Final Homework Assignment…

ALL CLASSES — STUDY FOR YOUR FINAL EXAM!!

&

HAND IN YOUR HISTORY TEXTBOOK!!

 

When is your final exam?  Click HERE to read the schedule for exam week!

Due 6/16

U.S. 8

• If you didn’t finish the worksheet for 19.4 in class, it is due at the start of class tomorrow.

 

HUSH

• Presentations tomorrow!
• Extra credit is due Friday!

 

APUSH

• Final drafts of the DBQ and Art as History assignments are due Thursday!

Due 6/11

U.S. 8

Read chapter 19, section 1.  Answer the following questions. 

1.  What did the US & USSR disagree about at Yalta?

2.  What is the purpose of the United Nations?

3.  What did the US & USSR each want from the post-WWII world?

4.  What other nations became communist in the 1940s?

5.  What did Churchill mean when he said that “an iron curtain has descended on Europe?”

6.  What is containment?

7.  What is the Truman Doctrine?

HUSH

Use the sites below to explain how FOUR of the following events contributed to the Cold War & Americans’  feelings of anxiety post-WWII. (3 or 4 sentences for each should suffice.)

Choose from:

• Creation of West Germany and East Germany
• The Berlin Airlift
• The creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact
• The Soviets developping an atomic bomb
• The launching of Sputnik
• The U-2 incident (no, not the band!)
• China became a communist nation
• HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
• Federal Civil Defense Administration

http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/coldwar/a/originscoldwar.htm

http://history1900s.about.com/od/greateventsofthecentury/a/cwglossary.htm

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/The+Cold+War+Page+2.htm

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/page2

APUSH

• Bring in REAL GLUE.  And other supplies for your fort.
• Keep working on your research paper/DBQ.

Due 6/10

U.S. 8

• none

 

HUSH

• Multiple choice portion of the WWII test is tomorrow! Study hard!
• Your ch SGQs are also due tomorrow.
• If you haven’t gotten your progress report signed yet, then do so!  You only have until Monday to get full credit.

 

APUSH

• Bring glue to class tomorrow.  No seriously. 

Due 6/9

U.S. 8

• Study for your test tomorrow!
• A completed test study guide can earn you five extra points on your test grade!
• If you chose to do the extra credit, it is due tomorrow– no exceptions!!!

HUSH

• Essay tomorrow!
• M.C. portion of test on Thursday.  SGQs are also due Thursday!

APUSH

• Bring in stuff for our “Fort Necessity” project!

Due 6/8

U.S. 8

• Read chapter 18, section 5.  Fill in the graphic organizer.
• Your chapter test on WWII will be Wednesday.  This is also the day that your extra credit timeline is due– NO EXCEPTION.

 

HUSH

• Your 4th QP is due tomorrow!
• Wednesday — will be the CAPT essay.
• Thursday –  will be the multiple choice test for WWII.  This is also when your SGQs for the chapter are due.
• NEXT MONDAY — you will get your test study guide for the final exam (woo!).
• Next Tuesday/Wednesday — presentations will start.

 

APUSH

• Bring in supplies for our replica assignment!!

Weekend Homework

U.S. 8

• Work on your extra credit timeline; if you choose to hand it in, it is due Wednesday.
• Wednesday will also be the day of the WWII test!

 

HUSH

• Work on your 4th QP– it’s due Tuesday!
• Get your progress report signed!

 

APUSH

• Work on your assorted projects!

Due 6/4

U.S. 8

Read chapter 18, section 4. 

1.  For each of the following battles, write WHEN it was fought and 3 key facts about it.

• Battle of Coral Sea
• Battle of Midway
• Battle of Guadalcanal
• Battle of Iwo Jima
• Battle of Okinawa

2.  Define “island hopping strategy” and “kamikaze.”

3.  What is the Manhattan Project?

4.  When and why did Japan surrender to the Allies?

HUSH

• Get your progress report signed.

 

APUSH

• Keep working on your projects!

Due 6/3

U.S. 8

• Read the excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s Night.  Answer the questions on the back.

 

HUSH

• Complete the Holocaust assignment (due tomorrow!).
• Complete SGQs# 17 & 18.

 

APUSH

• Current event due tomorrow!

Due 6/2

U.S. 8

• Tomorrow is your last chance to bring in your progress reports (signed) for full credit!
• Read and answer the questions for “The Second Front” worksheet.

 

HUSH

Due tomorrow – SGQs 15 & 16,

Due Thursday — go to http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories

Read/watch 3 oral histories from the camps, resistance, survival or liberation categories.  (All 3 stories cannot come from the same section.)

Answer the following: A) List the category, speaker’s name, and relation to Holocaust; B) Describe their story in your own words; and C) Compare and contrast their stories.  What are some common horrors of the Holocaust?  What are some different coping methods?

APUSH

• Part III of your DBQ is due tomorrow!