Thursday, October 24, 2013

October 24

sorry for the later post tonight, it's been a busy day...
I went through a PowerPoint on how to write a WRA I. I will give a handout on this very topic tomorrow as well. You will be writing a Unit 2 WRA I on Wednesday, October 30th. Please don't forget that you are writing your Economic Systems Exam on Monday, October 28th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). One week from today you will write your Chapter 5 Test (on October 31st), please see the study guide below.

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, October 31st. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (see wiki)
  • Lenin notes (see wiki)
  • Stalin notes (see wiki)
  • Soviet Economy notes
  • Soviet Economic System notes
  • Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
  • Gorbachev to Collapse notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • Characteristics of Democracy
  • Characteristics of Dictatorship
  • Democratic Systems notes
  • Non-Democratic Systems notes
  • Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
  • A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
  • Totalitarianism notes
  • Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
  • do a brief review of the political and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

  • centrally planned economies
  • initiative
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • Reaganomics
  • consumer sovereignty
  • invisible hand
  • Keynesian economics
  • laissez faire economics
  • War Communism
  • Five Year Plans
  • mixed economies
  • indicative planning
  • proportional representation
  • democracy
  • dictatorship
  • political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
  • status quo
  • egalitarianism
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • liberal
  • radical
  • SA
  • Hitler
  • Bolshevik
  • fascism
  • communism
  • indoctrination
  • controlled participation
  • terror and force
  • direction of popular discontent
  • democratic socialists
  • supply-side economics
  • authoritarian
  • tyrant
  • totalitarian
  • totalitarianism
  • ultranationalism
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • propaganda
  • progressive taxation
  • Marx
  • Lenin
  • utopian socialism
  • Gorbachev
  • martial law
  • Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
  • referendum
  • collectivization
  • modernization
  • classical liberal
  • laissez faire free market economy
  • mixed economy
  • planned economy
  • (review your economic political quadrant model)
  • Das Kapital
  • Mein Kampf
  • The Wealth of Nations

We talked about the repercussions of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, namely in Canada the internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII. I showed you a video called "The Tides of War" and as you watched this video you had to complete a film study sheet. I also gave you some notes on the War Measures Act and the three instances in Canadian history in which the War Measures Act was used: WWI, WWII and the FLQ Crisis. You are strongly advised to check out "The Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII" PowerPoint presentation that is in your Social 20-1 blue study booklet, or on the Social 20-1 wiki. Please remember that you have your Chapter 5-6 Test on Monday, October 28th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).
I finished off the "Causes of World War I" PowerPoint lecture. Today's lecture actually focused more on the nature of conflict in WWI. I went through "If World War I were a Barfight" today as well. You should be able to find this on the IB 30/35 wiki, if not, please let me know. We also watched a video from the CBS video series on World War I called "Clash of the Generals". I gave you some notes on this video, and I also talked briefly about the European empires that would not survive after the war. 

I mentioned this in class, so I thought that I would share a link to a website that discusses J.R.R. Tolkien's experiences in the Great War, and how that influenced his writing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, specifically the Journey through the Dead Marshes. The Great War was also a time when some of our most famous Canadian landscape artists came to the forefront, I'm referring to the Group of Seven, of course. Can you see some similarities in the pictures that I'm posting below?









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