Unit Three Table of Contents |
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Activity One
This concept application activity provides students with an opportunity to use the dialectical-thinking process in an historical situation. The conference component of this activity allows students to apply the skills of discussion and cooperative group work. The historical events featured in this activity occurred before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Activity Two
This concept application activity provides students with an awareness of the criteria used to make national decisions during periods of crisis. It also gives students the opportunity to practise developing criteria for the purpose of evaluating hypotheses and decisions
Activity Three
This concept application activity allows students to discuss the impact of the media on public opinion. They will become aware that mass media can both inform the public and shape the public's opinion. Students will assume the role of the mass media during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in order to further explore the way the mass media dispenses information and shapes public's opinion.
Activity Four
This activity allows the students to investigate factors that influence a nation's world view. The students will analyze the contrasting world views of the Soviet Union and its wartime allies, and the western democracies. The activity will help explain the reasons for the contrasting world views and the policies of these nations following the Second World War.
Activity Six
This concept application activity allows students to investigate the historical events that shaped relations between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies. Those events, combined with ideological factors, help to explain why the wartime alliance did not survive the ending of the war. The activity permits students to assume the role of the mass media with the purpose of transmitting a particular viewpoint.
Activity Seven
This concept application activity explores the concepts of national sovereignty and collective security. The application of these concepts can lead to situations where one concept will influence the other concept. The activity also allows students to learn about the structure of the UN and the role that the major powers have in that institution.
Activity Eight
This concept application activity allows students to investigate how the consequences of past policy decisions affect how governments make future policy decisions. The historic context for this activity is postwar Europe. The activity also permits students to compare contemporary events/policies to historic events/policies.
Activity Nine
This activity allows to students to assume the role of national decision makers who have the responsibility for resolving the Berlin Blockade. The simulation permits students to gain insight into influences upon national decision making - the importance of determining consequences of decisions, the atomic factor and the resources available to deal with the specific crisis.
Activity Ten
This concept application lesson gives students an opportunity to investigate the impact of foreign policy decisions on a nation's domestic affairs. This lesson focuses on the integration of defense forces that occurred between Canada and the United States following the Second World War. 34