You Say You Want A Revolution

YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?                                                                                   

Primary Source Study/Multi-Media Extravaganza

"Revolution"  LENNON/MCCARTNEY

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world

But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out

Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright, alright

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're all doing what we can

But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait

Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright, alright, al...

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You'd better free your mind instead

But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

Don't you know know it's gonna be alright
Alright, alright

1.        What kind of revolution are the Beatles referring to here?

2.       Is it true that we all want to change the world?  If so, how?  If now, how not?

3.        What kind of revolution do the Beatles not want to participate in?

4.       The Beatles write that people want to change the constitution, but they’d be better off freeing their minds instead?  What does this mean, in your opinion?

5.        What do the Beatles think about the chances of success of a violent revolution?  How can you tell?

6.        What do you see as a possible revolution in your lifetime?  It can be any kind of revolution, from governmental, to environmental, to scientific, to technological. 

y not?  If so, what do we need to do?

The Beatles Revolution

Monday, April 18

Beatles Revolution and MME on Revolution

Tuesday, April 19

The Industrial Revolution T-Notes


MME Industrial Revolution

Vocabulary (Red)                                                         Facts (Yellow)
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Industrial Revolution                                 a period in the 18th and 19th century wheremachines began                                                                       to do the work of human beings.
                                                                    saw powered machinery, factories, and mass production
                                                                    machines replaced humans and animals as tools
                                                                   harsh conditions for millions of low-wage workers,
                                                                     and great wealth for a privileged few.

I. Before the Industrial Revolution
                                                                          cities were small, and most people lived in small towns
                                                                           or farms
                                                                          people produced most of their own clothing, food,                                                                                       furniture and tools

II. The Industrial Revolution is Born in England
                                                                              many important raw materials as well as colonies
                                                                             where it could get more
Mercantilism                                                        a system where a nation imports raw materials from                                                                                 its coloniesand then sells them back as finished                                                                                      goods at a profit.
Textiles                                                                  fabrics and clothing, first main industry
                                                                                textile mills used water power
                                                                               mills required cheap labor
                                                                              children were often used, no laws against children                                                                                   working, could pay less.
Steam Engine                                                          revolutionized industry

A. Transportation

Steamboat                                                                 early 1800s, invented by American Robert Fulton

Steam Locomotive                                                     early 1800s, Richard Trevithick in England

John MacAdam                                                             road paving process, smoother roads


B. Communication

Telegraph                                                      England, 1837-allowed messages to be sent and received
                                                                      quickly

Samuel Morse                                          American simplified the telegraph and invented Morse Code

Trans-Atlantic Cable                             1866, telegraph cable laid across bottom of Atlantic Ocean

C. Quality of Life
                                                                       wages were low. Children used because were cheap
                                                                        20% of all workers in Britain 1860s were under age 15
                                                                        adults who worked in factories were paid low wages.
                                                                       There were no laws for forty-hour week or
                                                                           worker safety
                                                                         no such thing as Workman's Comp.
                                                                        Workers were packed into slum housing
                                                                      pollution was terrible and disease was common in cities



?Child Labor in the Industrial Revolution

Child Labor Bill                                                                                   Names of Group Members:

Primary Source Review

1.        Go through the packet, reading every caption out loud with your small group and analyze the photographs.

2.       Write a bill to change the law on Child Labor as if it were the year 1910.

3.       Included the following in the bill

a.       Your new proposed minimum age for hourly workers, and your reasoning for this new minimum age.

b.      Your proposed wage for underage workers (if you allow it).  Should it be the same, less or more than an adult worker?

c.       Exceptions to the minimum age (children working on parents’ farm or business, paper carriers, etc)

d.      Penalties for employers who violate the minimum age law.

4.       Fill in the Bill template below for your bill.

5.       Due Thursday for 1-3.  Due Friday for 5. 

Using the form below (or any similar template), fill in your ideas. (Lines are numbered for easy reference; when typing your bill, remember that, to avoid putting periods after each number, you can “customize” your list.)

 1   (Title)                                                    A BILL TO . . .

   2   Be it enacted by this Student Congress that (Write the main idea that you want to happen.)

 Section 1:  (If necessary, explain your idea further.  You may need even more sections to outline the idea fully.) 

Section 2:  (Explain how the law will be enforced—who will do it, what will the penalties be? You might decide to use subsections to present these points in an outline form.)

Section 3:  (State how the legislation will be funded if it will require a public expenditure—an additional tax, a surcharge on some product or service, a different allocation of current funds,  etc.)

Section 4:  (State directly when the legislation will take effect and what current law(s) will be superseded by the proposed law.)

                                                                                      Respectfully submitted,

                                                                                      Your name or school 
Wednesday, April 27

Tuesday, April 26

The Industrial Revolution Part Two
The Industrial Revolution Part Two
T-Notes

Red  (Vocab)                               Yellow (definitions/ideas)

                                                  there were few laws regulating what business could do in the early
                                                  part of the Industrial Revolution

Monopoly                                  when a business has no competition, it can pretty much do what
                                                   it wants, including set prices.

American Monopoly                 Businesses bribed politicians and so they had control of state
                                                  and federal government at times in the late 1800s.

Laissez-Faire                            "Leave it alone" in French.  Believed government should not
                                                   interfere in business.

Adam Smith                             English economist.  Wrote Wealth of Nations.  Explained ideas
                                                 of laissez-faire capitalism.

Capitalism                                a system where private individuals own the businesses and price
                                                 is determined by the law of supply and demand.

Law of Supply and Demand    when demand greater than supply, price goes up
                                                 when demand less than supply, price goes down


reformers                                begin to wonder if the government should regulate business and employers/
                                               employees

Progressives                           people who wanted to get corruption out of government and regulate
                                               big business.

Muckrakers                           Progressives in journalism, writing and photography who pointed out
                                              the corruption of government and the abuses of big business.

Upton Sinclair/The Jungle     Writer who wrote about abuses in the Chicago meat-packing industry.
                                               Read by many Americans, influenced President Roosevelt
                                               Made President Theodore Roosevelt sick and convinced him govern-
                                                  ment regulation of big business was necessary.

Roosevelt                              passed progressive laws to protect consumers and workers.

Jaob Riis                               muckraker, writer and photographer.  wrote the book "How the Other Half
                                             Lives" about life in the slums.

Unions                                 groups of workers who band together to get better wages and benefits

Business Owners               hated unions and tried to destroy them

Rights Gained By Labor Unions    weekends without work
                                                        breaks at work, including lunch
                                                        paid vacation
                                                        family and medical leave
                                                        sick leave
                                                        Social Security
                                                        Minimum Wage
                                                        Civil Rights Act
                                                        8-hour work day
                                                        Overtime Pay
                                                        Child Labor Law
                                                        Workplace Safety
                                                         40-hour-week
                                                         workman's comp
                                                         unemployment insurance
                                                         Pensions
                                             
                                                           

1. 
   

Study Guide Monday/Tuesday May 1,2

Industrial Revolution Study Guide Morris

1.        What was the Industrial Revolution?

2.       Where did it start and why did it start there?

3.       How did the IR change the lives of the people who were alive at the time?

4.       How did it change our lives today?

5.       The first industry was _____________.

6.       How does a steam engine work?

7.       Why was the telegraph so important?

8.       What was the Trans-Atlantic Cable and why was it important?

9.       What happened to the quality of life for many people during the industrial revolution?

10.   How did the use of machines effect workers?

11.    Why were children often used as workers?

12.   Why could factories and mines hire children?

13.   Why were there no laws protecting workers?

14.   What was life like in a big industrial city?

15.   What is a tenement?

16.   What is a monopoly?

17.   Many believed in laissez-faire capitalism during the early part of the Industrial Revolution?  What is laissez-faire?  What is capitalism?

18.   Why didn’t government do more to help workers?

19.   Who was Adam Smith and why is he important?

20.   Explain the law of supply and demand and how prices move to equilibrium.

21.   Why did many reformers and progressives feel laissez-faire capitalism might not be the best way to run things?

22.   What is a progressive?

23.   What is a muckraker and why were muckrakers important?

24.   Who was Upton Sinclair?  What did he write?  Why was this book so important?

25.   Who was Jacob Riis?  What did he do? Why is he important?

26.   Who was the first real progressive President?  What did he do?

27.   What is a labor union and why were unions created?  Give some goals of early labor unions.

28.   How did business treat labor unions?

29.   What rights did workers win from the labor movement?

30.   Why did the industrial revolution lead to new ideas about economics and government, such as socialism and communism?

31.   What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911?

Notebook Rubric April
I. Notes
      1.  Louis XIV and Royal Absolutism
      2.  Causes of French Revolution
      3.  French Revolution II
      4. French Revolution III
      5. Rise of Napoleon
      6. Napoleon Go Boom!
      7.  Study Guide notes
      8.  Congress of Vienna
      9. Industrial Revolution Part I
     10. Industrial Revolution Part II

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II.  Flap
     1. Declaration of the Rights of Man
     2. March Notebook Rubric
     3. Absolutism and Revolution Study Guide
     4. Absolutism and Revolution TEST
     5.  Congress of Vienna Map
 
III.  Journal
     15 entries.


Wednesday, May 4  TEST

Thursday, May 5

MME For T-Notes


Economic Systems T-Notes


There are four types of economic systems:  traditional, Market, Command and Mixed.

Word                               Explanation


Economic System          1. a nation's resources are used to produce goods and services
                                       2. goods and services are distributed to buyers

Functions of an Economy     How much to produce?
                                              What to produce?
                                              How to produce?
                                              For whom to produce
                                              Adaptability


How goods and services
are produced and divided up
depends on :                            1. government's role
                                                2. How much freedom people have to decide

Capital                            money used to create a business.

1. Traditional                      examples include eskimoes, Native American tribes.  trade instead of cash

2. Market                         elies on consumption (buying) choices of consumers.
                                        government not involved in market economy
                                        Businesses are privately owned
                                        Goal is large profits
                                        Consumers drive what is produced.
                                        Price determined by law of supply and demand

Advantages of a Market Economy             1. market is free
                                                                    2. government not involved
                                                                    3. variety keeps prices low, quality high
                                                                    4. profits can go to new innovation and technonology

Disadvantages of a Market Economy       1. Companies don't always make what's needed
                                                                  2. Businesses can take advantage of workers and consumers
                                                                  3. few rich and many poor
                                                                  4. pollution

3. Command Economy                     government runs the economy and owns businesses

Advantages of Command Economy    1. government runs economy for all
                                                             2. government decides what to produce
                                                             3. eliminates extra competition
                                                             4. government decides wages
                                                             5. greater emphasis on making sure everyone has enough

Disadvantages of Command Economy  1. no freedom of choice
                                                                2. surpluses or shortages of goods
                                                                3. Lack of incentive for workers to work hard
                                                                4. government can make things people do not want (like bombs)
                                                                5. Black market

Mixed Economy                                 1. economic system with both market economy and government                                                                 control
                                                            2.  Examples, USA, Canada, European nations, Japan
                                                            3. goal of private sector is to maximize profits and goal of
                                                               government is to maximize social welfare.
                                                            4. government provices goods and services that private sector                                                                        unwilling or unable to produce.

Advantages of a Market Economy      1. government protection of workers and citizens
                                                             2. cooperation

Disadvantages of Market Economy    1. too much government regulation can hurt free enterprise
                                                             2. some government industries may run even though they lose
                                                                 money.
                                                            3. gap between rich and poor similar to market economy
                                                         

We looked at socialism in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.  Trade offs in their system = more social welfare but higher tax rates.





Socialism Meme: Socialism is a mixed economic system.  Is this pro-socialist or anti-socialist?  How about the meme below?





A Symbol of the Command Economy--The Trabant: East Germany auto manufacturing for the masses

Trabant History and Photos



Life in a Command Economy 25 min

Stalin and Hitler 
Notebook checks begin May 10 and run until May 13 of this week.

Notebook Rubric April/May
I. Notes  (4 points each except for Economic Systems which is 5)
      1.  Louis XIV and Royal Absolutism
      2.  Causes of French Revolution
      3.  French Revolution II
      4. French Revolution III
      5. Rise of Napoleon
      6. Napoleon Go Boom!
      7.  Study Guide notes
      8.  Congress of Vienna
      9. Industrial Revolution Part I
     10. Industrial Revolution Part II
     11.  Industrial Revolution Study Guide Answers
     12.  Economic Systems

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II.  Flap (4 points each)
     1. Declaration of the Rights of Man
     2. March Notebook Rubric
     3. Absolutism and Revolution Study Guide
     4. Absolutism and Revolution TEST
     5.  Congress of Vienna Map
     6. Industrial Revolution Study Guide

III.  Journal  (1 point each)
     15 entries.


MME  The Causes of the Russian Revolution

Wednesday, May 11

The Causes of the Russian Revolution T-Notes


I Historical Background
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Russia                                         world's largest country
                                                    partly in Europe, partly in Asia
                                                    divided by Ural Mountains
                                                    160 ethnic groups, 100 languages
  Slavs                                          original people of Russia
Vikings                                       800s AD, came from north
                                                    mixed to form Russian, largest group
Kiev                                            Russian capital
                                                    Russians could sail from Kiev to Constantinople
Constantinople                          capital city of the Eastern (Greek) Roman Empire
                                                  center of Eastern Catholic (Orthodox) Church

Russians                                     got Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 989 AD

Cyrillic Alphabet                       used in Russia, from Constantinople
Kiev                                           demolished by Mongols in 1240
Moscow                                    new city farther north gains power
                                                  located on three main rivers
                                                 whoever controls these rivers controls trade in W. Russia
Tsars                                         Russian name for king, from Roman Caesar

Peter the Great                         1700s made Russia more European, moved capital to St. Petersburg

Catherine the Great                 continued Westernizing Russia, learning and culture

Serfs                                          Peasants tied to the land like slaves

Tsar Alexander                         freed serfs 1861
                                                  assassinated a few days later

Nicholas I                                  son of Alexander
                                                   weak
                                                   strict ruler

Meanwhile in Western Europe....

Karl Marx                                develops new theory of Communism
                                                 believes that wealth concentrates in fewer hands under capitalism
                                                 rich get rich, poor get poorer
                                                 workers will revolt and overthrow the system
                                                 will create a government where everyone is equal
                                                 the people would now own everything

Problem in Russia                  no large working class to revolt

1905 Revolt                            against Tsar
                                                Bloody Sunday Tsar's troops shot protesters

World War I                            dissatisfaction with Tsar increases
                                                only workers die in wars, not wealthy business owners, who get rich

Vladimir Lenin                      Communist leader at the time

1918 Civil War                      Communists versus Tsar's Army, Communists win

Rasputin                               mad monk.  advisor to Tsar's family.

Communists                         execute Tsar and his family
Top Communist leaders struggle for power, Lenin wins

Russia renamed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Lenin                                  slowly took rights away from workers
                                           worker ownership failed
                                           killed 4 million people

Josef Stalin                        replaced Lenin when he died in 1924

Famine                                 millions died

Under Stalin                        56-62 million dead
                                              34-49 million linked directly to Stalin

Purges                               campaigns to kill or imprison Stalin's enemies


World War II                      1939-1945
                                             Stalin signed Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler in 1939
                                              Hitler planned to break it after he conquered England
                                             Hitler failed to take England
                                             Hitler attacked Russia in 1941
                                             Russia now allies with US and England
                                              Russia repeated Scorched Earth Policy
                                                Russia lost 16 million, Germany 2 million
                                            Russia helped Allies defeat Germany

Russia                            takes half of Europe  (Eastern Europe) and makes it communist after
                                      WWII.
                                      detonates an atomic bomb  1949
                                      US sends Russia lots of supplies such as planes, tanks, and trucks

Cold War                      non-shooting war between communist Russia and its communist allies
                                     and Western Europe and the United States.  Called that because we didn't
                                     really fight each other, just threatened.

Post World War Two      Europe split into Eastern Europe and Russia (communist) and Western Europe
                                       which was capitalist and free.
Division of Germany 1945     Germany divided into four pieces: Russian, American, British, French
                                               
erlin                                also divided in four: Russian, American, British, French


Berlin Airlift 1948               Allies flew supplies into W. Berlin for one year after Russia blockaded it

Korean War 1950-53           War between communist N. Korea and allies and South Korea and soldiers
                                            from the west protecting it.  Ended in a tie at 38th parallel.

Berlin Wall 1961                built by communists between East and West Berlin to keep Easterners from escaping.

Interstate Highway System   Built in 50's primarily to allow Americans to move quickly in case of
                                               nuclear war/attack.


Cuban Missile Crisis 1961       Russia tries to sneak nuclear missiles into Cuba.  President Kennedy
                                              threatens Russia and Russia removes them.
Vietnam War                         US tries to prevent the spread of communism from North Vietnam to South
                                              Vietnam.
                                              US pulls out, S. Vietnam becomes communist 1975.
End of Cold War                    US is able to spend more money in arms race than the Soviets can.
                                               Soviet Union spends on arms race, not enough for consumer goods
                                         
Ronald Reagan                      spends great amounts on arms race.  Soviet leader Gorbachev decides to
                                               modernize and loosen up in Russia.
                                              "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" speech 1987 at the Berlin Wall.
Berlin Wall                            taken down 1990.
                                              By 1991 communism had fallen, even in Russia
Russia                                   now a semi-democratic oligarchy led by Pres. Vladimir Putin, a former
                                               Soviet KGB (secret police) agent.  Most business run by former party
                                              officials, speculators, or Russian organized crime.
                                              Very difficult for Russia to change economic systems. Will take time and will be painful.


Friday, May 20

Map Activity

Map of Postwar Europe Fact Sheet Morris 2016                                                              Name

Post-War Europe:  NATO, Warsaw Pact, and the Cold War

After World War II, the Soviet Union forced many eastern European nations to become communist.  This included the Soviet sector of Germany, which became East Germany.  These nations were then under the “Communist Sphere of Influence”, meaning they were dominated by Russia.

In a famous speech made in 1946 in the U.S., British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow. “

In 1949, the United States, Canada and many Western European nations created a military and political alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO.  The original members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  There are now 28 members, including some nations that had been communist.  These include Albania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

In 1955, Russia and many communist nations signed the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance in which members promised to defend each other if attacked.  There were seven members: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union.

Map Instructions:

Using the map above and the one in the book on page A-10 to A-12, complete the following with neatness and accuracy. 

1.      LABEL the water bodies:  Atlantic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, North Sea, Adriatic Sea

2.      Label the following nations that became allied with the Free World democracies after WWII.  Belgium, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, West Germany, Iceland, France, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom.   Label them on the map, and color them blue.  

3.      Label the nations that became part of the Communist Sphere of Influence: Albania, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Color them RED.

4.      Label the neutral nations and color them yellow: Austria, Finland, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland

5.      Locate with a dot and label Berlin.

6.      Winston Churchill said that an “Iron Curtain” had descended upon Europe after World War II. 

a.      Draw and label the Iron Curtain on your map.

b.      Define “IRON CURTAIN”:

c.       Why do you suppose Winston Churchill this line “The Iron Curtain”?

7.      What was NATO?__________________________________________________________

8.      The first 15 members of NATO were ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9.      Draw diagonal lines (///) through the original NATO nations on your map.

10.  Define WARSAW PACT: ________________________________

11.  Who were the original 7 members of the Warsaw Pact? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

12.  What communist nation was NOT part of the Warsaw Pact? _________________________

Monday, May 23

Study Guide Rise and Fall of Russian Communism

Morris

Part One: Russian History

1.       Russia is ranked ___ in the world in size and stretches across ___ time zones.

2.       Russia is on the continents of ________ and __________.  The dividing line is the ______ Mountains.

3.       The ______ and ______ combined to form Russia’s largest ethnic group, the ________.

4.       Russians adopted ______________ Christianity which they got from ______________.

5.       The Russians use the ___________ alphabet which they got from _________________.

6.       Russia was controlled by the ___________ for several centuries.  How did this effect its development?

7.       Why did Moscow become Russia’s most important city after Kiev?

8.       What is a Russian king called and why?

9.       What did Peter the Great do? Why?

10.   Where did Peter move the Russian capital?

11.   What is a serf?

12.   What Tsar freed the serfs and what happened to him?

Part Two:  Karl Marx, Marxism/Communism

13.   Why did Karl Marx think capitalism was doomed to fail?

14.   What did Marx believe about wealth in a capitalist system?

15.   What did Marx believe workers would do eventually in a capitalist system?  Why?

16.   What are the strengths and weaknesses of Marxist theory?

Part Three:  The Russian Revolution

17.   Who was Tsar at the time of the revolution?  What kind of ruler was he and how do you know?

18.   What caused Bloody Sunday and what happened on Bloody Sunday, 1905?

19.   How did World War I weaken the Tsar’s power and help the communists?

20.   What caused the Civil War in Russia and who won?

21.   Who was the first leader of communist Russia after the revolution was successful?

22.   Who was Rasputin and why is he important?  What happened to him and why?

23.   What happened to the Tsar and his family?  Why?

24.   What was Russia renamed by the communists?

25.   Why were attempts to let the workers run factories failures?  What did the communist government do instead?

26.   Lenin killed ___ million of his own people.

27.   After Lenin died, he was replaced by _____________.

28.   Describe how Stalin ruled the Soviet Union.

29.   Why did Stalin kill or imprison so many of his own people?

30.   What were the Five Year Plans and how did they help Russia industrialize?

31.   What is a purge?  Why did Stalin have the purges?

Part Four:  World War II

32.   Who did Stalin sign a non-aggression pact with in 1939?  Why?

33.   Did Hitler intend to honor the agreement?  What was his strategy?

34.   How did Stalin defeat Germany in WWII?

35.   How many Russians were killed in WWII?

36.   How did the US help Russia defeat Hitler in Russia?

Part Five:  Post-War Russia and Europe

37.   After the war, what did Stalin do to change Europe?  Why?

38.   What weapon did Russia successfully develop in 1949?

39.   What happened to Germany after WWII?  Why?

40.   What happened to the German capital of Berlin?  Why?

41.   What alliance did Western Europe form after WWII to protect against communism?

42.   What alliance did the Soviet Union form in 1955 to protect its interests?

43.   What was the cause and effect of the Berlin Airlift of 1948?

44.   What was the “Iron Curtain”?

Part Six: The Cold War

45.    What was the Cold War and why is it called the Cold War?  Why was it cold?

46.   Why was the Korean War fought and why was it a part of the Cold War? Who won/why?

47.   What happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1961?  How serious was it and why?

48.   Why was the Berlin Wall built?

49.   Why did the U.S. built the Interstate Highways in the Fifties?

50.   Who fought in the Vietnam War?  How was it part of the Cold War?  Who won/why?

51.   Why did many people in the Fifties feel afraid?  What are some things people did to make themselves safer?

Part Seven: The Fall of Russian Communism

52.   Why did Russia finally lose the Cold War?  Or how did the US win it?

53.   Why was President Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech so important?

54.   What year did the wall come down?  How long did it take after that for Russia itself to reject communism?

55.   How many of the former Russian communist nations are still communist?

56.   What type of government does Russia have now and why?

57.   What is President Vladimir Putin’s background?  Is he making Russia more or less free?  Why do you think so?



If the answers you do seek,
Into the Middle Ages must you peek.



Final Exam Review Sheet

Study Guide ECA Morris

1.        The idea that a king or queen rules at the will of God, with no checks and balances.

2.       How did Louis XIV embody the absolute monarch?

3.       Louis’ great palace and its purpose.

4.       How did the Three Estate system help lead to the French Revolution?

5.       Who was in each estate?

6.       What was the main cause of the French Revolution?

7.       Why Bastille important?  Tennis Court Oath?  National Assembly?

8.       Could Louis XVI have prevented the revolution?  Open ended question.

9.       What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and what were some of its influences?

10.   Explain Rousseau’s idea of Natural Rights of Man.

11.   How did the revolution get out of control?

12.   How did Napoleon come to power?

13.   Describe Napoleon’s personality and how did it lead to his exploits?

14.   What are some of Napoleon’s positive accomplishments?

15.   What mistakes led to Napoleon’s downfall?

16.   What is the importance of the Congress of Vienna?

17.   Was the COV effective?  Why or why not?

18.   What is a revolution?  Define it.

19.   What happened in the Industrial Revolution?  Define it.

20.   How did society change during the IR?

21.   What were some inventions that drove the IR?

22.   How did the IR effect most workers?

23.   Why did it take so long to change laws that hurt workers?

24.   What is laissez-faire capitalism?

25.   Explain supply and demand in a free market.

26.   How did the muckrakers help change life in the IR?

27.   How did the IR lead Karl Marx to his theories?  Think Animal Farm.

28.   Why were labor unions important?

29.   What are the four types of economies? Describe each and give an example.

30.   What caused the Russian Revolution?

31.   How did Lenin and Stalin modernize Russia?

32.   What are some good/bad things they did?

33.   What was the Cold War and how did it start?

34.   Be prepared to discuss events during the Cold War.

35.   How were all the revolutions we studied (French, Industrial and Russian) the same?  How were they different?

This list is not inclusive but close.  The test will be 100% multiple choice (A, B, C, D)

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