CWN: The Cold War News

Create a video newscast on “A Look Back at the Cold War”. You and a partner will pick 2 topics from the list below, except one group. One group will not be responsible for researching/recording a topic; rather, they will be responsible for compiling the videos from their classmates, editing it into a movie AND being the News Anchors/Announcers that link the topics together.

Each segment should include a retrospective and detailed explanation of the events, their importance to the time period, and visual evidence. It can include interviews with important people (either real or staged) and/or actual footage. Your segment should include S.P.R.I.T.E.

            S: Social

            P: Political

            R: Religious

            I: Intellectual

            T: Technology

            E: Economic

Thus, the topics include:

1)     Newscast editors/Announcers

2)     Cold War USSR under Stalin

3)     Early Cold War policies/events (Berlin Blockade/Airlift, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Warsaw Pact)

4)     Attempted breaks from Communism (Prague Spring in 1968, Hungary 1956, Poland Solidarity Movement of the 1980s)

5)     Cold War USSR under Khruschev and Brezhnev

6)     Cold War USSR under Gorbachev & the end of satellite states

7)     The end of communism in the USSR

8)     Britain during the Cold War

9)     France during the Cold War

10) Central Europe & Italy during the Cold War

11)Scandinavia during the Cold War

12)The European Union, Maastrict Treaty & the Euro

13)The continued crisis in the Balkans (civil war in Yugoslavia, establishment of new states, Milosevic etc)

Topics will be selected first come, first served

Your due date to submit videos to the editors will be in class on Thursday April 7^th. The completed video will be due the following Tuesday April 12^th. 

Cold War: A Self Study Guide

The following will be due at the end of class on Friday, you will need to work on some AP Euro each day so not to fall behind. With the testing schedule this week this will be on you to do.

Part I
Read Ch. 19 in the textbook and pp. 167-172 in the AP Review Book. Using that has background information write a thesis (only a thesis but a complete thesis) to the following prompt.
      - Compare and contrast the political and economic effects of the Cold War (1945-1989) on
         Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

Part II
Give me the supporting details, minimum of 3 for each, (specific proper names and dates) you would use to answer the following SAQ style prompts.
     - Analyze how NATO's 'containment' policy of Soviet Russia was successful in maintaining
        peace during the Cold War era.
     - Explain how the Cold War was not a 'cold' war, but actually military conflict between
       warring ideals.

Part III
Complete an OPTIC over each of the linked paintings and answer the following question ...
   

    Pablo Picasso, Guernica 1937
 

    Jackson Pollock, Number 14 1951, 1951
    - How is Jackson Pollock's art a reaction to the changing society during the Cold War, compare this
       to Picasso during his time period of work.

Part IV
Read the primary and secondary sources in the 'new' orange book ...
The Cold War: A Soviet Perspective pp. 196-197
The Berlin Wall pp. 197-198
The Cold War and European Integration pp. 205-206
Origins of the Cold War pp. 211-212

For each document write a P.O.V. you can use in the following DBQ prompt AND write a thesis for the prompt.
     - From 1945 to 1989 Europe's role in world conflicts is ever changing, evaluate the role the
       Cold War policies impacted this changing role.

World War II: You see what happen was ....

World War II is seen as a war that was inevitable, there were many reasons that led to its beginning. From the continued rise of nationalism, the search for needed resources, the economic woes of Europe, the unresolved issues from World War I, or the web of alliances can all be blamed. We are going to determine which is the root cause.

In your groups, you are going to put forth an argument for which reason the base reason that started Europe on the path to World War II. We are looking for the reason that led to everything else, the root of all the issues that put Europe on the path to war - again. Each group can make an argument as to why their stance is A reason that led to the start of World War II, I want to know why your reason is THE reason.
We will debate on Friday - each group will deliver a 1 to 2 min argument as to why their issue was THE issue, have specific evidence. I will then, as an independent moderator, begin to ask leading questions - different groups will be allowed to respond in 30-45 seconds responses, I will be looking for specific evidence again. If your issue is argued against by other group in their response to a question, you will be given a 20-30 sec period to respond. You are allowed to have prepared visuals (use Google Slides and share with me so they can be projected) for your opening argument, or for anything you think may come up.

Good luck and let the games begin.

Impressionist OPTIC

Pick three painting from the link below, for each painting complete an OPTIC - in a Google Doc to share with me. You are looking for what events of the 1870s - 1880s influenced these painters (cultural events, inventions, politics, wars)?

Impressionist OPTIC options