November 26

Social 30-1

As a class we brainstormed arguments and evidence related to Monday's Unit 2 WRA II. Please go directly to the Blenheim Room on Monday to write the essay. Click here to see the Oreo Cookies video that I was talking about today in class

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 7-8 Test today, which took the entire class period. Please remember that your Unit 2 Research Project is due on Monday. If you are doing a Prezi, please send me the link to your Prezi to my e-mail account, and make sure that your hand in your typed reference list to me. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, December 6th, please see the study guide below. Please make sure that you write your 1st paragraph for an essay based on the following source and question:

"No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves."

-Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General

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

In class on Monday, you'll be moved into small groups for peer editing and constructive criticism, and you will also be handing in this 1st paragraph to me for comments. This is NOT for marks! The purpose of this activity is to be able to give you feedback on how you are writing your essays prior to Thursday's class when you write your Unit 2 WRA II. The text-based source quote will be different for Thursday's essay, and you will ge that essay question sheet on Tuesday.

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)