gregs notes: I am reading a great book now that has an interesting angle on WW2 and the beginings of the Cold War called, "The Myth of the Good War: The USA in World War II" by Jacques R. Pauwels. I might use it to mix it up with the cold war component of the the year.

joni's notes: IB History Workshop notes1.doc

jenny's new syllabus changes ppt very handy for presentations: New Curriculum Overview.ppt

files from james chandler: RevWar.doc CivilWars.doc GenericFascism.doc

a book from sylla: I would just like to recommend a book that I read recently and that is truly an

epoch making work on a topic one would have thought was exhausted, the Nazis. It really fundamentally

changes the way we might look at the whole Nazi era or system.

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze.

book from Dean: wanted to suggest a good book if you're focusing on the p1q1 option...

Landes, David. 2003 (2nd ed.), The unbound prometheus: technological change and industrial

development in Western Europe 1750 to present, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

isbn: 052153402x (paperback)

Landes is a eurocentric economic historian and has a great chapter on the Interwar.

definately worth it for a truly profound amount of facts and figures to support many

issues when dealing with this paper one topic. for teacher use.

books from sheta: The book which re-interprets Mao and his actions is:

Mao : A re-interpretation

Author Feigon Lee

ISBN 1-56663-522-5

Publisher: Ivan R Dee

Chicago

I do use the introduction and assessment to present an alternate view.

For a study of the Chinese Civil War I do like to use Odd Arne Westad's

Decisive Encounters

Evaluation of Mao by Stuart Scram. This is an article by Stuart Schram that evaluates the legacy of Mao. This is from History Today. WOrth a read

From John Willoughby: The book that deals with the CNN Cold War series is called

CNN's Cold War Documentary: Issues and Contoversy by Robert Conquest, John Lewis Gaddis, and Richard Pipes.

ISBN: 0817997423. It is an interesting mix of historiography issues with the series as well as an interesting

presentation of the impact of media on the Cold War.

From Alex Sikkema: Suitable for both History and TOK is the DVD ‘The fog of war’ – a startlingly candid interview with

Robert McNamara (while affable, he was perhaps more responsible than the presidents for charting the US course in the

Vietnam War). More accessible to students than his book, here he also discusses his part in the WW2 bombing of Japan

and the Cuban Missile crisis. Importantly it also covers his Harvard/ business background and his obsession with reason

and ‘getting the data’ – admitting that the inability to empathise with the Vietnamese (emotion?) was the cause of failure.

From James Chandler: The aforementioned documentary, plus meany others, available free online at http://freedocumentaries.org. The number of John Pilger films with orientate you to the editorial leanings of the site but there are some excellent resources. 'Dear America' is particularly good for putting a human face on the US involvement in Vietnam.

From Steve Powers: I have opted for

Europe

Prescribed Topic 3

Paper 2 topics 4 and 5

HL Topics 8, 9, and 10

more detailed plans forthcoming

from Sheta: Some Spanish Civil War Resources

Student- friendly resources:

The Spanish Civil War by Frances Lanyon

There are chapters covering the material in the Access to History series Modern European History by Alan Farmer

The movie Days of Hope and Glory and Land and Freedom by Ken Loach is effective to bring home the tragedy of the Civil War

The Spanish Civil War documentary a B&W version that I tracked dwon at Amazon.co.uk is effective but the movie Land nad Freedom

I thought captured the drama more effectively

Teacher friendly resources:

The Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston is a good read

The New International History of the Spanish Civil War by Michael Alpert is good and I would recommend it

There is another book by Sebastian Balfour its called Spain and the Great Powers Evaluation of Mao by Stuart Scram.docwhich is equally good. However, I admit to a partiality towards the Paul Preston

Then there are the books by Antony Beevor, Hugh Thomas which are heavy going but worth a read.

For documents ( unfortunately smallish snippets ) this site has a range of stuff

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/

http://www2.bc.edu/~heineman/maps/SpCW.html