Wednesday, May 20, 2009

May 20

Sorry for the later post tonight...


You wrote your Position Paper #3 in the Blenheim Room today, which took up the whole period.


We watched "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" today, which took up most of the period. You have your Cold War Unit Exam on Tuesday, please see the study guide below.

Key Terms/Key Concepts/Key Events/Key People:

  • Yalta Conference
  • Potsdam Conference
  • Stalin
  • NATO
  • brinkmanship
  • detente
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Berlin Wall
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Iron Curtain
  • mutually assured destruction (M.A.D.)
  • disarmament
  • Marshall Plan
  • containment
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • Kennedy
  • Khrushchev
  • SALT I
  • SALT II
  • Vietnam War
  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
  • Cold War
  • United Nations
  • collapse of the Soviet Union/collapse of communism
  • Hungarian Revolution (1956)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Partial Test Ban Treaty
  • balance of power (between USA and USSR)
  • domino theory
  • Korean War

Here's how I would prepare for this unit final:

  • study the Cold War timeline (handout)
  • study the 6Ws for each of those Cold War Events
  • study the chart on the nuclear arms race (it's the back page of the Cold War Events handout, legal sized paper)
  • study the timeline of events on the Cold War Events booklet
  • study the key terms listed above (prepare for each them, they're on the test)

You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today, which took most of the period. You should be able to get the results of this exam as well as some other assignments tomorrow (if we have time). We have one more Unit 2 Collaborative Project presentation tomorrow, and then we'll be looking at Canadian foreign policy and some Chapter 10 material in Exploring Nationalism.

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