IB History

Excellent links, resources and activities for Europe

Introduction Discussion Questions Biographical Information

Europe Germany 1989

WWII

Imperialism British

Imperialism

Dr Peter J Edwards Lectures and transcripts on Germany and World War II Hitler's Victories 1939-41 Stalingrad and Beyond, 1942-43 Fall of the Third Reich, 1944-45

Communism Eastern Europe Czech

Red October and Bolshevik Coup 1917 Trotsky Lenin Zinoviev

WWI Revision activities, resources, games and interactive diagrams and quizzes

Multiple interpretations based on ideology

Simulation of Revolution 1917 Bolsheviks Nicholas II characters interpretation and analysis of events

Russian Revolution online resources

Russia Links, background and short references

IB History 20th Century Russia, WWI, Cold War, Vietnam Bismarck, European Union, Spanish Civil War, Hitler, Stalin

Propaganda Posters: Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy

"http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/42.2/fallace.html From The History Teacher Vol. 42, Issue 2. Viewed February 1, 2010 2:50 EST Presented online in association with the History Cooperative. http://www.historycooperative.org Historiography and Teacher Education: Reflections on an Experimental Course Thomas D. Fallace University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia IN RECENT YEARS, professional historians have encouraged policy makers to increase content requirements in history in hopes of improving the overall teaching of history in American schools. Support for such proposals has come from many sources. The origins of this movement can be traced to the 1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education's Nation at Risk report, which declared that the ignorance of American youth was at a crisis level. E. D. Hirsch reiterated this concern in his best-selling Cultural Literacy, in which he also decried the lack of content knowledge of American students. Further studies, such as Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn's What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? and the Bradley Commission's Historical Literacy, argued that students were particularly deficient in historical knowledge. As a result, in the 1990s, many historians and policy makers endorsed a strengthening of history teacher requirements and the addition of expanded required historical content in the curriculum.1 1 In the 1980s and 1990s, new advances in cognitive and learning theory also supported increased disciplinary knowledge for teachers. In 1987, Lee Shulman's influential article, "Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of a New Reform," introduced the concept of pedagogical content knowledge-"a special amalgam of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers, their own special form of professional understanding."2 Shulman argued that effective history teachers draw upon techniques and understandings unique to the discipline, not upon a generic set of instructional tools t

Lectures by history prof on German Unification, WWI

Amy- this looks like a good resource for both of us.

The Cambridge History of Russia

World War I: Primary Documents & Resources Path to War The War Resistance to War