December 10

IB 30/35

We continued looking at the command economy in the USSR today. I gave you notes on leaders of the Soviet Union that you had to copy down off the board. I gave you the following readings today:

• "Changes to the Soviet System After Stalin"
• "Gorbachev to Collapse"
• "Economic Planning in the USSR"

I also showed a short documentary called "Marx to McDonald's" which covered the economic changes that the Soviet Union experienced with perestroika.

On Wednesday, December 16th you will be writing the Market and Mixed Economy Test, please see the study guide below.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be on Wednesday, December 16th

• 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
• nationalization
• 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
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

Social 30-1

We looked at the USA PATRIOT Act again today, and looked at the sweeping powers it gave to the U.S. government. I showed you part of the documentary "Unconstitutional" today, and while you were watching this documentary, you should have been answering the film study questions that went along with it. We also talked the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. I also took in your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment. Please check out the important dates below.

• Unit 3 WRA I is on Tuesday, December 15th
• Chapter 10 Test is on Thursday, December 17th (please see the study guide below)

CHAPTER 10 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet. Please review the following as well: 

• Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Structure of Canadian Government
• Structure of American Government
• similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• authoritarian systems
• proportional representation concept
• first past the post system
• review political and economic spectrum (again!)

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 3 WRA II Essay today in class. Please remember the following upcoming important dates: 

• TNC Dossier Assignment is due on Friday, December 11th
• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, December 14th (see study guide below)

UNIT 3 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Please make sure that you have read Chapters 10-14. Please make sure that you have the following PowerPoint presentations, and that you study from them:

• "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
• "The Expansion of Economic Globalization"
• "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization"
• "The Impact of Economic Globalization on Environments"
• "Globalization and Sustainability"

Make sure that you have reviewed the Key Terms from Unit 3 (all the terms listed on the Unit 3 Worksheet, plus the extra key terms that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations). The Unit 3 Final Exam will consist of 60+ multiple choice questions.