November 4

IB 30/35

We started your WWI Battle Presentations today, you'll finish them off tomorrow. Please remember what assessments you are facing this week:

• Emergence of the Americas matching quiz is on Wednesday, November 6th
• Emergence of the Americas Test on Thursday, November 7th
• World War I Written Response Assignment I (WRA I), three source analysis is on Friday, November 8th

Social 20-1

We looked at the construction of the atomic bomb today by watching a video from the "History's Turning Points" series called "The Atomic Bomb", as you watched this video you should have taken notes. We also did some brainstorming at the end of the class on the causes of the Second World War. If you missed class today, please get the notes from a classmate.

Social 30-1

I finished off the PowerPoint lecture on "The Origins of the Cold War" today. You have access to this lecture on the Social 30-1 wiki. You'll have to write the Nazi Germany matching quiz tomorrow, I completely forgot about it. Here's the study guide for the quiz (scroll down to find it). I would like you to go to the World War II Behind Closed Doors website this week, and read the sections on the Yalta Conference  and the Potsdam Conference. This is an excellent site, with tons of information, maps, video clips, timelines and archival footage and re-enactments as well. You do need to really make sure that you understand the Yalta Agreements and the Potsdam Declaration (among other things) and this is a great site to do this. Episode 3 is the one that contains most of the information that you would need to read and watch. There's a great little video clip on this website called "Stalin's Distrust of the West" that might help you see WWII from the Soviet perspective and why the Soviets might wish to extend control over Eastern Europe and be so distrustful of their wartime allies. You can find this video clip in Episode 3 (Dividing the World), scroll down and click on the video clip on the right called "Stalin's Distrust of the West". It's a short little clip, but you'll get the idea. We'll continue our look at the Cold War this week.