March 20

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We were up in the computer lab today playing some computer simulation games ("Can You Survive the Stock Market Crash?" and "Lemonade Stand"). I will award prizes after Spring break the top 3 students who sold the most lemonade during the Lemonade Stand game (don't worry, I kept track of winners). Have a great Spring Break!

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I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, and to see if you printed off the PowerPoint presentation "Ultranationalism in Italy, Japan and Germany". If you did not receive this PowerPoint it is your responsibility to send me an e-mail message, and then I will reply back with the presentation. You worked on a primary document analysis and questions today on "The Way of Subjects". The questions from "The Way of Subjects" will be due on Monday, March 30th (most of you finished this in class, but if you were away, send me an e-mail and I can send this to you). You will have your Chapter 5-6 Test on Thursday, April 2nd. Also, you will write your Unit 2 Written Response Assignment I (in-class three source analysis) on Monday, April 6th. I don't expect you to study over your Spring Break though. Relax, have some fun! See you on March 30th!

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

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)
• 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)
  
  
  

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I have sent you some extra notes on Keynesian Economics and Supply-Side Economics, which will be helpful for your Economics Unit Exam (on March 31st), and for Position Paper #2 (on March 30th). I gave you some notes on "Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR" as well today. I gave you a list of key concepts to review for the Economics Unit Exam, if you missed class today, please send me an e-mail message, and I will send this list to you. When we come back from Spring Break I will be doing a review of Topic A material, and we will be moving on to the second half of the course. I will be giving you some outstanding review materials for Topic A after Spring Break. Make sure that you prepare for Position Paper #2 and study for your Economics Unit Exam. Here is the preamble and the essay question for your Position Paper #2:

"Some people believe that governments should intervene in the economy to combat economic problems such as inflation and unemployment. Still others oppose the idea of any government intervention in the economy, preferring to allow market forces to restore economic stability."

In an essay, take and defend a position on the issue:
To what extent should the government intervene in the economy?

Have a great break!