Monday, May 01, 2017

May 1


After collecting your Unit 2 Dossier Assignments, I gave you a work period to try and lessen your homework load. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, May 3rd. This Thursday (May 4th), you will be writing your Unit 2 WRA I (three source analysis) in Room 241 (please go there directly). I will spend a lot of class time this week getting you reading for next Monday's Unit 2 WRA II Essay. I will re-teach how to write a position paper this week. Please have a look at the upcoming important dates below (and study guide).

  • Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, May 3rd
  • Unit 2 WRA I is on Thursday, May 4th
  • Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Monday, May 8th
  • Chapter 7-8 Test is on Tuesday, May 9th (please see the study guide below)

This test is on Tuesday, May 9th. 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 is posted on the wiki)
  • "8 Stages of Genocide" (it's also posted on the wiki)
  • "Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (this is 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 on Chapter 7 or 8.




We finished our film study of "The Corporation" today in class. You were given the TNC Dossier Assignment sheet today, and we drew lots to pick the multinational corporation that you are going to profile. This assignment is due on Thursday, May 11th. You have your Chapter 10-11 Test this Thursday (May 4th), please see the study guide below.


Please make sure that you review Chapters 10 and 11. Please review your answers to questions/activities from your Unit 3 worksheet, as well as the key terms (from Chapter 10-11 and from the PowerPoint presentations). This test is on Thurssday, May 4th. 

Please review the following two PowerPoint presentations:

  • "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
  • "Expansion of Economic Globalization"

You should know these key terms really well:
  • Bretton Woods Agreement
  • international monetary system
  • fixed exchange rate
  • gold standard
  • floating exchange rate
  • World Bank
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • centrally planned economy
  • free market economy
  • recession
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Friedrich Hayek
  • Milton Friedman
  • totalitarian
  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
  • tariff
  • World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
You should also be able to answer the following questions:
  • What is economic globalization?
  • How did 20th century world events shape contemporary economic globalization?
  • What factors laid the foundations of contemporary global economics?
  • What were the major global institutions that were created at the Bretton Woods Agreement?
  • What are the major differences between the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek?
  • What factors contribute to expanding globalization?
  • How do international agreements and organizations contribute to expanding globalization?
  • How do transnational corporations contribute to expanding globalization?
  • How do communication technologies contribute to expanding globalization?
  • What are the benefits of the WTO system?
  • What are some criticisms of the WTO?

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