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May 19, 2006
Q4 - Lesson #28 - Communism Comes to China
NOTE: The information for next Friday's test can be found at the bottom of this blog entry...
First, we can take some time to talk about Current Events. Remember, you should print out your second batch of these before you turn them in. These are worth 20 points.
China - From Revolution to Civil War: Let's quickly get up to the Long March so we can go on it Monday. Download this note guide that I "borrowed" from Ms. Murr...
Twentieth-Century Russia and China - Exam format: This exam will be next Friday. There will be three "in-class" components: multiple choice, identifications and Russia VIPs. In addition, you will have a "take-home" essay due no later that 3:30 PM on Tuesday, May 30th.
Multiple choice: There will be somewhere between 20 and 30 questions again. I'll divide them as evenly as possible between Russia and China.
Identifications: You will write on your choice of 6 of the 8 identifications that appear on the exam chosen from the list below. You may have 10 words of "notes" for each of the 16 possible identifications during the exam. You will need to turn in these notes, and I reserve the right to count symbols, acronyms, etc. as one or more words.
Russia
Karl Marx
March Revolution
Great Purge
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Sputnik
de-Stalinization
glasnost
Chernobyl
China
Sun Yat-sen
Nationalists
Long March
Rape of Nanking
"Hundred Flowers"
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Tiananmen Square
Russia VIPs You will be provided with a "name bank" and written descriptions of all 20 of the Russia VIPs. You simply match the name to the description. You do not use any notes on this portion of the test. Here are the 20 names if you want to do a little review...
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great
Elizabeth
Catherine the Great
Leo Tolstoy
Nicholas II
Alexandra
Rasputin
Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Sergei Eisenstein
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Andrei Sakharov
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Boris Yeltsin
"Take-home" Essay: You will write on your choice of ONE of the questions from the list below. You will need to write this essay outside of class time. The essay must be typed, using the Times or Times New Roman font, 12-point. The essay should be double-spaced (or space and a half) and should not be more than two pages. (You won't be penalized for being "too long" unless you go beyond three pages...) The essay is due NO LATER than Tuesday, May 30th at 3:30 PM.
CAUTION: You must be writing in your own words. If you don't understand what constitutes plagiarism, you need to ask. The questions are designed to be answered in your ideas and words, not those of Wikipedia or anyone else. If you are using a direction quotation, it must be correctly cited. Otherwise, it is the same as plagiarizing. Here's a simple test. "Copy" a section of your writing (maybe a phrase or sentence) into Google and search. If that search leads you back to where you "took notes from," that is plagiarism.
You can answer any ONE of these questions:
A. Identify major consequences of three decades of Stalin's rule upon the Soviet Union in its domestic policy, foreign policy, and economic situations. How should history remember Joseph Stalin?
B. Explain and evaluate the impact of at least three specific events in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Is the United States justified in its claim to have "won" the Cold War?
C. Explain at least one economic, social, and political factor which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Would the Russian people be better off if communism had remained in place? Why or why not?
D. Identify major consequences of almost three decades of Mao's rule upon China in its domestic policy, foreign policy, and economic situations. How should history remember Mao Zedong?
E. Explain the major impacts of the Long March, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution on communism and Mao's rule in China. Which of the three do you believe made the greatest impact? Why?
F. Explain at least one economic, social, and political factor that you believe led to China retaining its system of communism while the Soviet Union and others abandoned that system. Do you believe China would be better off if communism had not remained in place? Why or why not?
Posted by mvergin at May 19, 2006 09:14 AM