~Contemporary International Relations~
Military Intervention and the International System



              Assignments for April 28-May 3, 2011

Law 1: 'Democratic Peace' - Democracies do not go
to war with each other.







Monday





Go back to Conflict Avoidance
Tuesday
26

Wednesday    
27

Thursday
28

Friday
29



Skip ahead to TERRORISM Unit!

April 25

Last Day of Spring Break!

26
CONCLUSION:
FILM
: Missiles of October
Analyze how President Kennedy and Premier Khruschchev worked the crisis to avoid a nuclear World War III

Missiles of October
Assignment - click here!


Consider the role of 'face' in these negotiations.


27

TEST: Conflict Avoidance


Map Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988
 
 
28
UNIT V:
Begin Military Intervention & the Internat'l System

  • Causes of Conflict
  • Types of wars
  • Just War Doctrine
  • Conventional Forces
  • Saddam and his Ba'ath Party (from text)



29
The Persian Gulf War
"A Line in the Sand"

Library Computer Lab (If we can get in!)
Web-Research project on the Persian Gulf War

PBS: Frontline- the Gulf War 







Homework:
Study for test on Wednesday.
Get back into the swing of it!!
Homework:
Study for test!

Homework:





Homework:
Review pages 148-160 in your textbook.  Do a little bit each night..




Homework:
Complete for homework
Web-Research project on the Persian Gulf War- Due FRIDAY

Web-Research project- due Friday.
MAY 2
(AP Psych Exam! Good luck Chris and Niki!)

A Line in the Sand - Persian Gulf War

Complete
The Iraq War - Stories from the Front -
"3 ID"




3
QUIZ:
Causes of Conflict, 
Types of War,  Just War Doctrine, conventional forces, Saddam and his Ba'ath Party  (from text)
The War in Iraq- (2003-2011)
  • UN Resolutions
  • "Regime change"
  • WMD lost and found


4
Operation Iraqi Freedom

  • UN Resolutions
  • General Franks
  • “Shock and Awe”
  • 2007- The "Surge"

5
Op. Iraqi Freedom

Take notes.
6
Webquest due today!
Film: Sometimes in April

HOMEWORK:
Complete for homework
Web-Research project on the Persian Gulf War- Due FRIDAY
HOMEWORK:
Complete webquest!
Review pages 148-160 in your textbook
HOMEWORK:
Review pages 148-160 in your text.
HOMEWORK:
Webquest due tomorrow!
HOMEWORK:
Review pages 148-160 in your textbook
Download Review Sheet FOR TEST here!

9
Continue Sometimes in April

10
Complete film.  Review for test.
11
Catch up and Review for Test!

12
TEST ON MILITARY INTERVENTION

13
Begin Unit VII on TERRORISM

KEEP A JOURNAL- IT IS YOUR FINAL PROJECT FOR THIS UNIT!

HOMEWORK:
Complete daily study guide questions.
HOMEWORK:
Review for test.
HOMEWORK:
Download Review Sheet Military Intervention Test here!
HOMEWORK:
NONE!!!
HOMEWORK:



                     Educational Links       


IR Textbook site
Understanding Conflict and War
Causes of WWI
War and Religion
The Philosophy of War
Principles of a Just War
Coalition Govt Experience with Public Security in Iraq

UNMIS - UN Mission in Sudan
Global Forum Policy- Peacekeeping
Active UN Peacekeeping Missions
Negotiation Tactics
The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention
The Clinton Global Initiative
Remembering Pearl Harbor
Video: The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Audio: FDR Asks Congress for a declaration of war

The Berlin Airlift
FRONTLINE: Kim’s Nuclear Gamble 
Iran-Iraq War
Why biological weapons present the greatest danger
Chemical and Biological weapons- Could it happen here?
Conflict Resolution
UN Peacekeeping Missions

Peacekeeping Best Practices

3 Days
Arms Control Agreements
AtomicArchives - Arms Control Treaties
India and Pakistan- Can NRRC's help strengthen the
peace?

 
The Persian Gulf War 1990-1991                      
Frontline- the Gulf War 
History of the War in Kosovo     
Frontline- war in Europe
BBC- Flashback: War over Kosovo
US Institute of Peace - Iraq
Coalition Gov't Experience with Governance in Iraq    

The Cuban Missile Crisis
Missiles of October Assignment Sheet

Audio Files From the Oval Office During the Cuban Missile Cri
sis
Avalon Project- Primary Sources from the Cuban Missile Crisis

Frontline: Russian Roulette

Frontline: Loose Nukes

History Channel – Dean Rusk on nuclear proliferation
History Channel – Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF nuclear arms treaty
History Channel – The Atomic Bombs - Fat Man and Little Boy
  History Channel  - Nuclear Test 1955
History Channel – Most ICBMs

History Channel: President Carter on Human Rights and nuclear arms races
  Ame
rica's Anthrax Outbreak of 2001-->
The Camp David Accords
Kosovo: A frozen-conflict zone
    




TENTATIVE TEST SCHEDULE
2011 (adjusted)


Unit 4 Conflict Avoidance: April 27, 2011
Unit 5: Military Intervention: May 12, 2011

Unit 7 Test Terrorism: June 3, 2011

Unit 6: Conflict Resolution and Post-conflict Reconstruction: As Part of the Final Examination




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