October 29

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today on "The Techniques of Dictatorship" which I will be sending to you this afternoon. Please print it off and add it your notes. I will also be sending you a reading on the White Rose student group, so please make sure that you read it. We also watched a 10 minute excerpt from the Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will". Here is a link to Leni Riefenstahl's (the director of "Triumph of the Will") obituary from the Guardian. Please remember that your Chapter 5 Test is on Monday, please see the study guide here. Also, on Tuesday (November 2nd) you will have a matching quiz on Nazi Germany, please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

I talked a little bit about the end of WWII in Europe, and how after the failure of Operation Barbarossa (the Nazi invasion of the USSR), the success of the Allied invasion of Italy and the D-Day invasion that it was clear that the end of the war was near for the Nazis in WWII. We watched an excerpt from the film "Saving Private Ryan" as well today. Next week we will be looking at the Holocaust and other genocides in the 20th century and 21st century. It might be a good idea to read appropriate pages in your textbook in Chapter 7.

October 28

Social 20-1

We watched "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" today. Please make sure that you read over the notes that I gave you to go along with this video. Tomorrow we'll be looking at the D-Day invasion of France.

Social 30-1

You got the results back for your Economic Systems Exam today. I also did a homework check on your Fascism/Nazism booklet. You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I today, which took the rest of the period. Your Chapter 5 Test is on Monday, please see the study guide here. You also have a Nazi Germany Quiz on Tuesday of next week (November 2nd), please see the study guide below.

Nazi Germany Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz

• anti-Semitism
• Aryan
• concentration camp
• corporate state
• Dachau
• decree
• deportation
• dissent
• elite
• Enabling Act
• ethnic
• Fuehrer
• Gestapo
• Hitler
• Holocaust
• indoctrination
• inequality
• inflation
• judicial
• jugend
• Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht
• nationalism
• Nazi
• Niemoller
• Nuremberg
• passive
• plebiscites
• pogrom
• prinzip
• Reichstag
• Ruhr
• SA
• SS
• state
• swastika
• War Guilt Clause
• White Rose
  

October 27

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 5-6 Test today, which took most of the period. Please make sure that you have read the notes booklets on WWII that I gave you yesterday prior to tomorrow's class.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Economic Systems Exam today, you'll get the results back tomorrow. You also have your Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow. Please don't forget that you have your Chapter 5 Test on Monday, please see the study guide here.

October 26

Social 30-1

We finished watching the last chapter in "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" today at the beginning of class. I then gave you a couple more handouts, one booklet called "Fascism/Nazism" is due on Thursday. I also gave you a handout on the "Nazi Youth Policy". I gave you the remainder of class time to read over today's handouts as well as yesterday's handouts on the comparison between fascism and communism, non-democratic systems and totalitarianism. Please remember that you have your Economic Systems Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide here. You also have your Unit 2 WRA I on Thursday, and your Chapter 5 Test on Monday (please see the study guide here).

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 30-1 Students:

• Economic Systems Exam is tomorrow (October 27th), please see the study guide here
• Unit 2 WRA I is on Thursday, October 28th
• Chapter 5 Test is on Monday, November 1st, please see the study guide here
  

Social 20-1

In small groups you brainstormed the causes of World War II, and then as a whole class we put together a concept map. I gave you some note booklets on the beginnings of WWII in Europe (topics covered include blitzkrieg, the Phoney War, the Battle of Britain) and in the Pacific. Please make sure that you read these notes prior to Thursday's class. Tomorrow, you have your Chapter 5-6 Test, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

October 25

Social 30-1

We finished off looking at the Democratic Systems notes that I gave you on Friday, and looked quickly at the Non-Democratic Systems notes as well today. I gave you some notes today that compared communism and fascism to each other and a handout on totalitarianism. Make sure that you read these notes! We also watched "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". You handed in your Economic Planning in the USSR booklets today. Please remember that you have your Economic Systems Exam on Wednesday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Also, you have your Unit 2 WRA I on Thursday. I have sent you the PowerPoint that I went through on Friday and a handout on how to write a WRA I. Please look them over. Please see the study guide for the Chapter 5 Test below.

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Monday, November 1st. It is a 70 multiple choice question test.
Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes
• Lenin notes
• Stalin notes
• Soviet Economy notes
• Soviet Economic System notes
• Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
• Gorbachev to Collapse notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• Democratic Systems notes
• Non-Democratic Systems notes
• Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
• A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
• Totalitarianism notes Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR; I will give this booklet to you this week)
• do a brief review of the political and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

• centrally planned economies initiative
• FDR and the New Deal
• Reaganomics
• consumer sovereignty
• invisible hand
• Keynesian economics
• laissez faire economics
• War Communism
• Five Year Plans
• mixed economies
• indicative planning
• proportional representation
• democracy
• dictatorship
• political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
• status quo
• egalitarianism
• conservative
• reactionary
• liberal
• radical
• SA
• Hitler
• Bolshevik
• fascism
• communism
• indoctrination
• controlled participation
• terror and force
• direction of popular discontent
• democratic socialists
• supply-side economics
• authoritarian
• tyrant
• totalitarian
• totalitarianism
• ultranationalism
• nationalization
• privatization
• propaganda
• progressive taxation
• Marx
• Lenin
• utopian socialism
• Gorbachev
• martial law
• Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
• referendum
• collectivization
• modernization
• classical liberal
• laissez faire
• free market economy
• mixed economy
• planned economy (review your economic political quadrant model)
• Das Kapital
• Mein Kampf
• The Wealth of Nations
  

Social 20-1

We continued looking at the consequences of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Ultimately, this attack will be used as pretext for the removal of Japanese-Americans from the west coast of the United States as well as the removal of Japanese-Canadians from British Columbia. We looked at the case study of the internment of Japanese-Canadians and rise of nationalism in Canada in WWII that led to the suspension of civil rights of this visible minority group. We watched a video called "Tides of War" and completed a worksheet to go along with it. I have also sent you a PowerPoint presentation that provides additional information on the internment of Japanese-Canadians, so please check your e-mail inbox when you have a chance. It is highly recommended that you print this presentation off and add it to your notes. You should also check out the following link on the interment as well: CBC Archives: From Relocation to Redress. Please remember that you have your Chapter 5-6 Test on Wednesday, please see the study guide here.

October 22

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Preparing for the Written Response Assignment I" today in class. I will be sending this presentation to you along with a handout that goes over a mental checklist of elements that should appear in these writing assignments. You will be doing your Unit 2 WRA I on Thursday, October 28th. I also gave you three handouts today and I started to walk you through one of them. I gave you a handout on "Democratic Systems" (this will be important for Unit 3 as well) and "Non-Democratic Systems" and "Types of Dictatorships". We'll continue looking at these on Monday. Please remember that your Economic Planning in the USSR booklet is due on Monday as well. You have your Economic Systems Exam on Wednesday, please see the study guide below.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 30-1 Students:

• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet is due on Monday, October 25th
• Economic Systems Exam is on Wednesday, October 27th
• Unit 2 WRA I is on Thursday, October 28th
  

Economic Systems Exam:

This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 70 multiple choice questions. This exam will be administered on Wednesday, October 27th.

• Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that I have sent you for Unit 2
• In Chapter 5, just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 Private Enterprise
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics or "womb to tomb" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes
• Lenin notes
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes (you got these notes on Wednesday, October 20th)
• Economic Planning in the USSR (again, you got these notes on Wednesday, October 20th)
  

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I today, and it took the entire 65 minutes to write it. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today. Please remember that your Chapter 5-6 Test is on Wednesday, October 27th. Please see the study guide here for this test (scroll down to find it).

October 21

Social 20-1

I went through some notes and background information on the early years of World War II today, including looking at the Japanese motivation for attacking Pearl Harbor in December 1941 which brought the USA into WWII. We watched an excerpt from the movie "Pearl Harbor" as well today. On Monday, we'll be looking at consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor, namely the internment of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians. We'll focus on the Japanese-Canadian experience. Tomorrow, you have your Unit 2 WRA I (3 source analysis writing assignment), make sure that you review the two PowerPoint presentations that I sent you on World War I (the theme for tomorrow's WRA I). Please remember that you have your Chapter 5-6 Test next Wednesday (October 27th) as well, please see the study guide here. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are also due tomorrow.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 20-1 Students:

• Unit 2 WRA I is on Friday, October 22nd (65 minutes to write)
• Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow (October 22nd)
• Chapter 5-6 Test is on Wednesday, October 27th (please see study guide here)
  

Social 30-1

I went through some notes on leaders of the Soviet Union and key concepts that you need to associate with each of them. You also received handouts on "Gorbachev to the Collapse of the Soviet Union" which focused on perestroika, glasnost, democratization, and other social, political and economic elements of Soviet society at the tail end of the existence of the USSR. You also received a booklet called "Economic Planning in the USSR" which has readings and questions (which are due on Monday). You also got a handout that focused on similarities between Gorbachev's economic reforms (perestroika) and Deng Xiao Ping's "four modernizations" and move to market socialism in China and the USSR. This booklet also outlined the advantages and disadvantages of market socialism, which could be useful on an essay. Your Chapter 5 Questions are due tomorrow.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 30-1 Students:

• Chapter 5 Questions are due tomorrow (October 22nd)
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet is due on Monday, October 25th
• Economic Systems Exam is on Wednesday, October 27th (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it, copy and paste it into MS Word)
• Unit 2 WRA I (3 source analysis writing assignment) is on Thursday, October 28th (don't worry, I'll re-teach how to write these assignments)
  

October 20

Social 20-1

We finished off the "Ultranationalism in WWII" PowerPoint presentation, and I will be sending this presentation to your e-mail accounts today. Please print it off (4-6 slides per page) and add it to your notes. I took in the "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" assignments today as well. I gave you a translated copy of "The Way of Subjects" with six questions for analysis that are to be completed for homework. "The Way of Subjects" questions for analysis are due tomorrow. Please remember that your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. You also have your Unit 2 Written Response Assignment I on Friday as well. If you wanted to review for this I would recommend you go over the notes from World War I (that will be the common theme for both writing assignments for each of my classes) and also look over the tip sheet on writing three source analysis responses. Your Chapter 5-6 Test is one week from today, please see the study guide below.

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; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• 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 30-1

We covered a lot of ground today in our study of the USSR and the command economy. We watched the video called "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror" and completed a film study sheet to go along with it. I gave you some notes that covered "Changes to the Soviet System After Stalin". I also gave you another notes package on the Soviet Economic System that gave you detailed notes on the Five Year Plans, collectivization and the top-down economic decision-making process that was a feature of the USSR. It was a busy day! Next Wednesday (October 27th) you have your Economic Systems Test, please see the study guide below.

Economic Systems Exam:

This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 70 multiple choice questions. This exam will be administered on Wednesday, October 27th.

• Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that I have sent you for Unit 2
• In Chapter 5, just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 Private Enterprise
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics or "womb to tomb" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes (you got these notes on Wednesday, October 20th)
• Economic Planning in the USSR (again, you got these notes on Wednesday, October 20th)
  

October 19

Social 30-1

You wrote your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test today. It took most of the period, you will get the results of this test tomorrow. Make sure that you have read, highlighted and annotated the notes on Marx, Lenin, and Stalin that I gave you on yesterday, along with all of the readings on the command economy and the Soviet economic system prior to tomorrow's class.

Social 20-1

I gave back your World War I maps today, generally speaking, these were really well done. I also gave you a homework assignment today called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" which is due tomorrow. You must make a T-chart of the arguments in favor and against appeasement as they are presented in the Focus Task page. You are also to complete 2a and 3a and 3b in the Focus Task for tomorrow. I also started a PowerPoint presentation today called "Ultranationalism in WWII" which looked at the rise of ultranationalistic right-wing dictatorships in Italy, Germany and Japan. We'll finish this presentation off tomorrow. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, and you will have homework tomorrow as well in all likelihood, so it's probably better to get this homework out of the way.



This is the map that I referred to in class today when I was talking about the scramble for Africa. We don't always get a sense of how large the African continent actually is until we compare it to other countries and continents. Most maps that we use are based on Mercator projections so Africa is undersized and there's distortion at the poles. Pretty impressive, eh?

October 18

Social 30-1

I went through the first half of a PowerPoint presentation called "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism". We'll deal with the USSR, communism and the command economy first and then we'll move on to the extreme right ideologies. To that end, I gave you a series of notes today: a booklet with notes on Marx, Lenin and Stalin. I also gave you a series of handouts on the command economy. One of the handouts dealt with the characteristics of a command economy and the advantages and disadvantages of this economic system. Another handout looked at the Soviet economic system, and there was also a fill in the blanks note sheet on the command economy. Make sure that read, highlight and annotate these notes. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 5 Key Terms. Please remember that your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is tomorrow, please see the study guide here. This test corresponds to material in Chapter 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology.

Social 20-1

We watched a couple of videos today and completed film studies on them. The first video was from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay". I gave you some additional notes for this video. I also taught you a new mnemonic device to remember the FAILURe of the League of Nations. Now, the League of Nations did enjoy some successes in dealing with lesser powers and minor boundary disputes. Some organizations that were part of the structure of the League of Nations still survive today in the organization of the United Nations. As we will see, the League of Nations was very ineffective in dealing with aggressive nation-states that were pursuing expansionist foreign policies. We also watched another video from the same BBC series called "Why Appeasement?", and as you watched this video you were to complete a worksheet. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, October 22nd.

October 15

Social 30-1

I gave you a handout today on the different strands of socialism (utopian socialism, scientific socialism, and democratic socialism). We also watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia". As you were watching the video, you were to take notes, so if you missed this video you'll need to get these notes from a classmate. I also gave you a copy of the Chapter 5 Worksheet. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms are due on Monday. Please remember that you have your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test on Tuesday, October 19th. Please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

Most of today's class was spent watching the A & E Biography "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". As you watched the video, you were to take notes. If you missed class today, you'll need to get these notes from a classmate. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, October 22nd. Next Friday, you will have your Unit 2 WRA I (3 Source Analysis Assignment) as well, so please make sure that you review how to write these assignments, and if necessary, come in and see me in tutorial next week.

October 13

Social 20-1

I gave you a handout on Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points today, one version was a plain English version and other part of the handout was Wilson's actual speech. I had you look at the Fourteen Points to determine which of them end up in the post-WWI treaties or could be seen in the Interwar Years peace agreements. I also gave you a handout on the Interwar Years. This booklet is going to be essential for understanding the lead into WWII. DON'T lose this booklet! I also gave you time to work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions (they are due next Friday). It's really going to help you if have read Chapter 6 prior to Friday's class. I also gave you your interim report cards today. There's no school tomorrow, interviews are from 1:30 to 4:00 and from 5:00 to 8:00 in the Main Gym. We'll be starting to look at the rise of Adolf Hitler in Friday's class.

Social 30-1

I went through a review/comparison of supply-side economics and demand-side economics today, so if you missed class today, you'll need to get the notes from a classmate. I also gave you a couple of handouts today, one that compared how demand-side economics would deal with a recession and how a supply-sider would deal with a recession. The other handout focused on supply-side economics only. I also gave you some background information notes on Russian history, so again, if you missed class, you'll need to get these notes from a classmate. In the days to come we will be looking at dictatorial socialism (communism) and command economies. I also gave you your interim report cards today at the very end of class. There's no school tomorrow, interviews are from 1:30 to 4:00 and from 5:00 to 8:00 in the Main Gym. We'll be starting to look at the rise of Adolf Hitler in Friday's class.

Your next exam is the Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam, which is on Tuesday. Please see the study guide for this exam here.

October 12

Social 30-1

You wrote your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test today, and this took most of the class period. You handed in your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today as well. I gave back the results of the Political Cartoon Analysis Assignment that you wrote on October 5th back to you today. You have a very difficult test next Tuesday (October 19th) that covers the Market Economy and Mixed Economy and draws from material in Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology and other supplementary materials that I've given you. Please see the study guide below.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada)
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

Social 20-1

I finished off the "Allied Victory in WWI and Paris Peace Conference" PowerPoint presentation today. I have sent this presentation to you, so please print it off and add it to your notes. I also gave you a handout on the issue of responsibility for starting WWI. I also gave you a focus task to complete from a booklet called "Making Peace" which looked at the various perspectives of the "Big Three" at the Paris Peace Conference. Your WWI Map Assignment was due today. If it is late you will lose 10% per day. You got the results of your Chapter 3-4 Test today as well.

October 8

Social 30-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation on "the Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today. I will be sending this presentation to you by e-mail, so please check later this evening. Please remember that you have your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Tuesday, please see the study guide here. Also, your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday.

Social 20-1

I started a PowerPoint lecture today on "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conference". I did not finish this presentation, I'll finish it next week. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions were due today. Your World War I Map Assignment is due on Tuesday, please check Thursday's post for some helpful maps. You also got back your Unit 1 WRA I today. Look over the notes that I wrote on your writing assignments. It's constructive criticism, learn from your mistakes.

October 7

Social 20-1

Most of today's class was spent playing a simulation of a fictitious WWI peace conference to try and prevent the outbreak of the great War. In this simulation, the "cards are stacked against you" since you have to adopt the foreign policy decisions that the major powers were locked into. We'll look at responsibility for the war tomorrow, as well as start looking at the results of WWI. You'll get the results of your Unit 1 WRA I back tomorrow. You won't get your results for your Chapter 3-4 Test until after the long weekend (on Tuesday, October 12th). Here are some maps to help you with your World War I Map Assignment that is due on Tuesday, October 12th.

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I started a PowerPoint presentation lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism". I will finish this presentation tomorrow. I also gave you a handout of case studies of mixed economies from the Ideologies textbook. Please remember that your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test is on Tuesday, please see the study guide here.

October 6

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You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today, which took most of the period. The results for this test will posted in the classroom tomorrow by ID number. Please remember that your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. I will post maps on the blog tomorrow to help you out with your World War I Map Assignment, which is due on Tuesday, October 12th.

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We watched a couple of videos today that looked at a couple of European social democracies. One of the videos was called "Welfare a la Carte" which looked at the welfare state in Norway and we also looked at "Dutch Treat" which looked at the Netherlands. Both of these videos are a little dated, but you should have been able to see the advantages and disadvantages of these welfare states. I gave you time to work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today as well, this assignment is due on Tuesday, October 12th. Please remember that you have your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Tuesday, here's the study guide for that test (scroll down to find it).

October 5

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You wrote your Political Cartoon Analysis Assignments today in class, which took most of the period. I also took in your "Sweden: The Welfare State" activity booklets today. Please remember that you have your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions due on Tuesday, October 12th. That is the same day as your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, please see the study guide here (please scroll down to find it).

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You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today. If you finished early you could have started working on the Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions. These will be due on Friday, October 8th. Your World War I Map Assignment is due on Tuesday, October 12th. I will post some maps later this week to help you with that assignment. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide here (please scroll down to find it).

October 4

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I gave you a reading on "Mixed Economy and Democratic Socialism" today as well as an activity booklet called "Sweden: The Welfare State". The activity booklet on Sweden is due tomorrow, and as a result you had ample class time to complete it. When you finished this activity booklet you were to pick a copy of the Chapter 6 Worksheet. The Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions will be due next Tuesday (October 12th). Please remember to be on time tomorrow because you will be doing an in-class written analysis of a political cartoon. If you are on time, you have more cartoons to choose from. I'm also posting the study guide for the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test below.This test is on Tuesday, October 12th.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

• "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
• "Responding to Classical Liberalism"

2. Be familiar with key concepts introduced in Chapters 3 and 4.
3. The Industrial Revolution:

• understand fundamental economic, social and political changes that were caused by the Industrial Revolution
• understand the connection between the Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
• understand the differences, advantages and disadvantages of the cottage system and the factory system
  

4. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet
5. Key Beliefs of the Various Ideologies (review the spectrums briefly); also review this material from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation:

• Adam Smith
• laissez faire economics/capitalism (key ideas)
• John Stuart Mill
• Karl Marx (key ideas and beliefs associated with Marx, Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, withering away of the state, dictatorship of the proletariat, view of history, etc. ) and Friedrich Engels (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism
  

6. Some questions may require you to make connections between this year's material and what you learned in 10-1 and 20-1 as well

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I gave you back the results of the French Revolution DBA Assignment today. I also gave you a World War I map assignment today, which is due on Tuesday, October 12th. I will be posting maps on the blog to help you complete this assignment. We watched a video on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand from the BBC series called "Days That Shook the World". As you watched this video you were to take notes. Please remember the upcoming important tests: you have your Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it study guide) and your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Wednesday (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it).

October 1

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We finished watching the video that we started yesterday, so if you missed class today you will need to get a classmate's notes on "FDR and the New Deal". I also gave you a couple of handouts that looked at the advantages and disadvantages of the private enterprise system, and really clarified who were people of the economic left and the economic right. You have to be able to identify strengths and weaknesses of all of the economic systems that you are introduced to in this course. I also gave you a case study sheet on the United States during the Great Depression, notes on the rationale behind Keynesian economics, and the "alphabet agencies" associated with the New Deal policy initiatives. You should be able to start drawing some parallels with how Roosevelt's administration dealt with the Great Depression and how the Obama administration is dealing with the "great recession". Both administrations are interventionist in the economy, with FDR's New Deal policies and the Obama administration's policies of injecting money into the economy through government bailouts and economic stimulus packages. For more information on the timeline of the global recession, please click on this link from BBC News. Please also see this link from the New York Times on how past American administrations have dealt with recessions. This is an interactive feature and may require you to download the latest version of Flash player (it'll only take a minute or so for most Internet connection speeds).

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You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in class, which, of course, took most of the period. When we do these in-class writing assignments, it is really critical that you watch the time. Time management will be critical not only this year, but next year when you're doing these writing assignments on your Diploma Exam. Please have a look at the following list of upcoming important dates:

• Chapter 3-4 Test is on Tuesday, October 5th (please see the study guide below)
• Unit 1 Final Exam is on Wednesday, October 6th (please see the study guide below)

Chapter 3-4 Test Study Guide:

This test will be on Tuesday, October 5th. It will consist of a matching section (10 key concepts) and a short answer section.

• study the PowerPoint presentation "Contending Loyalties"
• make sure that you have read Chapters 3 and 4 (it is all testable material)
• know the key concepts from Chapters 3 and 4 (please see the Unit 1 Worksheet for these)
• study your answers to the Chapter 3 and 4 questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (all could potentially be on the quiz)
  

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

Your Unit 1 Final Exam will be on Wednesday, October 6th. It is 75 multiple choice questions. Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below). Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes. These are the presentations that you should review:

1. Nation and Identity
2. The French Revolution
3. The Napoleonic Era
4. Contending Loyalties

Know the key concepts from the Unit 1 Worksheet. If you know the key concepts you'll be able apply them in a multiple choice test (hopefully).

• nation
• nation-state
• nationalism
• patriotism
• self-determination
• sovereignty
• sovereign
• civic nation
• civic nationalism
• ethnic nationalism
• collective consciousness
• French Revolution
• Estates-General
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• cahiers de doléances
• Ancien Régime
• bourgeoisie
• feudal system
• philosophes
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• National Assembly
• Tennis Court Oath
• constitutional monarchy
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• National Convention
• levée en masse
• Robespierre
• Danton
• Marat
• Reign of Terror
• Napoleon
• Napoleonic Code
• Continental System
• contending loyalties
• cultural pluralism
• reasonable accommodation
• sovereignists
• federalists
• royal commission
• expressions of nationalism
• non-nationalist loyalty
• alienation
• segregation