US history students,

Click here to use Quizlet in getting ready for the Chapters 9 & 10 test!

Welcome US history students to the Populist Movement rotation activity. Everything you need to successfully complete the activity can be found in your text and the following links.

The Grange Movement

The Alliance Movement

The Populist Party Platform

Grover Cleveland's Response

William Jennings Bryan

US History Industrial Revolution Prompts:

1. Oil, steel and railroads created America’s consumer culture.

2. Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, George Westinghouse and George Pullman were captains of industry.

3. Unions were beneficial to workers.

4. Federal government should support big business.  

5. The Second Industrial Revolution benefited the American people.

ATTENTION all Captains of Industry!  Click on the following links to help you take care of business in your transaction to acquire successful completion of your Tic-Tac-Toe Board.

 http://d.lib.rochester.edu/cinderella/text/The-Novels-Of-Horatio-Alger-Jr

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/rockefellers-south/

The American Industrial Revolution forever changes the face of American history.  Its economic, social, and environmental impact is still felt by Americans today.  Click on the following video to accurately respond to your video guide.

Attention US history students!

Click HERE to use the links for the New South Reconstruction Rotation Activity.

President Johnson v. Congress

While watching the video, create a comparison chart comparing President Johnson's vision for Reconstruction of the South to the Congressional plans for Reconstruction.

Attention US history students! Click on the following videos to get yourself ready for our Google Earth Civil War Activity.

Welcome US history students to your first class activity of the year!  Please use the following links while completing your causes of the Civil War rotations.

http://portal.sliderocket.com/BBVDO/Antebellum-South

Digital History

map of 1860

Cold War Study List
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Marshall Plan
Containment
Sputnik I (effects)
Satellite Nations
United Nations
Brinkmanship
Blockade of Berlin
Berlin Airlift
Iron Curtain
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Stalin's goal for Eastern Europe
Cuban Missile Crisis
UN Security Council
Surrogate Wars (examples)
Propaganda (examples)
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Chinese Communists
Chinese Nationalists

To access all information, click here.

World History students, are you falling behind in the reading of  Night or just interested in reading ahead?  If so, click on the following two options:

On-line text version

Audiobook version

For extra credit, click on the picture to watch a documentary profiling the psychological analysis of Adolph Hitler in 1932.  Following your viewing, submit a 1 page, double-spaced paper that includes the following:  3 events from Hitler's life that influenced his decision making as Fuhrer and 2 predictions by the psychologists that ended up being true.

Russian Revolution/Totalitarianism
Study List

Russian Revolution - Causes of Russian Revolution          Rasputin
                                Czar Nicholas II role                       Bolsheviks
                                V.I. Lenin                                       Bloody Sunday
                                Russian Civil War                           Reds v. Whites
                                Results of Russian Revolution

Totalitarianism (Stalin) - Totalitarianism                           Nickname

                                     Great Purge                              5 Year Plan

                                     Collective Farms                       Communism

                                     Ways to ensure obedience        Gulags

Totalitarianism (Hitler) - NAZI                                       Fascism

                                     Nickname                                Anti-Semitism

                                     Lebensraum                             Ways to ensure obedience

Related Activities - Conditions for Germans following WWI

                             German attitudes towards Weimar Republic

                             Similarities between Hitler & Stalin (Fascism & Communism)

                             1932 Reichstag Election

                             Hitler & Stalin relationship

                             Hitler & Stalin family background

Feel free to continue watching the video, Hitler in Color, to gain a better perspective on Hitler's rise to power.

Plastic surgery has a humble beginning.  Harold Gillies probably never envisioned the multi-billion dollar industry it has become today.  Instead, check out the following video to see plastic surgery as Gillies intended and explore its roots from the trenches of WWI.






WARNING: The following video contains graphic images.

Things to Know for WWI

Terms/People/Concepts

Francis Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princep
Woodrow Wilson
Georges Clemenceau
Arthur Zimmermann
4 Causes of WWI
Propaganda
No man's land
Stalemate
Reparation
Armistice
New nations created after WWI
Schlieffen Plan
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Total war
Treaty of Versailles
14 Points
Zimmerman note
Trench warfare
Conditions in trench warfare
War guilt clause
Lusitania
Effects of Treaty of Versailles on Germany
Self-determination

Can you survive the trenches of WWI?
Click on the picture to view a video to gain perspective regarding some of the conditions soldiers overcame fighting in the trenches.

Use the following link and instructions to complete the "Life in the Trenches" simulation for class.
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/main_area/
Username: Pulaski
Password: Raiders
Go to the (14-16 years) tab.
Then option #2; World War I Course.
Then option #1; Decision-Making Game.

Check out this video on the "Scramble for Africa."
Use the following sites to research which African nations to takeover for our upcoming Imperialism game:

• CIA Factbook
• Africa's most competitive economies
• African countries GDP
• African country rankings

Clarifying Values

Get Tested!

Industrial Revolution Webquest

Ever wonder what life was like for a teenager during the Industrialization? Now is your chance to find out! Click on the link below and find out. Don't forget to fill out your webquest process sheet as you make your discoveries!

http://www.quia.com/pages/industrialrevo.html

Industrial Revolution Task
First, create a 3-5 sentence response to the prompt using research from the following on-line resources:
http://www.hrw.org/topic/childrens-rights
http://stopchildlabor.org/
Next, using a clear voice, phone your response to (619) 354-6392.
Compare child labor from the Industrial Revolution to child labor today.

RED Extra Credit

Best Victorian Jobs

Figure out your best job!