November 7

Social 30-1

You watched excerpts from "Born on the Fourth of July" today. Please remember that I'm going to be doing homework checks on material that you covered while I was in Montreal this week. Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on November 12th.

Your Vietnam War Assignment is due on November 14th. Your Chapter 7 Test is on Monday, November 17th. The study guide for this test is below.

Vietnam War Assignment

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?

As we will see, public support for the Vietnam War changes over time as more and more American soldiers are killed. We see a growth in the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, and the media also played a role in the turn of popular opinion against the war. I REALLY recommend that you have a look at the this series of photographs from the Vietnam War era, pretty powerful imagery (make sure that you read the captions too). Here is a link to the NPR that explains the story behind the photograph below, definitely worth the time to read or listen to the podcast, and make sure that you look at the photo gallery of Eddie Adams' photographs of the Vietnam War.


There are certain iconic images associated with the Vietnam War. Here is another:

The above photograph is of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, O.Ont (born in 1963), she is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about age nine running naked on the street after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack. Contrary to popular myth, the US Air Force were not involved in the attack, and only two US troops were within 60 miles (97 km) of the scene, neither of whom had any say in the bombings. Still, it is a powerful image associated with the war.

I'm posting the study guide for your Chapter 7 Test (Cold War Exam) below. You have a lot of review and studying to do, that's why I'm posting this study guide so far in advance (this test is on November 17th).

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice 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
• 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

IB 20 HOTA

You had the entire class period to work on your Latin American revolutionary leaders Facebook assignment. You could work with a partner on this assignment if they are covering the same leader. This assignment is due on Friday, November 14th. Please use the PowerPoint Facebook template that is on the IB 20 wiki under Unit 4 Independence Movements.

April 17

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote your Unit 5 Test on the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age today, it took the entire period. Your Facebook assignment for your assigned Latin American revolutionary leader is due on Thursday, April 24th.

Social 10-1

Most of today's class was spent preparing for next Wednesday's debate on the following topic: "Be it resolved that the 21st century will belong to China". You were split into the affirmative (PROP) and negative (OPP) sides in this debate. You had some time organize your thoughts and ideas, and take in some of the topics that I suggested you examine. I'll include some links to topics raised in class today in this post. To get a closer look at any of the infographics below, right click on the image and open in a new window.

Useful links to prepare for the debate:

• Munk Debates on China
• Gapminder: 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes
• China's Ghost Cities
• GPS: Can China reform in time?
• GPS: China's bold environmental move

 

Please remember that you have your Unit 2 Final Exam on Tuesday, April 22nd, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

IB 30/35

You wrote your Paper 3 on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement today in class. Please remember that you have Nixon assignment due on Tuesday, April 22nd.

April 15

IB 30/35

We finished watching the PBS documentary from the American Experience series called "1964" today. Please remember that your film study sheet answers for "1964" are due tomorrow.

I moved on to 1968 for the most part today (and beyond), because we started looking at the Nixon administration. I'll continue my lecture on Richard Nixon tomorrow. Please remember that you have your Paper 3 on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement on Thursday, April 17th. Please check out the past IB exam questions below. Please review your IB command terms!

Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:

• What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
• What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
• Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
• To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
• How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
• Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
• What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
• Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
• The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
• Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

IB 20 HOTA

I gave you some class time to work on some textbook work from your History of the Americas textbook. You were to read pages 38-47, and complete the chart of page 44 which asked you to draw comparisons between Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin and George Washington. I also introduced the fake Facebook page assignment, and the long-term "shadow research" assignment on Latin American countries. Please remember that you are writing your French Revolution and Napoleonic Age test (the Unit 5 Test) on Thursday, April 17th. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 10-1

I finished off the "Foundations of Economic Globalization" PowerPoint lecture today. I also showed you a short video called "Global Economic Issues". I gave you the Unit 3 Worksheet today, your Chapter 10 Key Terms are due tomorrow. I will only be taking in the key terms tomorrow, not your answers to the Chapter 10 questions. One week from today you will be writing your Unit 2 Final Exam. Please see the study guide for this exam below.

Unit 2 Final Exam

This final exam is entirely multiple choice format. There are 57 multiple choice questions. This Unit 2 Final Exam will be on Tuesday, April 22nd. Please make sure that you study your key terms from Unit 2 (Chapters 6-9), as well as the three PowerPoint presentations from this unit:

• "Historical Globalization and Imperialism"
• "Legacies of Historical Globalization"
• "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada"

Key Concepts from Unit 2:

• world views
• historical globalization
• cultural contact
• depopulation
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• entrepreneurs
• Adam Smith
• exploitation
• communism
• industrialization
• Industrial Revolution
• cottage industries
• imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence
• paternalistic
• Confederation
• residential schools
• the Oka crisis
• First Nations Policing Policy
• legacy
• ethnocentrism
• Eurocentrism
• Scramble for Africa
• Leopold II
• migration
• displacement
• British East India Company
• Queen Elizabeth I
• the Raj
• Mohandas Gandhi
• swadeshi
• deindustrialization
• colonization
• the Hundred Associates
• Hudson’s Bay Company
• Rupert’s Land
• North West Company
• Seven Years’ War
• Proclamation of 1763
• Quebec Act of 1774
• the Numbered Treaties
• the Indian Act
• Status Indian
• Non-Status Indian
• multiculturalism
• specific claims
• comprehensive claims

April 14

IB 30/35

We started a documentary from the PBS series "American Experience: 1964" today. I gave you a film study sheet to go along with the video that you need to complete for Wednesday. We'll continue this documentary tomorrow. Please remember that you are writing a Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement unit on Thursday.

Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:

• What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
• What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
• Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
• To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
• How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
• Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
• What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
• Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
• The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
• Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

Social 10-1

I continued with the "Foundations of Economic Globalization" PowerPoint lecture today, I should be able to finish that lecture off tomorrow. On April 22nd, you will be writing your Unit 2 Final Exam, I will post the study on the blog tomorrow.

IB 20 HOTA

We started looking at Latin American revolutions today. The PowerPoint presentation that I went through today is on the IB 20 wiki under Unit 4: Independence Movements. Please remember to bring your History of the Americas textbook to class tomorrow. Please remember that you're writing your Unit 5 Test on Thursday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). I'll do a session on Paper 1 tomorrow in tutorial.