May 4

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I gave you the study for the Interwar Years-WWII Exam, which is on Thursday, May 7th. I am also posting it here on the blog, so please check below if you missed class today. I gave you a handout on the Timeline of the Holocaust, and had you add notes to this handout. I then showed you a documentary called "Genocide" which does a very good job of summarizing the Holocaust. Tomorrow, we'll be looking at the Nuremberg Trials which occurred after WWII was over.

Interwar Years-WWII Exam Study Guide:

Key Terms, Key People, Key Events:

• League of Nations


• Woodrow Wilson


• Nazis


• Treaty of Versailles


• Paris Peace Conference


• "Big Three"


• isolationist policy of the United States


• self-determination


• Manchuria


• Abyssinia


• Mein Kampf


• Neville Chamberlain


• appeasement


• Munich Conference/Munich Agreement


• Anschluss


• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact


• blitzkrieg


• the Holocaust


• concentration/extermination camps


• Pearl Harbour


• collective security and the League of Nations


• Maginot Line


• Rhineland


• Stalin


• Battle of Britain
  

Other Tips:

• key points in the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe)


• FAILURe of the League of Nations (why did the League of Nations fail?)


• examples of the failure of the League of Nations (Abyssinia, Manchuria, the Spanish Civil War)


• who were the "Big Three" at the Paris Peace Conference, and what did they each want?


• know about the breakup of empires in post-WWI world (Austro-Hungarian as an example)


• what is self-determination?


• Hitler's main ideas and how he put them into action


• what is appeasement? why did Chamberlain employ it at the Munich conference?


• how did Hitler rise to power?


• what is Anschluss?


• what does blitzkrieg mean? what tactics are used in blitzkrieg?


• be able to name some Nazi concentration camps


• significance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour


• major turning points in WWII (fall of France, attack on Pearl Harbour, D-Day landing, use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki)

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Today, we looked at the case study of Kosovo today. We watched an episode of CBC News in Review April 2008 on Kosovo. While you were watching this video, you were to work on the question booklet that went with the video. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow, I will do a homework check on this tomorrow. Your Chapter 7-8 Test is on Thursday, May 7th, please see the study guide below. If you miss class on Thursday due to IB Exams, you will write this test when I see you next (the exam, of course, will be different from the one written by the rest of the class).

Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:

This test is on Thursday, May 7th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "The Holocaust"


• "8 Stages of Genocide" (see the Genocide Watch website: http://www.genocidewatch.org/)


• "Contemporary Examples of Genocide"
  

Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:

• 36 Questions About The Holocaust


• Turning Points in History: The Atomic Bomb (film notes)


• White Light/Black Rain (film notes)


• Shake Hands with the Devil (film notes + package)


• Unit 2 Worksheet (chapter questions for Chapter 7 and 8)


• make sure that you have read Chapters 7 and 8!


• read the links about the genocide in Darfur that I will send to you!
  

1. Please study the following key concepts/key people/key events:
genocide:

• crimes against humanity


• war crimes


• the Holocaust


• ethnic cleansing


• lebensraum


• Weimar Republic


• Final Solution


• decolonization


• successor state


• self-determination


• Wansee Conference


• Nuremberg Trials


• Mahatma Gandhi


• Jawaharlal Nehru


• Mohammed Ali Jinnah


• home rule


• Hutu


• Tutsi


• Romeo Dallaire


• Manhattan Project


• Hiroshima


• Nagasaki


• Robert Oppenheimer


• FDR


• Harry Truman


• Potsdam Conference


• Slobodan Milosevic

2. You should be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 2 worksheet from Chapter 7 and 8.

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We covered a lot of ground today. I have sent you a PowerPoint presentation on "The United Nations" and notes on the United Nations, so please check your e-mail. Print these notes off, read them, and add them to your binders. I also went through a PowerPoint presentation on "The Korean War" ans showed you a video on the Korean War. Please remember your WWII Unit Exam is on Wednesday, May 6th, here is a link to the study guide.