May 5

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today in class. You should get the results back tomorrow. Please remember to prepare for your Unit 2 WRA II Essay tonight! You'll be writing this essay on Thursday, May 7th in the Blenheim Room. This will be the last essay in Social 30-1 that you will be able to prepare in advance for, so I strongly encourage you to work on your argumentation and evidence ideas tonight.

Social 20-1

We continued watching "Gandhi" today in class. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7-8 Test on Thursday, May 7th. Please follow the study guide below.

Here is a link to interesting article from the BBC about the legacy of Gandhi, both in India and abroad: Is Mahatma Gandhi still a hero to Indians?

Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:

This test is on Thursday, May 7th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3-4 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "The Holocaust" (this will be posted on the wiki)
• "8 Stages of Genocide" (see the Genocide Watch website: http://www.genocidewatch.org/; it's also posted on the wiki)
• "Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (this will be posted on the wiki)

Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:

• 36 Questions About The Holocaust  
• 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.