April 1

IB 30/35

We finished Episode 2 of "Eyes on the Prize" today, the questions for Episode 2 are due on Monday. Here's a list of upcoming important dates:

• Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Wednesday, April 6th 
• Paper 3 Essay Outline (Diploma students only) is due on April 11th 
• Civil Rights Movement Test is on April 13th 
• Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement is on April 20th

Social 10-1

I did  a homework check on your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, April 5th. Don't forget that your Chapter 7 Test is on Monday, April 4th (please see the study guide below).


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CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and a short answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

Social 30-1

I showed you the "Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" today, and did a homework check on the Economic Planning in the USSR from your Social 30-1 workbook.

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be written on Monday, April 4th. 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 Wednesday, 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

NAZI GERMANY QUIZ STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz

• anti-Semitism
• Aryan
• concentration camp
• corporate state
• Dachau
• decree
• deportation
• dissent
• elite
• Enabling Act
• ethnic
• Fuehrer
• Gestapo
• Hitler
• Holocaust
• indoctrination
• inequality
• inflation
• judicial
• jugend
• Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht
• nationalism
• Nazi
• Niemoller
• Nuremberg
• passive
• plebiscites
• pogrom
• prinzip
• Reichstag
• Ruhr
• SA
• SS
• state
• swastika
• War Guilt Clause
• White Rose