Merry Christmas!

The Wise Men Follow the Star - His Light - Over Bethlehem. 

No Homework This Weekend

Unless of course you didn't take the Cuban Missile Crisis exam Friday. Please be prepared to take it Monday.

Don't Forget Homework By Monday at 8:20 a.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Epilogue: On the Brink

Castro isn't going to be happy for long :(

Please complete the 11 questions at the bottom of your Cold War Notes by Monday, Dec. 15 at 8:20 a.

They are under this heading:

Cuban Missile Crisis (con’t)

Epilogue: On the Brink

DIRECTIONS: Read “CMC - Epilogue” (Pages 25 - 33). Answer questions 1 - 11. The reading is in your shared reading folder.

October 20, 1962: The Decision    

Quiz Thursday on CMC Key Players

Short Answer Quiz Thursday

Make sure you know the key players on the new slide show I shared with you today named, "Cuban Missile Crisis - At the Brink." We also went over them during class.

The quiz will be very short answers. No analysis. No problem.

Complete CMC Questions by Monday!

Cuban Missile Crisis

Epilogue: On the Brink

Castro isn't going to be happy for long :(

Please complete the 11 questions at the bottom of your Cold War Notes by Monday, Dec. 15 at 8:20 a.

They are under this heading:

Cuban Missile Crisis (con’t)

Epilogue: On the Brink

DIRECTIONS: Read “CMC - Epilogue” (Pages 25 - 33). Answer questions 1 - 11. The reading is in your shared reading folder.

October 20, 1962: The Decision    

Progress Report Grades Posted | Quiz Guide

Preparing for ExComm Simulation: 

October 16, 1962

Oct. 16, '62 | Dear Diary: Khrushchev is being really weird. 

ExCOMM PRESENTATIONS: On Monday you'll be assigned to groups and begin planning for your presentations on what option you would recommend to President Kennedy with regards to Khrushchev's actions in Cuba by October 16, 1962. Your group's presentation will be given on Tuesday.

PROGRESS REPORT GRADES HAVE BEEN POSTED: Please note that I have decided to include your "scaled" grades on your I.B. exam you took at the end of September. I arrived at this conclusion while considering the amount of growth you've demonstrated as a group in the past two months. Your scaled grades reflect what I believe you are more than capable of when you take your Paper 2 exam on the Cuban Missile Crisis on Friday, Dec. 19. Check the gradebook here.

MONDAY QUIZ STUDY GUIDE: On Monday you will have a brief quiz on the homework that was due this past Wednesday. The questions will come straight from the homework assignments. It will mostly be very short answers, but there will be at least one rapid response question. There will also be a geography question. Here is a study guide:

• Make sure you can identify Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and Nicaragua on a map.
• Know at least five events that the U.S. was involved in an effort to contain Communism up to 1961. (i.e. Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan)
• Know the two specific agreements the helped the U.S. influence Caribbean and Central American policy.
• Know two major countries other than Cuba where the U.S. had a major involvement.
• Know two factors that led to Batista's downfall in Cuba.
• Why did Castro turn against the U.S. before the Bay of Pigs?
• Knowing Cuba was allied with the Soviet Union, why was the discovery of nuclear missiles a shock to the United States?
• By October 1962 why was Berlin (once again) a cause for concern for Kennedy?

Cuban Missile Crisis: Homework & Quiz Information

The Real Cuban Missile Crisis

The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm) meeting in the Cabinet Room on October 29, 1962. From left: JFK, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Pierre Salinger. 

Please read the document - Real Cuban Missile Crisis - that I have included in your shared reading folder.

There will be a quiz on Monday (C Block: Tuesday)  that is based on the homework that was due Dec. 3 and the reading above. The study guide is the homework questions on the Cuban Missile Crisis and the general argument in the reading.

About the National Security Council Executive Committee (ExComm)

In establishing the ExComm by a memorandum on October 22, Kennedy designated himself as chairman and listed the group’s core members. They were:

• President Kennedy
• Vice President Lyndon Johnson
• Dean Rusk (Secretary of State)
• Robert McNamara (Secretary of Defense)
• Douglas Dillon (Secretary of the Treasury)
• Robert Kennedy (Attorney General)
• John McCone (Director of Central Intelligence)
• General Maxwell Taylor (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
• Llewellyn Thompson (Ambassador-at-Large)
• Theodore Sorensen (Special Counsel)
• McGeorge Bundy (Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs)

Cuban Missile Crisis Homework

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Was Castro really a pawn between the Superpowers?

For the next three weeks (Dec. 1 to 19) we are going to study the Cuban Missile Crisis. This crucial unit will be used to assess your ability in taking a Paper 1 document-based exam and a Paper 2 essay exam that will include a counter claim and a historical school of thought. The P1 exam is scheduled for Thurs., Dec. 18 and the P2 exam is scheduled for Fri., Dec. 19.

HOMEWORK

Please complete the following questions on your 

Cold War NOTES by 8:20 a. Wed., Dec. 3

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

DIRECTIONS: Read “CMC - Introduction” (Pages 1, ii, and 8 - 14) and “CMC - Moment of Decision” (pages 15 - 17). Answer questions 1 - 9 from the “Introduction” reading and questions 10 - 15 from the “Moment” reading. Both readings are in your shared reading folder.

Don't Forget Friday's Quiz

A young man who had tried to escape to West Berlin and was shot.

Friday's QUIZ: There will be a document-based quiz on Friday regarding "Peaceful Co-existence," 1956 and the Berlin Crisis. Make sure you have questions 7-12 on  your homework as they will make up part of your quiz grade. The questions are:

Berlin Crisis, 1958

7. What was Khrushchev intending to achieve by triggering a crisis over Berlin? (pp. 116-117)

8. Summarize Khrushchev's "Berlin Ultimatum." (p. 117)

9. What was the Western reaction to the Berlin ultimatum? (p. 118)     

Berlin Wall Built

10. Key question Why did Khrushchev agree to the construction of the Berlin Wall? (pp. 119-120)     

11. How important was the construction of the Berlin Wall for the Soviet bloc? (p. 121)     

12. Why, despite the construction of the Berlin Wall, did tension remain high in Europe until 1963? (p. 122)    

Khrushchev & The Second Cold War Quiz

"Peaceful Co-existence," the year of Crises (1956), and the Berlin Crisis Quiz

-HOMEWORK: First, be sure to finish the homework that is due by tomorrow at 8:20 a. See assignment here.

-QUIZ: There will be a document-based quiz on Friday regarding "Peaceful Co-existence," 1956 and the Berlin Crisis. Make sure you have questions 7-12 on  your homework as they will make up part of your quiz grade. The questions are:

Berlin Crisis, 1958

7. What was Khrushchev intending to achieve by triggering a crisis over Berlin? (pp. 116-117)

8. Summarize Khrushchev's "Berlin Ultimatum." (p. 117)

9. What was the Western reaction to the Berlin ultimatum? (p. 118)     

Berlin Wall Built

10. Key question Why did Khrushchev agree to the construction of the Berlin Wall? (pp. 119-120)     

11. How important was the construction of the Berlin Wall for the Soviet bloc? (p. 121)     

12. Why, despite the construction of the Berlin Wall, did tension remain high in Europe until 1963? (p. 122)    

Khrushchev and the Second Cold War Homework

Khrushchev and the Second Cold War

The "Wall" in 1972

Please complete the following new set of questions on your Cold War Notes!

Khrushchev and the Second Cold War 1956-63

DIRECTIONS: Read “Cold War - Ch. 6” (Pgs. 107-123). It is about the “Year of Crises, 1956, and the Berlin Crisis (1958-61). It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Answer the following 12 questions. 

Your answers are due by 8:20 a. Thursday, Nov. 20

Prepare for Wednesday's Double Quiz - Finish Homework

Finish Homework; Prepare for Wednesday's Double Quiz

There can be peaceful co-existence. Or can there....

Make sure you have the next two sets of questions completed by Wednesday at 8:20 a. They are posted to your Cold War Notes document. They are:

Khrushchev, De-Stalinization, and Peaceful Co-Existence

DIRECTIONS: Read "“Khrushchev and Peaceful Co-existence” (Pgs. 88-92). It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Answer the following 9 questions. 

  

The Space Race

DIRECTIONS: Read "“Khrushchev and Peaceful Co-existence” (Pgs. 93-96). It is about the second test of peaceful co-existence, the Space Race. It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Answer the following 13 questions.

BE ready for Wednesday's Quiz.

STUDY GUIDE FOR WEDNESDAY'S DOUBLE QUIZ

• Make sure you know your answers to questions 2, 2a. - 2f. under "U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s" on your NOTES.
• Know the difference between "rollback" and "containment."
• Be able to list the "Six Major Events" that caused the U.S. to feel it was losing political and technical race with the Communists in the 1950s. (Question 4 on U.S. Foreign Policy.)
• What is an ICBM?
• Know the formal names of North and South Korean and who led each at the beginning of the Korean War.
• Know - in general terms - how the Korean War unfolded.
• Know why MacArthur was fired by Truman.
• Make sure you understand the 1950-era context of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's quote:  "Asia is where the communist conspirators have decided to make their play for global conquest.   If we lose this war, the fall of Europe is inevitable.   There is no choice but victory."
• How did Stalin's death impact the end of the Korean conflict?
• In a paragraph or two be preapared to address the Cummings' quote: “The civil conflict had not been worked through but frozen by outside intervention.” (Study questions No. 8 and 9 under the Korean War Notes.)
• Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower? How did he approach Communism?
• Who was John Foster Dulles? How did he view the United States’ role against the Communists?

Double Quiz Study Guide & New Homework Due Wednesday

Stalin Dies! Khrushchev Takes Over & The Development of the Space Race

Ding Dong! The wicked dictator is dead! March 5, 1953.

First, be sure you have finished The Korean War questions that were due at 3:10 p. today.

Second, please have the next two sets of questions completed by Wednesday at 8:20 a. They are posted to your Cold War Notes document. They are:

Khrushchev, De-Stalinization, and Peaceful Co-Existence

DIRECTIONS: Read "“Khrushchev and Peaceful Co-existence” (Pgs. 88-92). It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Answer the following 9 questions. 

  

The Space Race

DIRECTIONS: Read "“Khrushchev and Peaceful Co-existence” (Pgs. 93-96). It is about the second test of peaceful co-existence, the Space Race. It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Answer the following 13 questions.

STUDY GUIDE FOR WEDNESDAY'S DOUBLE QUIZ

• Make sure you know your answers to questions 2, 2a. - 2f. under "U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s" on your NOTES.
• Know the difference between "rollback" and "containment."
• Be able to list the "Six Major Events" that caused the U.S. to feel it was losing political and technical race with the Communists in the 1950s. (Question 4 on U.S. Foreign Policy.)
• What is an ICBM?
• Know the formal names of North and South Korean and who led each at the beginning of the Korean War.
• Know - in general terms - how the Korean War unfolded.
• Know why MacArthur was fired by Truman.
• Make sure you understand the 1950-era context of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's quote:  "Asia is where the communist conspirators have decided to make their play for global conquest.   If we lose this war, the fall of Europe is inevitable.   There is no choice but victory."
• How did Stalin's death impact the end of the Korean conflict?
• In a paragraph or two be preapared to address the Cummings' quote: “The civil conflict had not been worked through but frozen by outside intervention.” (Study questions No. 8 and 9 under the Korean War Notes.)
• Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower? How did he approach Communism?
• Who was John Foster Dulles? How did he view the United States’ role against the Communists?

The Korean War

The Korean War - Containment in Asia

The NSC-68 in Practice

MacArthur dared cross this line - and then some!

DIRECTIONS: Read "Korean War 1950-53." It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Please read it (p. 68-77) and answer the 9 questions which are at the bottom of your Cold War Notes.

Your answer are due by 3:10 p. on Friday, Nov. 7

Complete 1950s Foreign Policy Homework by Lunch Monday!

Foreign Policy in the 1950s: 

Fear of Communism's Growth

Oh, great! Now China and North Korea have turned Commie.

Please complete the readings and questions assigned Thursday. The readings are in your shared reading folder. All questions are at the bottom of your Cold War Notes document.

 

Your answers are due no later than Monday at 12:30 p.

Click this link to view Thursday's homework assignment.

NATO and 1950s U.S. Foreign Policy Homework

NATO and U.S. Foreign Policy during the 1950s

NSC-68: A seminal work during the early Cold War

Please complete the following assignment between Thursday and Monday. The readings are in your shared reading folder. All questions are at the bottom of your Cold War Notes document.

Your answers are due no later than Monday at 12:30 p.

ASSIGNMENTS:

Creation of NATO

Step 8: Effect of the Berlin Blockade: Why did the United States join NATO?Read the document, “NATO Created - 1949,” (it’s in the shared reading folder) and answer the following eight questions.
  
AND

U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s

DIRECTIONS: Read the document, 1950s Foreign Policy, and answer the following 12 questions.