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Final Exam: format and topics, plus suggested materials

Student-study guides:

• instructions

more Cold War

Questions for ch. 26 s.2 reading & Korean War reading can be found here!

Chapter 26, section 2: The Cold War Heats Up; section 3: The Cold War at Home

Reading: Korean War
Reading: Cold War Politics: The Truman Presidency

another go at the in-class essay...

Check out this rubric!
4.1
Start to gather materials and notes on the end of the Second World War, post-war conferences, and the origins of the Cold War (all of which can be found on the blog).

See below for study tips:

• make sure you have reviewed the rubric and understand how each body paragraph should be organized (main theme/main idea/argument in the form of a topic sentence...supported with SHK!)
• review the security concerns of the Big Four (France, GB, Soviet Union, USA)
• details & significance of the Yalta and Potsdam conferences in 1945
• the Truman Doctrine
• factors (or core values) that influenced the American foreign policy decisions in 1946+ [for this, think any theme or issue that reappeared in the arguments of each/many option groups during the debate]
• read the first pages of each option group's packet where it provides the background and main arguments for each 

Suggested materials:

• well, everything on the blog's Cold War post....
• perhaps more specifically...1) my overview/note-sheet of security concerns that we discussed, 2) reading & note-taking guide (the HW that was due Monday 5/7), 3) crisis in the Mediterranean reading on the Truman Doctrine, 4) debate options (4) background readings

(la guerre froide) The Cold War

• Monday, 4/30 HW: Cold War reading & questions (two separate links!)
• handout from class (for notes): Security Concerns: Similarities & Differences & the background readings on the Big Four & an overview/note-sheet of the themes we discussed about them
• A & F block notes from the board about security concerns (can all be found after the jump)
• HW due Monday, 5/7: the reading & the note-taking guide (two separate links!)
• Textbook, chapter 26 section 1: Origins of the Cold War
• Crisis in the Mediterranean reading

DEBATE! Group assignments and readings for: option 1, option 2, option 3, option 4.

• weekend homework: read whichever one you were assigned - "it's the Soviet's fault!" OR "it's the American's fault!"

Q4 stuff

Q4 reminders and study hints

Practice Q # 1: Japanese internment
Practice Q # 2: Discrimination during the war

WW2 Collection

Helpful information:

• Nazi propaganda
• textbook chapter 24: section 2, section 4
• textbook chapter 25: section 4
• essay 3.2 study Qs & study organizer

Classwork:

• Isolationism "graffiti debate" reading - all parts
• Guidelines and groups for "Some WW2 Battles & Turning Points" visual presentation

Films and video clips:

• FDR and Pearl Harbor, film clip
• All about FDR! (See 3:08:00+ for the beginning of WW2)
• "Victory in the Pacific"