November 26

Surprise! Surprise! You had your Animal Farm Pop Quiz today in class. I hope that you all did very well on this quiz. We also continued learning about how to analyze political cartoons, by looking at some more examples as a class. I reminded you about handing in your Edgar Allan Poe project on time. This is the first assignment/project for Term 2, so please start the term off on the right foot. You also have your Chapter 10 Quiz on Monday. The study guide appears below.

Here is the Chapter 10 Quiz Study Guide:

Format:

1. Multiple Choice Section
2. Fill in the Blanks Section
3. Short Answer Section

Topics:

• Key Terms, Key Events, Key People
• Soviet Foreign Relations (signing the CFE Treaty, collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe, collapse of alliance system, Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize)
• End of the Soviet Union's Multinational Empire (republics want independence, chain events that lead to the collapse of the USSR)
• Contributing factors to the collapse of the USSR (economic crisis, perestroika, glasnost, democratization, collapse of the alliance system)
• August Coup attempt (split in the CPSU, 3 groups: Yeltsin's group, Gorbachev's group, hardliners' group)

The following are key terms, events, and people that you should know:

• Yeltsin
• Gorbachev
• Kravchuk (Ukraine)
• Yanayev (Gorbachev's vice president)
• CFE Treaty
• August coup
• Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Extraordinary State Committee
• coup d'etat
• perestroika
• glasnost
• democratization