May 12

Social 20-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation called "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism" today, and I will be sending this presentation to you this afternoon. Please print this presentation off (4-6 slides per page) and add it to your notes. I will be doing a homework check on this tomorrow. Also, tomorrow, I will be having the students who have missed class due to IB exams or illnesses write your Chapter 7-8 Test. If you can write this outside of classroom time, that would be preferable, so you don't miss more class time (so if you have a spare, write it during the spare). Tonight, I would be working on finishing off your Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Projects and preparing for your classroom presentations. It would be a good idea to start working on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions from the Unit 3 Worksheet as well, I am not assigning it for homework yet, but it will be due very soon.

Social 33

We continued working on your Cold Events booklets today. You should be events in the 1960s by now, preferably in the Cuban Missile Crisis or Vietnam War era. You'll get a little bit of classroom time to work on these booklets again tomorrow, and we'll also watch a video on the Cuban Missile Crisis tomorrow.

Social 30

Most of today's class was spent writing your Cold War Concepts Quiz. Please make sure that you are up-to-date with your reading and note-taking in the Global Forces of the 20th Century textbook. At this point, you should have read and taken notes on Chapter 11 material, and you should be reading and taking notes on Chapter 13 as well. I just want to point out the reading schedule that I set for you when we started looking at Topic B, I'm posting the reading schedule as it pertains to our study for the rest of the semester:

The Cold War (note chronological deviation):

• Chapter 9 April 25th-29th
• Chapter 10 April 30th-May 4th
• Chapter 11 May 5th-May 8th
• Chapter 13 May 9th-May 12th

The Contemporary World:

• Chapter 12 May 13th-May 16th
• Chapter 14 May 17th-May 20th
• Chapter 15 May 21st-May 24th
• Chapter 16 May 25th-May 28th
• Chapter 17 May 29th-June 1st
• Chapter 18 June 2nd-June 4th
• Chapter 19 June 5th-June 7th
  

You must be keeping up with the reading in the textbook! I will start to give you pop quizzes on material from Chapter 11 and onward, so BE PREPARED!! Here's a reminder of what to be looking for in Chapters 11 and 13 (I've made some revisions to this, so please pay attention!):

Chapter 11: Superpower Detente (1962-1988)

• Soviet bloc
• Brezhnev Doctrine
• Prague Spring
• Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
• Solidarity movement in Poland
• detente and the Helsinki Accord
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• possible essay questions: To what extent should powerful nation-states become involved in the resolution of crisis situations? and To what extent does weapons production promote international stability?

Chapter 13: Nationalism in Asia

• Japan 1945-1980
• self-determination and sovereignty
• breakup of empires-decolonization-wars of national liberation
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• North Korea today (nuclear threat)
• possible essay question: To what extent should nations promote their national interests?