History 20
Activity Guide
Unit Four
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Activities, Student Information Sheets, Worksheets and Maps
The following activities focus on specific concepts and provide instructional assistance for the teacher. The student information sheets provide background information on specific areas of the course. The worksheets provide guided instruction and organization for students working on concept development and application activities.
Student Information Sheet: Chronology of Significant Events 1945-1990
Student Information Sheet: Netherlands: Loss of the East Indies
Student Information Sheet: Kenya and a Violent Path to Independence
Student Information Sheet: Gandhi and the "Non-Violent" Struggle
Activity One
This concept application activity is intended to promote an increased student understanding of the interplay between group needs and the `needs' of the larger society. The two forces can create tensions within a state. This activity allows students to identify the critical attributes of the two concepts and construct mechanisms/policies that will accommodate the two forces.
Student Information Sheet: Independence for British and French Colonies in Africa.
Student Information Map: Decolonization in Africa
Student Information Sheet: Southern Rhodesia and Resistance to Black Majority Rule
Student Information Map: Africa in 1994
Student Information Sheet: France: An Attempt to Re-establish the Old Order
Student Information Sheet: A Divided France: The Algerian Independence Issue
Student Information Sheet: Castro and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Activity Two
This concept application activity will allow students to gain insight into national decision making surrounding a recent historical event. The focus event is the Cuban missile crisis . Students will be given the opportunity to role- play the decision makers of the nations involved in that conflict.
Student Information Map: The Vietnam War
Student Information Sheet: The Space Race: A Reflection of the Cold War
Student Information Sheet: European Recovery After the Second World War.
Student Information Sheet: Japan's Economic Miracle
Student Information Sheet: Eastern Europe and the Czechoslovakian Challenge
Student Information Sheet: Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War
Activity Three
The concept development lesson allows students to investigate the relationship between foreign policy and domestic concerns and opinion. The actions of the United States in Vietnam and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan provide the historic background for this activity.
Student Worksheet: Comparison of Superpower Military Involvement in Specific Regional Conflicts
Activity Four
This concept application activity provides students with an opportunity, using a historical situation, to gain a greater understanding of the concepts of sphere of influence, national sovereignty and foreign intervention. The changing nature of the relationship between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in 1968 and 1989 provides the background for this activity.
Student Information Sheet: The End of Soviet Hegemony in Eastern Europe
Student Information Map: Confederation of Independent States
Student Information Map: The Russian Federation
Student Information Map: C.I.S. - Ukraine
Student Information Map: C.I.S. - The Islamic Republics of Central Asia
Student Information Map: C.I.S. - The Baltic States
Student Information Map: Europe: Political (1993)