October 18

Social 30-1

We looked at the concept of market socialism today, re-visited perestroika and looked at Deng Xiao Ping's Four Modernizations. I gave you a booklet that called "Economic Planning in the USSR" which is due Friday. You had a lot of class time to work on this, so I imagine a lot of you would have almost finished this during class time. Your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on Thursday, please see the study guide here. Your Economic Systems Test is on Monday, October 24th, please see the study guide here. Your Unit 2 WRA I is on Wednesday, October 26th (we'll talk about this tomorrow). Your Chapter 5 Test is on Thursday, October 27th (study guide to be posted on the blog this Thursday). I have sent the 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism PowerPoint presentation, so this will help in preparing for the Chapter 5 Test.

Social 20-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation on "Ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan" today in class, and I have sent this presentation to you already. Please print it off (4-6 slides per page) and add it to your notes. I also gave you a copy of "The Way of Subjects", and you have six questions for analysis from this reading due tomorrow. Your Chapter 5-6 Test is on Tuesday, October 25th. Please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

This test is on Tuesday, October 25th. 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)

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)