May 8

IB 30/35

You have the Paper 3 (History of the Americas) tomorrow, 3 essays in 150 minutes. Fun!

Here's the class schedule for the next few weeks: 

• No classes on Monday-Wednesday (May 7th to 9th) due to IB Exams (English, History and Math HL exams)
• Thursday, May 10th and Friday, May 11th we have classes
• We have class on Monday, May 14th
• No classes on Tuesday-Thursday (May 15th-17th) due to IB Exams 
• Friday, May 18th PD Day (no classes) but there's IB Exams
• Monday, May 21st is Victoria Day (there may be IB Exams, check your schedule)
• Tuesday, May 22nd everybody should back to class. 

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 7-8 Test today. If you missed class today, you'll have to write the test tomorrow. You can find the Unit 2 Final Exam study guide below.

UNIT 2 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam consists of 75 multiple choice questions, and it will be on Monday, May 14th. 

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 (what are successor states? What is self-determination?)

Social 10-1

I started a lecture today on "Globalization and Sustainability" which I will chip away at for the next couple of days. I also gave you a sample Unit 3 WRA I to try to analyze in the last 30 minutes of class.