HIS 100 Module Three Activity Template: Revising Questions (Assignment 3-2)
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General Topic - Climate Change and Environmental issues Specific Historical Topic –Chernobyl
Historical Research Question – What long lasting effects has the Chernobyl disaster had on the environment and people over 20 years later
Current Event – war with Ukraine and Russia and the invasion of Chernobyl by Russia Feb 2022
Identify a historical perspective that could be applied to your historical event.
The environmental perspective could be applied to the historical event for Chernobyl due to the all the radiation that was thrown into the atmosphere and that is still in the atmosphere today. There was a collective effort put together with United Nations, World Health Organization, the World Bank and many
other organizations to make the Chernobyl Forum to discuss the environmental effects of the nuclear disaster. Revise your research question based on evidence from your primary and secondary sources.
What long lasting effects has the Chernobyl disaster had on the environment and people over 20 years later What affects has Chernobyl had on the environment
Explain how historical perspective and evidence from sources influenced your finalized research question.
After viewing multiple sources it helps make a research question more defined and more narrowed down instead of more broad. The perspective can help do the same with the research question.
