March 21

IB 30/35

Since we've finished off the Cold War unit we were in an unusual situation in our timetable. Not wanting to start the U.S. Civil Rights Movement before Spring break, we opted to watch Rick Mercer's "Talking to Americans", for fun. You also got your results back for the Cold War Exam today. Over the break you should start reviewing for your IB History exam by reviewing key topics for Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3. I'll be posting some new material on the wiki over the break as well so look for changes.

Social 30-1

We started off today with a little "E-Cow-nomics" and then transitioned into looking at leaders of the Soviet Union and their contributions (please get these notes from a classmate), then we did a fill-in-blanks on the command economy. I also gave you handouts on "Changes to the Soviet Union after Stalin" (which bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev) and also "Gorbachev to Collapse" notes. These notes are essential for studying for your Economic Systems Exam (Thursday, April 4th). I will send these out to you electronically as well today, since there were a few people away today. Please study for your Economic Systems Exam over the break. Please see the study guide for this exam below. I forgot to do a homework check on the Chapter 5 Key Terms...again. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions will be due on April 2nd.

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

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 Thursday, April 4th.

• 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)
• 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
• Economic Planning in the USSR (you still need to get these notes)

Social 20-1

We finished off the "Ultranationalism in WWII" PowerPoint lecture today. We didn't quite get to "The Way of Subjects" handout, but that can wait until after the break.  Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Tuesday, April 2nd. You will be writing your Chapter 5-6 Test on Monday, April 8th. 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)

March 20

Social 30-1

All of today's class was spent writing your Market and Mixed Economies Test. You will get the results of this test back tomorrow. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 5 Questions will be due on Tuesday, April 2nd. You'll have an Economic Systems Exam on Thursday, April 4th. Please see the study guide below.

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

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 Thursday, April 4th.

• 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)
• 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
• Economic Planning in the USSR (you still need to get these notes)

Social 20-1

Most of today's class was spent writing the Unit 2 WRA I. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Tuesday, April 2nd. I returned your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions today. You will be writing your Chapter 5-6 Test on Monday, April 8th. 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)

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent writing your Cold War Exam. You will get the results of this exam tomorrow. I also handed back some of your homework checked work and your WRA I on the Cold War.

March 19

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent watching the National Geographic documentary "Inside North Korea". The host of the documentary Lisa Ling used to be on "The View", and she has a show on the OWN network now. Interestingly enough, she has a younger sister named Laura Ling. Laura Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee were detained in North Korea after they illegally crossed into North Korea from the People's Republic of China without a visa. They were tried and convicted, then subsequently pardoned after former US President Bill Clinton flew to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-il personally.

Please make sure that you review for your Cold War Exam tonight. Please see the study guide for this exam below. This is test is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 20th.

Social 30-1 Cold War Unit Final Study Guide:

• make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts
  • deterrence
  • disarmament
  • isolationism
  • appeasement
  • collective security
  • direct confrontation
  • brinkmanship
  • containment
  • detente
  • collective intervention

Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security

know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)

know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline

know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)

know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"

know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)

anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!

know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 20-1

We finished off yesterday's GCSE's focus task on "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" and moved on to look at the rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan. I will continue this lecture on Thursday. Please remember that you are writing a three source analysis on Unit 2 material. This Unit 2 WRA I will be on one of the following topics: causes of WWI, World War I itself or the Paris Peace Conference.

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint lecture on "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" today. I will be sending this presentation to you today. I also gave you a handout on the Soviet Economic System. Please review tonight for your Market and Mixed Economies Test. Please see the study guide below. This test is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 20th.

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 (handout)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (handout)

Make sure that you review the following PowerPoint presentations:

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

March 18

IB 30/35

IB Diploma students attended a play in the school's theatre with their English classes, whereas the Certificate students all met in Room 111 and we played a Cold War review game. Please remember that you have a Cold War Exam on Wednesday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 30-1

You watched an A & E Biography of Joseph Stalin today and completed a worksheet that went along with the documentary. You were also given some handouts on the Soviet Economy. Your Market and Mixed Economies Test is on Wednesday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

I missed a bit of today's class today because I had a meeting downtown. You were given some notes on the rise to power of Adolf Hitler. You then watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?" I also gave you a reading booklet with GCSE material called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" You'll get some class time to go over this activity. On Wednesday you have a Unit 2 WRA I, review the notes you have on how to write a three source analysis assignment.

March 15

IB 30/35

We finished off the CNN Cold War series today. The episode was called "Conclusions" and it covered the fall of communism and implications for the future. As you saw in the video, communism ended with a whimper, not a bang in most Eastern European countries and the USSR. In Romania there was a popular uprising with about 1,000 people being killed, but in other Eastern bloc countries in the transition away from communism was mostly peaceful. Towards the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was experiencing economic hardship due in part to military spending, which led Gorbachev to enter into arms reduction talks more readily. Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost had the effect of helping change occur more rapidly in the USSR. Unfortunately for Gorbachev and the CPSU, there was no way to control the changes to Soviet society and its citizens that occurred as a result of the introduction of these reform measures. On Monday, many of you will be attending a play in the school's theatre as part of your English IB class. Certificate students from Mr. Johnson's class and ours will meet in Room 111 for some fun and games. Please remember that you have your Cold War Unit Exam on Wednesday, March 20th. Please see the study guide for this exam below.  

Social 30-1 Cold War Unit Final Study Guide:

• make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts
• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention
Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 30-1

We reviewed private enterprise and supply side economics today, as well as the basic economic values associated with the economic systems. We will be starting to look at the command economy on Monday, so it will be helpful to review the Russian history notes that I am sending to you. We'll be using the USSR as our case study of a communist state that employed a centrally planned economy. Please remember that you have your Market and Mixed Economy Test on Wednesday, March 20th. 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 (handout)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (handout)

Make sure that you review the following PowerPoint presentations:

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

Social 20-1

We focused on the post-WWI desire of the Allied Powers to make Germany pay. We watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay". As you watched this video you were to take notes on it on the worksheet that was provided. Next week we'll look at the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis again and look at the appeasement of Hitler by Western powers. On Wednesday, March 20th you will be writing a Unit 2 WRA I assignment. You will not be allowed to have any reference materials or notes on how to write these assignments out in front of you, so you should memorize how to write these types of assignments prior to Wednesday.

March 14

Social 20-1

I gave you a booklet today that is extremely important, it covers major events of the Interwar Years. Please make sure that you put a star on this booklet. Material from this booklet will be tested on your Unit 2 Final Exam, and Part B of the Final Exam in June. We also watched "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" which covered the rise of Hitler to power in Germany. We will go over concepts and events covered in this documentary in the days to come. On Wednesday of next week (March 20th), you will be writing another WRA I three source analysis assignment. It will be on material that I have covered already in Unit 2.

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent writing your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test". On Wednesday, March 20th you will be writing your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test. 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 (handout)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (handout)

Make sure that you review the following PowerPoint presentations:

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

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent watching the CNN Cold War series video called "The Wall Comes Down". Most of the focus on this episode was on the breakdown of Eastern European governments in 1989, with the greatest emphasis on East Germany and Erich Honecker's government. On October 17, 1989 Honecker was voted out of the Politburo. The original crisis in East Germany had been caused in part over restrictions on travel. Egon Krenz's government started to make reforms for free travel for East Germans. Street demonstrations demanded more and more from Krenz's government. Many of the East German opposition members wanted Gorbachev-era inspired reforms such as glasnost and perestroika. In the end, a bureaucratic mistake led to East Berliners to mass outside of the gates to West Berlin because the East German government had said that travel restrictions had been lifted. East German border guards then allowed people to pass over to the West. The episode also touched on Poland's Solidarity movement under Lech Walesa, too.
On Wednesday, March 20th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format.

Social 30-1 Cold War Unit Final Study Guide:

• make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts
• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention
Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

March 12

Parent Student Teacher Interviews will be held on Wednesday, March 13th from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Social Studies department will be in the Main Gym. No appointments necessary.

IB 30/35

We got together with Mr. Johnson's class today to watch a video on the construction of the Berlin Wall. If you are a Diploma student, your TOK Essay is due today.

TOK Essay information:
You now have your personal user code and PIN to upload the TOK essay - you must upload the essay to the https://candidates.ibo.org website.

Social 20-1

We continued with the "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conference" PowerPoint lecture today. I have sent this PowerPoint presentation to you already. You also completed a GCSE "Making Peace" activity and we had time to go over the answers in class.

Social 30-1

You had the entire period to study for your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, which is on Thursday, Please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, March 14th.

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

March 11

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent writing a Social 30-1 WRA I assignment. You had 60 minutes to write it. We will continue with the Cold War tomorrow, by going back to Europe, and more specifically East and West Germany to examine the construction of the Berlin Wall and see how it contributed to Cold War tensions. We are nearing the end of our study of the Cold War. By Wednesday of next week we will be writing the Cold War Exam. A study guide for this exam will be posted on Wednesday of this week. Today's WRA I will not appear on the interim report card that goes home tomorrow. Diploma students: remember that you must submit your TOK Essay by March 12th.

TOK Essay information:

You now have your personal user code and PIN to upload the TOK essay - you must upload the essay to the https://candidates.ibo.org website



You have until the end of March 12 to do so.

Social 30-1

I went through a lecture today that corresponds to material in Chapter 4 and 6 called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism". I will be sending this PowerPoint presentation to you this afternoon. During today's class I was talking about military spending and an Oreo cookie video that demonstrates U.S. military spending. Here is the link to this video. Please remember that you have your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Thursday, You can find the study guide for this test here.

Social 20-1

We watched a video from the BBC series "Days That Shook the World" , specifically the episode on "The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand". I also started a lecture on the "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conferences". I will continue this lecture tomorrow.

March 8

IB 30/35

We continued our examination of the Cold War by watching a video from the CNN Cold War series called "Soldiers of God" which deals with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As you watched this video you were to take notes on it. If you missed class today you need to get these notes from a classmate. If you're a Diploma student you need to work on your TOK Essay this weekend. Use the resources on the wiki to help you write this essay. The TOK Essay must be submitted to the IB website by March 12th.

Social 30-1

You watched a couple of videos from the TV news magazine show 60 Minutes. One video was called "Dutch Treat" (Netherlands case study) and "Welfare a la Carte" (Norway case study). As you watched these videos you were to take notes on them. For the remainder of class time you given time to work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions. These key terms and questions are due on Monday. Please study for your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, which is on Thursday, March 14th. Please use the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, March 14th.

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

Social 20-1

We completed a fictitious World War I peace conference to try and resolve the tensions that we see after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday.

March 7

Social 20-1

Most of today's class was spent writing your Unit 1 Final Exam. You will get the results back tomorrow. Please make sure that you read the "Causes of World War I" booklet before tomorrow's class. Read it, highlight it, and make notes/annotations to yourself on the booklet.

Social 30-1

You wrote an in-class analysis of a political cartoon in class today. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. You had about half of today's class time to work on this assignment. Please remember that your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test is one week from today (Thursday, March 14th). Please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, March 14th.

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

IB 30/35

We met in Room 121 for a change today. We watched another video from the CNN Cold War series, today's episode was called "Backyard" and dealt with American interventionism in Latin America throughout the Cold War. There were a lot of notes on this video, so if you missed class today, please get these notes from a classmate. We also went over how to write a Written Response Assignment I (WRA I), sometimes called a three source analysis assignment. You will be writing a WRA I in class on Monday covering a topic related to the Cold War. If you missed class today please get the handout that you missed. Tomorrow we'll be looking at Soviet Union's version of the Vietnam War, namely their intervention in Afghanistan and how the Americans worked against Soviet interests in the region by supplying the Mujahideen forces in Afghanistan through back channels.

March 6

Social 30-1

I went through the fiscal and monetary policy booklet with you today. I also gave you booklets of readings on mixed economies, democratic socialism, and Sweden: The Welfare State today. You must read all of these booklets, and complete the activities in the Sweden booklet for tomorrow. Tomorrow you will be writing an in-class cartoon analysis assignment, so get to class on time! Please see the study guide below for the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, March 11th.

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

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is tomorrow, please see the study guide here. You should have picked up a copy of the Unit 2 Worksheet. The Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Monday.

IB 30/35

We watched another video from the CNN Cold War series today called "MAD" (mutually assured destruction). I also showed the 1951 Civil Defense film "Duck and Cover".

March 5

IB 30/35

We watched "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" today. I think you could see techniques of the war clearly illustrated in this video and yesterday's excerpts from "Born on the Fourth of July". As unsettling as these two movies were you can see recruitment techniques, the fears of the times ("communism is all around us, they're moving in everywhere"), the techniques of warfare in Vietnam (how the war was fought: use of helicopters, dropping troops near villages, engaging the enemy/luring them out and then calling in air strikes) and the aftermath/impact that the war had on young men like Ron Kovic (issues of drug use, post-traumatic stress disorder). There was an event that was briefly mentioned in the film "Dear America" that I think deserves a little bit more attention since it helped sway American popular opinion against the war. I'm not talking about the Tet Offensive (although it failed militarily to achieve the goals that the Viet Cong wished, it did turn American public opinion), I'm referring to the My Lai Massacre. You can read more about this event here. Please visit the IB 30/35 wiki tonight, and edit the Vietnam War page (causes, courses, practices, events and results chart). You can find this page on the Collaborative Notes page. I have also shared this page with you, so there's no excuses! Changes due by Friday. GOOD!

As we will see, public support for the Vietnam War changes over time as more and more American soldiers are killed. We see a growth in the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, and the media also played a role in the turn of popular opinion against the war. I REALLY recommend that you have a look at the this series of photographs from the Vietnam War era, pretty powerful imagery (make sure that you read the captions too). Here is a link to the NPR that explains the story behind the photograph below, definitely worth the time to read or listen to the podcast, and make sure that you look at the photo gallery of Eddie Adams' photographs of the Vietnam War.



There are certain iconic images associated with the Vietnam War. Here is another:

The above photograph is of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, O.Ont (born in 1963), she is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about age nine running naked on the street after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack. Contrary to popular myth, the US Air Force were not involved in the attack, and only two US troops were within 60 miles (97 km) of the scene, neither of whom had any say in the bombings. Still, it is a powerful image associated with the war.

Social 20-1

I gave you back your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class. We watched a couple of videos from the CBS World War I series. Today's videos were "Clash of the Generals" and "The Trenches". I also gave you a reading booklet called "The Causes of World War I". Some parts of the booklet are dated since it was written in 1989, and it makes reference to the USSR, the Cold War and the division of Germany post-WWII. That having been said, it is well-written and very helpful. It is highly recommended that you have read this booklet PRIOR to Friday's class. You have a Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow (please see the study guide here), and on Thursday you have your Unit 1 Final Exam (please see the study guide here).

Social 30-1

We finished off the "FDR and the New Deal" video at the beginning of class. I also did a homework check on the Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions today. I gave you a booklet on Analyzing Political Cartoons today. You're allowed to have this booklet out on Thursday when you write a cartoon analysis assignment. In Thursday's class there will be several political cartoons up on the board and you'll have to pick one to analyze.

March 4

IB 30/35

I returned your Paper 2 on Topic 5: The Cold War, which focused on the origins of the Cold War. Many of you wrote quite well, and included historiography on the origins from the Orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist schools. We got back to looking at the Vietnam War by watching and excerpt from "Born on the Fourth of July".

Social 30-1

I returned your Unit 1 WRA II Essays today. Please see me in tutorial if you'd like to discuss your essays. We then watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Boom and Bust" and "FDR and the New Deal". You were to complete the film study sheet that went along with "Boom and Bust", and you were to take your notes on "FDR and the New Deal". Please check your e-mail tonight for a very important booklet on monetary and fiscal policy. I will go over the contents of this booklet with you on Wednesday.

Social 20-1

We continued to examine "The Causes of World War I" today. I will send this PowerPoint presentation to you this afternoon. We also watched a video from the CBS video series on World War I called "Doomed Dynasties". Please see the study guide for your Chapter 3-4 Test here, and the study guide for the Unit 1 Final Exam here. The Chapter 3-4 Test is on Wednesday, and the Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday. Please check your e-mail accounts for the WWI as a Bar Fight document and the PowerPoint presentation.

I mentioned this in class, so I thought that I would share a link to a website that discusses J.R.R. Tolkien's experiences in the Great War, and how that influenced his writing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, specifically the Journey through the Dead Marshes. The Great War was also a time when some of our most famous Canadian landscape artists came to the forefront, I'm referring to the Group of Seven, of course. Can you see some similarities in the pictures that I'm posting below?














I guess my point is that art is based on personal experience, and these artists were heavily influenced by their experiences in the Great War.

March 1

IB 30/35

We finished off the TOK Presentations today. Please remember that your Vietnam War Assignment is due on Monday.

Social 30-1

We reviewed the business cycle and the Keynesian economic response at the various stages of the boom and bust cycle. We'll continue to build upon the concepts of monetary and fiscal policy next week. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday.  

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class. We started Unit 2 material today by starting "The Causes of World War I". I will continue with this lecture on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 3-4 Test Wednesday, March 6th (see the study guide here), and your Unit 1 Final Exam on Thursday, March 7th (see the study guide here).