Tuesday, July 16, 2013

July 16


I didn't get a chance to post anything on the blog yesterday, so here's a recap of what we did:

  • You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I (I marked these yesterday, so that's why I didn't get around to posting)
  • FAILURe of the League of Nations
  • "Ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan" (ppt)
  • Japanese expansionism and motivation for attacking Pearl Harbor
  • Watched excerpt from "Pearl Harbor"
  • You should have read over the "The Internment of Japanese-Canadians" PowerPoint notes from your green study booklet
  • Started to learn how to write a WRA II Essay

You wrote your Chapter 5-6 Test today. We also continued looking at how to write a WRA II Essay by looking at the difference between argumentation and evidence. Please make sure that you keep up with the readings from the green study booklet, specifically the following:
  • Down the Road to World War II
  • Blitzkrieg to the Bomb
  • Blitzkrieg! (reading on front with map on back)
  • Barbarossa
  • Japan's Pacific Blitzkrieg
  • The Turn of the Tide: Hitler Tastes Defeat
  • The Defeat of Hitler's Germany
  • Japanese Defeat in the Far East
  • Canada's Role in WWII
We also watched the video "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb", the notes that go along with the video are in the green booklet (see above). We didn't get a chance to watch an excerpt from "Saving Private Ryan" today, but we will tomorrow. Please see the study guides for the upcoming tests below. Your Chapter 7-8 Test is on Tuesday, July 23rd, and your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 24th. Both study guides are posted below.


This test is on Tuesday, July 23rd. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:

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!

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.


This exam consists of 75 multiple choice questions, and it will be on Wednesday, July 24th.

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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