July 17

Social 20-1

We had to cover a lot of ground today because we didn't finish everything that we needed to cover yesterday. We started the day off by watching an excerpt of the film "Saving Private Ryan" which showed the American experience on Omaha Beach during the D-Day operations. As I said in class yesterday, once the Allies had established a foothold in France, the Nazis were now fighting the Allies on three different fronts: the Soviet Union in the east, the British and Americans in Italy, and now the British, Americans, Canadians, and others in France. A little less than one year later Nazi Germany would surrender to the Allies, ended WWII in Europe. The Second World War would continue in the Pacific against the Japanese until August 1945.

I also went through a PowerPoint lecture on "The Holocaust", which is in your green study booklets and on the wiki. We also watched some of the documentary called "Genocide" today. You started writing the Unit 2 WRA II Essay today, and we did a peer edit on the introductory paragraph. You were to e-mail this essay to yourself and print off a hard copy for peer editing. We are booked into the Blenheim Room on Friday to finish writing your essays. DO NOT DO ANY EDITING OF YOUR ESSAY BEFORE FRIDAY.

Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, and your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday. Make sure that you read these chapters and complete the assigned work on time. Your Chapter 7-8 Test is on Tuesday, please see the study guide below. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is one week from today (July 24th), please see the study guide below.

Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:

This test is on Tuesday, July 23rd. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "The Holocaust"
• "8 Stages of Genocide" (see the Genocide Watch website: http://www.genocidewatch.org/)
• "Contemporary Examples of Genocide"

Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:

• 36 Questions About The Holocaust
• Turning Points in History: The Atomic Bomb (film notes)
• White Light/Black Rain (film notes)
• Shake Hands with the Devil (film notes + package)
• Unit 2 Worksheet (chapter questions for Chapter 7 and 8)
• make sure that you have read Chapters 7 and 8!

1. Please study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• genocide
• crimes against humanity
• war crimes
• the Holocaust
• ethnic cleansing
• lebensraum
• Weimar Republic
• Final Solution
• decolonization
• successor state
• self-determination
• Wansee Conference
• Nuremberg Trials
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Mohammed Ali Jinnah
• home rule
• Hutu
• Tutsi
• Romeo Dallaire
• Manhattan Project
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki
• Robert Oppenheimer
• FDR
• Harry Truman
• Potsdam Conference
• Slobodan Milosevic

2. You should be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 2 Worksheet from Chapter 7 and 8.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

This exam consists of 75 multiple choice questions, and it will be on Wednesday, July 24th.

1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:

• The Causes of World War I
• Total War-Allied Victory in WWI-Paris Peace Conference
• Ultranationalism in WWII: Italy, Japan, Germany
• The Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII
• The Holocaust
• Eight Stages of Genocide (from the Genocide Watch website)
• Contemporary Examples of Genocide

2. Know the following key concepts:

• national interest
• domestic policy
• foreign policy
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• Treaty of Versailles
• Big Four (Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando)
• appeasement
• ultranationalism
• propaganda
• conscription crisis
• Adolf Hitler
• Nazis
• Hirohito
• Tojo
• Kristallnacht
• The Way of Subjects
• League of Nations
• total war
• internment
• War Measures Act
• Great Depression
• the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• irredentism
• genocide
• crimes against humanity
• war crimes
• Holocaust
• ethnic cleansing
• lebensraum
• Weimar Republic
• Final Solution
• decolonization
• successor state
• self-determination

3. Make sure that you review the following broad topics in your review of Unit 2 (and make sure that you can answer ALL of the questions on the Unit 2 Worksheet):

• World War I (don't concern yourself with memorizing battles though)
• Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
• The Interwar Years
• Rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Japan, and Italy
• Causes of World War II and key events (turning points in the war)
• The Holocaust
• Contemporary examples of genocide (review case studies that were emphasized in class and in the textbook, review your notes for "Scream Bloody Murder", "Shake Hands with the Devil")
• Decolonization and self-determination (quick review of "Gandhi" film study booklet, what are successor states? What is self-determination? Kosovo case study)