Ukraine conflict 2022

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 2

Describe your spring-
break in 3 words:

Ukraine-Russia conflict 2022

Goals:

1. To find out what we know about the conflict in Ukraine.
2. To discuss what we think and feel about it.
3.  Time for questions
   

Have you been following the events in Ukraine?

Yes, I follow the events closely.

A bit, but I'm not absorbed by it.

I only know what other people have told me.

I'm not really interested.

What's 'Ukraine'?

How concerned are you?
0=not at all 10=very

010

Ukraine

Tell us what you know about the situation in Ukraine.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Background

Ukraine was part of USSR

1991: It became independent.

The West and Russia continue to fight over Ukraine.

North

Atlantic

Treaty

Organisation
N.A.T.O.

Background

2013 Maidan revolution supported by the West

2014 Crimea annexation 

 Crimea 

Was Crimea originally part of Russia?

Why was Ukraine given Crimea?

Did Crimea want to join Russia?

Crimea became part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1921 as the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which became part of the Soviet Union in 1922, and was run as a Crimean Tatar enclave.

After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, there was a shift in posture towards the other republics. In an attempt to reconcile the relationship with the Ukrainian SSR, Nikita Khrushchev, along with the other leadership of the Soviet Union, transferred the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.

The 2019 survey found that 82% of Crimea's population supported Crimea's accession to Russia, as opposed to 86% in 2014. The survey also found that 58% of Crimean Tatars now supported Crimea's accession to Russia, as opposed to 39% in 2014.

Background

2021/2022: tensions rise again.

23-28 February 2022: Russia sends in forces and bombs to Ukraine.

Read or Watch

1 or 2 articles in English on the current war.

Use any of these sites:

www.cnn.com

www.guardian.com

www.nyt.com

www.aljazeera.com/english

Write

a post on a forum for highschool students in Kyiv in which you give your opinion, offer support or critisim using information you have gathered. ( i.e. support your arguments)

Mind your word choice, word order and verb tenses.

Use a dictionary if you need to.

Post your forum post here.

www.cnn.com

www.guardian.com

www.nyt.com

www.aljazeera.com/english