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

• 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:

Medeval states

Nation-states in Europe1300s

Europe moves towards empires 1800s

Nation-States Europe 1924

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.

Colonial Possessions before WWI

Colonial Possessions- 2012

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).

Compact State:

Elongated States

Prorupted state

Perforated States

Fragmented

Landlocked

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 .

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 rimland was more important.

Historic:Not

today

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)