May 22

Social 30-1

We finished off the FLQ Crisis video from the History's Turning Points series today. We started to develop an understanding of historical context by examining the 9/11 attacks. In order to understand the mood in the United States after 9/11 and be able to provide a rationale for why they pushed through the USA PATRIOT Act so quickly you need this context. Make sure that complete all of the video questions from the CBC News in Review booklet that I gave you as well as read all of the articles in that booklet as well. Please check your e-mail tonight for notes on the Patriot Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act. Please print these notes off, read them, highlight them and annotate them prior to tomorrow's class. Your Chapter 10 Test is on Monday, please see the study guide below.

Chapter 10 Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet. Please review the following as well:

• Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Structure of Canadian Government
• Structure of American Government
• similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• authoritarian systems
• proportional representation concept
• first past the post system
• review political and economic spectrum (again!)

Social 20-1

You had most of the class period to work on a foreign policy booklet that required you to define key terms and concepts, and to provide examples of these key concepts. I will do a homework check on this booklet on Friday. You should have completed this work in class. You also had some time to do some group brainstorming on arguments and evidence for tomorrow's Unit 3 WRA II Essay. Don't be late tomorrow, since we're writing this essay right at the beginning of the day in the Blenheim lab.
 

IB 30/35

We did a lot of review today in preparation for tomorrow's written test. I reviewed the 19th century political spectrum, the 20th century political spectrum, the principles of individualism (PRICES) and the principles of collectivism (PRINCE), the economic-political grid and the techniques of dictatorship. All of these concepts were taught to you in Grade 11, but we needed to review these concepts. You are writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Friday, please see the study guide below. You have your Economic Systems Exam on Wednesday, May 29th, this exam deals with the market economy, the mixed economy, and the command economy. In the first semester you wrote an exam that covered the market and mixed economy, so it expands on those concepts. You can find the study guide below.

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Friday, May 24th. Make sure that you study the following:

• Study the principles of individualism (PRICES) and principles of collectivism (PRINCE)
• Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file)
• Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
• Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
• Study the political-economic grid
• Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
• Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet
• review your Enlightenment philosophers that you were introduced to previously: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau

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 Wednesday, May 29th.

 
• study all of the following PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki for Unit 2:

                   - The Development of Classical Liberalism
                   - Responding to Classical Liberalism
                   - The Evolution of Modern Liberalism
                   - 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism

• 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) from the wiki 
• 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 is on the wiki)
• 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 notes 
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes