Summer Work
2012 -2013
20th Century World History
Welcome!
Congratulations on your decision to be part of the 20th Century World History course for
the 2012 – 2013 school year. This course will be exciting and challenging. I am VERY
much looking forward to working with you next year!
Expectations
As with all HL courses, this class is the equivalent of a college level course. You will be
responsible for following the syllabus that will be provided to you on the first day of class.
You need to take all work seriously and demonstrate the responsibility required for success
in college. This includes completing all assignments, demonstrating effort, adhering to due
dates, and demonstrating academic integrity. The reward for your hard work will include
having an excellent class experience that will prepare you for college as well as having a
challenging course represented on your transcript and gaining knowledge that will serve
you in whatever field of study you choose to follow.
We will be focusing on the Prescribed Subject of Communism in Crisis (1976-89) as well
as Topic 1 – Causes, practices and effects of wars; Topic 3 - Origins and development of
authoritarian and single-party states, and Topic 5 – The Cold War.
Summer Work
To prepare for class, your summer assignment will be to research key terms and read a
great book which provides a good overview of the cold war. Your tasks are:
1.
Please send an email to me at Houpert.jk@easthartford.org which meets the
following criteria. Subject is CIBA 20th Century. In the body of the email, identify: your
name, your strength as a student, a challenge you have as a student, your goal for this class
and your goal for after graduation. Also, please let me know if you have access to the
internet at home. The email is due by June 30, 2012.
2.
Define/describe Key Terms – You must define/describe the terms listed on the
key terms page attached. Complete this vocabulary work before you read the book.
3.
Read The Cold War, A New History by John Lewis Gaddis.
Publishing Information: Penguin Books; 2005.
ISBN: 978-0-14-303827-6 Available at Barnes & Noble or order online at Amazon.com.
Used copies can also be found via cheaptextbooks.com
For each chapter, including the prologue and epilogue, you must read and take notes on
your reading. These notes will be checked on the first day of school. Be sure to take
thorough and meaningful notes; you will be able to use your notes on a test. Identify
questions you have as your read as well. However, your notes should not be a rewrite of
the text! Notes do not have to be typed. They need to be legible! A 3 ring binder or a 5
subject spiral notebook with pockets is strongly recommended.
Historiography: As part of your work, consider the author of this book and conduct a little
research into him. Write a brief description of who he is and how his experiences shape
the way he presents the information. Consider if there is bias in his writing.
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Summer Work
2012 -2013
IMPORTANT!!!
First Day of
School
20th Century World History
Please bring your book and binder/notebook to school with you. It should have your
completed notes and vocabulary terms. I will be checking these for a double homework
grade. I do not accept late homework, so if you do not have this done, you will get a zero.
If you encounter any challenges with this assignment, you must notify me as soon as
possible. Do not wait until the first day of school to tell me your book fell into a lake or
that a summer storm blew out your laptop. I recognize problems happen, but you need to
communicate things in advance- it’s what I expect of a mature, responsible student.
On Friday, August 31, 2012 we will have a test on the reading and the key terms. You
will be able to use your notes for this test.
Questions?
If you have any questions regarding this assignment or about our class, please send me an
email. During the summer I will check email once or twice a week (if not more often!)
Please share my email information with your adults (parents/guardians).
As I mentioned, I am looking forward to being your teacher next year! I am extremely
excited about being part of the CIBA community. My goal is to help you be very
successful in this class as well as to help prepare you for success in college and beyond.
Please make sure to let me know if you have any concerns.
Get ready for a great year!
Mrs. Judi Houpert, CIBA Social Studies Teacher
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Summer Work
2012 -2013
Key Terms,
Phrases and
People
20th Century World History
It is important that we all share a common understanding of key terminology in our studies
of history. To get us started, research these 50 terms and define/describe the term. You
should be comfortable with the different variations of the terms. For example: democracy,
democrat and democratic.
This assignment must be typed. Definitions/descriptions should be appropriate for the
study of communism and the cold war. After you have typed up your list of words and
definitions/descriptions, you should add notations by hand or by typing the
references/significance of the terms when they are used in the Cold War book. (Not all
terms will appear in the Cold War book, although most will.)
NOTE: Sources used for terms must be identified in a Works Cited using MLA format.
Do NOT use wikipedia as a source!
Format for the typing should be as follows:
Term
Definition/Description
1. Bourgeois
2. Brezhnev
3. Capitalism
4. Chain of Command
5. Chernobyl (not the movie!)
6. Cold War
7. Collectivization
8. Commissar
9. Communism
10. Cult of Personality (not the song!)
11. Demokratizatsiya
12. Deng Xioping
13. Détente
14. Economy
15. Gang of Four
16. Gerontocracy
17. Glasnost
18. Gorbachev
19. Great Leap Forward
20. Hua Guofeng
21. Ideologue
22. Infrastructure
23. Khrushchev
24. MAD
25. Mao Zedong
26. Marx
27. Mujahedeen
28. Peace
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29. Peaceful coexistence
30. Perestroika
31. Plenum
32. Politburo
33. Political
34. Political party
35. Pragmatist
36. Presidium
37. Propaganda
38. Revisionist
39. Revolution
40. Samizdat
41. Socialism
42. Solidarity
43. Soviet satellite (state, not in space!)
44. Special Economic Zone
45. Stagnation
46. Stalin
47. Tamizdat
48. Tiananmen Square
49. Treaty
50. Watershed (moment)