May 8

Social 33

I collected your Cold War Maps of Europe today. I gave you plenty of time to work on a Cold War booklet that covers the following events in the Cold War: the end of WWII and the division of Germany into zones of occupation, the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, containment, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the domino theory, and the Vietnam War. We will be looking at these concepts and events in greater detail next week.

Social 20-1

We started our examination of Unit 3 today. Yesterday, you were to have picked up the Unit 3 Organizational Web and the Unit 3 Worksheet as well. Today, we did a brief opinion survey to help us establish the different viewpoints of nationalists and internationalists, and then I started a PowerPoint presentation called "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism", which I will finish on Monday. This is your last weekend to work on your Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Projects. You need to begin discussing how you will be presenting your findings to the class on May 14th. I will be sending you a document on the final phases of this project this weekend. Also, I will be sending you the Unit 2 Position Paper topic by e-mail later today (you're writing this in the Blenheim Room on Monday), so please check your e-mail! (I'm including it here on the blog as well, just in case):

"Hitler did not wage war because of the Treaty of Versailles, although he found its existence a godsend for his propaganda. Even if Germany had been left with its old borders, even if it had been allowed whatever military forces it wanted … [Hitler] would still have wanted more."
- Margaret MacMillan

To what extent should we embrace the perspective(s) reflected in the source?

Please check the upcoming important dates below:

• Unit 2 In-Class Position Paper is on Monday, May 11th
• Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Project presentations begin on Thursday, May 14th (all groups must be ready to present on this date, there will be a random draw to see which groups present, prepare for a 10-15 minute presentation plus question and answer session)
• Unit 2 Final Exam (75 multiple choice questions) is on Wednesday, May 20th (please see the study guide below)
  

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:

• The Causes of World War I
• Total War-Allied Victory in WWI-Paris Peace Conference
• Ultranationalism in WWII: Italy, Japan, Germany
• The Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII
• The Holocaust
• Eight Stages of Genocide (from the Genocide Watch website)
• Contemporary Examples of Genocide

2. Know the following key concepts:

• national interest
• domestic policy
• foreign policy
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• Treaty of Versailles
• Big Four (Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando)
• appeasement
• ultranationalism
• propaganda
• conscription crisis
• Adolf Hitler
• Nazis
• Hirohito
• Tojo
• Kristallnacht
• The Way of Subjects
• League of Nations
• total war
• internment
• War Measures Act
• Great Depression
• the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• irredentism
• genocide
• crimes against humanity
• war crimes
• Holocaust
• ethnic cleansing
• lebensraum
• Weimar Republic
• Final Solution
• decolonization
• successor state
• self-determination

3. Make sure that you review the following broad topics in your review of Unit 2 (and make sure that you can answer ALL of the questions on the Unit 2 Worksheet):

• World War I (don't concern yourself with memorizing battles though)
• Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
• The Interwar Years
• Rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Japan, and Italy
• Causes of World War II and key events (turning points in the war)
• The Holocaust
• Contemporary examples of genocide (review case studies that were emphasized in class and in the textbook, review your notes for "Scream Bloody Murder", "Shake Hands with the Devil")
• Decolonization and self-determination (quick review of "Gandhi" film study booklet, what are successor states? What is self-determination? Kosovo case study)
  

Social 30

I gave you a package on Southeast Asia today that was intended to give you some background information on the Vietnam War. When you completed the activities in this booklet you were to take a copy of a booklet on the Vietnam War. Your homework for Monday is to complete the People, Concepts/Terms, and Issues sections on the front of the booklet (please see below). Use your textbook and other sources to complete this information-gathering exercise. We will be watching a documentary on the Vietnam War on Monday, so you need to have completed the information-gathering prior to that class (please be on time on Monday, it is an 80 minute film). On Tuesday, May 12th, you will be writing a "Cold War Concepts Quiz", please see the study guide for this quiz below.

A. People

• Ho Chi Minh
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Richard M. Nixon
• Viet Minh
• Viet Cong
• Le Duc Tho
• Henry Kissinger
• William Westmoreland
• "draft dodger"

B. Concepts/Terms

• Ho Chi Minh Trail
• defoliation
• "search and destroy" mission
• "Vietnamization"of the war
• Gulf of Tonkin Incident
• My Lai Massacre
• domino theory
• Kent State University protest (May 4, 1970)
• Tet Offensive (January 1968)
• Geneva Agreements (1954)

C. Issues

1. The predominant religion of Vietnam

2. The battle which marked the end of French colonial rule in Indo-China

3. The scandal which led to the only resignation of an American President

4. The Vice President who replaced the President after his resignation

5. Why was November 1963 a "bad month" for the governments of South Vietnam and the United States?

Cold War Concepts Quiz Study Guide:

This short answer quiz will be on Tuesday, May 12th. 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(review the Motives and Forms of Conflict and Cooperation notes that I have sent to you by e-mail, and review these concepts from your textbook as well):

• 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
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security

Know key information about the United Nations (review Chapter 9 and the UN Organization Notes and United Nations PowerPoint presentation that I sent to you by e-mail):

• What is the primary goal of the UN?
• Be able to describe how the UN is involved in the world today
• Be able to explain the following concepts related to the UN: the Security Council, General Assembly, voting procedures, veto power
• criticisms of the UN