Foreign Policy in the Middle East
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Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Name:_______________________________________________________________ Class Period:____ Unit 8, Period 8 Contextualization & Making Inferences … Foreign Policy in the Middle East Skill 7: Appropriate Use of Relevant Historical Evidence Historical thinking involves the ability to describe and evaluate evidence about the past from diverse sources (including written documents, works of art, archaeological artifacts, oral traditions, and other primary sources) and requires the students to pay attention to the content, authorship, purpose, format, and audience of such sources. It involves the capacity to extract useful information, make supportable inferences, and draw appropriate conclusions from historical evidence, while also noting the context in which the evidence was produced and used, recognizing its limitations and assessing the points of view it reflects. Proficient students should be able to … • Analyze features of historical evidence such as audience, purpose, point of view, format, argument, limitations, and context germane to the evidence considered. • Based on analysis and evaluation of historical evidence, make supportable inferences and draw appropriate conclusions. Skill 8: Interpretation Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, analyze, evaluate, and construct diverse interpretations of the past, and being aware of how particular circumstances and contexts in which individual historians work and write also shape their interpretation of past events. Historical interpretation requires analyzing evidence, reasoning, determining the context, and evaluating points of view found in both primary and secondary sources. Proficient students should be able to … Analyze diverse historical interpretations. Evaluate how historians’ perspectives influence their interpretations and how models of historical interpretation change over time From the Period 8 Content Outline Key Concept 8.1: The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and attempting to defend a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences. II. As the United States focused on containing communism, it faced increasingly complex foreign policy issues, including decolonization, shifting international alignments and regional conflicts, and global economic and environmental changes. A. Postwar decolonization and the emergence of powerful nationalist movements in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East led both sides in the Cold War to seek allies among new nations, many of which remained nonaligned. B. Cold War competition extended to Latin America, where the U.S. supported non-Communist regimes with varying levels of commitment to democracy. C. Ideological, military, and economic concerns shaped U.S. involvement in the Middle East, with several oil crises in the region eventually sparking attempts at creating a national energy policy. Directions: 1. Analyze the documents on the following page by explaining the historical context of each. Include who, what, when, why! 2. Review the timeline of main events, and define each event. 3. Complete the written contextualization of Middle East foreign policy. Historical Analysis Activity written by Rebecca Richardson, Allen High School using the 2012 College Board APUSH Framework, sources as cited in document, and images captured from pbworks.com Name:_______________________________________________________________ Class Period:____ Unit 8, Period 8 Contextualization & Making Inferences … Foreign Policy in the Middle East Analyze the documents on the following page by explaining the historical context of each image. (Include who, what, when, how, why!) One has been completed for you. 1948 New York Times Headline, “Zionists Proclaim New State of Israel…” Historical Context: - 1948, the nation of Israel was created fulfilled the Zionist movement to return the Jews to their homeland -sympathy for anti-Semitism and Zionism following discovery of the Holocaust. -immediately following its creation, Arab nations attacked. The United States and NATO nations supported this change as Great Britain withdrew from Palestine & Persia (decolonization of Middle East)beginning of Arab-Israeli conflict and anti-American sentiment grows 1973 photograph, “Pumps Closed,” United States Historical Context: 1979 photograph, Tehran, Iran Historical Context: 1979 photograph, Camp David, United States Historical Context: Historical Analysis Activity written by Rebecca Richardson, Allen High School using the 2012 College Board APUSH Framework, sources as cited in document, and images captured from pbworks.com Name:_______________________________________________________________ Class Period:____ Contextualization … Foreign Policy in the Middle East Unit 8, Period 8 Review the timeline of main events, and define each event that has not already been defined. 1948 Israel created - The British withdraw from Palestine, and Israel is created. Neighboring Arab nations, which rejected the partition of Palestine, immediately invade, unsuccessfully. The United States and NATO pledge to defend Israel. 1953 C.I.A. Coup - deposing the democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh derailing Iran’s burgeoning democracy. The Shah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) is reinstalled The Shah had ruled from 1941-1951 when he was deposed. 1956 Suez Crisis 1967 Six Day War 1973 Yom Kippur War Arab Oil Embargo 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iranian Hostage Crises Historical Analysis Activity written by Rebecca Richardson, Allen High School using the 2012 College Board APUSH Framework, sources as cited in document, and images captured from pbworks.com Name:_______________________________________________________________ Class Period:____ Unit 8, Period 8 Contextualization … Foreign Policy in the Middle East Complete the written contextualization of Middle East foreign policy. Historical Thinking Skill 5: Contextualization Historical thinking involves the ability to connect historical events and processes to specific circumstances of time and place and to broader regional, national, or global processes. Proficient students should be able to … Explain and evaluate ways in which specific historical phenomena, events, or processes connect to broader regional, national, or global processes occurring at the same time. Explain and evaluate ways in which a phenomenon, event, or process connects to other, similar historical phenomena across time and place. Local Context for Cold War Era foreign policy in the Middle East… Comparative Context Similar in Kind From an Earlier Time Broad Context Why, How What is the “Big Picture?” What is the theme? Comparative Context Similar in Kind From an Later Time Historical Analysis Activity written by Rebecca Richardson, Allen High School using the 2012 College Board APUSH Framework, sources as cited in document, and images captured from pbworks.com