As you may be aware, regular classes will not be in session during Regents Week. We will not be meeting again until next Tuesday. However, please note that this is NOT A VACATION! Rather, you are expected, and required to keep up with your work, and complete all of your assignments.
Here are your assignments for the week. Keep in mind that you're not expected to do all of this in one day. This is about one week's worth of work. Assignments 1-3 are due when we return on the 3rd. Assignment 4 is due on Friday the 6th
1. Read, and outline pp. 71 and 72 in the BLUE review book.
2. CLICK and Take notes:
WORLD WAR I
US ENTRY INTO WWI
2. CLICK on the links below, and listen to the lectures. It's probably a good idea for you to take notes on the lectures. Click on the link for "printable version," and you can have a copy of the information in the lecture.
US ENTRY INTO WWI
PEACE CONFERENCES
3. Complete the List of Vocab Terms below.
Central Powers
Allied Powers
Espionage Act
Neutrality
Propaganda
Zimmerman telegram
Sedition Act
Red Scare
Palmer raids
Schenck v. United States
George Creel
Lusitania
Bolsheviks
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
Big Four
U-boats
National War Labor Board
Treaty of Versailles
4. Complete the World War I Mini-Project. This Mini-Project is due on Friday February 6th. NO EXCUSES!
5. We will have an exam sometime during the week of FEBRUARY 9th. Click here for the study guide. More details will folllow.
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Central Powers—the term used to describe the wartime alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary against the Allies.
Allied Powers—The Allies of World War II were the countries officially opposed to the Axis powers during the Second World War.
Espionage Act— a United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I, on June 15, 1917, which made it a crime for a person to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies. This was punishable by death or by imprisonment for not more than 30 years. also, to convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies and whoever when the United States is at war
Neutrality—not taking anyones side
Propaganda— the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people.
Zimmerman telegram— a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador in the United States of America, Johann von Bernstorff, at the height of World War I.
Sedition Act— an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917 passed at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, who was concerned that dissent, in time of war, was a significant threat to morale.
Red Scare— a period of general fear of communists
Palmer raids— a series of controversial raids by the United States Department of Justice and Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1919 to 1921 on suspected radical leftist citizens and immigrants in the United States, the legality of which is now in question.
Schenck v. United States— a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the question of whether the defendant possessed a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I.
George Creel— an investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
Lusitania— a British luxury ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland, torpedoed by a German U-boat in May 1915
Bolsheviks— The 28 Bolsheviks were a group of Chinese students who studied at the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University from the late 1920s until early 1935. The university was founded in 1925 as a result of Kuomintang's founder Sun Yat-Sen's policy of alliance with the Soviet Union, and was named after him.
Fourteen Points— The Fourteen Points were listed in a speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the World War I was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.
League of Nations— an above the state organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919–1920.
Henry Cabot Lodge— American statesman, a Republican politician, and a noted historian.
Big Four— the Allied leaders who met at the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, after World War I
U-boats—German submarines
National War Labor Board— In 1918 President Woodrow Wilson created the National War Labor Board (NWLB) which was an agency composed of representatives from business and labor
Treaty of Versailles— The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I.
meagan betances
is this all do by the time we come back??!! do you think all we do is hang out and waiste time??!! i am booked and this is over doing it mr t ...
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