John F. Kennedy

Read the first half of chapter 36 - "The Death of John F. Kennedy."  Complete the outline on the student handout that accompanies this lesson.

Answer the following questions:

1) What were three factors that made John F. Kennedy such a popular president?
2) Where did he and Mrs. Kennedy go on November 22, 1963?
3) Who else was with them in their open car?
4) What happened in front of the Texas School Book Depository?
5) Who was sworn in as president?
6) What mythical kingdom was the Kennedy presidency compared to?
7) Waht were three problems that seemed to become more visible after Kennedy's death?
8) Who was arrested for Kennedy's assassination?
9) Where had Oswald lived, for a while?
10) What happened to Oswald when he was being taken to the county jail?
11) What happened to Jack Ruby?
12) Where was President Kennedy buried?

The Congo's Elements / Cuba

Complete the activity on Student Pages 147-149, learning about the natural elements found in the Congo Free State and Zaire.  These two now exist together and are now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Refer back to a map of Africa, either in your World Geography text or from a prior history map, and review its location.

Read "Thirteen Days in October" beginning on page 389.  Read carefully for understanding and learning; I will ask you questions on this lesson in class on Friday.

Chapter 34

Complete the outline on the handout page for "Argentina's President and His Wife."

Then, read "Freedom in the Belgian Congo," and write a summary following the outline for it on the bottom of the same handout page.  Your summary should be about 1 and 1/3 pages long if you single space and 2 and 2/3 pages long if you double space.

The Korean War

Read "The Korean War" beginning on page 367, then answer the following questions.

1) What two countries were "half" communist?
2) What had happened to Korea in 1910?
3) After Japan surrendered, why couldn't the Koreans simply govern themselves again?
4) Where did the United States and the Soviet Union decide to divide Korea?
5) Was this division to be permanent?
6) Why did both countries refuse to move out of Korea?
7) Which country set up the People's Republic of North Korea?
8) Who was its leader?
9) What organization helped the southern part of Korea, the Republic of Korea, hold elections?
10) Was the election of the South Korean president, Syngman Rhee, free and fair?
11) In June 1950, what did North Korean soldiers do?
12) Who had given the North Koreans their weapons?
13) When the United Nations heard that North Korea had invaded South Korea, what did its members agree to do?
14) What two things were the British and American soldiers under General MacArthur's command supposed to do?
15) How far north did the British and Amercian soldiers manage to march?
16) What four countries were soon fighting on Korean land?
17) After three years of war and more than three million deaths, where did the line between North and South Korea end up?

Review chapter 32.  Make sure that you study the order of events as they occurred in South Africa.

Record some favorite quotes, proverbs, sayings, rules, or laws in your "little red book."  Remember to ask your family to help you experience what it would have been like to be required to always have Mao's red book with you at all times, by having them ask you to see it, multiple times in one day.  If you do not have it on your person, then you must perform a task of service to them or a chore of some sort.  Bring your red book back to class on Tuesday and be ready to share how your day of requiring it went.

Two Republics of China

Read the second half of chapter 32 and answer the following questions, then review the first half of the chapter about South Africa.

1) Why had Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang agreed to be allies of the  Chinese Communist Party?
2) Why did Chiang Kai-shek think that communism was more dangerous than the Japanese invaders?
3) After Japan surrendered, did Chiang need the help of the Chinese communists/
4) Why was he afraid of the friendship between the CCP and the Soviet Union?
5) Who had the larger army - the CCP or the Kuomintang?
6) Why wasn't Joseph Stalin anxious to attack the Kuomintang army and take over China?
7) Did Mao and the CCP listen to Stalin's advice and stay friends with the Kuomintang?
8) Why were so many Chinese on the side of Mao and the CCP?
9) Why did Kuomintang soldiers begin to switch sides?
10) What was the Kuomintang capital?
11) What happened when the CCP soldiers, or Red Army, invaded Nanjing?
12) Where did Chiang and his remaining men go?
13) What kind of government did Chiang try to set up in Taiwan?
14) What did he call this country in exile?
15) Meanwhile, what country did the CCP and Mao claim to be governing?
16) What was Mao's title in the People's Republic of China?
17) What were Mao's collected writings called?
18) What was good about Mao's China?
19) In what way was Mao's China harsh and repressive?

The Marshall Plan

Answer the following questions from chapter 31 about the Marshall Plan.  Then review what you have learned from this whole chapter.

1) What did a ration book have in it?
2) Why did life get back to "normal" in America quickly, after 1945?
3) What does the secretary of state do?
4)What did George Marshall want the U.S. to do, to help the countries of Europe rebuild?
5) Why did Joseph Stalin refuse to take the money?
6) Why did the government make movies about the Marshall Plan?
7) Why did Germany get some of the money?
8) What did America, France, and England want Germany to become?
9) What did the Soviet Union want Germany to become?
10) What happened to Germany?
11) Which half was the communist half?
12) What did more and more East Germans do?
13) What did the East German government do to Berlin?
14) What was the wall supposed to do?

The Partitioning of Palestine

Complete the second lesson of chapter 30 and write a summary for it using the Outline on the student page handout you received in class.