March 15

IB 30/35

We watched the last episode of the CNN Cold War series called "Conclusions (1989-1991)" today. You should have taken notes on this video while it was playing. This Thursday (March 17th) you are writing a Social 30-1 Cold War Exam; please see the study guide below.

COLD WAR EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

On Thursday, March 17th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format. 

SOCIAL 30-1 COLD WAR UNIT FINAL 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 30-1

I showed you the Biography documentary on Joseph Stalin called "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror". As you watched this video you were supposed to answer the film study questions.

On Thursday, March 17th, you'll be writing your Market and Mixed Economy Test, you can find the study guide below. If you want some practice questions from the yellow booklet to prepare for your test on Thursday, give these ones a try:

Test II: 

• Q 1-7
• Q 41-59
• Q 129-132

Test II: 

• Q 70, 73, 76, 85-87, 91

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Thursday, March 17th

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• 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 10-1

I gave you a little bit of time to continue with the peer editing session that we started yesterday. I finished off the PowerPoint lecture "Historical Globalization and Imperialism" today as well. You can find this presentation on the Social 10-1 wiki under Unit 2 Presentations. You are writing the rest of your Unit 1 WRA II Essays on Thursday in Room 104. If you haven't yet, please look at the sample Unit 1 WRA II Essays on the wiki.