Monday, February 11, 2013

February 11

We started looking at the "Origins of the Cold War" today. The PowerPoint lecture that I went through today is on the IB 30/35 wiki under The Cold War section. I also gave you a booklet on WWII Conferences and Agreements that you need to study. We'll be looking at some historiography on the start of the Cold War in the coming days. I would like you to go to the World War II Behind Closed Doors website tonight, and read the sections on the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference. This is an excellent site, with tons of information, maps, video clips, timelines and archival footage and re-enactments as well. You do need to really make sure that you understand the Yalta Agreements and the Potsdam Declaration (among other things) and this is a great site to do this. Episode 3 is the one that contains most of the information that you would need to read and watch. There's a great little video clip on this website called "Stalin's Distrust of the West" that might help you see WWII from the Soviet perspective and why the Soviets might wish to extend control over Eastern Europe and be so distrustful of their wartime allies. You can find this video clip in Episode 3 (Dividing the World), scroll down and click on the video clip on the right called "Stalin's Distrust of the West". It's a short little clip, but you'll get the idea. We'll continue our look at the Cold War tomorrow.


I did a quick homework check on the Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions today. We finished watching "Sicko" today. I gave you a booklet today that is to be used with the PBS Frontline documentary "Sick Around the World" (you may have to go the PBS website to watch the entire video). Please see the link to the video below. The questions on the front page of the booklet as well as the retrieval chart on page 2 are due on Tuesday, February 19th.


Watch Sick Around the World on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.


The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Tuesday, February 12th. It is a mixed format test, it will have a matching section and a short answer section. Here is what you should review/study for this test:
  • Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms/Concepts and the Supplementary Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
  • be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (hopefully you have quality answers to study from!)
  • you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
  • know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
  • be able to label political and economic spectrums and the values associated with these ideologies
  • be able to label the political-economic grid and know examples of the ideologies in the quadrants (study the Ideology Notes and the notes I gave you in class)
  • know the differences between individualism and collectivism, be able to apply your understanding of these concepts
  • know the key ideas associated with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (for example, view of the nature of human beings, etc.)

The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Wednesday, February 13th. Make sure that you study the following:
  • Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
  • Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file)
  • Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
  • Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
  • Study the political-economic grid
  • Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
  • Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet
We finished the PowerPoint presentation on "The French Revolution" and I will be sending this presentation to you today. We started watching the History Channel video on the French Revolution, which we will continue tomorrow.  I returned your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions. Your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Wednesday. Please check your e-mail for the more information on the French Revolution.

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