AP FEE's for exam

"Please remind your students that the AP checks are due by Friday, March 2. They should have received a letter at home, but if they didn't, the cost is $87 per exam. The check should be made out to Bronx Science and include their name and OSIS number.

For students who receive free or reduced lunch, we have just been informed that they will need to pay $15 for up to three tests and $53 for any additional tests. These checks are due by March 16."

HW # 5 AND HW # 6

HW # 5 IS DUE ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH.

1. READ PAGE 857 AND EXPLAIN THE CHANGING AND MODERN ECONOMY OF INDIA.

HW # 6 IS DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 2ND.

1. READ PAGES 857 TO 858 AND EXPLAIN THE CHANGING NATURE OF CASTES, GENDER AND CLASS.

TEST 1 ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH

THERE WILL BE A TEST ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH. STUDY ONLY THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL:

STUDY VLADIMIR LENIN AND JOSEPH STALIN'S POLICIES, STUDY JAPAN'S ROAD TO WW II, THE 21 DEMANDS, GREATER EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE, WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE, MILITANT AND JAPANESE NATIONALISTS, JAPAN'S AGGRESSION IN THE 1930'S, STUDY THE CHANGES THE EMPEROR MADE AFTER WW II, THE NEW JAPANESE CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRATIC JAPAN, THE JAPANESE MIRACLE, KEIRETSU, MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INDUSTRY, TREATY OF MUTUAL COOPERATION AND SECURITY, ZAIBATSU, JAPAN'S GDP AND UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, THE PACIFIC RIM ECONOMY, THE FOUR TIGERS,

THERE WILL BE 25 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

READING ASSIGNMENT TO BE COMPLETED OVER THE WINTER BREAK

READ THE FOLLOWING ASSIGNMENT. A WRITTEN HW ASSIGNMENT WILL FOLLOW. STAY TUNED.

1. READ ABOUT THE KOREAN WAR, PAGES 731-732

2. READ ABOUT THE CONFLICT IN INDOCHINA, 732-733 AND 800-801

3. READ ABOUT INDIA AND KNOW ALL ABOUT GANDHI, PAGES 852-859
KNOW ABOUT THE VIOLENCE IN THE KASHMIR AND JAMMU (PG 852), KNOW ABOUT PRIME MINISTER NEHRU AND THE 14 LANGUAGES OF INDIA, KNOW ABOUT THE TENSIONS WITH PAKISTAN (PG. 852),
KNOW ABOUT INDIRA GANDHI AND HER POLICIES (PG. 853), KNOW ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH THE SIKHS IN THE PUNJAB (PG. 854), KNOW ABOUT RAJIV GANDHI, HIS DEATH AND THE TAMIL TIGERS (PG. 854),

4. KNOW ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH EAST AND WEST PAKISTAN AND LATER BANGLADESH (PG. 855), KNOW ABOUT BENAJIR BHUTTO AND HER POLICIES (PG. 855), KNOW ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF A MOSQUE AT RAMA'S BIRTHPLACE AND THE VIOLENCE THAT FOLLOWED (PG. 856), KNOW ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH THE ECONOMY AND BIRTH CONTROL POLICIES (PG. 856), KNOW ABOUT THE GREEN REVOLUTION (PG. 857), KNOW ABOUT THE CHANGING AND MODERN ECONOMY IN INDIA
(PG. 857), KNOW ABOUT THE CHANGES IN CASTE, CLASS AND GENDER (PG. 857-858).

COPY AND PASTE!!!

1. AFTER CHINA BECAME COMMUNIST, THEY QUICKLY ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH COMMUNIST RUSSIA AND MAO ZEDONG PERSONALLY ADMIRED JOSEPH STALIN. BUT BY THE LATE 1950'S AND GOING INTO THE 1960'S, THE SOVIET UNION AND COMMUNIST CHINA SLOWLY DRIFTED APART, AND BY THE EARLY 1970'S, THE UNITED STATES HAD A BETTER DIPLOMATIC RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA THAN RUSSIA. THIS IS OFTEN KNOWN AS THE SINO-SOVIET SPLIT.

2. THE SPLIT BEGAN SHORTLY AFTER STALIN DIED AND MANY SOVIET LEADERS BEGAN TO OPENLY CRITICIZE AND CONDEMN STALIN'S RUTHLESS METHODS. MAO ADMIRED STALIN AND DID NOT LIKE THIS. RUSSIA ALSO WOULD NOT SHARE SECRETS WITH CHINA ON THEIR MILITARY TECHNOLOGY AND PARTICULARLY ON THE BUILDING OF AN ATOMIC BOMB. BOTH THE SOVIET UNION AND CHINA HAD SERIOUS DIFFERENCES ON THEIR INTERPRETATION OF KARL MARX, AND BOTH CLAIMED TO BE THE TRUE LEADERS OF THE COMMUNIST WORLD. RUSSIA ACCEPTED THE CONCEPT OF "PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE", WHICH WAS A POLICY OF THE SOVIET UNION TO COOPERATE MORE WITH THE WEST. CHINA DID NOT LIKE THIS. IN THE 1960'S CHINA HAD BORDER DISPUTES WITH INDIA AND AT THE UNITED NATIONS, THE SOVIET UNION TOOK INDIA'S SIDE. ALSO BOTH RUSSIA AND CHINA SHARE 1,600 MILES OF BORDERS AND THERE WERE CONSTANT DISPUTES OVER THESE BORDERS. FINALLY, IN 1979, RUSSIA INVADED AFGHANISTAN AND CHINA CONDEMN THIS ACTION.

3. BY THE EARLY 1970'S, MAO SAW RUSSIA AS MORE OF A PROBLEM THAN THE UNITED STATES AND IN 1972, PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON FLEW TO CHINA AND FORMERLY RECOGNIZED THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. PRES. NIXON OPENED UP CHINA TO DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH UNITED STATES AND BEGAN TO TRADE MORE WITH THE CHINESE. THIS ONLY MADE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA WORSE. BY THE LATE 1980'S, SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV BEGAN TO HEAL THE RIFT BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA.

CCOT ESSAY, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15TH

THERE WILL BE A CCOT ESSAY IN CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15TH

Write an essay that:

* Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with appropriate historical evidence.
* Addresses all parts of the question.
* Uses world historical context to show continuities and changes over time.
* Analyzes the process of continuity and change over time.

TASK: Describe and explain continuities and changes in trade and commerce in Asia from 1850 to 2000 CE.

CUT AND PASTE!!!

Due to Mao’s and communism failed economic policies, the new Communist leader of China in 1980, Deng Xiaoping began a series of new economic experiments to help China’s failed economy.

•As part of its economic reforms and policy of opening to the world, between 1980 and 1984 China established special economic zones (SEZs). These SEZ were primarily an experiment in the southern coastal cities of China. In 1984 China opened 14 other coastal cities to overseas investment.

•Then, beginning in 1985, the central government expanded the coastal area by establishing the following open economic zones (listed north to south): Liaodong Peninsula, Hebei Province (which surrounds Beijing and Tianjin), Shandong Peninsula, Yangtze River Delta, Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Quanzhou Triangle in southern Fujian Province, Pearl River Delta, and Guangxi.

•In 1990 the Chinese government decided to open the Pudong New Zone in Shanghai to overseas investment, as well as more cities in the Yangzi River Valley.

•Since 1992 the State Council has opened a number of border cities and all the capital cities of inland provinces and autonomous regions.

•In addition, 15 free-trade zones, 32 state-level economic and technological development zones, and 53 new and high-tech industrial development zones have been established in large and medium-sized cities. As a result, a multilevel diversified pattern of opening and integrating coastal areas with river, border, and inland areas has been formed in China.

•Special tax incentives for foreign investments in the SEZs.
•Greater independence on international trade activities.
•Economic characteristics are represented as "4 principles":

1. Construction primarily relies on attracting and utilizing foreign capital
2. Primary economic forms are Sino-foreign joint ventures and partnerships as well as wholly foreign-owned enterprises
3. Products are primarily export-oriented
4. Economic activities are primarily driven by market forces