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WWII PowerPoint. 10/31/13. Get your mini-poster out Learning Targets: I can summarize a historical event and analyze it’s significance to the world today. I can ask questions that help me guide my learning. Opener: quick write.
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10/31/13 • Get your mini-poster out • Learning Targets: • I can summarize a historical event and analyze it’s significanceto the world today. • I can ask questions that help me guide my learning.
Opener: quick write • What is the biggest factor or reason someone is successful and why? • http://www.ted.com/talks/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_marshmallow_yet.html
Discussion Prep • How do these events lead to the mission & purpose of the United Nations? • Notes: Event/date/summary: What was the problem?
Mingle • With at least 3 other pairs and get the information you need… • 8 Minutes!
Add to the timeline • With your partner… • Decide the correct location for your topic on the timeline.
Discussion Prep: Under your chart answer these questions • How do these events lead to the mission & purpose of the United Nations? (Problems) • Prediction: Do you think these problems have been solved by the United Nations? • What questions would need to ask to answer this question and support your answer with evidence.
Discussion • Norms: • Hot seat • New participants • Share air time • Respectful of others ideas • Respond to what people say • One speaker at a time
Discussion Notes • Watch 3 people: • What is the problem that led to the UN? • Has it been solved? • What questions do you have?
Summary- Quickwrite Learning Target: • I can summarize a historical event and analyze it’s significance. • I can ask questions that help me guide my learning. • Of the problems discussed which 2-3 are the most concerning to you and the world? Why? • Use concrete examples • It’s important to ask some questions that you want to investigate further.
Vocabulary! • I can acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words & phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level
States • Not our 50 states, in AP Geo it refers to countries. • Microstates are often Islands… Monaco is the smallest .6 square miles. • 1940s- world had only 50 States • 2013- about 200
United Nations • Security Council: • 5 Countries that can veto any peace keeping mission, troops, ban on weapons etc… (Russia, France, Great Britain, China, United States) • Troops: • Does not have its own… countries send theirs so doesn’t always have the resources.
Development of States • Ancient states… city- states:
Why are nation-states hard to create? • There are always multiple ethnicities- closest Nation-states: Denmark (90% Danes), Slovenia (83% Slovenes) • Multiethnic states have multiple ethnicities but people often live without serious conflict. • Multinational states have huge problems because there is history of self-determination.
Physical boundaries • Desert • Mountains • Water
Cultural boundaries • Geometric– places like straight lines • Ethnic boundaries- speakers of different languages, religions (example of religious boundary India/Pakistan).
Complete your vocabulary • Give examples & visuals to help you understand.
Opener (write in notebooks) 11/1 • What makes a great leader? Why do people follow this person? (explain)
Vocabulary • Throughout class you will hear these terms you may want to stop and put the examples.
Opener: Using your vocabulary from yesterday… • How can the political geography terms help explain conflict and war. Give at least 3 examples of how.
Opener: Practice Questions • Hitler’s nationalist/expansionist philosophies drew in part from. • Self-determination • Sound historical evidence • Organic geopolitical theory • Rimland theory • Hearland theory
___________ boundaries characterize much of Africa as they ignore cultural and tribal differences across space. • Superimposed • Subsequent • Colonial • Antecedent • territorial
What is a documentary? A topic explained with facts in a film (news) • Source information: where do the creators get the info from? • Perspective: Creators point of view? • Purpose: why are the creators making the documentary? • Types of footage: real, reenactment, news footage, someone with a cell phone, staged?
Rise of Hitler • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhtOLzruYkU&safe=active Influence (history) Actions
Steps to Hitler and Nazis coming to power… http://www.ushmm.org/learn/introduction-to-the-holocaust/path-to-nazi-genocide • How did Germany go from a defeated country to Hitler to the Holocaust? Create a timeline in your notes. (29 mins) Event Change/so what
Homework & ticket out the door. • Write in 1-2paragraphs how did Hitler take power. • Use your notes • HW Vocabulary
November 5th • Opener: Use the question answer sheet in notes. • When one country exerts political, economic, or social influence over another without the aid of official government institutions, it is called • A. dominance. • B. imperialism. • C. colonialism. • D. federalism. • E. territorialism.
Countries have to maintain their boundaries to stay solid. • Centrifugal forces: pull countries apart • Centripetal forces: bind countries together
Trends today • Alliance like international organizations: • UN (global), • NAFTA (regional North American Free Trade Association), • EU (European Union-the members must give up some sovereignty) • Supranational organization: members must give up some control. • OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries members produce & export oil) • NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization military purposes… allow allies to put up military bases) • CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States former states controlled by Russia)
Nazi influence • Other Geopolitics creator Friedrich Ratzel: • the health of a state is connected to its expansion. The German term Lebensraum: means ‘living space’ and it became associated with aggression and conquering people. Organic thoery of the evolution of nations. • Modified by Rudolf Kjellen
Geopolitics • Halford Mackinder: geographer that made this a field of study in 1904 • Theory used by German Nazis .
Historic: Not today Mackinder…. • World-Island Eurasia & Africa, surrounding areas or Outer Crescent. The pivot area was Eastern Europe & Rusia. • “who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island rules controls the world”. • Heartland Theory “pivot point” of al human history was northern & central Asia… many argued and Nicholas Spykman: said rimlandwas more important.
HW: Vocabulary & Free Response question • Study, study, study!!!!!!!!!! • Complete & turn in an outline & essay--- should take 25 mins once you start on the question, so pull out information first. • Many factors contribute to a state’s political stability. • A. What are some of the forces that bind a state together? (use specific examples) • B. What are some of the forces that cause disunity within a state? (use specific examples)