Tuesday, April 30, 2019

April 30


You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I today in the Blenheim Room. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, May 3rd


I taught you how to structure your first paragraph of a position paper today in class. Don't forget that you have your Chapter 7 Test (on the Cold War) tomorrow. You can find the study guide for the Chapter 7 Test below. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are also due tomorrow

Don't forget that you have the Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Monday, May 6th. 

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions, but with all of the omitted questions, it will be closer to 60 questions. Please 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 (deterrence, detente, brinkmanship, etc.)
  • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline)
  • 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)
  • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence" (Eastern Europe for example)
  • anything that I gave you as a handout in your Social 30-1 coursebooks is testable material and should be reviewed!!
  • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Monday, April 29, 2019

April 29


You had a research period in the library today for your Unit 2 Dossier Assignment, hopefully you were able to find some resources/books on your topic. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, May 3rd. You will be writing your Unit 2 WRA I on Tuesday, April 30thYou won't be allowed to have the WRA I writing guide out when you write it, so you need to memorize the steps. 


We finished watching "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. Don't forget that you have the Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Monday, May 6th and the Chapter 7 Test on Wednesday, May 1st. I will post the study guide for the Unit 2 Final Exam this Wednesday, that test is on May 8th. 

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions, but with all of the omitted questions, it will be closer to 60 questions. Please 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 (deterrence, detente, brinkmanship, etc.)
  • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline)
  • 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)
  • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence" (Eastern Europe for example)
  • anything that I gave you as a handout in your Social 30-1 coursebooks is testable material and should be reviewed!!
  • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Friday, April 26, 2019

April 26


If you didn't finish off "Shake Hands with the Devil" yesterday, you would have today. Hopefully, you got some time today to work on your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions. This homework assignment is due next Friday, May 3rd. You will be writing your Unit 2 WRA I on Tuesday, April 30th. You won't be allowed to have the WRA I writing guide out when you write it, so you need to memorize the steps.


You should have handed in your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions today at the beginning of class. We continued watching "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. Don't forget that you have the Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Monday, May 6th and the Chapter 7 Test on Wednesday, May 1st.

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions, but with all of the omitted questions, it will be closer to 60 questions. Please 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 (deterrence, detente, brinkmanship, etc.)
  • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline)
  • 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)
  • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence" (Eastern Europe for example)
  • anything that I gave you as a handout in your Social 30-1 coursebooks is testable material and should be reviewed!!
  • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Thursday, April 25, 2019

April 25


We finished off the film "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" today. You started the film "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. You should be working on the questions in the "Good Night, and Good Luck" film study in your course books. Your Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, May 1st.

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions, but with all of the omitted questions, it will be closer to 60 questions. Please 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 (deterrence, detente, brinkmanship, etc.)
  • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline)
  • 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)
  • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence" (Eastern Europe for example)
  • anything that I gave you as a handout in your Social 30-1 coursebooks is testable material and should be reviewed!!
  • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences


We continued watching "Shake Hands with the Devil" today. If we didn't finish off the film today, we will tomorrow.


Wednesday, April 24, 2019

April 24


You started watching "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" today. You should be able to finish this documentary off tomorrow. You should be working on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions tonight, they are due on Friday. You should also re-read the section in Chapter 7 on McCarthyism tonight at home. It's on pages 265-267 in Perspectives on Ideology textbook. Please see the study guide below for the Chapter 7 Test (The Cold War). The Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, May 1st.

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions, but with all of the omitted questions, it will be closer to 60 questions. Please 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 (deterrence, detente, brinkmanship, etc.)
  • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline)
  • 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)
  • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence" (Eastern Europe for example)
  • anything that I gave you as a handout in your Social 30-1 coursebooks is testable material and should be reviewed!!
  • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences


You finished watching "Scream Bloody Murder" today, and starting watching the film "Shake Hands with the Devil". We might be able to finish off the film tomorrow.


Tuesday, April 23, 2019

April 23


You should have handed in your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions for homework check marks at the beginning of class today. We went through the "8 Stages of Genocide" presentation. There is a Google Slides version of this lecture on the Social 20-1 wiki on the Unit 2 Presentations page. We started the documentary "Scream Bloody Murder" today as well.


You watched the video "Escape from Berlin" from the Discovery series Cold War into Guerrilla War. You had the remainder of class time to work on the Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Friday, April 26th. Make sure that you read the Vietnam War section in your Social 30-1 course books (pages 208-209, and pages 212-217)

Please note that I have moved a few of your upcoming assessments to different dates. Please check the upcoming important dates below:
  • Chapter 7 Test (Cold War) is on Wednesday, May 1st
  • Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Monday, May 6th
  • Unit 2 Final Exam is on Wednesday, May 8th

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

April 17


We finished off the documentary from the Turning Points in History series on the Korean War. I went through the origins of the Cold War again, a timeline of key events in the Cold War. Tomorrow you'll get to work on the Cold War Events Notes charts that are in your coursebooks. You should start working on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions, it will be due next week.



We finished watching the HBO documentary "White Light/Black Rain" today in class. I gave you the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Tuesday, April 23rd.

Monday, April 15, 2019

April 15


I covered very quickly today the Nuremberg Trials, which took place in Germany at the conclusion of World War II when Nazi war criminals were put on trial for the atrocities committed by the Third Reich. I then showed you a documentary from the Turning Points in History series called "The Atomic Bomb" which focused on the Manhattan Project and usage of the bomb to end the war in the Pacific in WWII. I also gave you about 20 minutes to work on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions (due April 23rd).


We looked at "The Origins of the Cold War" today in class. We will continue talking about this topic for the next couple of weeks.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

April 10


I made two different Google Docs (one for each of my Social 30-1 classes) that everyone in the class can edit. You are all supposed to summarize the party platforms of the political parties running in the April 16th Alberta provincial election. I split you into groups, and each group is responsible for adding the party platform information into the Google Doc. Each group is also responsible for creating a Google Slides presentation (please share your group's Slides with my GMail account), and give a 10 minute presentation (maximum) of their assigned party's platform in tomorrow's class. On Friday, you will be doing a vote compass activity and having a discussion about the issues that matter to you as young adults in Alberta. We'll start the Cold War next week.


We watched "Schindler's List" today in class. We'll continue watching the film in tomorrow's class.

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

April 9


We started our examination of "The Holocaust" today. I started a lecture on key events in the Holocaust, and directed you to read over the 36 Questions about the Holocaust that is in your Social 20-1 course books. We'll start watching "Schindler's List" this week.


You wrote your Chapter 5 Test today. I will post the results on PowerSchool this afternoon/evening. We'll be starting the Cold War tomorrow.

Monday, April 08, 2019

April 8


You wrote your Chapter 5-6 Test today in class. I'll try to get this marked this week, but my priority is writing report card comments for the Term 3 reports. We're starting our examination of the Holocaust tomorrow.


You wrote the Unit 2 WRA I today in class. Your probably won't get the marks back on these for about 2 weeks. You're writing the Chapter 5 Test tomorrow. You can find the study guide for the Chapter 5 Test below. This study guide is applicable for 30-1 and 30-2 students.


The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, April 9th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test (but it will be reduced down in number on the day). Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Soviet Economy notes
  • Soviet Economic System notes
  • Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
  • Gorbachev to Collapse notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • 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 and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!
  • centrally planned economies
  • initiative
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • Reaganomics
  • consumer sovereignty
  • invisible hand
  • Keynesian economics
  • laissez faire economics
  • War Communism
  • Five Year Plans
  • mixed economies
  • indicative planning
  • proportional representation
  • democracy
  • dictatorship
  • political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
  • status quo
  • egalitarianism
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • liberal
  • radical
  • SA
  • Hitler
  • Bolshevik
  • fascism
  • communism
  • indoctrination
  • controlled participation
  • terror and force
  • direction of popular discontent
  • democratic socialists
  • supply-side economics
  • authoritarian
  • tyrant
  • totalitarian
  • totalitarianism
  • ultranationalism
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • propaganda
  • progressive taxation
  • Marx
  • Lenin
  • utopian socialism
  • Gorbachev
  • martial law
  • Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
  • referendum
  • collectivization
  • modernization
  • classical liberal
  • laissez faire free market economy
  • mixed economy
  • planned economy
  • (review your economic political quadrant model)
  • Das Kapital
  • Mein Kampf
  • The Wealth of Nations

Friday, April 05, 2019

April 5

I showed you a documentary called  "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" which focuses on the entire course of WWII in 60 minutes. Please make sure that you read over the notes that went along with this video in your Social 20-1 course books. I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Unit 2 WRA I Chart Assignment is due on Monday as well. 

On Monday, April 8th, you'll be writing the Chapter 5-6 Test. Please see the study guide below. 

This test will have a matching section, and a long answer section.

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Triple Alliance
  • Triple Entente
  • the Black Hand
  • Gavrillo Princip
  • Tsar Nicholas II
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Battle of Tannenberg
  • the Schlieffen Plan
  • Plan 17
  • General von Moltke
  • Battle of the Marne
  • Alsace and Lorraine
  • total war
  • Battle of Verdun
  • Battle of the Somme
  • the Brusilov Offensive
  • sinking of the Lusitania
  • the Zimmermann Telegram
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • General Ludendorff
  • Friedrich Ebert
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • David Lloyd George
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Fourteen Points
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Vittorio Orlando
  • League of Nations
  • plebiscites
  • reparations
  • collective security
  • war debts
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • "war guilt clause"
  • "Manchurian Incident"
  • Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • expansionism
  • Hirohito
  • Hideki Tojo
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Kristallnacht
  • the Nuremberg Laws
  • any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

  • MAIN Causes of World War I
  • the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
  • the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
  • the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
  • Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
  • the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes from the Social 20-1 course book)
  • the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations; be able to link to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia)
  • ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
  • failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
  • appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism) 

If you forgot to hand in your transfer from Social 30-1 to 30-2 letter today, don't worry, you can hand it in on Monday. Thanks!

I collected your Unit 2 WRA I Chart Assignment today. I showed the A & E Biography on Hitler, and we went through the notes on types of dictatorships and totalitarianism

On Monday, April 8th, you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I (unless you're switching to Social 30-2, then I'll be teaching how to do the WA I, and you'll complete one in class). You will not be allowed to use the writing guide sheet (blue sheet of paper). 

On Tuesday, April 9th, you're writing the Chapter 5 Test in class, please see the study guide below.

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, April 9th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test (but it will be reduced down in number on the day). Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Soviet Economy notes
  • Soviet Economic System notes
  • Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
  • Gorbachev to Collapse notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • 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 and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!
  • centrally planned economies
  • initiative
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • Reaganomics
  • consumer sovereignty
  • invisible hand
  • Keynesian economics
  • laissez faire economics
  • War Communism
  • Five Year Plans
  • mixed economies
  • indicative planning
  • proportional representation
  • democracy
  • dictatorship
  • political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
  • status quo
  • egalitarianism
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • liberal
  • radical
  • SA
  • Hitler
  • Bolshevik
  • fascism
  • communism
  • indoctrination
  • controlled participation
  • terror and force
  • direction of popular discontent
  • democratic socialists
  • supply-side economics
  • authoritarian
  • tyrant
  • totalitarian
  • totalitarianism
  • ultranationalism
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • propaganda
  • progressive taxation
  • Marx
  • Lenin
  • utopian socialism
  • Gorbachev
  • martial law
  • Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
  • referendum
  • collectivization
  • modernization
  • classical liberal
  • laissez faire free market economy
  • mixed economy
  • planned economy
  • (review your economic political quadrant model)
  • Das Kapital
  • Mein Kampf
  • The Wealth of Nations

Wednesday, April 03, 2019

April 3


I went through part of the "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" PowerPoint lecture. You need to go through the Nazi Germany part of the presentation on your own. I still have letters to switch from 30-1 to 30-2, so if you want to switch, please pick up the letter from me so we can the paperwork completed. You were supposed to pick up the Unit 2 WRA I Chart Assignment today this assignment is due on Friday, April 5th (unless you're switching to 30-2). On Monday, April 8th, you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I (unless you're switching to Social 30-2, then I'll be teaching how to do the WA I, and you'll complete one in class). On Tuesday, April 9th, you're writing the Chapter 5 Test in class, please see the study guide below.

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, April 9th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test (but it will be reduced down in number on the day). Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Soviet Economy notes
  • Soviet Economic System notes
  • Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
  • Gorbachev to Collapse notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • 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 and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!
  • centrally planned economies
  • initiative
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • Reaganomics
  • consumer sovereignty
  • invisible hand
  • Keynesian economics
  • laissez faire economics
  • War Communism
  • Five Year Plans
  • mixed economies
  • indicative planning
  • proportional representation
  • democracy
  • dictatorship
  • political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
  • status quo
  • egalitarianism
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • liberal
  • radical
  • SA
  • Hitler
  • Bolshevik
  • fascism
  • communism
  • indoctrination
  • controlled participation
  • terror and force
  • direction of popular discontent
  • democratic socialists
  • supply-side economics
  • authoritarian
  • tyrant
  • totalitarian
  • totalitarianism
  • ultranationalism
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • propaganda
  • progressive taxation
  • Marx
  • Lenin
  • utopian socialism
  • Gorbachev
  • martial law
  • Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
  • referendum
  • collectivization
  • modernization
  • classical liberal
  • laissez faire free market economy
  • mixed economy
  • planned economy
  • (review your economic political quadrant model)
  • Das Kapital
  • Mein Kampf
  • The Wealth of Nations

I showed you a documentary called  "Tides of War" which focuses in on the internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII. Please make sure that you're reading in your Social 20-1 course books about World War II, the classes will make more sense if you're keeping up with the readings. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday

On Monday, April 8th, you'll be writing the Chapter 5-6 Test. Please see the study guide below. 

This test will have a matching section, and a long answer section.

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Triple Alliance
  • Triple Entente
  • the Black Hand
  • Gavrillo Princip
  • Tsar Nicholas II
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Battle of Tannenberg
  • the Schlieffen Plan
  • Plan 17
  • General von Moltke
  • Battle of the Marne
  • Alsace and Lorraine
  • total war
  • Battle of Verdun
  • Battle of the Somme
  • the Brusilov Offensive
  • sinking of the Lusitania
  • the Zimmermann Telegram
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • General Ludendorff
  • Friedrich Ebert
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • David Lloyd George
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Fourteen Points
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Vittorio Orlando
  • League of Nations
  • plebiscites
  • reparations
  • collective security
  • war debts
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • "war guilt clause"
  • "Manchurian Incident"
  • Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • expansionism
  • Hirohito
  • Hideki Tojo
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Kristallnacht
  • the Nuremberg Laws
  • any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

  • MAIN Causes of World War I
  • the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
  • the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
  • the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
  • Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
  • the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes from the Social 20-1 course book)
  • the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations; be able to link to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia)
  • ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
  • failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
  • appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism) 

Tuesday, April 02, 2019

April 2


I talked a little bit about the start of WWII and the end of WWII in class today, and then I showed you an excerpt from the movie "Pearl Harbor". Please make sure that you're reading in your Social 20-1 course books about World War II, the classes will make more sense if you're keeping up with the readings. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. On Monday, April 8th, you'll be writing the Chapter 5-6 Test. Please see the study guide below.

This test will have a matching section, and a long answer section.

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Triple Alliance
  • Triple Entente
  • the Black Hand
  • Gavrillo Princip
  • Tsar Nicholas II
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Battle of Tannenberg
  • the Schlieffen Plan
  • Plan 17
  • General von Moltke
  • Battle of the Marne
  • Alsace and Lorraine
  • total war
  • Battle of Verdun
  • Battle of the Somme
  • the Brusilov Offensive
  • sinking of the Lusitania
  • the Zimmermann Telegram
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • General Ludendorff
  • Friedrich Ebert
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • David Lloyd George
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Fourteen Points
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Vittorio Orlando
  • League of Nations
  • plebiscites
  • reparations
  • collective security
  • war debts
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • "war guilt clause"
  • "Manchurian Incident"
  • Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • expansionism
  • Hirohito
  • Hideki Tojo
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Kristallnacht
  • the Nuremberg Laws
  • any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

  • MAIN Causes of World War I
  • the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
  • the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
  • the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
  • Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
  • the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes from the Social 20-1 course book)
  • the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations; be able to link to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia)
  • ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
  • failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
  • appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism) 



You wrote your Market and Mixed Economies Test today. If you were in class and wrote the test, the results have already been posted on PowerSchool. I also have letters to switch from 30-1 to 30-2, so if you want to switch, please pick up the letter from me so we can the paperwork completed. You were supposed to pick up the Unit 2 WRA I Chart Assignment today after you finished the test. This assignment is due on Friday, April 5th (unless you're switching to 30-2). On Monday, April 8th, you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I (unless you're switching to Social 30-2, then I'll be teaching how to do the WA I, and you'll complete one in class). On Tuesday, April 9th, you're writing the Chapter 5 Test in class, please see the study guide below.

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, April 9th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test (but it will be reduced down in number on the day). Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Soviet Economy notes
  • Soviet Economic System notes
  • Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
  • Gorbachev to Collapse notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • 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 and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!
  • centrally planned economies
  • initiative
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • Reaganomics
  • consumer sovereignty
  • invisible hand
  • Keynesian economics
  • laissez faire economics
  • War Communism
  • Five Year Plans
  • mixed economies
  • indicative planning
  • proportional representation
  • democracy
  • dictatorship
  • political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
  • status quo
  • egalitarianism
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • liberal
  • radical
  • SA
  • Hitler
  • Bolshevik
  • fascism
  • communism
  • indoctrination
  • controlled participation
  • terror and force
  • direction of popular discontent
  • democratic socialists
  • supply-side economics
  • authoritarian
  • tyrant
  • totalitarian
  • totalitarianism
  • ultranationalism
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • propaganda
  • progressive taxation
  • Marx
  • Lenin
  • utopian socialism
  • Gorbachev
  • martial law
  • Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
  • referendum
  • collectivization
  • modernization
  • classical liberal
  • laissez faire free market economy
  • mixed economy
  • planned economy
  • (review your economic political quadrant model)
  • Das Kapital
  • Mein Kampf
  • The Wealth of Nations