONDAY! (sorry for the mixup!)

Thursday:
1. Continue WebQuest (DUE MONDAY)
2. RHO Chapter 31 Notes (Read, Highlight, Outline) on Index Card. Spot Check on Friday.

Friday:
1. Finish Webquest
2. Read Chapter 31 in TB
3. Complete ID's and GRQ's for TUESDAY
4. BE READY for a chapter 31 Quiz on Tuesday!

8 comments:

Charlie said...

Archdike had a bomb thrown at his car but he wasnt injuresd but two guards were woulded. Archduke was on his way to the hospital when his driver went down the rong road which was a dead end. He came to a stop and a man came up to him and fired two shots. One for him and one for his wife.

World War one introduces many new factors of war such as Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, Submarines, Heavy Artilery, Biplanes, Tanks, rifles that can fire more than one round before reloading, and machine guns.

The central powers were Germany, Austria Hungary, and Turkey.(GAT)

The allied powers was America, France, Italy, Russia, and England.(AFIRE)

As Germans would pass throught innocent Belgium, the germans would rape women and kill people including babies and alot of horrrible stuff that was reported of the German soldiers.

Germans began using submarines to sink ships heading toward Great Brittain.

The germans sank the Louisitania and killed thousands including 128 americans.

Wilson wasoutraged and stated the Germany must stop killing the innocent.

Alot of americans wanted the US to go to war because we were known as too proud to battle and we wanted to do what was right because we had to stop the central powers.

In the election of 1916 wilson was reelected and then under wilsons second term of Presidence he declared war.

The election of 1920 republicans came back to power after a long time of loosing elections and not being included.

The Treaty of Versailes ended World War One by giving germans no choice but to surrender.

The Treaty of Versailes punished Germans and angered them leading to the second world war.

Wilsons Treaty of Versailes didnt include Republicans but only included Demcrats.

Kathleen said...

The Unfinished Nation: The Road to War

- throws bomb at car
- injury for two guards
- take to hospital visit gurads
- wrong turn back to main road
- gun fires archduke
- starts with one death end with 9 million more
- assault on serbia
- russia mobolize army
- Germany declare war on france and russia august
- belgium invade
- all of Europe at war
- thoughtit would be quick little gun exchange
- it was going to be won by which side starved out the other side
- why so much confusion
- Wilson believed that all the particapants shared equally for the war
- secret alliances
- what does it mean to be neutral?
- leave it alone don't get involved
- Wilson meant that all warring nations must treat America equal trade with whom they like
- strong socialist movement
- women opposed war mean men aggression
- immigrants: Irish and German did not belive we should get in the war
- a lot of trade with Britain
- cut back with Germans
- 1915 Germans start using sub. to sink ships heading to Britain
- progressive tensin between German and US
- 128 Americans killed in Luistiana
- TR thought Wilson was hypocrite
- 1916 election Hughes stand for pro-alliance
- April 1917 America declare war
- 13 % african americans
- 1 out of 5 immigrants
- the great war is the term europeans used
- increase role of gov't in america
- airplanes, ground transportation, radio communication, war made modern America
- Zimmermann telegram to Mexico
- gets intecepted
- fear that this would oppress America
- divide into different classes, native born, immigrants, rich poor
- all the energy of the society used to support war
- income taxes, selling of bombs, America need to feel obligation toward government
- creation of oppression, intolerance etc.
- everybody who was eligible for the draft signed up
- radicals, laborers, german americans, socialist were intolerable

Kathleen said...

Kathleen Gobin and Sara Dorfman #1-12

1. The Zimmermann note was created by German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann and he proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico. It stated that if Mexico fought against the U.S. and the Central Powers won, Mexico could recover Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona from the U.S. The Germans also started back with unlimited submarine warfare and started attacking armed/unarmed ships.

2. Six senators and 50 representatives, including the first Congresswoman, Jeanette Ranking, voted against war.

3. (wikinotes)
-No more secret treaties.
-Freedom of the seas was to be maintained.
-A removal of economic barriers among nations.
-Reduction of armament burdens.
-Adjustment of colonial claims in the interests of natives and colonizers.
-“Self-determination,” or independence for oppressed minority groups who’d choose their government
-A League of Nations, an international organization that would keep the peace and settle world disputes.

4. They used propaganda like posters, songs, and movies to persuade people. They sent out men to talk about it to audiences.

5. The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 showed American fears and paranoia about Germans and others saw this as a threat.

6. No one knew how much America could produce, and traditional laissez-faire economics still provided resistance to government control of the economy.

7. Labor movements became more vicious and extreme when price inflation threatened to conceal wages.

8. Women took men's jobs and either supported the war or not. The 19th Amendment was passed in 1920.

9. No, because the sacrifices were voluntary and it ended up having a positive impact as gardens sprout along street corners.

10. No, because African Americans were assigned to non-combat duty and most soldiers were sent off untrained and had acquired little skills in how to fight.

11. There purpose was to prevent munitions from falling into the hands of Japan, rescue some 45,000 trapped Czechoslovak troops, and prevent Bolshevik forces from snatching military supplies.

12. The Germans got tired and eventually gave up.

Charlie said...

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

The flu started in 1918 and spread across the world

Most of the victims it killed were healthy young adults

This flu was said to kill the immune system making it realy hard to recover

The flu started in the united states and spread to europe and eventualy spain

The flu had two waves and the second wave struck mostly the sick and elderly

The spanish king Alfonzo XIII caught this flu

It has been calculated that about ten twenty percent of people who caught it had died

This flu effected businesses because most businesses were afraid of people with the flu coming inside and so they would close or they would take orders outside

The flu killed more than two hundred and fivety thousand people in japan

Anonymous said...

dear mr. tesler,
nobody likes these webquests, theyre to long and you dont give us enough time to finish it.can you give us another day or two to finish it?

- person who doesn't like webquests

Kathleen said...

Influenza:
- severe flu epidemic 1918 and 1919- the great influenza
- more die than in ww1 and holocaust
- typhoid or any other disease
- turn dark due to lack of oxygen
- bleed from ears, nose, and eyes
- half of all deaths were young adults 20-35
- immune system overreacting to virus
- lungs were destroyed
- rural Kansas started
- Fort Riley, 50,000 troops
- lungs are buoyant in autopsy
- so thick from inflitration
- plague or posion gas you would see this
- virus mutates so fast it can jump from bird to people
- not unusual for people exposed to animal pathogen be infected
- but not so fast
- happen 3 to four times a century
- Philadelphia gruesome
- Asia hiding bird flu cause it would hurt economics

Charlie said...

A. Mitchell Palmer the fighting quaker
John Dewey a philosopher
John T. Scopes violated Tennessee butler act
Clarence Darrow a lawyer
Andrew Mellon a banker
Bruce Barton an author
Henry Ford founded ford automobiles
Frederick W. Taylor improved industrial efficiency
Margaret Sanger founded American birth control league
Sigmund Freud founded school of psyatry
H. L. Mencken journalist
F. Scott Fitzgerald author of novels and short stories
Ernest Hemingway a writer and journalist
Sinclair Lewis a short story writer
William Faulkner a prize winning author
Buying on Margin paying for in advance
Red Scare fear of communists
Sacco and Vanzetti Case arrested for armed robbery
Ku Klux Klan a racist gang that occurred after the civil war
Volstead Act allowed alcohol
Flappers a term for young women who wore short skirts

Anonymous said...

where did u get the questions??