December 3

IB 30/35

I went through a PowerPoint presentation on "The New Deal" today. You can find this presentation on the IB 30/35 wiki under The Great Depression and the Americas section. As I went through this lecture, you were to complete a chart on the New Deal. Your homework assignment documents are posted on the wiki as well, and these assignments are both due on Thursday, December 5th:

• Hoover's Self-Reliance (find on the Great Depression and the Americas page of the wiki)
• Critics of the New Deal (chart). You will also need to open up the PDF file called Challenges of the New Deal. You can find these handouts also on the Great Depression and the Americas page of the IB 30/35 wiki.

Next Thursday (December 12th) you will write your Social 30-1 Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test. Please see the study guide below to aid you in preparing for this multiple choice test.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada)
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

Social 30-1

I covered a couple of key concepts at the beginning of class, including first past the post (FPTP) and proportional representation (PR). I also went through the PowerPoint lecture on the "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You can find this presentation on the Social 30-1 wiki under Unit 3 Presentations. I also gave you a reading from Maclean's magazine called "The End of Democracy?" (highly recommended reading). Please remember that your Canada-USA Comparative Government Assignment is due one week from today (December 10th).

Social 20-1

I started on a PowerPoint lecture today called "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism", which I should be able to finish off tomorrow. If you missed class today, you missed some good rants too. If you haven't written your Unit 2 WRA II Essay, it is expected that you will write it tomorrow. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is Tuesday, December 10th, please see the study guide below.

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)