Social 30-1
We watched the A & E Biography of Adolf Hitler today ("The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler"). You have to complete the following homework by Friday's class:
- read, highlight, annotate "Totalitarianism" (pages 144-145 in your 30-1 study booklets)
- read, highlight, annotate "Comparison of Communism and Fascism" (page 146)
- read, highlight, annotate "Core Fascist Values" (page 148)
- complete the charts on Fascism/Nazism (pages 149-151)
- complete the chart called "Stalin: Techniques of Totalitarian Control" (page 152)
Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:
This exam will be written on Thursday, October 23rd. It is a multiple choice question format test.
This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 74 multiple choice questions.
- Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
- study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki under Unit 2 (check your notes): The Development of Classical Liberalism, Responding to Classical Liberalism, The Evolution of Modern Liberalism, 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism (just the USSR section of this PowerPoint)
- In Chapter 5, just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
- please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise), page 78-80 in the Social 30-1 study booklet
- supply-side economics (page 84 in study booklet)
- boom and bust cycle/business cycle (pages 50-54 and pages 56-62 in 30-1 study booklet)
- 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 (pages 63-64 in 30-1 study booklet)
- 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): pages 73-76 in the study booklet
- also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics/"womb to tomb economics"): pages 65-72 in 30-1 booklets
- 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)
- 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) pages 81-82 in the Social 30-1 study booklet
- 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): pages 81-82 in the 30-1 booklet
- 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 (pages 94-96 in 30-1 booklet)
- Lenin notes (pages 97-98 in 30-1 booklet)
- establishment of the Soviet Union
- Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process): study pages 105-114 in the Social 30-1 booklet
- Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
- "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
- Stalin notes (pages 99-101)
- "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev): pages 116-117 in 30-1 booklet
- Gorbachev to Collapse Notes: pages 118-121 in 30-1 booklet
- Economic Planning in the USSR: pages 122-129 in 30-1 booklet
- Market Socialism (pages 130-132 in the Social 30-1 booklet)
Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:
The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, October 28th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:- "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
- Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
- Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
- Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
- 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
IB 20 HOTA
We watched a documentary today from the History Channel on the French Revolution. I also gave you a DBA assignment on the French Revolution. The DBA assignment is due on Monday, October 27th. You will be writing a WRA I three source analysis assignment in class on Wednesday, October 29th. I will re-teach how to write a WRA I three source analysis assignment next week. You will be writing a Unit 5 Test (French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test) in the first week of November.
Unit 5 Test Study Guide (The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Age):
- know the causes of the French Revolution (short term, long term, economic, political, social, intellectual)
- know the structure of French society during the Old Regime
- know Napoleon's domestic policy
- know Napoleon's foreign policy (Continental System in particular)
- know key battles in the Napoleonic Wars (results of the Battle of Trafalgar, Russian campaign, the Battle of Leipzig, and the Battle of Waterloo)
- know chronology of key events in the French Revolution
- know the chronology of key events in the Napoleonic Age
- know the key players at the Congress of Vienna (country and representatives)
- what were the major decisions of the Congress? what were the guiding principles at the Congress of Vienna
- know the 19th century political spectrum (please see the graphic below; values and characteristics of the various positions on the spectrum; what groups are represented on the various positions on the spectrum?; what phases/accomplishments of the French Revolution are represented on the spectrum?)
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