Special Topics 1A, Spring 2024 NOTES
"Cold
Wars"
and Contemporary History
Homework assignments, notes and links will be posted here after each class
April 29,
2024
Download the notes about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
Prepare to study about Okinawa, Japan and Korea during the Cold War. We will have a guest speaker on these subjects during the class on June 3rd. The two articles below introduce her research:
Interview with Japanese peace activist and author, Satoko Oka Norimatsu
Lessons from Okinawa for nuclear disarmament activists
And
this link goes to her website:
Satoko
Oka Norimatsu's website (with articles in both Japanese and
English)
Watch
the film 13
Days about the Cuban Missile Crisis. I will send you a
link to it via your Seijo email address.
Start
thinking about what you want to study for your final project. Read
the suggestions
for topics to study.
April 22, 2024
Download the notes about Chapter 5 of The Untold History of the United States.
Read
the suggestions
for topics to study for your final research project
(presentation)
April
15, 2024
A
brief description of the ideologies of communism and anti-communism
(pdf).
Transcript
for the short lecture about the
use of nuclear technology since 1945. The link to the video is
in the document.
Notes
and summary of Hiroshima:
Why the Bomb was Dropped . The link
to the video is in the article also. (teacher's blog). The
homework this week is to finish watching the documentary from the 25
minute point. The total length of the documentary is 1:08:00 (68
minutes).
Transcript
of Hiroshima:
Why the Bomb was Dropped. The
link to the video
is in the document also.
April
8, 2024
You can
download the answers for the
world history quiz.