Newspaper Topics and Study Guide for Ch. 26-28 Test

Newspaper Topics and Study Guide for Ch. 26-28 Test

Ch. 26 (White) Ch.28 (red)

Suggested Title: The Wall Street Journal or The London Times

Topics to be covered: advancements in shipping, “annihilation of time and space,” effects of chemical dye industry on India, the boom bust cycle of world trade, Britain’s control of world finances by 1900, and improvements in cities.

Suggested editorials: written by a textile worker in India, a mayor of a city praising improvements in his city.

Suggested Title: Ladies Home Journal

Topics to be covered: Victorian morality, “separate spheres” of men and women, the middle class and servants, women and teaching, women and reform movements, Emma Goldman

Suggested editorials: a woman seeking to ban alcohol, or prostitution, one from Emma Goldman

Suggested Title: Le Munde or the Parisian Post

Topics to be covered: labor union movement, workers and the political system, socialism and Karl Marx, nationalism and the realignment of borders, Bismark’s plan to unite Germany, problems in Britain, why nationalism failed in Austria and Russia, Tsar Alexander II

Suggested editorials: one from Karl Marx and one from Bismark or Tsar Alexander II

Suggested Title: The Tokyo Times

Topics to be covered: loss of Russians in Russo-Japanese war, “self-strengthening movement” in China, Tokugawa Japan (role of shoguns, closing to foreigners, commodore Perry) Meiji Japan (reforms, imitation of the West, Meiji Oligarchs, Aritomo’s plan for imperialism, the Boxer Uprising

Suggested editorials: one from Aritomo, one from Commodore Perry or a Chinese citizen regarding the “self strengthening movement” or Boxer Uprising

Ch. 27 (white) 29 (red)

Suggested Title: The Imperialist Post

Topics to be covered: New Imperialism (land grab, French motivation, role of colonial officers in claiming territory, cultural motives, western superiority, economic motives, role of technological innovations) Battle of Omdurman (number of deaths), protectorates, cooperation of indigenous elites, “Scramble for Africa”, results of foreign debt in Egypt, construction of Aswan Dam, role of Stanley in the Congo, European Control in equatorial Africa, brutality of the rubber boom, discovery of gold and diamonds in South Africa, 1913 Natives Land Act, Ethiopian victory of Italy

Suggested editorials: one from Stanley, one from indigenous elite in support of imperialism or one against the rubber industry or one about the 1913 Natives Land Act.

Suggested Title: The Pacific Rim Post

Topics to be covered: Russian occupation of Kazakhstan, economic potential of SE Asia, Filipino movement for independence, U.S. annexation of Hawaii, Free Trade imperialism in Latin America, the Monroe Doctrine, result of Spanish American War, building of the Panama Canal and U.S. causing an uprising in Panama, Hevea trees and rubber

Suggested editorials: one from Emiliano Aguialdo about movement for Filipino Independence, one about the Monroe Doctrine or building the Panama Canal

Ch. 28 (white) 29 (red)

Suggested Title: The New York Times

Topics to be covered: Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Russian interest in protecting the Slavs, belief that war would end soon, WWI weaponry, German submarine warfare, women during WWI, Africans during WWI, U.S. benefiting from WWI, influenza epidemic, Woodrow Wilson on self determination, Russian civil war, Vladimir Lenin, communist party plans for industrialization, German Crisis of 1923, Japan’s lack of resources, Zaibatsu, Ataturk and the modern Turkish state, Armenian suffering,Eyptian “phony” independence, Zionist movement (Balfour Declaration, Theodore Herzl, results of Jewish immigration in Palestine), women’s lives in the 1920s, the social sciences in the 1920s, the automobile

Suggested Editorials: Theodore Herzl, Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson or Ataturk