November 3

IB 30/35

We continued looking at "Allied Victory and the Paris Peace Conference" PowerPoint presentation today. We'll start looking at the battle to get the Treaty of Versailles ratified in the U.S. Senate tomorrow. Please remember that you have a test on Monday, November 9th on World War I. This test will have 55 multiple choice questions and 39 matching key terms. You should be using the 20th Century World History Course Companion textbook for Prescribed Subject 1 (Paper 1), Causes, Practices, Effects of War (Topic 1, Paper 2), and Authoritarian and Single-Party States (Topic 3, Paper 2). I will also be giving you a duotang tomorrow that covers Prescribed Subject 1. You will be able to keep these duotangs until you've finished your IB Exams in May.

Social 30-1

We finished off the "Origins of the Cold War" PowerPoint today. We watched an episode of the 20th Century History series called "Cold War Confrontation". I also walked you through the timeline of the Cold War.

Social 10-1

We spent the entire period looking at the dilemmas of global trade. We have a brief four corners debate as well. I also split you into two teams for our debate topic Be it resolved that the 21st Century will belong to China. This was a debate topic from the Munk Debate series. You can find the link to the Munk Debate on China here. At the Munk Debate site you can watch video highlights of the debate, and read the transcript from the debate. Another interesting link is to check out Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years in 4 Minutes. This is interesting to note the development of China and how there is a disparity between different regions in China. And now for a couple of links to videos and stories from Fareed Zakaria's Global Public Square: challenges facing China's leadership, why China's leadership needs a PR overhaul.  To get a closer look at any of the infographics below, right click on the image and open in a new window.

Useful links to prepare for the debate:

• Munk Debates on China
• Gapminder: 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes
• China's Ghost Cities
• GPS: Can China reform in time?
• GPS: China's bold environmental move

 

You have your Unit 2 Final Exam on Monday, November 9th. Please see the study guide below.

Social 10-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

This final exam is entirely multiple choice format. There are 57 multiple choice questions. This Unit 2 Final Exam will be on Monday, November 9th. Please make sure that you study your key terms from Unit 2 (Chapters 6-9), as well as the three PowerPoint presentations from this unit:

• "Historical Globalization and Imperialism"
• "Legacies of Historical Globalization"
• "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada"

Key Concepts from Unit 2:

• world views
• historical globalization
• cultural contact
• depopulation
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• entrepreneurs
• Adam Smith
• exploitation
• communism
• industrialization
• Industrial Revolution
• cottage industries
• imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence
• paternalistic
• Confederation
• residential schools
• the Oka crisis
• First Nations Policing Policy
• legacy
• ethnocentrism
• Eurocentrism
• Scramble for Africa
• Leopold II
• migration
• displacement
• British East India Company
• Queen Elizabeth I
• the Raj
• Mohandas Gandhi
• swadeshi
• deindustrialization
• colonization
• the Hundred Associates
• Hudson’s Bay Company
• Rupert’s Land
• North West Company
• Seven Years’ War
• Proclamation of 1763
• Quebec Act of 1774
• the Numbered Treaties
• the Indian Act
• Status Indian
• Non-Status Indian
• multiculturalism
• specific claims
• comprehensive claims