As we discuss the causes and complex relationships in WW1 please find the following resources, notes and powerpoints to help you with clarification;
Chapter 34 Key terrms and questions
World_War_IReview These are excellent notes!
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Wednesday Asssessment
This week we will have an assessment (multiple choice) quiz on Wednesday. I will be selecting multiple choice questions based on Imperialism from previous AP papers and sample exam questions.
Imperialism; The Scramble for Africa and the Opium Wars
In the next chapter we begin with Imperialism in Africa.
IMPERIALISM2
We will also examine the effects of the Opium wars;
THE OPIUM WARS Also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars!
- Were two wars fought in the mid-1800’s that were the climax of a long dispute between China and Britain.
- In the second, France fought alongside Britain.
- The conflict began with the growing trade deficit Britain had with China.
- As a result of high demand of tea in Britain and low demand of British commodity in China, Britain had to trade tea with silver. This created an unbalanced trade relation which was draining Britain’s economy.
- To fix the deficit, Britain began exporting opium to China from British India.
- The Qing Emperor (Dao Guang) had banned opium in China, citing its harmful effects on health and deleterious impact on societal productivity, however, opium was known in China as a medicinal drug.
- The British Empire, while also banning opium consumption within her border, continued to export the substance to China.
- The Opium Wars and the unequal treaties signed afterwards led in part to the downfall of the Qing Empire, as many countries followed Britain and forced unequal terms of trade with China.The Treaty of Nanking!
- This was the agreement which marked the end of the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China. It was signed on August 29, 1842 aboard the British warship HMS Cornwallis in Nanjing.
- Under the treaty, China agreed to cede Hong Kong Island to the British Empire, and open treaty ports of China for foreign trade with low tariffs.
Here is a really great lecture from Harvard about China;
http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/1999/01/83101/L01/seg1/index_FlashSingleHighBandwidth.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDY1Ha83M8 – the video opening ceremony Olympics
For Homework; Please review and print the notes on Imperialism
Society at a Crossroads; We will be reviewing the decline and change in the Ottoman, Russian, Japanese and Qing empires. This unit also covers the Crimean war and the Russian Revolution of 1905 (Bloody Sunday) as well as reforms involving the Young Turks in the Ottoman empire.
Socialism, Communism and Marxism
This week we will be reviewing Socialism and Marxism before moving on to our next chapter;
http://prezi.com/u44imsboj4tz/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy Link for Prezi; Industrialization and Capitalism
Karl Marx was born into a middle-class family in Trier, Prussia. After earning a doctorate, he became a journalist but was exiled from Germany due to his radical political philosophy and attacks against censorship. He moved to France, where he continued to publish revolutionary papers. While in Paris, he and Frederick Engels (1820-95) became close friends and began collaboration together. Marx was exiled from Paris in 1845 and moved to Brussels. There, in 1847, he and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto, which appeared in February 1848. Marx finally settled in London, England, where he lived out the rest of his life. Marx continued to develop his ideas of “scientific socialism” in works such as Capital. He was also a leader in international radical socialist and anticapitalist organizations. Marxism did not appear out of a vacuum. It developed out of a long tradition of socialism, the Enlightenment, and the brutal working conditions of the Industrial Revolution.
Reading assignment; Monday night please scan through the communist manifesto and be ready to answer the following questions;
1. Who is the bourgeoisie? Who is the proletariat? How do they interact in capitalist society? What is the role of capital in society? Of labor?
2. What are the objectives of communism?
3. What is the authors’ conception of a socialist state? How does this state compare to the United States government today?
Manifesto Communist Manifesto start at pg 14 and read for 20 minutes.
You can also find answers here; KARLMARXANDMARXISM
For those of you taking the exam, please find an excellent website with notes and review powerpoints for many areas of our course;
Study Plan *10 weeks!
Use these excellent PPT reviews to get more information, and review the Industrial Revolution covered in class this week;
Material_Effects_of_Industrialization (1)Students have been issued with a ten week study guide, this outlines the plans for the course and revision, after which the AP exam will be administered.
Here is a PPT which covers key comparisons which might come up in the AP exam….
All this hard work will pay off in the end!
Key Comparisons
Finally….
Here is the link for this week’s Prezi on Industrialization;
http://prezi.com/u44imsboj4tz/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
Age of Revolutions
Classwork; Prezi http://prezi.com/brhqckshasny/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
Classwork; Timeline of Democracy around the world http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/why_democracy/timeline/html/non_flash.stm
Classwork; Timeline of British History http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/civilwars_timeline_noflash.shtml
Classwork; Haiti Revolution http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/san_domingo_revolution/revolution.html
Classwork; Russian Revolution
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/eastern_front_01.shtml
Homework;
Read more about the French Revolution; comment on an area of interest after watching the videos
http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution
Read more about the Spanish colonies ; http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/HIST303-4.2.1-Causation-of-Spanish-American-Independence-FINAL.pdf
The word “civilization” was just coming into use in the 18th century, in French and in English, and conservative men of letters preferred to avoid it as a newfangled neologism. Samuel Johnson would not include it in his dictionary, insisting that it was only a legal term for the process by which a criminal matter became a civil one, i.e., civilization. If civilization was difficult to define with precision, it was also an irresistible idea, encouraging a sense of categorical confidence in superior achievement, from the ministries of government and economy to the academies of arts and sciences.
Extra Information on Key Figures and revolutions;
An AP European history website with some great links;
http://mrspalomares.weebly.com/democratic-revolutions.html
Read more about Voltaire and Catherine the Great, the Enlightened despot here;http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/books/if-were-younger-would-make-myself-russian-voltaire-s-encounter-with-czars.html?pagewanted=2
And here; http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic782699.files/13_oct_catherine.pdf
AP World History 