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1914- PRESENT
INFORMATION:
AP WORLD HISTORY
1914-2008
WORLD WAR I--- PRESENT
In the Time of the Butterflies
Syllabus
TE- Traditions & Encounters Text
HR- Human Record
Primary Sources- SOAPS material
RM: Recommended Movie/s
HO- handout
CIM- Cultures in Motion Book
March 17 Review 1914 Test, Intro New Unit
March 19 Intro to W.W.I- Balance of Power Game
TE: 945- 950
Primary Sources:
1. http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/serbresponse.html
RM: Paths of Glory, The Day That Shook the World
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March 31 W.W.I
TE: 950- 972
Primary Sources:
1. HR- Comments of the German Delegation..., p. 381
2. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/brest.htm
RM: Gallipoli, The African Queen
April 2 Russian Revolutions
TE: 891- 892, 990- 994
Primary Sources:
1. TE page 964- State and Revolution by Lenin
HO- Lenin
RM: Reds, Stalin
April 4 Between the Wars
TE: 985- 990, 994- 1001
Primary Sources:
1. TE page 998- Mein Kampf by Hitler
2. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html
3. HR- Fundamental Principles of National Policy, p. 403
RM: Triumph of the Will, Grapes of Wrath
April 8 W.W.I.I.
TE: 1037- 1060
Primary Sources:
1. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/gp4.htm
RM: Longest Day
April 10 Decolonization in Asia, Indian Independence
TE: 1006- 1008, 1013- 1014, 1097- 1102
Primary Sources:
1. TE- Self-Rule is My Birthright, p. 1009
2. HR- Indian Home Rule, p. 441
3. HR- The Need for a Muslim Pakistan, p. 1099
RM: Gandhi, Indochine
April 14 Chinese Revolutions, DBQ
TE: 1008- 1012
Primary Sources:
1. HR- Report on an Investigation of the Peasant , p. 457
2. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/sunyat.html
RM: The Last Emperor
April 16 Cold War, Latin America
TE: 1020- 1027, 1056- 1059
Primary Sources:
1. HR- Latin America: Its Rise ..., p. 449
2. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html
3. HR- Speech to the Nation, p. 453
4. TE- Nikita Khrushchev ...p. 1074
RM: Romero, The Official Story, Maria Full of Grace
April 18 Middle East and Russia
TE: 994- 997, 1084- 1090, 1103- 1107
Primary Sources:
1. HR- Speech to the Congress of the ..., p. 432
2. HR- Islamic Law in the Modern World, p. 486
3. HR- A Plan to Save Communism, p. 511
RM: Kedma, Wedding in Galilee, Paradise Now, Osama
April 22 Decolonization in Africa
TE: 1014- 1020, 1107- 1113
Primary Sources:
1. http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=10
2. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960-un-colonialism.html
3. TE page 1112- African Unity by Nkrumah
4. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1953geyer.html
5 TE- Africa for Africans, p. 1019
HO- Decolonization in Africa
RM: Battle of Algiers, Catch a Fire
APR 23, 2007 REVIEW SESSION AFTER PSAE TESTING- bring lunch and notes
April 25 Catch up Day- bring all notes and Human Record book
April 29 STUDY GUIDE QUIZ, 1980- present, a thematic overview
CIM: International Consumer Culture Chapter 14
TE: 1113- 1126, Chapter 40
HO-1980's
Primary Sources:
1. TE- Silent Spring, p. 1145
2. HR- The Dangers of NAFTA, ..., p. 527
3. HR- Globaphobia,..., p. 530
RM: Gung Ho
May 1 Review
May 4 2007 5 PM Practice AP World History Test Room A210
5-5:50 PM- Multiple Choice
6-7 PM- Three Essays
7-8 PM Review whole test
May 5 THREE ESSAY DAY
May 7 FINAL EXAM (70 Multiple Choice, 10 terms), JOURNAL PROMPTS DUE
May 9 Review Test and Essays
May 13 ADVANCED PLACEMENT WORLD HISTORY TEST
FVEC 7:30 AM
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