Stalin QUIZ

There will be a quiz over Stalin next Thursday 10/6. You will answer TWO of the following prompts at random.

• What was the historical context of Stalin’s struggle for power? What were the key stages of the power struggle?
• What were the main features of collectivization and the Five-Year Plans?
• How did the Great Purge, 1936–39, help establish Stalin’s power?
• Explain Stalin’s domestic policies regarding two social groups. Women, Religion, Arts and Culture, or Education.

Stalin: Domestic Policies

Students continued learning about domestic policies under Stalin. They made posters and shared their answers. After, they participated in a simulation of terror and show trials in the Soviet Union.

DUE: 
Read Pearson, 4.3

Stalin: Domestic Policies

Agenda 9/26:

1. Students reviewed the documents about collectivization and discussed the resolution, "Stalin deliberately starved to death millions of Ukrainians".
2. Students watched a clip of video explaining the effects of collectivization [watch from 8:35 to 22:00].
3. Students began reading from Pearson about major domestic policies under Stalin: 5 year plans, women, religion, art and culture, and education and social mobility. In groups they made posters to present their findings.  

Stalin: Consolidation of Power

Agenda 9/22:

1. Students drew diagrams of the structure of the Soviet Government and Politburo in the 1920s. I explained how Stalin used his position as the General Secretary of the Communist Party to influence leadership of the country. This was a review of 4.1 in the Pearson text.
2. Students analyzed a series of documents about collectivization under Stalin and its effects on the Ukrainian population.

Stalin: Introduction

Agenda 9/20:

1. Students reviewed the previous lesson about the Russian Revolution [below]
2. Students took a vocabulary quiz over terms from the Stalin unit.
3. Students read a series of quotes attributed to Stalin.
4. Students participated in a mixer, learning about people affected by Stalin and his actions as leader of the Soviet Union.

DUE: Read Chapter 4.1 in Pearson

Conditions that Produced Authoritarian States: The Russian Revolution

Students finished presenting about authoritarian/single party state case studies. Students took notes and highlighted themes across the different countries.

After, students began to hear a lecture about the Russian Revolution [below]. Here are my notes from the lecture.

DUE: 
Read chapter 4.1 in Pearson

Intro to Authoritarian and Single Party States

Agenda 9/12:

Students worked in groups, researching and presenting different case studies of authoritarian and single party states. They used the IB unit objectives to structure their research and presentation:

• Conditions that produced authoritarian and single-party states
• Emergence of leaders: aims, ideology, support
• Establishment of authoritarian and single-party states: methods, force, legal
• Forms of authoritarian and single-party governments, left and right wing ideology
• Nature, extent, and treatment of opposition 

Students chose one of these case studies:

• North Korea - 1948 until present
• North Vietnam - 1945-1976
• Argentina - 1970s-1983
• Italy - Benito Mussolini 1922-1943
• Spain - Francisco Franco 1936-1975
• Uganda - Idi Amin 1971-1979
• Cambodia - Pol Pot 1975-1979
• Iraq - Saddam Hussein 1979-2003

DUE: 

Read section 4.1 in Pearson (pgs. 97-108) - Friday 9/17

Define Stalin Vocab and prepare for VOCAB QUIZ - Monday 9/20

Welcome to IB 20th Century History

Welcome to the class blog for IB 20th Century World History. Make sure to bookmark this page as it will be a helpful resource for your throughout the year.

First Week Agenda:

1. Learning people's names
2. Political Spectrum Test
3. Intro to Fascism vs. Communism
4. Course Syllabus
5. Learning about "isms" - Collectivism, Individualism, Socialism, Capitalism, Equality, Freedom, Totalitarianism, Democracy.