March 17

IB 30/35

We started the U.S. Civil Rights Movement today. I started a PowerPoint lecture on this topic, and then I showed an excerpt from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. We'll return to this topic on Wednesday. Please remember that you have your Cold War Exam tomorrow, this is a Social 30-1 multiple choice exam. Please see the study guide below.

Cold War Exam Study Guide:

Make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts:

• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention

Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security

• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout/notes on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 10-1

You did a first draft of your introductory paragraph for your Unit 1 WRA II Essay for part of today's class. You then had an opportunity to get two other students do a peer edit of the essay when we returned to the classroom. Tomorrow you'll go directly to Room 104 to finish writing your essays.

IB 20 HOTA

We started our constitutional convention today, and we'll finish it off tomorrow.