Saturday, May 11, 2013

May 10

Oops, I forgot to post on the blog yesterday...


I delivered a lecture on the "Political Challenges to Liberalism", which covered democratic and non-democratic systems. I have sent this PowerPoint presentation to you already. I also gave you an assignment on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement which is due on Friday, May 17th. Please remember that your USA and Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on Wednesday, May 15th. Please make sure that you remind me at the beginning of class on Monday to do a homework check on your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions.


You were given a work period to try to finish off your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions. These key terms and questions are due on Monday. Please remember that your Unit 2 Final Exam is also on Monday. I will be sending out the Unit 3 Worksheet by e-mail today, so if you missed class on Friday you'll have access to the Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions.




The Unit 2 Final Exam will be written on Monday, May 13th. It is a multiple choice exam.

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)

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