April 15

Social 30

We covered a lot of ground today! If you missed class today, you will need to get some Interwar Years Notes that I wrote up on the board. These Interwar Years notes were the lead-in to the BBC 20th Century History video that we watched today called "Why Appeasement?" While you were watching this film, you were to complete the film study worksheet that went along with the film. I also gave you note packages on three case studies which illustrate the failure of the League of Nations: the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War. I also gave you a booklet on the Great Depression, appeasement, the FAILURe of the League of Nations, and the Munich Agreement. I have also sent to you some summary notes on the League of Nations, and Making Germany Pay (post-WWI)which you must print off, read, and add to your notes. You need to prepare for your Interwar Years tests coming up next week. On Thursday, April 23rd (note the date change) you have your Interwar Years Quiz (short answer format), and then on Monday, April 27th (note the date change) you will have your Interwar Years Unit Exam (70 multiple choice questions). Please use the following study guide to prepare for both tests.

Social 30 Interwar Years Study Guide:

Make sure that you have read all of the chapters in Global Forces in the 20th Century that pertain to the Interwar Years (Chapters 3-6). Also, make sure that you have studied all of the summary notes that I have given to you and sent to you by e-mail.

Know all of the following key concepts:

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Washington and London Naval Conferences
• Dawes Plan
• Locarno Pact
• Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Young Plan
• isolationism
• collective security
• self-determination
• Maginot Line
• Treaty of Versailles
• appeasement
• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
• Anit-Comintern Pact
• League of Nations
• demilitarization of the Rhineland
• the Spanish Civil War and bombing of Guernica
• Anschluss
• Sudetenland
• Berchdestgarden
• Badgottesberg
• Munich Conference
• invasion of Abyssinia
• invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese

Know key events (chronological order as well) in the rise of Hitler in Germany:

• invasion of the Rhineland
• Sudetenland
• rearmament of Germany
• Munich Agreement
• Beer Hall Putsch
• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
• democratic elections into the Reichstag
• the Enabling Act
• Kristallnacht (Crystal Night, the Night of the Broken Glass)
• Anschluss with Austria
• lebensraum announced as foreign policy (expansionism)
• the Night of the Long Knives (elimination of the SA)
• invasion of Poland (start of WWII)

Social 33

Much of today's class was spent writing your Economic Systems Unit Final (50 multiple choice questions). We did start working on the second half of the course, Topic B.

Social 20-1

Yesterday, we finished up our look at the end of WWII in Europe, and today was spent on looking at the end of the war in the Pacific. We began our discussion of the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and then took a few steps backward in time to look at the development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project in the United States. We watched a video from the Turning Points of History series called "The Atomic Bomb" which covers the development and use of the atomic bomb. We will continue our examination of the moral and ethical questions surrounding the use of the development and use of the nuclear bombs on Japan tomorrow.