IB HOTA Year 1-P.5 Assignments
- Instructor
- Calen Rau
- Term
- 2024-2025 School Year
- Department
- Social Science
- Description
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Upcoming Assignments
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IA Core Text Assignment
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Past Assignments
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IA Core Text Form
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IA Topic Form
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DQs: Chang, The Nanjing Massacre
(On a separate document) Answer the following completely in academic language and complete sentences
based on Chang, The Rape of Nanking, Ch. 6 +10. Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length. Since this is a much longer reading, responses will count for homework points.
1) How did the residents of Nanking react as the Japanese army approached their city in 1937? (Ch.6)
2) What did Tang Shunsan witness on the streets of Nanking? How did he escape death during the “Killing Contest?” (Ch.6)
3) How did the Japanese humiliate and torture civilians in Nanking during the Nanking Massacre? (Ch. 6)
4) What are the estimates of the number of killed during the Nanking Massacre? Why do you think these estimates vary so much? (Ch. 6)
5) According to Chang, why are the crimes of the Japanese during WWII understood so much less than the crimes of Nazis? (Ch.10)
6) How did Japanese textbooks portray the Nanking Massacre? What challenges faced Saburo Ienaga and other reformed-minded Japanese in changing them? (Ch. 10)
7) What does Chang mean by “self-censorship?” How have Japanese citizens self-censored since WWII? (Ch. 10)
8) What dangers have those who have acknowledged Japanese crimes in China faced since WWII? (Ch. 10)
9) After reading Chang’s work, do you think her mission is valuable? Is it important to know detailed, even graphic accounts of atrocities? Or, should the worst violence of the past be left undiscussed?
based on Chang, The Rape of Nanking, Ch. 6 +10. Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length. Since this is a much longer reading, responses will count for homework points.
1) How did the residents of Nanking react as the Japanese army approached their city in 1937? (Ch.6)
2) What did Tang Shunsan witness on the streets of Nanking? How did he escape death during the “Killing Contest?” (Ch.6)
3) How did the Japanese humiliate and torture civilians in Nanking during the Nanking Massacre? (Ch. 6)
4) What are the estimates of the number of killed during the Nanking Massacre? Why do you think these estimates vary so much? (Ch. 6)
5) According to Chang, why are the crimes of the Japanese during WWII understood so much less than the crimes of Nazis? (Ch.10)
6) How did Japanese textbooks portray the Nanking Massacre? What challenges faced Saburo Ienaga and other reformed-minded Japanese in changing them? (Ch. 10)
7) What does Chang mean by “self-censorship?” How have Japanese citizens self-censored since WWII? (Ch. 10)
8) What dangers have those who have acknowledged Japanese crimes in China faced since WWII? (Ch. 10)
9) After reading Chang’s work, do you think her mission is valuable? Is it important to know detailed, even graphic accounts of atrocities? Or, should the worst violence of the past be left undiscussed?
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DQs: Ienaga
(On a separate document) Answer the following completely in academic language and complete sentences
based on Ienaga, Japan's Last War, "Thought Control and Indoctrination," pg.13-32. Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) How did the Japanese regime that formed during the Meiji Restoration undermine intellectual freedoms? How did this impact Japan’s long term development?
2) What does Ienaga mean when he asserts an “intellectual vacuum” (pg. 15) existed in Japan? Who filled it?
3) How did the Japanese government control the educational system? How was this used as a tool of radical nationalism?
4) Why were most Japanese unable to overcome the indoctrination of their education after leaving school?
5) The Japanese government found the uneducated and highly university educated were the most rebellious. The “middle” was the best for their designs. How can we explain this?
based on Ienaga, Japan's Last War, "Thought Control and Indoctrination," pg.13-32. Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) How did the Japanese regime that formed during the Meiji Restoration undermine intellectual freedoms? How did this impact Japan’s long term development?
2) What does Ienaga mean when he asserts an “intellectual vacuum” (pg. 15) existed in Japan? Who filled it?
3) How did the Japanese government control the educational system? How was this used as a tool of radical nationalism?
4) Why were most Japanese unable to overcome the indoctrination of their education after leaving school?
5) The Japanese government found the uneducated and highly university educated were the most rebellious. The “middle” was the best for their designs. How can we explain this?
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DQs: Appeasement
(On a separate document) Answer the following completely in academic language and complete sentences
based on Williamson, International History, 1870-1945, pg.153-156. Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) Based on this reading, what was appeasement?
2) How did economic and military considerations impact British/French appeasement policy?
3) How did changing relations with the USSR impact impact British/French appeasement policy?
4) What were the major acts of appeasement from 1936-38? How did each “appease” Nazi Germany?
5) What is your take on appeasement? Was this a foolish policy that was pursued by the British and French that should have been avoided? Or is there merit to appeasement?
based on Williamson, International History, 1870-1945, pg.153-156. Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) Based on this reading, what was appeasement?
2) How did economic and military considerations impact British/French appeasement policy?
3) How did changing relations with the USSR impact impact British/French appeasement policy?
4) What were the major acts of appeasement from 1936-38? How did each “appease” Nazi Germany?
5) What is your take on appeasement? Was this a foolish policy that was pursued by the British and French that should have been avoided? Or is there merit to appeasement?
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DQs: The Spanish Civil War
(On a separate document) Answer the following completely in academic language and complete sentences
based on Rau, "The Weimar Republic, 1917-33." Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) Why did the Spanish Civil War break out? Consider short and long-term causes.
2) What were the two factions of the Spanish Civil War? What groups supported them?
3) Why did Francisco Franco and the Nationalists prevail in the Spanish Civil War?
4) How were foreign countries involved in the Spanish Civil War? What were their impacts on the outcome?
5) What is the significance of the Spanish Civil War to understanding international relations in the 1930s?
based on Rau, "The Weimar Republic, 1917-33." Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) Why did the Spanish Civil War break out? Consider short and long-term causes.
2) What were the two factions of the Spanish Civil War? What groups supported them?
3) Why did Francisco Franco and the Nationalists prevail in the Spanish Civil War?
4) How were foreign countries involved in the Spanish Civil War? What were their impacts on the outcome?
5) What is the significance of the Spanish Civil War to understanding international relations in the 1930s?
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4.5 DQs: Hitler's Domestic Policies
(On a separate document) Answer the following completely in academic language and complete sentences
based on Lynch, Authoritarian States (Textbook). Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
This will go into the homework category :) Questions are attached below.
based on Lynch, Authoritarian States (Textbook). Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
This will go into the homework category :) Questions are attached below.
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DQs: Payne, "Fascism: A Working Definition"
(On a separate document) Answer the following completely in academic language and complete sentences
based on Payne, "Fascism: A Working Definition." Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) Why is fascism such a difficult concept to define?
2) How have other historians attempted to define fascism?
3) What is Payne's definition of fascism?
4) What is the relationship between fascism and gender?
5) After reading this, using your own words, what is fascism?
based on Payne, "Fascism: A Working Definition." Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) Why is fascism such a difficult concept to define?
2) How have other historians attempted to define fascism?
3) What is Payne's definition of fascism?
4) What is the relationship between fascism and gender?
5) After reading this, using your own words, what is fascism?
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DQs: The Weimar Republic, 1917-33
(On a separate document) Answer the following completely in academic language and complete sentences
based on Rau, "The Weimar Republic, 1917-33." Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1)What, to the best of your understanding, is the Weimar Republic?
2) What challenges face the Weimar Republic facing the end of World War I? Which of them do you think most impacted its ultimate collapse?
3) How did the Weimar Constitution of 1919 set Germany up for Nazi takeover in 1933?
4) What was the “Golden Twenties?” How and why did culture and intellectualism bloom during this period?
5) What is your assessment of the Weimar Republic after this reading? What were its successes and failures?
based on Rau, "The Weimar Republic, 1917-33." Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1)What, to the best of your understanding, is the Weimar Republic?
2) What challenges face the Weimar Republic facing the end of World War I? Which of them do you think most impacted its ultimate collapse?
3) How did the Weimar Constitution of 1919 set Germany up for Nazi takeover in 1933?
4) What was the “Golden Twenties?” How and why did culture and intellectualism bloom during this period?
5) What is your assessment of the Weimar Republic after this reading? What were its successes and failures?
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Precis #1: Daniels, "Was Stalin Really a Communist?"
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DQs: Drakulic, "Make-up and other crucial questions"
(On a separate document) Answer the following completely in academic language and complete sentences
based on Drakulic, "Make-up and other crucial questions." Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) According to Drakulic, how were women’s “luxury goods” controlled by the state?
2) How did women find ways to get around bans on consumer goods?
3) Drakulic asserts it was harder to be a woman than a man in the USSR and its satellite states. On what grounds does she argue this?
4) How does Drakulic’s essay complicate the ways in which you think about gender equality? Do you think she would suggest gender equality existed in communist states?
based on Drakulic, "Make-up and other crucial questions." Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) According to Drakulic, how were women’s “luxury goods” controlled by the state?
2) How did women find ways to get around bans on consumer goods?
3) Drakulic asserts it was harder to be a woman than a man in the USSR and its satellite states. On what grounds does she argue this?
4) How does Drakulic’s essay complicate the ways in which you think about gender equality? Do you think she would suggest gender equality existed in communist states?
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OPCVL #3: Stalin & the Purges
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DQs: The Russian Revolution
(On a separate document) Answer the following questions completely in academic language and complete sentences based on Lenin's "April Theses" (1917) and "A Plea to Maintain the Russian War Effort" (1917). Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length. These should be completed in class.
1) In your own words, what do you think Lenin is advocating in the “April Theses?” How should the Russian communists proceed?
2)Based on the “April Theses” how ready does Lenin think that Russia is for a Marxist revolutionary movement?
3) Why does the Russian Council of Workmen and Soldiers argue that Russian soldiers should continue to fight? How do their perspectives differ from those of Lenin and the communists?
4) Which of these two 1917 appeals to the Russian people (Lenin’s April Theses or the “Please to Maintain the Russian War Effort”) would have been more persuasive? Why do you think this?
1) In your own words, what do you think Lenin is advocating in the “April Theses?” How should the Russian communists proceed?
2)Based on the “April Theses” how ready does Lenin think that Russia is for a Marxist revolutionary movement?
3) Why does the Russian Council of Workmen and Soldiers argue that Russian soldiers should continue to fight? How do their perspectives differ from those of Lenin and the communists?
4) Which of these two 1917 appeals to the Russian people (Lenin’s April Theses or the “Please to Maintain the Russian War Effort”) would have been more persuasive? Why do you think this?
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OPCVL Analysis #2 Hitler, "The Great War" (1925)
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DQs: Weapons and Tactics of Word War I
(On a separate document) Answer the following completely in academic language and complete sentences
based on Rau, "Weapons and Tactics of World War I." Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) How was land warfare in World War I shaped by new technological advances?
2) How did air warfare and naval warfare impact the course of World War I?
3) What resources did belligerent nations need to manage during World War I? Why was resource management considered so important to the outcome of the war?
4) After reading this overview, how might the type of warfare in World War I (land, sea, and air) impacted soldiers psychologically and emotionally?
based on Rau, "Weapons and Tactics of World War I." Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) How was land warfare in World War I shaped by new technological advances?
2) How did air warfare and naval warfare impact the course of World War I?
3) What resources did belligerent nations need to manage during World War I? Why was resource management considered so important to the outcome of the war?
4) After reading this overview, how might the type of warfare in World War I (land, sea, and air) impacted soldiers psychologically and emotionally?
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DQs: Imperialism and World War I
(On a separate document) Answer the following questions completely in academic language and complete sentences based on Wesseling's "Imperialism & the Roots of the Great War" (2005). Answers should be ~1 solid paragraph in length.
1) What is Wesseling's argument (thesis) in this article?
2) What were the costs of the wars of imperialism in Asia and Africa? Why are numbers difficult to calculate?
3) The wars of imperialism were often referred to as "pacification" not "war." (p. 104) How did European nation "pacify" their colonial subjects?
4) How did ideology impact European behavior in the colonies?
5) How did imperialism influence World War I? What is the connection between the two?
1) What is Wesseling's argument (thesis) in this article?
2) What were the costs of the wars of imperialism in Asia and Africa? Why are numbers difficult to calculate?
3) The wars of imperialism were often referred to as "pacification" not "war." (p. 104) How did European nation "pacify" their colonial subjects?
4) How did ideology impact European behavior in the colonies?
5) How did imperialism influence World War I? What is the connection between the two?
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OPCVL Analysis #1: Russia-Ukraine War (2023)
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Getting to Know You Assignment
Please complete the questions listed below in complete sentences - be as detailed as possible :)