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Walton High
School
Ms. Bautista Fina555@aol.com
It is 1960 and the world
is going through a crisis. You are a
member of the Security Council. The
Security Council authorizes military and economic action to settle disputes. This council has 15 members, 5 are permanent
The Soviet Union and the United States are two of the
most powerful countries in the world.
You must convince the United Nations that a there is indeed a
problem. As such, you must present
evidence to convince them. In this
presentation you must be sure to evaluate the policies that have already been
attempted at this point (1960) in
addressing this problem. Then you are
giving your own proposal as to the solution to the problem.
In order to facilitate
this presentation you must create an 8-slide PowerPoint proposal to the United
Nations. For our purpose we will pretend
that such technology existed at this time.
Your PowerPoint presentation must address the Five-step public policy.
You must have a minimum of 8 slides. Be
sure to include illustrations
and/or charts.
In order to fully
prepare yourself for this important endeavor you must complete the 5-step
public policy. Complete the five
worksheets for each of the five steps.
Here
is a list of websites that you can use in your research in your completion of
the five worksheets.
:
U-2
Incident, 1960
Documents and internal links about
this dangerous crisis in
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/u2.htm
Aftermath of the Second World War – map of Europe and Western Soviet Union showing occupying countries, changes in political structure and territory, and emigration, in “Historical Atlas of the 20th Century” private/individual website created by Matthew White:
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/post-ww2.htm
Churchill’s “Iron
Curtain” Speech (1946) (excerpts) on Modern History SourceBook
webpages of
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html
Cold War – CNN website contains information on topics including the Iron Curtain, Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/maps/index.html
The Cold War 1945-1960 – world map showing alignment of countries with either U.S. or Soviet Union, in “Historical Atlas of the 20th Century” private/individual website created by Matthew White:
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/coldwar1.htm
Left to right (Winston
Churchill, Franklin D. Rooselvet, and Stalin)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/yalta.htm
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/coldwar/a1950.htm
1955
Text of the Agreement between
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/intdip/soviet/warsaw.htm
The
Collection of documents, photos, and explanatory material, at the Truman Library website:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/large/berlin_airlift.htm
Truman
Doctrine
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/doctrine/large/doctrine.htm
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/trudoc.htm
The Marshall Plan
Study Collection at the Truman Library website, including folders of linked documents and links to external site information:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/marshall/large/marshall.htm
NATO
The NATO Collection, at the Truman Library website, includes materials on the treaty and early development of NATO:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/nato/large/nato.htm
The Cold War at Home
Extensive links and information about the Cold War period, at home and abroad, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Senator Joseph McCarthy, Blacklisting of actors and entertainers, and spy trials, at the Univ. of Kansas, Virtual Library:
http://www.ku.edu/history/VL/USA/coldwar.html
Containment of Communism
“A Bipolar World” pages at Internet
Modern History Sourcebook website (Professor Paul Halsall,
http://150.108.2.20/halsall/mod/modsbook46.html
Eisenhower—Brief description of his foreign policies, with links, on PBS’ American Experience: “The Presidents” companion website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/nf/record/eisen/eisenfp.html
Eisenhower’s “Aggressive Foreign Policies” described in webpages relating to PBS’ American Experience: “The Presidents”:
http://www.americanpresident.org/kotrain/courses/DE/DE_In_Brief.htm
Hungarian Revolution (against Soviet control), 1956 – Brief description, at OnWar.com webpages of Dupuy Institute:
http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/hotel/hungary1956.htm
NASA website’s Sputnik pages: Description
of how the launch of this first earth-orbiting satellite by the
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik/
Have other policies similar to the one you analyzed
been enacted at other times and in other places in global history? For example,
wars, treaties, and revolutions can be found throughout history. Has the social
problem that you studied taken place elsewhere and resulted in major policy
decisions? Indeed, nations all face similar social problems at various points
in their history and deal with them through a variety of policy solutions. Using the Topics for Developing
Global History Social Problems to help you identify a similar social
problem. Finally, consider the themes related
to your social problem. Do these broad themes apply to somewhat similar social
problems and policies in other periods of global history?
Search Engines:
Evaluation with Rubric:
Your
group will be graded based upon the following rubric.
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Needs Improvement Excellent |
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Research Do your responses to
the worksheet questions to address the problem and evidence of the problem reflect
thorough, careful research? |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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Analysis Process Do your PPA worksheets reflect a well-thought-out analysis of the problem and development of policy? |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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Power Point Presentation Does your Power Point
presentation creatively make a clear presentation to the security
council? In addition does it present
the required information, follow the appropriate procedure, and compel the
audience?
|
1 2 3 4 5 |
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Public Policy Have you formulated effective, feasible public policy in response to the problem? |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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Group Work and Class Presentation Have you conducted
yourselves professionally during class time while doing your research and
while presenting your findings to the class? |
1 2 3 4 5 |
23-25 points A
20-22 points A-
17-20 points B
14-16 points B-
10-13 points C
5-10 points D
0-5 points F
Standards:
Standard
2 World history
Students
will use a
variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major
ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history
from variety of viewpoints.
E1c Reads and comprehends information materials.
E2a Produce a report of information.
E3b Participate in group meetings.
E6a Critique public documents with an eye to strategies common
in public discourse.
E6b Produce public documents.
E7a Critique functional documents with an eye
to strategies common to effective functional documents.
E7b Produce functional documents appropriate to
audience and purpose.
At
the end of this project, you should have accomplished the following:
1.Completed all
five worksheets of the 5-step public policy analysis.
2.Completed a power
point presentation worthy of a United Nations Security Council
presentation.
3.Learned how to
use the Internet and the library as vital sources