Rabbi Shaul J. Kassin GLOBAL HISTORY 10 HOMEWORK SHEET #2 Textbook: World History H.W. #45 Read pgs. 884-887 - Women 1. How did the changes of the post war years affect women? 2. It is 1927 and you are a high school student in Philadelphia. Create a diary entry discussing how your life is being influenced by things like: music, baseball, automobile, airplane, motion picture, radio. 3. Why do you think the period after WWI known as a period of uncertainty? H.W. #46 Read pgs. 861-862 - Ataturk 1. Why did WWI trigger a nationalist movement in Turkey? 2. Create a conversation between 2 Turks who meet on a street corner in Istanbul in 1930, where each discusses their view on the changes in society during (Ataturk s) Mustafa Kemal s rule. 3. How was the leadership of Ataturk s similar to the leadership of Reza Shah? H.W. #47 Read pgs. 894-897 - Great Depression 1. Pretend you are living in Chicago on October 30, 1929. Write a letter to a friend living in New York about the stock market crash and how it is affecting you. 2. Why did the collapse of the American economy affect the economies in other countries? H.W. #48 Read pgs. 889-891 - 20 th Century Art 1. Explain surrealism 2. Look at the painting Persistence of Memory on pg 763. How does the painting have characteristics of a dream? H.W. #49 Read pgs. 898-902 - Fascism 1. Pretend you are an Italian Fascist Party member. Create a commercial for an Italian radio station that would air in 1925, trying to get more Italians to join the fascist party using the accomplishments of Mussolini and the Fascists as examples and reasons. 2. Explain the differences between fascism and communism. H.W. #50 Read pgs. 912-913 - Weimar Republic 1. Explain the following term a)weimar Republic. 2. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany s economy?
H.W. #51 Read pgs. 913-915 - Hitler 1. Explain a)mein Kampf b)third Reich. 2. Why did Hitler s ideas of the Germans being a master race appeal to many Germans? 3. How did the persecution of Jews and other groups benefit many Germans? H.W. #52 Read pgs. 924-929 - Appeasement 1. Explain the following terms a)appeasement b)munich Conference. 2. Pretend that Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, the U.S., Italy, Germany, and the USSR all met at the Munich Conference in September of 1938. Create a portion of the dialogue that could have taken place between the countries if they had all been there to express their views. H.W. #53 Read pgs. 874-877; 937-938 - Japanese Expansion 1. Imagine you are an unemployed worker in Japan in the 1930s. Write a letter to a friend discussing why you support or don t support the new military powers. 2. Explain the reasons that will lead to the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor in 1941. H.W. #54 Read pgs. 915-917, 935-937 - Holocaust Predicted 1. Describe the way Hitler treated Germany s Jewish population during the 1930s. H.W. #55 Read pgs. 952-953 - Nuremberg Trials 1. Explain the Nuremberg Trials. 2. Imagine you are a lawyer who is in charge of trying some of the Nazi criminals put on trial in Nuremberg. Write a portion of the closing argument you would give in the trial against 1 of them. (Minimum of 1 page) H.W. #56 Read pgs. 930-935; 939-945; 946-950 - World War II 1. Explain why Operation Overlord has been called unmatched in history. 2. Why did the Allies believe parachuting troops into France during the D-Day invasion was a good strategy? H.W. #57 Read pgs. 950-951 - Atomic Bomb 1. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor in 1941? 2. Do you think President Truman made the correct decision by ordering the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Explain. H.W. #58 1. Essay on Human Rights to be done at home and counted as a quiz.
H.W. #59 Read pgs. 983-984 - Japanese Occupation 1. Imagine you are a reporter who is interviewing General Douglas Mac Arthur. The interview will air on U.S. radio in January 1946. Create a dialogue of your interview about Mac Arthur s goals on changing Japan during U.S. occupation. (Minimum ½ page). H.W. #60 Read pgs. 945, 953-954, 966 - Better World 1. Explain the purposes of the conference at Yalta. 2. Why does Churchill believe an iron curtain has fallen across Europe by 1946? H.W. #61 Read pgs. 954-956 - Cold War 1. Explain: a)containment, b)truman Doctrine, c)marshall Plan 2. Imagine you are an East German living in East Berlin. Write a postcard you hope will reach your relatives that live in West Germany discussing your life and how you feel about the Berlin Airlift. H.W. #62 Read pgs. 966-974 - Two Worlds 1. Identify: a)nikita Kruschev, b)leonid Brezhnev 2. Imagine you are a high school student living in Florida in July 1962, one day after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Write a conversation between you and some friends discussing what happened and how you feel about the closeness of the U.S. and Soviet Union. 3. Explain why the Soviet Union and East Germany built the Berlin Wall. H.W. #63 Read pgs. 989-991 - Korea 1. Looking at the map on pg. 888, why was it difficult for the U.S. to keep the border between North Korea and South Korea at the 38 th parallel and to keep the war from escalating or involving China? 2. How was the war in Korea greatly affected by the Cold War? H.W. #64 Read pgs. 992-997 - Vietnam 1. Explain: a)ho Chi Minh, b)domino theory, c)pol Pot 2. Pretend you are a member of the government of South Vietnam. Create a commercial that would be aired by a radio station in the city of Saigon in 1970, trying to keep the support of the U.S. in the war against North Vietnam. Make sure you include reasons and examples. H.W. #65 Read pgs. 985-989 - Mao 1. Why did the Great Leap Forward fail? 2. Pretend you are a Chinese peasant living on a commune in 1957. Write a diary entry after a typical day on the commune.
H.W. #66 Read pgs. 1076-1078 - Deng 1. Identify: a)four Modernizations, b)tiananmen Square 2. Compare the policies of Deng to those of Mao. Which leader was the most effective? Explain. H.W. #67 Read pgs. 865-868; 1014-1019 - Gandhi 1. How were Indians able to win their independence from Britain? 2. Why is Gandhi considered a symbol of successful non-violent protest throughout the world until today? 3. Why have India and Pakistan fought several wars? H.W. #68 Read pgs. 1024-1031 - African Independence 1. Identify: a)negritude Movement, b)mobutu Sese Seko 2. How were Africans able to win their independence from Britain. Explain using examples. 3. Were the Methods used by Nkrumah and Kenyatta similar to or different from those Gandhi used in India? Explain your answer. H.W. #69 Read pgs. 1048-1053 - Apartheid 1. Create a conversation between de Klerk and Mandela that would have taken place right before Mandela was released from jail in 1990. 2. Create a picture portraying the struggle for majority rule in South Africa. H.W. #70 Read pgs. 862-864; 1032-1036; 1054-1058 - Arab/Israeli Conflict 1. Identify: a)balfour Declaration, b)suez Crisis 2. Did British rule of Palestine as a(n) mandate (order) help or hurt relationships between Arabs and Jews? 3. It is May 15, 1948, one day after the state of Israel has been declared. You are Jewish and live in Israel, write a postcard home to your relatives discussing your feelings on these events. H.W. #71 Read pgs. 1054-1058; 1117 - Peace in the Middle East 1. Explain the term intifada. 2. Why was President Sadat hailed in the western world but criticized in the Arab world? 3. Pretend that at the Camp David Accords the leader of the PLO, Yasir Arafat, and the King of Jordan were present, along with Begin, Sadat, and President Carter. Create a portion of the dialogue that could have taken place between them if they had been there to express their views.
Rabbi Shaul J. Kassin H.W. #72 Read pgs. 1036-1037 - Iranian Revolution 1. Explain the cause for bad relations between Iran and the United States. 2. Explain who might consider the Iranian Revolution a success. H.W. #73 Read pgs. 1032-1035; 1058-1059; 1115-1119 - Middle East 1. Identify: a)opec, b)kurds 2. How has the Persian Gulf War affected the Middle East? 3. Draw a cartoon about the role of oil in fueling tensions on the Persian Gulf. H.W. #74 Read pgs. 970-971; 1006; 1086-1087 - Cuban Revolution 1. Why has the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba been filled with so much conflict? 2. Create a conversation between a Cuban living in Cuba and a Cuban who has fled to the U.S. where they discuss the conditions in Cuba and the rule of Castro. H.W. #75 Read pgs. 998-1005 - Break Up of USSR 1. Explain: a)glasnost, b)perestroika 2. You are all subsidiary companies (branches) of the Del Ré Electronics Corporation. Design a new state of the art cell phone that your company will sell on the world market. Be creative, you want people to buy your product. H.W. #76 Read pg. 1098 - Democracy in Russia 1. Why do you think the transition from communism to free enterprise (establishment) has been difficult in the former Soviet republics? H.W. #77 Read pgs. 1045-1047 - Ethnic Conflict 1. Why did Yugoslavia break apart around 1990? 2. Compare the actions of Bosnian Serbs to another example of genocide you have learned about this year. a) How are the justifications of the Serbs similar to the reasons used by other groups? b) Has the international response to what the Serbs have done been different than in the past? H.W. #78 Read pgs. 1096-1097 - Reunification of Germany 1. Some people in France worried that a reunified Germany would pose a danger to Europe. Using historical evidence, explain why you agree or disagree. 2. Explain the differences between West Germany and East Germany after World War II.
H.W. #79 Read pg 1045 - Northern Ireland 1. Describe England s rule over Northern Ireland. 2. Explain the purpose of the European Union.