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This semester in Honors World History we will focus on three major events: the Great Depression, World War II and the Holocaust, and the Cold War. We will spend a significant amount of time on each event and study them from a global or multiple perpsective. You will also be taking the practice Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) which will help to prepare you for the actual test next spring. Below is a tentative schedule for the second semester.

January- We will focus on post World War I problems that led to a worldwide depression and the Great Depression in the United States.

February- Classtime will be spent studying 20th century conflict, specifically World War II. We will analyze the causes of including appeasement, Axis expansion, and the role of the Allies. Also, we examine important atrocities aimed at innocent civilians of the war including the Holocaust and the dropping of the atomic bomb. We will also watch the movie Schindler's List, the story of a German industrialist and Nazi Party member who saves the lives of almost 2,000 of his Jewish workers.

March- We will focus on preparing for the Ohio Graduation Test. You will not need your textbooks on class but bring your notebooks everyday. You will be given sample practice OGT questions and packets to review. You may also go to the Ohio Department of Education's website and click on OGT Tests to pull up old OGT tests. The ODE allows you to print these out to practice at home. Many of you also have passwords to Study Island which is also a wonderful resource to practice questions. At the end of March, students will study postwar Europe, specifically prewar differences that had divided European democracies from the communist Soviet Union. The chapter will focus on the economic and political conditions in Europe and North America in the decades following World War II.

April- Throughout the month, students will study the postwar political realities that encouraged independence movements in Asia and Africa. Some of the main events we will focus on will be armed conflicts in Vietnam and Korea, changes in China and Japan and the determination of African leaders to break free from European colonial powers and domination.

May- Finally, we will end the year studying the creation of Israel, the fight to end Apartheid in South Africa and tensions that quickly escalated in the Middle East. If time allows, we will end the semester with Chapter 25 with the attempts made by Latin America to establish economic and political stabilty.