I already miss this class.

Outline for tomorrow?

I don't think anyone checks this anymore. But do we still have to do an outline for tomorrow's question?

AP MOCK RESCHEDULE

THE AP MOCK EXAM HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, APRIL 14TH.

YOU MUST BE AT SCHOOL ABSOLUTELY NO LATER THAN 7:30.

AP Review Assignment

Ms Chipman,
Clarification for the AP review powerpoint: the due date says April 9th 2007. Is this a typo. Also, the meetings that were schduled, are/were they to be conducted before or after spring break?

Thanks, and I apoligise if you already pointed this out during class,
Sim

ASSIGNMENT FOR MONDAY MARCH 24TH AND 25TH

I will be out the first two days back from spring break. You still need to print out and bring to class the docs for those days on the calendar. In class, you should discuss and OPVL the docs. OPVLs should be done independently.

Both of these documents are great for getting insight into the Cold War, and will be foundational for our discussion of this time period. Pay close attention to them.

We will watch Atomic Cafe when I come back.


Be focused while I'm gone--tick, tick, tick goes that AP clock.

Happy break!

Today's Test

I know that today's test question was a particularly difficult one, and I am glad you guys all buckled down and just did your best.

If you would like to write a timed essay on one of the other two questions for extra credit you can. Here are the guidelines:

1) It must be done in my presence, so before school, after school or on your lunch.

2) It must be done by next Friday (which means you will have to decide BEFORE you get your grade on the essay you took today).

3) You may choose which of the other two essays you would like to write.

4) I will enter the second essay as another score out of 100 points into your grade rather than add points directly into your current grade.

Wilson's Fourteen Points

Wilson proposal to make international interaction more peaceful and productive was much easier said than done. Countries just getting out a war of that magnitude were not going to be too willing to cooperate with the people they were just trying to destroy. Most, if not all of Wilson's points could not be achieved without the mutual cooperation of all the powers. During the time period Communism started to gain momentum and the European nations were distrustful of foreign intervention in their countries. Wilson seemed to have to give up all his points so that he could build up the League of Nations. The League of Nations was supposed to do what it could to prevent war but because it was made up of powers that all wanted parts of the same land, it could not be neutral towards the Axis-powers. To achieve world peace Wilson would have had to have the backup and consent of the more powerful nations and because he did not his ideas for creating world peace were not realistic.

Wilson's 14

Wilson's fourteen points after World War I were completely unrealistic and out of the question to almost all of the other countries that took part in the war. They may have been the best solution to keeping the nations out of any future wars, but at the time, these demands were hard to grasp by the nations much more devastated by the Great War. France was bent on receiving its reperations from Germany so as to pay for the damage caused by war on its own soil. Britain was against any admittance of freedom of seas because it hoped to retain its tion of the seas after thge demise of the German Unterseeboats (U-boats). Most importantly, Wilson's last point, the creation of the League of Nations, was inaccessible at the time due to the stubbornness of the nations as well as the very few world powers at the time. A small group of countries in the League of Nations would have created a sort of international empire prone to destroying the growth of threatening nations.

Wilson's Fourteen Points: Realistic or Not?

Wilson’s fourteen points are somewhat realistic for creating world peace because in order to achieve such a state there needs to be cooperation and dependence throughout the world but the different ideological differences would drive the countries apart. Wilson proposes the fact of establishing the freedom of trade which would connect all the countries in the world together and there would not be any need for attacking a fellow country. By having equal trade, there would be no alliances between countries and there would be more cooperation between countries. His principles of self determination, however, would only cause more disagreements between countries because the same ideologies of democracy, for example, would not be present everywhere. Different type of government would mean different policies about trade and development, which can cause other countries great disconcert. The hunger for power and world domination could of course also stand in the way of peace.

follow-up on the controversy

are we allowed to use our outlines for the essay test tomorrow? or are we supposed to study all three of them for a random question you picked out?

Wilson

Wilsons points were optimistically unrealistic. He tried being kind to a country that he and the allies had just beat the crap out of. Nice. And he gives them territory French territory. He really ended up annoying the allies and doing the Germans a favour. Maybe he was a spy.
I suppose it was a bit of a lose-lose situation for him though. Help out the Germans with a League of Nations and less war debts, and get their French on their backs, or bombard the Germans with war debts and get Hitler riled up.

The Accuracy of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points

The 14 Points, as created by Woodrow Wilson, was as unrealistic before, as now, and as in the future due to the literal perspective of it, by which is the whole other people's opinion of this so-called "peace render". The purpose of this amendment is to provide a means of universal tranquility among all nations and to provide a domestic security within them. This is to the most extent the worst form of truth ever brought out, as there are always countries fighting (recounting the point of disposition between Allies and the Axis of the time period), always land or property to fight over, and always vengeance and blood to shed. Death is inevitable because no one can make a universal utopia at the snap of fingers nor would anyone else in the world would care of it. These 14 Points are unrealistic to the extent that it requires everyone to follow and approve of it as much as possibly can so that it would "make a better world". Despite Wilson's effort, the 14 Points are unrealistic and unfollowable due to the tensions and lust of vengeance between fighting countries. This would influence the rest of the world and the rest of the time period to not become persuaded by this unnecessary and scoffed-at ordeal.

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points were unrealistic due to their overwhelming idealism. Wilson's Fourteen Points appealed to the losing side, the Axis, much more than the winning side, the Allies. Since the Fourteen Points seemed much more attractive to those who didn't have power in the situation, they could not work. Had there been an attempt to implement the Fourteen Points after any war, they simply would not have worked due to the fact that they are kinder to the losing side. The winning side, specifically France and Britain, will always hold great discontempt towards those they fought, in this case Germany, especially when their lands are ravaged by their opponents. Due to their lenience on the defeated nations, Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points are entirely unrealistic.

Wilson's Fourteen Points

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points were absolutely unrealistic for the time period. The idea's he presented were unprecedented and therefore hard to grasp. To further compound the problem, the issues in Europe were drastic even for the time period. It was an unfortunate chain of events, as both France and Great Britain felt great dislike and anger toward Germany following the war, and that thus they wanted to ruin it, France was ravashed by the war and not only desired immense economic reparations but really needed them. All three countries were thinking in the very short term, and could have foreseen it leading to what it did. Wilson did not see this coming either, but rather was thinking about a general long term solution. Stop all future conflict, as shown by his labeling the war as "The war to end war". Even without these drastic circumstances being present, the idea's were still well before its time. Countries were not stable enough to ban together, the fear issues within the country far outweighed the fears of another war. France, like any country did not desire another violent war on its own soil, but was too focused on recovering from the war it just finished to think about this. Wilson's Fourteen Points therefore, were out of place in time, and unpolished to the point were they were bound for failure in their own time setting.

Fourteen Points

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points were unrealistic. I agree somewhat with the other posts on the subject thus far in some cases. I agree that the attitude in the Points is too idealistic and that the countries during the time period had conflicting agendas. I agree that more compromises could have been made and that compromise might have helped to get more accomplished. But first and foremost I think that it is not the specific problem of the world atmosphere, the differing agendas and the overall circumstances that inhibited Wilson's Fourteen Points but the whole concept of international government and regulation. All the countries of the world have different fundamental values and needs and goals and wants and global regulations such as economic guidelines and worldwide laws as we know them simply do not work, can not work and did not work when Wilson was fighting for them in the early 20th century. Bridging the Foreign Policy divide is still a seemingly insurmountable problem and Wilson wasn't the first to be a little off base with his ideas. And he definitely wasn't the last.

FOURTEEN POINTS

Woodrow's Wilson's 14 Points were not realistic because the tensions at this time were far too great to satisfy international partnerships. Woodrow's Wilson's 14 points mainly focused on how to divide land after World War I. On the side note, the creation of a League of Nations was strongly emphasized. Wilson believed that all tariffs should be lowered (Point 3) and that a general association of nations should work together to guarantee independencefor large and small countries alike (Point 16). Though Point 3 seems effective, it would only work if there were a League of Nations (Point 16). Though the League of Nations seemed like a good idea, it would not work. At this time period, the world was divided into two basic spheres: Axis and Allies. They had just finished fighting a war, and thus tensions did not cease. Then, with eight of Wilson's points, war land was to be redistributed. This redistribution of land would only increase the tensions between these countries because one country would feel at fault to the other. The creation of new states, such as Poland, would also bring down the League of Nations, because the League was designed to bring equality to all countries; but if Wilson, the U.S. president, grants Poland its independence, then that country will be in dept to America and thus tilt the equality of nations. Also, since only the most powerful countries would be considered to join the League, it would limit international equality. The smaller nations, or the defeateed nations, such as germany, would be taken advantage of for the next several years to come. Overall, Wilson's 14 points would not work.

Wilson and his 14 points

I do not think that Wilson's fourteen points are realistic at all for multiple reasons. First of the obvious reason that he is tttempting to create peace with all of these nations that have completely different agendas, his points seem as if they are not comprimises at all. People and nations are extremely greedy and this will prevent the points about open seas or reallocation of imperialist colonial holdings or no post war vengence , from actually working. It would be lovely if all of the nations would just say that they will stop screwing each other over and no more secret treaties but again, nations disagree and they attempt to grow stronger and prosper, when they feel threatened they will take any action to stop the threat. By Wilson attempting to appeal to EVERYONE he created this magical world of peace which could never happened. Perhaps if Wilson didn't attempt to make everyone 100% happy by giving them a point, and rather had he comprimised on every subject then perhaps his 14 points would actually be valid and wouldnt have failed. [By failed I refer specifically to the League of Nations, which did fai.l] Therefore i believe that Wilson's points were not realistically applicable to the world.

Wilson's 14 points

Wilson's Fourteen Points was not a realistic plan at the end of World War I in 1919. The Fourteen Points sought to foster stronger international connections among nations by taking measures such as abolishing secret treaties, applying freedom of the seas and limiting tarrifs. Wilson hoped to economically and socially link all of the nations to decrease the probability of another world war. The main focus of the Fourteen Points was the establishment of a League of Nations, an international organization of the main world powers to promote security and trust. However, in the Paris Conference in 1919 following the end of the war,Wilson's plans were shown as unrealistic and did not have much support on either side. The Allied powers, mainly Britain and France, sought harsh reparations from Germany and the Fourteen Points would severly limit the amount of land or money that they could receive. Germany, bitter from their defeat in WWI, distanced itself from international affairs and had great distaste for a League of Nations. Also, many countries with dictatorships did not approve of the democracy that accompanied Wilson's policies. In conclusion, Wilson's Fourteen Points and League of Nations were theoretically stable but when actually applied, they were unrealistic and actually caused greater tensions between countries due to greed on the Ally side and bitterness on the Axis side, contributing to the start of the Second World War.

is Wilson realistic

Wilson's Fourteen Points were a decent attempt at peace and restitution after the Great War; however, there were many inherent problems with the Wilsonian agenda. It idealistically called for political independence and territorial integrity in all countries, but it is highly impracticable as each nation has a direct individual interest to serve rather to accept such a unconditionally moral obligation. The Allied Powers made it very hard for Germany and Austria and the newly formed countries in Eastern Europe to carry out many of the things set down in the Fourteen points, in particular, the idea of self-determination that is evident in over half of the points. Reading the Fourteen Points might lead a person to believe that the Allies were in favor of all forms of self-determination unconditionally; in fact, just the opposite was true. They used self-determination as a formula for rearranging the balance of power in their own interests Point Five of the Wilsonian agenda was a testament to this. It called for the "free, open-minded adjustment of all colonial claims." Essentially, what this did was allow countries to practice limited forms of self-determination, mainly by switching European rule from the more obvious direct control method, to indirect European control. Some countries were allowed independence, but those countries that were denied it became mandates; Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon are examples of the ladder. The main thing Point Five accomplished was that it allowed more colonial holdings to fall into Allied hands, especially those of Britain. The fact that the Allies used self-determination for their own interests is also the reason the people of Austria were not allowed to become a part of Germany. Allowing the union of Austria and Germany would only make Germany stronger, something France especially did not want. Self-determination was also used against Germany in other ways. By allowing Poland to become a country with access to the sea, Germany would be split in half, and former German territory would now be known as the Polish Corridor. Territory was also taken away from Germany to create the nation of Lithuania.

Do you think Wilson's ideas for creating world peace is realistic?

Wilson's Fourteen Points isn't really that rtealistic because he tries to appeal to everyone, such as all the different nations, taxpayers, anti-imperialists, etc. Because he tries to appeal to these different groups of people, these different groups will argue and always want the Fourteen Points to change in their favor. Because there are so many different opinions and desires, one peace plan can't possibly satisfy everyone. So there will always be some groups of people that won't be satisfied. For an example, certain leaders of the Allied nations with aspirations to gain more territory, were not enthusiastic with the 5th point, which stated an adjustment of colonial claims int he interests of both native peoples and the colonizers (it appealed to anit-imperialists).

The Philosophy of the Industrialists OPVL

I have a couple of questions, maybe you can help figure it out.
In document D, whom does the man in black represent and what exactly is he holding?
Also, in document F, can anyone decipher some of the text surrounding King Monopoly?
Thanks.

ques. about the calendar

On the calendar it says there are two summaries due next week, and there are no unit questions? Also what are the "terms" that are due with each chapter?

Documents?

Where is the Ida B Welss document? I cant find it online

question on tomorrow's reading?

It says on the calendar (looks like the revised one???) Read p. 568-57...is that a typo or do we really have to read 100 something pages?
thanks

Never Mind Got it

Still not sure if we have to OPLV it bu w/e.

Repubs Hard Line

I cannot load so cannot print the Republicans Take Hard Line Document. Do we need that for tomorrow? The calendar online says we dont but the one we have has it one there.

Thanks.