Wednesday, October 30, 2013

October 30



You were able to select your topic for the Unit 2 Research Project. This project is due on November 25th. After you made your selections I was able to complete a PowerPoint lecture on "The Holocaust". This presentation is on the Social 20-1 wiki (see link under Social 20-1 Links here on the blog) and you have a hard copy in your blue Social 20-1 study booklets. We'll continue our examination of the Holocaust tomorrow.


You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis assignment in class today. Please remember that you are writing your Chapter 5 Test tomorrow. Please see the study guide below.


The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, October 31st. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (see wiki)
  • Lenin notes (see wiki)
  • Stalin notes (see wiki)
  • Soviet Economy notes
  • Soviet Economic System notes
  • Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
  • Gorbachev to Collapse notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • Characteristics of Democracy
  • Characteristics of Dictatorship
  • 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)
  • 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

We covered Latin America's role in the First World War today. We began to transition to our Prescribed Subject 1 topic today, "Peacemaking, Peacekeeping and International Relations (1918-1936)" as well. Please remember that your IA rough draft is due tomorrow. WWI battle presentations are starting on Monday, November 4th.

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