WWII Events Engagement

We divided the major events of WWII by the primary countries involved: Germany, USSR, UK, France, US, and outliers (Japan, Italy, Poland, etc.).

For each of the events your country(s) was involved in, you are to state the general mindset for participating, objectives for participation, and the reality of the outcomes of the event.

We will share the whole story of the moving pieces in class.

World War II Lectures

Team AP Euro,

I have completed the first set of lectures leading up to WWII:

• Stalin and the USSR
• Mussolini and Italy
• Hitler and Deutschland I 
• Hitler and Deutschland II
• Hitler and Deutschland III

Weekend Reminder

Team AP Euro,

As we are thick into WWII, be sure to do your reading and ready yourself for a reading quiz Monday.

Monday, after the quiz, you will be given time to continue to work in your groups on the events of WWII. Tuesday and Wednesday we will present them.

Check back here later this weekend for a posting of my lectures for this unit.

Miss Gonzalez's Age of Anxiety Poem

Philosophy 

No longer will the mind be in perfect order 

It will seep and creep from every corner,

Taking by surprise,

Becoming a new beacon of hope, but in a disguise.

The death of God has left everyone astray, 

 Letting humanity be easy prey

 To the storms and tornadoes of the world.

Humanity is indeed disturbed 

That everything is not as it seems.

Science and rational thinking is no longer deemed

The accurate way to consider. 

Instead, mysticism and experience is the way to differ.

Marxian Socialism is but an an anomaly,

Controlled by what seems to be the aristocracy. 

What seems to be nonsense will not be allowed,

Forming no hope, no speck of light, but a dark cloud.

People wonder, " Even the great and might God?"

"Then, this means that we may no longer bring him laud."

Yes, God, even freedom and mortality are a waste of your time.

It's time to respond to the new chime. 

Not even we matter;

All our hopes and desires are shattered 

But, still, a dapple of light is visible,

Although it may be minimal. 

We can discover who we are,

Finding within us our star.

We can be free 

To see

That we can overcome life 

And any of its strife.

Mr. Cong's Age of Anxiety Poem

The Atom by Justin Cong

1919 was where it all began:

This is the road to 1945, Japan.

Rutherford split the atom, releasing

Enormous amounts of energy, creating

Destruction. 5 years later, Broglie of France

Said that electrons behaved as waves (not by chance!).

Scrödinger soon after created the quantum model; then another twist:

Chadwick in 1932 proved that the neutron really did exist.

Now atoms were finally being understood: 1935 brought more hope,

When Arthur Dempster discovered the Uranium-235 isotope.

His discovery was soon researched by Peierls and Frisch,

Who calculated that one kilo of 235 would explode without a hitch.

The US Government in 1942 approved the Manhattan project

Originally against Germany, but it soon had to redirect;

The target was now Japan, and on July 16, 1945 the first

Atom bomb was detonated in New Mexico: a success, yet a curse.

Japan wasn't willing to give in, so the US decided to use their new powers,

Unfortunately, it was a power that called for innocent blood and flowers.

August 6, 1945—in Hiroshima, over 80,000 were killed immediately.

Three days later, Nagasaki saw 75,000 perish instantaneously.

Japan soon surrendered unconditionally,

Ending the road for a weapon that killed maliciously.

The World's Smallest Political Quiz

Chapter 29 Reading and Outline, Quiz, and Test Schedule

Team Euro,

Here is the plan for Ch. 29 on World War II:
Friday, 28 March - Read and outline p. 945-955
Monday, 31 March - Read and outline p. 955-966
  - Reading quiz
Friday, 4 April - Read and outline p. 966-end
  - Study Packet and outline is due
  - Ch. 29 FRQ 
  - Ch. 29 MCQ 

Weekend Reminder

Team AP Euro,

Two months from today you will take the AP exam. There is much to do between now and then, and we are in a good place as far as pacing. You should begin the review process now if you have not already.

Be sure you finish "Age of Anxiety - Thought, Science, and Art" with your group for Monday.

Chapter 28 Reading and Outline, Quiz, and Test Schedule

Team Euro,

Here is the unusual plan for Ch. 28 on the Age of Anxiety because of the unique nature of this material and our schedule:
Wednesday, 12 March - ONLY Read (no outline) p. 913-928
Monday, 17 March - ONLY Read (outline if you desire) p. 928-end
  - "Age of Anxiety - Thought, Science and Art" is due
Friday, 21 March - finish your study packet and creative project
  - Study Packet and creative project is due
  - Creative Project is due (Find one aspect of this time period and pursue it to greater depth. Show you new found knowledge via the creative outlet of your choice.). You may submit the creative project on Monday if you so desire.
  - Ch. 28 FRQ 
  - Ch. 28 MCQ 

Weekend Reminder

Team Euro,

We have come to the unsettling end of WWI. Remember to finish your outline and study packet for this unit. Monday we will have our FRQ (in class) and MCQ (during advisory).

The subset unit for WWI is, of course, the Russian Revolution. Here are some resources you found:

• Option 1
• Option 2

Lots of WWI News in the News

This is the 100 year anniversary of the Great War. In the next four years, there will be a host of articles wrestling with the bloody and inconclusive aftermath of one of Europe's most devastating wars. And old questions of who is responsible are already rearing their heads.

How should a country commemorate their participation in WWI? How does a country like Serbia or Germany respond? How should Serbia talk about Gavrilo Princip (above)? These are sticky questions.

HERE is an interesting introductory article.