Social 20-1
We continued our film study of "Gandhi", we should be able to finish it off tomorrow. I did a homework check on the Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions and the colonial background information on India. You have your Chapter 7-8 Test on Thursday, November 28th, please see the study guide below.Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:
This test is on Friday, November 26th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3-4 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.
Social 30-1
We did some housekeeping today, with me returning some homework checked assignments and sharing results on the Cold War Exam. We watched the National Geographic documentary called "Inside North Korea" as well today. Please complete the Political Compass survey and bring in your quadrant print out to class tomorrow. Please check out the Unit 2 Final Exam study guide below.Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
This Unit Final is on Monday, November 25th, it will be a 75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:- study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
- study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
- study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
- study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
- study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
- study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
- study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
- 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 booklet
- techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
- modern liberalism
- features of the Nazi state
- Hitler's rise to power
- 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 spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model
IB 30/35
You watched the A & E Biography of Benito Mussolini. I also shared some upcoming key dates with you on the IB calendar.- Paper 1 on Prescribed Subject 1: Tuesday, November 26th
- Diploma students: TOK Essay meeting during tutorial on Thursday, November 28th. Attendance is mandatory.
- Prescribed Subject 1 Quiz on Friday, November 29th .
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