November 6

Social 30-1

You wrote your Cold War Concepts Quiz today, which took most of the class period. Please be on time for Monday's class since we will be watching "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" which is an excellent 80 minute film. Your Vietnam War booklet is due on Monday (sections A-C). I have sent you some notes on the Vietnam War that I want you to print off, read and highlight. Reading over these notes will help you complete your homework assignment and prepare you for Monday's film. I'm posting study guides for your Chapter 7 Test (Cold War Exam) and your Unit 2 Final Exam below. You have a lot of review and studying to do, that's why I'm posting these study guides so far in advance.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 7 Test is on Monday, November 16th. It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I'm sending you on the Vietnam War on Friday, November 6th)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts (please see the Cold War Concepts Quiz Study Guide)
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you on Monday, November 9th)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift,Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you on this on Monday, November 9th.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences
  
  

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, November 19th. It will be a 75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:

• study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
• study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
• study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
• modern liberalism
• features of the Nazi state
• Hitler's rise to power
• Characteristics of Democracy
• Characteristics of Dictatorship
• Democratic Systems notes
• Non-Democratic Systems notes
• Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
• A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
• Totalitarianism notes
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR; I gave this booklet to you on Friday, October 23rd)
• do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

Social 10-1

We finished off the film "Life + Debt" today. As you were watching this film, you were to complete the film study sheet. I also did a homework check on your WTO chart today, you'll get these charts back on Monday. On Monday you will go to your homerooms to get your Term 1 Report Cards.

November 5

Social 10-1

I gave you a package today that covered the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank. Your homework assignment tonight is to put together a detailed chart of the advantages and disadvantages of the WTO system. We also started watching a documentary today called "Life + Debt" which we will finish off tomorrow.

Social 30-1

We continued our look at the Vietnam War today by watching an excerpt from "Born of the Fourth of July". Please remember that you have your Cold War Concepts Quiz tomorrow, please see the study guide here. Here is a link to the NPR that explains the story behind this photograph, definitely worth the time to read or listen to the podcast, and make sure that you look at the photo gallery of Eddie Adams' photographs of the Vietnam War.

November 4

Social 10-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "The Expansion of Economic Globalization". I have sent this presentation to you already, so please print it off (4-6 slides per page) and bring it to class tomorrow. I will be doing a homework check on it and the Chapter 11 Key Terms.

Social 30-1

We finished off the "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev" video today, and then we started looking at the Vietnam War. I gave you a Southeast Asia package that you were to work on and finish in class. After you finished the Southeast Asia package, you were to get the Vietnam War reading, and then after that Vietnam War assignment (I will be taking this last one in on Monday). You have a Cold War Concepts Quiz on Friday, please see the study guide below. Also, please have a look at some upcoming important dates.

Cold War Concepts Quiz Study Guide:

This short answer quiz will be on Friday, November 6th. Be able to define each of the following key terms, and be able to provide real-world examples of each of these concepts in action:

• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention

Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• Warsaw Pact

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 30-1 Students:

• Cold War Concepts Quiz is on Friday, November 6th
• Chapter 7 Test (70-75 multiple choice questions) is on Monday, November 16th
• Unit 2 Final Exam (70-75 multiple choice questions) is on Thursday, November 19th
• Unit 2 WRA II (in class essay) is on Tuesday, November 24th

November 3

Social 30-1

We continued our examination of the Cold War. We looked at the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 (the video we watched even covered escape tunnels, and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism, and German re-unification). We also did some reading on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and started watching a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev", which we will finish tomorrow.

Social 10-1

Most of today's class was spent watching "China Rises: Getting Rich" and completing a film study sheet. I talked to a few people about their Imperialism Research Projects (if I talked to you, please send me your projects by e-mail tonight!). I also gave you back your Unit 2 Final Exam test results.

November 2

Social 30-1

We covered the Korean War today. I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "The Korean War" that had a corresponding handout, so you didn't have to take notes. I won't be sending this PowerPoint by e-mail because the notes package that I gave you cover the Korean War already. I also gave you a one page handout that had a reading on one side and a map of the Korean War on the other side. Please make sure that you read all of today's handouts. I did a homework check on your Cold War Events booklet, and took back the class set of books that I had lent out over the weekend. I also did some homework checks on PowerPoint presentations that you should have printed off by now. Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms are due tomorrow.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam in today's class. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 10 Questions today.