October 15

Social 20-1

I returned your WWI Maps of Europe and your Unit 1 Part A In-Class Writing Assignments to you today. I also gave you your interim report cards as well. There are Parent Student Teacher Interviews tomorrow, please see your interim report cards for the times and location.
I gave you a booklet today entitled "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" If you didn't finish this booklet and its "Focus Task" make sure that you complete what I told you to do with the back page in class. I then started a presentation called "Ultranationalism in WWII: Italy, Japan and Germany", which I will continue on Friday. You have your Chapter 5-6 Test next Thursday, please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

This test is on Thursday, October 23rd. The format of the test is matching and short answer. Please use this study guide to focus your review efforts.
Study the following presentations:

• "The Road to War: Causes of World War I" (ppt)
• "Total War, Allied Victory, Paris Peace Conference" (ppt)
• "Ultranationalism in WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan" (ppt) * note: this the presentation that I started in class today, I will send it out once we're finished it

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 Nuremburg 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)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• 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)
  

Social 10-1

I gave you your interim report cards today. Overall, the class is doing quite well, Parent Student Teacher Interviews are tomorrow in the Main Gym, please see the times listed on the interim report card. We started watching "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" today. We will continue watching this film on Friday. I think that since you have no classes tomorrow, it would be a very good day to get together with your partner and work on your Imperialism Research Project. It's due next Thursday (October 23rd). Also don't forget that you have your Chapter 7 Quiz on Tuesday (October 21st), do some review. The study guide is here (scroll down to read it).