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AP 24.968 Middle East – The Balfour Declaration
CAVEAT – Like many aspects of history, different historical sources provide different and often opposing view points. Use SOAPSTONE to analysis primary and secondary sources.
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AP 24.966 100 years in 70 seconds – Turkey (Nihan)
100 years of beauty in 70 seconds Continue reading Post ID 1680
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AP 24.964 End of WWI – WWI Ghosts from the past can still be seen today
“The Great War” – The War to end all Wars
The numbers reveal the horror of the Great War: Sixty-five million soldiers fought. Nine million killed in combat. Nearly 20 million wounded. 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, the conflict that reshaped Europe, redefined international power structures, introduced the U.S. as a global superpower and fundamentally changed the role government played in people’s everyday lives.
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AP 24.959 End of WWI – Faces of War
Reconstruction of destroyed facesWounded tommies (soldiers) facetiously called it “The Tin Noses Shop.” Located within the 3rd London General Hospital, its proper name was the “Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department”.
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AP 24.958 End of WWI – The Last Veterans of WWI (4 profiles)
“War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings”
Remembering forgotten veterans of World War I
The last surviving verified veteran of World War I per country
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AP 24.957 End of WWI – The Fall of Empires (x4)
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AP 24.949 China – Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (born October 31, 1887, Chekiang province, China—died April 5, 1975, Taipei, Taiwan), soldier and statesman, head of the Nationalist government in China from 1928 to 1949, and subsequently head of the Chinese Nationalist government in exile on Taiwan.
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AP 24.948 China – Sun Yat Sen
Sun Yat-sen is known as the ‘father of modern China’. He spent his adult life fighting against imperial China and the ruling Qing dynasty.
First as revolutionary leader and later as politician. His military and political work laid the groundwork from which his successors would later call out the People’s Republic of China.
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AP 24.947 Target Vocabulary for 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6
7.4
1. STOCK MARKET CRASH 2. GREAT DEPRESSION 3. NEW DEAL 4. KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS 5. 5 YEAR PLAN
6. COLLECTIVE FARMING 7. HOLODOMOR. 8. FASCIST CORPORATIST ECONOMY7.5
1. LEAGUE OF NATIONS 2. MANDATES 3. MANCHUKUO 4. CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE 5. INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
6. BALFOUR DECLARATION 7. RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR 8. CHINESE CIVIL WAR 9. FASCISM 10. NAZI GERMANY7.6
1. TOTALITARIANISM 2. MILITARISM 3. TREATY OF VERSAILLES 4. MUNICH AGREEMENT 5. APPEASEMENT
6. SPANISH CIVIL WAR 7. LEAGUE OF NATIONS 8. INVASIONS OF POLAND 9. SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR 10. SECOND ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR
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AP 24.939 WWI Warrior – Sergeant Henry Lincoln Johnson
“He got wounded 21 times and what he did was stop the Germans from getting through the French line,” Herman Johnson (son of Henry Johnson)
Sgt. Henry Johnson was the first American soldier in World War I to receive the Croix de Guerre with star and Gold Palm from the French government.…
But wait a second: wasn’t he an American solider?
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AP 24.938 WWI Warrior – Alvin C. York
“We were deep in the brush and we couldn’t see the Germans and they couldn’t see us. But we could hear their machine guns shooting something awful.”
He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others.
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AP 24.937 100 years in 70 seconds – USA (Marshay)
100 years of beauty in 70 seconds
Time lapse of models getting their hair and makeup done to match every decade from 1910 to 2010. Continue reading Post ID 1680
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AP 24.936 Freeman-pedia: Dozendates Review 1917
You DO NOT have to know any dates for AP World Modern. BUT, Ben Freeman would argue knowing certain major events can give you an idea of the major themes and flow of the course.
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AP 24.932 WWI – Music Video (Silencio by Carlos Gardel)
Homage to the French soldiers of WWI.
Carlos Gardel
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AP 24.924 WWI – Trench Assault
CAVEAT – Although this post contains scenes that show cinematic interpretation of a battle, the content may be intense for some viewers.
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