7. Diplomacy and War
War and Diplomacy: 1796-2000
March- April 2012
Another way to define who we are as Americans is to look at what face we turn to the rest of the world. How does the United States relate to other countries and how has this changed over time? Our government has swung from interventionist to isolationist over the past 200 years. You will analyze how United States foreign policy has changed militarily, politically, and economically in times of war and in times of peace, and how it has defined the American identity.
During this unit you must listen to one podcast on diplomacy in the 20th century from the Gilder Lehrman Institute. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/podcasts/
After you listen, write a blog on this page which 1. Names the lecture and the historian, 2. Tells what 3 key pieces of information for others to know, 3. recommends the lecture to others (what can fellow students learn?)
4/13 Research paper due NO LATE PAPERS!!!
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2011/02_young_leaders_singer.aspx
| 3/12 | Washington; American Foreign Interventions | Monroe Doctrine, 216-7, chapter 20 “The Imperial Republic,”534-541];Annotated Bibliography Due | |
| 3/13 | American Imperialism; SPAM War |
War With Spain, 541-9, | |
| 3/14 | SPAM War | The Republic as Empire, 549-555 |
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| 3/15 | WW I |
“America and the Great War, 602-608 Dr. Wilson on field trip World War I<iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/FIVVfJUFlwk” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> |
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| 3/16 | WW I | 608-18 War Without Stint; Search for a New World Order |
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| 3/19 | WW I | Work on rough draft (Dr Wilson on Field trip)Work on Documents | |
| 3/20 | Palmer Raids |
A Society in Turmoil, 618-25, Complete rough draft due |
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| 3/22 | EXAM – DBQ and MC | ||
| 3/22 | Between the Wars America and the Holocaust | The Global Crisis 702-12 | |
| 3/23 | WW II America and the Holocaust | From Neutrality to Intervention, 712-7; | |
| 3/26 | WW IIhttp://archive.org/details/Japanese1943 | Chapter 28 “ America in a World at War, 720-6; Blog 4 “Was the ‘Relocation of Japanese-Americans Defensible?” 105-108 | |
| 3/27 | WW II | American Economy in Wartime, 727-32 and Race and Gender in Wartime America, 732-8 | |
| 3/28 | WW II | Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture, Defeat of the Axis, 738-49 | |
| 3/29 | Cold War |
Origins of the Cold War, 750-5; |
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| 3/30 | Cold War | Chapter 29 “The Cold War, 756-67; Kezirian, “Who Started the Cold War?” 113-6; | |
| 4/2 | Cold War |
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| 4/3 | Cold War | “Eisenhower, Dulles and the Cold War,” 805-9; | |
| 4/4 | Vietnam War |
What is communism?http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/communism | |
| 4/5 | http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/communis.htm |
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| 4/6 | vietnamphotos | “Flexible Response and the Cold War and Vietnam,” 824-831; []; “Did Kennedy Precipitate the Nuclear Confrontation over Cuba?” 139-42; Blog 6 Kezirian, “Was U.S. Involvement in Vietnam a Success or a Failure:” 147-150 | |
| 4/9 | “Nixon, Kissinger and the War and the World,” 860-6; ; blog 7 “Uncertain Greatness? Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy,” 159-62. | ||
| 4/10 | Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev on the end of the Cold War | “Carter on Human Rights and National Interests,” 882-3, “Reagan and the World,” 895-6; America and the Waning of the Cold War, 897-907; | |
| 4/11 | Persian Gulf War, Iraqi War | Globalization 923 – 4; The Perils of Globalization, 941-7 | |
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| 4/12 | Research Paper | ||
| 4/13 | 2011SYL | ||
| 4/13 | Research Paper due – no late papers |
