May 23

Social 10

We finished watching "Blood Diamond" today in class. Please remember that the "Blood Diamond" booklet is due on Monday, and it is the only day that I will accept that booklet. Please remember that you have your Chapter 15-16 Quiz on Wednesday, click here for the study guide. Please check your group blogs to see your assignment related to Burma and Cyclone Nargis.

Social 33

I gave you a worksheet today called "Detente and After" that you must complete for Monday. We also watched a video today called "Inside North Korea", which took most of the period. I also told you that you have your Cold War Test on Tuesday, May 27th, here is the study guide:

Cold War Unit Final Study Guide:

Key Terms/Key Concepts/Key Events/Key People:

• Yalta Conference
• Potsdam Conference
• Stalin
• NATO
• brinkmanship
• detente
• Berlin Airlift
• Berlin Wall
• Warsaw Pact
• Iron Curtain
• mutually assured destruction (M.A.D.)
• disarmament
• Marshall Plan
• containment
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Kennedy
• Khrushchev
• SALT I
• SALT II
• Vietnam War
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• Cold War
• United Nations
• collapse of the Soviet Union/collapse of communism
• Hungarian Revolution (1956)
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Partial test Ban Treaty
• balance of power (between USA and USSR)
• domino theory
• Korean War
  

Here's how I would prepare for this unit final:

• study the Cold War timeline (handout)
• study the 6Ws for each of those Cold War Events
• study the chart on the nuclear arms race (it's the back page of the Cold War Events handout, legal sized paper)
• study the timeline of events on the Cold War Events booklet
• study the key terms listed above (prepare for each them, they're on the test)