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Progress and Uncertainty - WEEK THIRTEEN (MORE OR LESS) OVERVIEW (Unit 5) Topics: Indo-China + Vietnam; Détente Superpower Agreements READINGS: *=Required Title Pages * Falk: Student Workbook 157-163, 184-191 * Howarth: The World Since 1900 First Edition 232-233 (Indo-China); 244-247; Handout 2nd ed: p 231-245 Howarth: The World Since 1900 Second Ed 214-216; 225-228; 231-245 * Demarco: The World This Century 196-199; 204-212 (skip Civil Rights); 214-223 * Mitchner and Tuffs: Global Forces 199-207; 238-244 Rundle: Int’l Affairs: 1939-1979 114-122 Browne: World History 2: 19001968 262-266 (skip Bandung sec) Catchpole: Map History of the Modern World 126-127 Vocabulary (For Reference – be familiar with these): 1. Indochina 2. Indochina War 3. Vietnam War 4. Ho Chi Minh 5. Dien Bien Phu 6. Geneva Agreement 1954 7. Viet Cong/NLF 8. Viet Minh 9. Ho Chi Minh Trail 10. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 11. Vietnamization 12. Richard Nixon 13. Henry Kissinger 14. Two Track (dual-track) Formula 15. Pathet Lao ("Lao Country”) 16. Khmer Rouge 17. Pol Pot 18. Cambodian Genocide 19. Boat People 20. Detente 21. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 22. SALT I 23. SALT II 24. Helsinki Accords 25. Cruise Missile 26. Watergate Scandal 27. Strategic Defense Initiative 28. Ostpolitik Essential Questions (25 Marks): COMPLETE IN POINT FORM FOR ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: 1. Explain the consequences within the USA of its involvement in the Vietnam War. That is, how did the influence of public opinion/protest, including direct action by individual and action by groups, change national government policy? 2. “After 1960, the U.S.A found it easier to increase its involvement in Vietnam than to withdraw from the conflict.” A) Why did the USA increase its involvement in Vietnam? B) Why did the USA eventually withdraw from Vietnam? 3. Was the Vietnam War the USA’s Afghanistan? In others words, was what happened with the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan (1979/1980) the same as the USA’s invasion of Vietnam? Why or why not? Explain your viewpoint. You must compare and contrast these invasions. 4. Why could the fighting in Vietnam be considered a war of “National Liberation”? Why this made the USA unable to win the Vietnam War. 5. To what extent did the USA and the USSR follow a policy of détente and attempted to engage international cooperation in the post-war world? Speak to the various way détente happened and did not happen for both nations. 6. How did the nuclear arms race impact society and the economy of the superpowers? That is, what changed and what remained the same in regards to society and the economy in the both the USA and the USSR? Inquiry Essay Question = NONE this week Progress and Uncertainty - WEEK FOURTEEN (MORE OR LESS) OVERVIEW (Unit 5) Topics: Afghanistan; Poland; Hungary; Collapse of the USSR; Fall of Berlin Wall and Reunification; End of Cold War; European Economic Cooperation + European Union READINGS: *=Required Title Pages * Falk: Student Workbook 176-177, 184-210, 213-215 Howarth: The World Since 1900 First Edition not useful Howarth: The World Since 1900 Second Ed not useful * Demarco: The World This Century 176-178 * Mitchner and Tuffs: Global Forces 272-277; 288-301 Rundle: Int’l Affairs: 1939-1979 148 Browne: World History 2: 19001968 not useful Catchpole: Map History of the Modern World 164-165 Vocabulary (For Reference – be familiar with these): 1. Solidarity 2. Lech Walesa 3. General Jaruzelski 4. Tadeusz Mazowiecki 5. Janos Kadar 6. Jozsef Natal 7. Erich Honecker 8. Eron Krenz 9. Helmut Kohl 10. Leonid Brezhnev 11. Apparatachiks 12. Mikhail Gorbachev 13. Boris Yeltsin 14. Glasnost 15. Perestroika 16. Commonwealth of Independent States 17. Babrak Karmal 18. Mujahidin 19. Chernobyl 20. Autarky Essential Questions (12 Marks): Complete in point form (but be thorough) or complete in full sentences. 1. Gorbachev’s policies of Glasnost and Perestroika were critical steps in the ending of the Cold War. How these policies helped to bring the Cold War to an end? 2. The Berlin Wall, a symbol of the Cold War since 1961, came crashing down in 1989. A. Why was the Berlin Wall a symbol of the Cold War? B. How did the events in Eastern Europe lead to the destruction of the Berlin Wall? See the next page 3. In what ways was nationalism a cause of political change in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991? Inquiry Essay Question = NONE this week Progress and Uncertainty - WEEK FIFTEEN (MORE OR LESS) OVERVIEW (Unit 5) Topic: China READINGS: *=Required Title Pages * Falk: Student Workbook 177-184 * Howarth: The World Since 1900 First Edition 77-79; 222-223; 254-262 Howarth: The World Since 1900 Second Ed 73-74; 204-205; 246-254 * Demarco: The World This Century 179-195 * Mitchner and Tuffs: Global Forces 98-99; 247-267 Rundle: Int’l Affairs: 1939-1979 99-113 Browne: World History 2: 1900-1968 203-218 Catchpole: Map History of the Modern World 100-101; 134-135 Vocabulary (8 Marks): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) Chinese Communist Party The Long March People’s Liberation Army Nationalist China/Taiwan Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution 9. People’s Republic of China 10. Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai) 11. The Sino-Soviet Split/Rift 12. Deng Xiaoping 13. Special Economic Zones 14. Tiananmen Square Massacre 15. Tibetan Genocide 16. Dalai Lama Essential Questions (15 Marks): Complete in point form (but be thorough) or complete in full sentences. 1. During the Cold War, China experienced hostile relations with each of the Superpowers. A. Why were there hostile relations between China and the USA during the period 1949 to 1971? B. Why were there hostile relations between China and the USSR after 1956? 2. The government of China, under Deng Xiaoping, allowed greater economic freedom but restricted political freedom. A. Describe the “economic freedoms” allowed by Deng Xiaoping. B. Describe the political restrictions imposed by Deng Xiaoping. C. How did economic and political change impact China? See the next page 3. How did nationalism have an impact on the events of the late 20th Century (late 1900s) in China? Inquiry Essay Question = NONE this week Progress and Uncertainty - WEEK SIXTEEN (MORE OR LESS) OVERVIEW (Unit 5) Topics: Indian Independence; Middle East: Israel/Palestine READINGS: *=Required Title Pages * Falk: Student Workbook 59-62, 163-172 * Howarth: The World Since 1900 First 70-72; 75-77; 220-222; 291-300 Edition Howarth: The World Since 1900 Second Ed 64-67; 71-72; 202-204; 216; 219; 288298 * Demarco: The World This Century 242-252 * Mitchner and Tuffs: Global Forces 211-217 Rundle: Int’l Affairs: 1939-1979 133-147 Browne: World History 2: 1900-1968 135-148; 155-174 Catchpole: Map History of the Modern World 96-99; 114-115; 154-157 Vocabulary (As A Small Group): 1. Balfour Declaration 2. Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms 3. Mohandas Gandhi 4. Jawaharlal Nehru 5. The Congress Party 6. The Muslim League 7. Ali Jinnah 8. Arab League 9. Sykes-Picot Agreement 10. Mustafa Kemal/Ataturk 11. Israel 12. Palestine 13. David Ben-Gurion 14. Palestinian War 15. Suez War 16. Gamal Abdal Nasser 17. Aswan Dam 18. El Fatah/Fatah 19. PLO 20. Six Day War 21. General Moshe Dayan 22. Anwar Sadat 23. Yom Kippur War 24. OPEC 25. Camp David Agreements/Accords, 1978/79 26. Henry Kissinger 27. Zionists 28. Suez Canal 29. Golan Heights 30. Gaza Strip 31. West Bank Essential Questions (15 Marks): COMPLETE IN POINT FORM FOR ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Weeks 16 and 17 See the next page Week 16 Essential Questions: 1. In 1947, the Indian subcontinent was partitioned. A. List the reasons/causes for the partition of the Indian subcontinent. B. Describe the effects/consequences of partition on the Indian subcontinent and its peoples. C. Explain the role of Nationalism in the post-1945 decolonization of India. 2. “Since the creation of Israel in 1948, the USA has been its steadfast supporter.” A. Why does the USA’s support of Israel? B. Explain the role of the USA in the search for peace between Israelis/Jews and Arabs/Palestinians. 3. What were the most important consequences of the Israeli victory in the 1967 Six Day War? 4. How did events in the Middle East influenced relations between the major world powers after 1945? 5. To what extent did the Camp David Agreement reduce conflict in the Middle East after 1978? Week 17 Essential Questions: 1. How did the Cold War impact the events in the Middle East after 1945? 2. Why did oil play such a prominent role in Middle Eastern conflicts between 1973 and 1991? 3. Why did the superpowers involve themselves in the Middle East from 1963 – 2003? Among other points, speak to the invasions, the groups that they helped, and how did these actions “backfire” on them. 4. How did fundamentalist Islam arise in the Middle East and what are the consequences of this extreme form of the Muslim faith? Focus Questions will be done as a combo between Week 16 and Week 17 and the Roundtable will take place in Week 17 Progress and Uncertainty - WEEK SEVENTEEN (MORE OR LESS) OVERVIEW (Unit 5) Topics: Middle East: Arab States; Iran-Iraq War; Persian Gulf War (1991); 9/11; US invasion of Iraq (2003) READINGS: *=Required Title Pages * Falk: Student Workbook 172-176 Howarth: The World Since 1900 First Edition not useful Howarth: The World Since 1900 Second Ed not useful Demarco: The World This Century not useful Mitchner and Tuffs: Global Forces 217-226 Rundle: Int’l Affairs: 1939-1979 not useful Browne: World History 2: 1900-1968 not useful Catchpole:Map History of the Modern World not useful * Vocabulary (As A Small Group): 1. Islamic Fundamentalism 2. Iran 3. Iraq 4. Ayatollah Khomeini 5. Shiite Muslims 6. Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 7. Saddam Hussein 8. Kuwait 9. The Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991 10. UN Coalition 11. George Bush (Senior) 12. George W. Bush 13. General Schwartzkopf 14. Operation Desert Storm 15. Weapons of Mass Destruction 16. 2003 US invasion of Iraq 17. Oslo Accords 18. Israelis 19. Palestinians 20. Phases of the Peace Process (between Israel and the PLO (Palestinians)) 21. Camp David 2000 22. September 11th Attacks (9/11) 23. Al Qaeda 24. Osama bin Laden 25. War on Terror 26. ISIS/ISIL Essential Questions (15 Marks): See Week 16 = COMPLETE IN POINT FORM FOR ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Weeks 16 and 17