w. 40

Monday:

We will start by reviewing what we did last week.

Here's a link to the New York Times article about Peter Dahlin. Within it is the film I showed about Dahlin.

Here is a link to a Wall Street Journal article about surveillance in the Xinjiang area of western China. I'm not 100% certain that the link will work. If not, you can trying googling WSJ + "China Spends More on Domestic Security as Xi's Power Grows." Inside this article there is a film about China's surveillance program in the province of Xinjiang, which is very interesting.
       And Tuesday morning (1 Oct.), when I opened TTela, guess what? There's an article about Xinjiang, about the camps that Uighurs are sent to for the purpose of "re-educating" them (which is mentioned in the WSJ film). The article focuses on a woman who worked inside the camps and managed to illegally leave China. I did not talk about these education camps in class, but they are examples of the manner in which the Chinese government abuses and tortures people in China.

Here's another article on China and Internet censorship.

We will then discuss

-       the Berlin Blockade/Berlin Airlift (June 1948–May 1949, + some extra months)

-       NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

 

We will watch part of this film about the Berlin Blockade/Airlift:

Here’s the link to another film on the Berlin Blockade/Airlift. It’s longer; we won’t watch it in class.

NATO

We'll watch this in class:

MONDAY:
At the beginning of class on Thursday, I asked you to answer the following question:
How did the Soviet Union vew Germany at the end of WWII (1945) -- and explain why.

Film about the Warsaw Pact:

Some of the slides we looked at regarding NATO:

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secure peace
promote cooperation and integration
guard freedom
promote stability

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Here is a website that lays out key events of the Hungarian Revolution.

Here is a film on the Prague Spring:

I mentioned a movie based on the Hungarian Revolution together with the 1956 Summer Olympics in Australia (which were taking place in our fall).  I said that it was "Freedom's Fury," but that wasn't the movie I meant. The one I meant is called "Children of Glory." It includes a love story in addition to the to historical events. Here's the trailer: