Friday, July 27, 2018

July 27


Today was your last day of class in summer school. You wrote your Trial Final Exam (results have been posted into HomeLogic), we finished watching "Shouting Fire" and you continued to work on your WRA II Essay Diploma Exam preparation. Your school-awarded mark in Social 30-1 will be posted in HomeLogic by the end of classes today (at 12:15 p.m.). This mark counts for 70% of your final mark in Social Studies 30-1. The other 30% comes from the Diploma Exam, weighted equally between Part A (written component) and Part B (multiple choice). If you need to reach me before the Diploma Exam, in other words, if you have any questions, please feel free to send me an email.

Please check our student writing samples for the Social 30-1 Part A Diploma Exam here (you'll have to scroll down to find it). It includes the actual diploma, student writing samples, and the marks the writing samples received. Social 30-1 Student Writing Exemplars

It has been a pleasure teaching all of you! Good luck in your Grade 12 year!
  • Social Studies 30-1 Part A of the Diploma Exam is on Thursday, August 2nd (9 am to 12 pm)
  • Social Studies 30-1 Part B of the Diploma Exam is on Tuesday, August 7th (9 am to 11:30 am)
*All Summer School Diploma Exams will be written at Viscount Bennett Centre (2519 Richmond Road SW)

Thursday, July 26, 2018

July 26


We finished off watching the film "Snowden" today at the beginning of class. I hope that this film was thought-provoking for you, unfortunately since this is a summer school course I couldn't give you an assignment to go along with the movie. Have a look at the discussion questions that are part of the film study guide and see how you would answer them. We moved on to the computer lab to start working on some Diploma Exam preparation for the Part A, namely the major writing assignment (WRA II essay). We'll do this tomorrow as well. You can always check out all of the WRA I and WRA II prompts from the Diploma Exam Review page on the Social 30-1 wiki too. You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today after the break as well. Tomorrow you have your Trial Final Exam which counts for 15% of your school-awarded mark in Social 30-1. The study guide for this exam is at the back on the Social 30-1 coursebooks. I also checked over your Civil Rights Movement Assignment today as well. Once you were finished writing the Unit 3 Final Exam we started watching "Shouting Fire" which deals with freedom of speech issues surrounding the First Amendment in the United States. I forgot to post a YouTube link to "Unconstitutional" yesterday, so you'll find that below. This documentary deals with the early days of the Patriot Act. You should also check out the reading from the BBC in your coursebooks on CCTV cameras in Britain.



Wednesday, July 25, 2018

July 25


We finished off watching "The FLQ Crisis" from the Turning Points in History series. You wrote your Chapter 10 Test  today as well. I showed you a CBC News in Review from 2006 that covered the 9/11 attack. We covered the USA PATRIOT Act quickly as well. Please make sure that you cover all of the Patriot Act content in your Social 30-1 coursebooks. We also looked at the issue of government surveillance. We started our film study of "Snowden", which we will continue tomorrow. 




  • Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 26th (see study guide below)
  • Civil Rights Movement Assignment (due tomorrow)
  • Trial Final Exam is on Friday, July 27th (study guide is the same as for the Diploma Exam, it's at the back of your Social 30-1 coursebooks)




Please study the following material: 
  • make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
  • study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
  • "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)
Review the following notes/packages:
  • Democratic Systems
  • Non-Democratic Systems
  • types of dictatorships
  • techniques of dictatorships
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • authoritarian systems (China notes)
  • review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
  • re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
  • FLQ Crisis 1970
Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:
  • assimilation
  • self-interest
  • humanitarianism
  • Indian Act
  • residential school system
  • enfranchisement
  • the White Paper
  • the Red Paper
  • “war on terror"
  • authoritarianism
  • consensus decision-making
  • direct democracy
  • military dictatorship
  • oligarchy
  • one-party state
  • party solidarity
  • representation by population
  • proportional representation
  • representative democracy
  • responsible government
  • democracy
  • single-member constituency (first past the post)
  • the Senate
  • the House of Commons
  • the House of Representatives
  • the Senate
  • mixed-member proportional system
  • lobby groups
  • American Bill of Rights
  • Anti-Terrorism Act
  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • emergency and security legislation
  • illiberal
  • language legislation
  • Bill 101
  • Bill 178
  • Bill 86
  • Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
  • respect for law and order
  • terrorism
  • rendition
  • the War Measures Act
  • enemy aliens
  • internment
  • the Emergencies Act
  • USA PATRIOT Act
  • consumerism
  • environmental change
  • extremism
  • pandemics
  • postmodernism
  • global warming
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • drought

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

July 24


You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay at the start of class today. I am going to try and get those essays back to you by Thursday. I recommend you to read, highlight and annotate the notes on "The Modern History of China". China is our case study for an authoritarian regime, so it's a good idea to familiarize yourselves with some history of the country, other than what is in your textbook. I also assigned the Civil Rights Movement Assignment (due Thursday). Don't forget that your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due tomorrow. When we came back to the classroom after the break we looked political challenges to liberalism by looking at political concepts associated with the American and Canadian political systems and how they either reflect or inhibit the will of the people. I also showed you a documentary on Vladimir Putin (please see below). The Russian Federation is an example of an oligarchy. You might also want to check this out: Why Putin is the most powerful man in the world.

We also started studying the concept of illiberalism by looking at Canadian history. Make sure that you check out the Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII PowerPoint notes in the Social 30-1 coursebooks. We also looked at the FLQ Crisis (1970). You should be aware that in both of these instances that the War Measures Act (1914) was used to wipe of the civil rights of Canadians. In the case of the FLQ Crisis, those rights were guaranteed in the Canadian Bill of Rights (passed in 1960). I showed you a documentary from the History's Turning Points series on the FLQ Crisis. Check below the video for the upcoming important dates in Social 30-1.



  • Chapter 10 Test is tomorrow (Wednesday, July 25th) (see study guide below)
  • USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment (due on Wednesday, July 25th)
  • Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 26th (see study guide below)
  • Civil Rights Movement Assignment (due on Thursday)
  • Trial Final Exam is on Friday, July 27th (study guide is the same as for the Diploma Exam, it's at the back of your Social 30-1 coursebooks)



This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions
Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism"

You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Key Terms and Activities Google Doc. Please review the following as well: 
  • Democratic Systems (handout notes)
  • Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
  • Structure of Canadian Government
  • Structure of American Government
  • similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
  • types of dictatorships
  • techniques of dictatorships
  • authoritarian systems
  • proportional representation concept
  • first past the post system
  • review political and economic spectrum (again!)


Please study the following material: 
  • make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
  • study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
  • "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)
Review the following notes/packages:
  • Democratic Systems
  • Non-Democratic Systems
  • types of dictatorships
  • techniques of dictatorships
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • authoritarian systems (China notes)
  • review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
  • re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
  • FLQ Crisis 1970
Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:
  • assimilation
  • self-interest
  • humanitarianism
  • Indian Act
  • residential school system
  • enfranchisement
  • the White Paper
  • the Red Paper
  • “war on terror"
  • authoritarianism
  • consensus decision-making
  • direct democracy
  • military dictatorship
  • oligarchy
  • one-party state
  • party solidarity
  • representation by population
  • proportional representation
  • representative democracy
  • responsible government
  • democracy
  • single-member constituency (first past the post)
  • the Senate
  • the House of Commons
  • the House of Representatives
  • the Senate
  • mixed-member proportional system
  • lobby groups
  • American Bill of Rights
  • Anti-Terrorism Act
  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • emergency and security legislation
  • illiberal
  • language legislation
  • Bill 101
  • Bill 178
  • Bill 86
  • Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
  • respect for law and order
  • terrorism
  • rendition
  • the War Measures Act
  • enemy aliens
  • internment
  • the Emergencies Act
  • USA PATRIOT Act
  • consumerism
  • environmental change
  • extremism
  • pandemics
  • postmodernism
  • global warming
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • drought

Monday, July 23, 2018

July 23



You wrote the Unit 2 Final Exam at the beginning of class today. Results of this exam have been posted into HomeLogic already. I went through the structure of the Canadian political system, we talked about federalism and the division of powers between the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government. We looked at different electoral systems, and focused in on first past the post (FPTP) and proportional representation (PR) and how the 2015 Canadian federal election would looked differently IF Canada employed a PR system. I also went through the "Political Challenges to Liberalism" PowerPoint lecture, focusing primarily on the non-democratic systems section. The first half of the lecture is a nice review of the democratic systems concepts that I have already taught to you. We finished up in the computer lab working on one of the three following activities: 

1. Chapter 10 Key Concepts and Activities (Google Doc)
2. Unit 2 WRA II Essay prep (Google Doc)
3. USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment (if you're working with a partner, it would be easiest to do this as a Google Doc to collaborate. You're going to hand in a hard copy of the assignment)



  • Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Tuesday, July 24th (you already have the invitation to edit the Google Doc)
  • Chapter 10 Test is on Wednesday, July 25th (see study guide below)
  • USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment (due on Wednesday, July 25th)
  • Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 26th (see study guide below)
  • Trial Final Exam is on Friday, July 27th (study guide is the same as for the Diploma Exam, it's at the back of your Social 30-1 coursebooks)



This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions
Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism"

You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Key Terms and Activities Google Doc. Please review the following as well: 
  • Democratic Systems (handout notes)
  • Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
  • Structure of Canadian Government
  • Structure of American Government
  • similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
  • types of dictatorships
  • techniques of dictatorships
  • authoritarian systems
  • proportional representation concept
  • first past the post system
  • review political and economic spectrum (again!)


Please study the following material: 
  • make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
  • study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
  • "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)
Review the following notes/packages:
  • Democratic Systems
  • Non-Democratic Systems
  • types of dictatorships
  • techniques of dictatorships
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • authoritarian systems (China notes)
  • review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
  • re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
  • FLQ Crisis 1970
Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:
  • assimilation
  • self-interest
  • humanitarianism
  • Indian Act
  • residential school system
  • enfranchisement
  • the White Paper
  • the Red Paper
  • “war on terror"
  • authoritarianism
  • consensus decision-making
  • direct democracy
  • military dictatorship
  • oligarchy
  • one-party state
  • party solidarity
  • representation by population
  • proportional representation
  • representative democracy
  • responsible government
  • democracy
  • single-member constituency (first past the post)
  • the Senate
  • the House of Commons
  • the House of Representatives
  • the Senate
  • mixed-member proportional system
  • lobby groups
  • American Bill of Rights
  • Anti-Terrorism Act
  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • emergency and security legislation
  • illiberal
  • language legislation
  • Bill 101
  • Bill 178
  • Bill 86
  • Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
  • respect for law and order
  • terrorism
  • rendition
  • the War Measures Act
  • enemy aliens
  • internment
  • the Emergencies Act
  • USA PATRIOT Act
  • consumerism
  • environmental change
  • extremism
  • pandemics
  • postmodernism
  • global warming
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • drought

Friday, July 20, 2018

July 20



You wrote the Cold War Quiz at the beginning of class today. I went over some criticisms of liberal democracies (this is in your 30-1 coursebooks), and then you watched a BBC documentary called "10 Questions About Democracy" (see hyperlink), and completed answers to fill out a chart. I would recommend completing the political compass survey here, to see where you stand politically on an economic-political grid. You also should study the political terms definitions on the cartoon pages (autocracy, despotism, Nazism, etc.). I went through the main types of democracies (direct democracy and representative democracy), and then we talked about the different types of representative democracies: parliamentary democracy and presidential democracy (congressional system). I also went through the diagram of the American political structure. Here are the two YouTube videos that I showed in class: 










We will be looking at the structure of the Canadian government on Monday, as well as looking at different electoral systems, and in particular first past the post (FPTP) and proportional representation (PR). You will get a comparative government assignment from me on Monday. You are writing the Unit 2 Final Exam on Monday (July 23rd), please see the study guide below. Next week is a busy week, please have a look at the upcoming important dates and study guides below. Study for the Unit 2 Final Exam this weekend (complete the Chapter 8-10 Google Docs), and prepare for the Unit 2 WRA II Essay



Please have a look at the other key dates below (and study guides).

  • Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, July 23rd (see study guide below)
  • Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Tuesday, July 24th (you got the essay question sheet today and an invitation to edit the Google Doc)
  • Chapter 10 Test is on Wednesday, July 25th (see study guide below)
  • Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 26th (see study guide below)
  • Trial Final Exam is on Friday, July 27th (study guide is the same as for the Diploma Exam, it's at the back of your Social 30-1 coursebooks)


The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, July 23rd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:

  • study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
  • study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
  • study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
  • study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
  • study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
  • study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
  • study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
  • 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), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
  • also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
  • characteristics of a mixed economy
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • 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 (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
  • how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
  • advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
  • neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
  • characteristics of a centrally planned economy
  • advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
  • Marx notes 
  • Lenin notes 
  • establishment of the Soviet Union
  • Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
  • Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
  • "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
  • Stalin notes 
  • "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
  • Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
  • modern liberalism
  • features of the Nazi state
  • Hitler's rise to power
  • 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 spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model


This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions
Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism"

You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet. Please review the following as well: 
  • Democratic Systems (handout notes)
  • Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
  • Structure of Canadian Government
  • Structure of American Government
  • similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
  • types of dictatorships
  • techniques of dictatorships
  • authoritarian systems
  • proportional representation concept
  • first past the post system
  • review political and economic spectrum (again!)


Please study the following material: 
  • make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
  • study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
  • "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)
Review the following notes/packages:
  • Democratic Systems
  • Non-Democratic Systems
  • types of dictatorships
  • techniques of dictatorships
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • authoritarian systems (China notes)
  • review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
  • re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
  • FLQ Crisis 1970
Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:
  • assimilation
  • self-interest
  • humanitarianism
  • Indian Act
  • residential school system
  • enfranchisement
  • the White Paper
  • the Red Paper
  • “war on terror"
  • authoritarianism
  • consensus decision-making
  • direct democracy
  • military dictatorship
  • oligarchy
  • one-party state
  • party solidarity
  • representation by population
  • proportional representation
  • representative democracy
  • responsible government
  • democracy
  • single-member constituency (first past the post)
  • the Senate
  • the House of Commons
  • the House of Representatives
  • the Senate
  • mixed-member proportional system
  • lobby groups
  • American Bill of Rights
  • Anti-Terrorism Act
  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • emergency and security legislation
  • illiberal
  • language legislation
  • Bill 101
  • Bill 178
  • Bill 86
  • Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
  • respect for law and order
  • terrorism
  • rendition
  • the War Measures Act
  • enemy aliens
  • internment
  • the Emergencies Act
  • USA PATRIOT Act
  • consumerism
  • environmental change
  • extremism
  • pandemics
  • postmodernism
  • global warming
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • drought

Thursday, July 19, 2018

July 19



We finished off "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" today. I gave you answers to the last column for the Cold War Events Notes today too. Your Vietnam War Assignment is due on Friday (it's in your coursebooks and below). I gave back your Unit 2 WRA I today, and I went over the sources and gave you some advice on completing these assignments on the Diploma Exam too. We're going to write the Chapter 7 Test tomorrow, I was worried that you wouldn't have enough time to write it today. 

We watched "Good Night, and Good Luck" today as well which covered the McCarthyism eraThis film explores a lot of issues that are relevant to today. You also have to understand the political climate at the time in the United States to fully understand the movie. Many Americans were drawn to communism in the 1930s due to the effects of the Great Depression, especially academics and those in the labour fields. In the movie they made reference to friends and spouses that had attended meetings long ago. The "Red Scare" caused a huge backlash against those sympathetic to communism or the USSR. Remember, during WWII the Soviet Union was an ally, and many people may have attended meetings out of curiosity. The junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy in 1950 charged there were communist sympathizers in the U.S. State Department. Hearings were held, charges were discovered to be unfounded. McCarthy continued accusing communist infiltration in the Democratic Party. McCarthy became the chairman of the House Subcommittee on the investigation of un-American activity (HUAC). On December 2, 1954, McCarthy’s actions were called into question and his accusations were deemed unfounded. On Murrow's show "See it Now", he begins to publicly go after McCarthy. A very public feud develops when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. Murrow is accused of having been a member of the leftist union Industrial Workers of the World, which Murrow claimed was false.
In this climate of fear and reprisal (which we now refer to as McCarthyism), the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity ultimately strikes a historic blow against McCarthy. Historical footage in the movie also shows the questioning of Annie Lee Moss, a Pentagon communication worker accused of being a communist based on her name appearing on a list seen by an FBI infiltrator of the American Communist Party. In the first half of the film Murrow talks about how McCarthy didn't create the political climate and anti-Communist hysteria sweeping the country, but that he capitalized on it for political gain very effectively. As David Strathairn (playing Murrow in the film says, "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate responsibility." The film is framed by the performance of the speech given by Murrow to the Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1958, in which Murrow harshly admonishes his audience not to squander the potential of television to inform and educate the public. I found this short video on YouTube that spliced together Edward R. Murrow's speech that appears at the beginning of the film and continues at the end of the film. I find that this speech has relevance even today when you talk about the level of discourse in the media. A word that you should associate Joseph McCarthy with is demagogue, which means "a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument." What McCarthy was engaging in was demagoguery.








A. PEOPLE
Identify and explain the role each played in the Vietnam War
1. Ho Chi Minh
2. Ngo Dinh Diem
3. Lyndon B. Johnson
4. Richard M. Nixon
5. Viet Minh
6. Viet Cong
7. Le Duc Tho
8. Henry Kissinger
9. William Westmoreland
10. "Draft Dodger"

B. CONCEPTS/TERMS
Explain the significance of the following with regards to the Vietnam War (identify participants or individuals if appropriate)
1. Ho Chi Minh Trail
2. defoliation
3. "search and destroy" mission
4. "Vietnamization of the war"
5. Gulf of Tonkin Incident
6. My Lai Massacre
7. domino theory
8. Kent State University protest (May 4, 1970)
9. Tet Offensive (January 1968)
10. Geneva Agreement (1954)

C. ISSUES
Provide the information requested
1. The predominant religion of Vietnam
2. The battle which marked the end of French colonial rule in Indo-China
3. The scandal which led to the only resignation of an American President
4. The Vice President who replaced the President after his resignation
5. Why was November 1963 a "bad month" for the governments of South Vietnam and the United States?




Please have a look at the other key dates below (and study guides).

  • Chapter 7 Test has been moved to tomorrow (see study guide below)
  • Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, July 23rd (see study guide below)
  • Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Tuesday, July 24th (you will get the essay question sheet in advance)
  • Chapter 10 Test is on Wednesday, July 25th
  • Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 26th
  • Trial Final Exam is on Friday, July 27th

This exam covers the Cold War period, it is a multiple choice test with 30-35 questions. It will be on Thursday, July 19thPlease make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:
  • study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
  • study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
  • study notes on the Korean War
  • study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
  • study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
  • make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
  • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
  • know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
  • know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
  • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
  • anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
  • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, July 23rd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:

  • study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
  • study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
  • study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
  • study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
  • study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
  • study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
  • study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
  • 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), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
  • also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
  • characteristics of a mixed economy
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • 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 (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
  • how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
  • advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
  • neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
  • characteristics of a centrally planned economy
  • advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
  • Marx notes 
  • Lenin notes 
  • establishment of the Soviet Union
  • Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
  • Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
  • "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
  • Stalin notes 
  • "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
  • Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
  • modern liberalism
  • features of the Nazi state
  • Hitler's rise to power
  • 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 spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model