November 28

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I today in class. For the next two classes I will teach you how to write the WRA II position papers. You'll be writing the Unit 2 WRA II Essay one week from today (December 5th).

Please note the following upcoming key dates: 

• "Shake Hands with the Devil" post-viewing questions are due on November 29th (originally, they were due today, November 28th, but I forgot to take them in with my Period 1 class)
• Chapter 7-8 Test is on Thursday, December 1st (the study guide is below, scroll down to find it)
• Unit 2 WRA II is on Monday, December 5th
• Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, December 12th 

CHAPTER 7-8 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Thursday, December 1st. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3-4 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "The Holocaust"
• "8 Stages of Genocide" 
• "Contemporary Examples of Genocide"

Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:

• 36 Questions About The Holocaust
• Turning Points in History: The Atomic Bomb (film notes)
• White Light/Black Rain (film notes)
• Shake Hands with the Devil (film notes + package)
• Unit 2 Worksheet (chapter questions for Chapter 7 and 8)
• make sure that you have read Chapters 7 and 8!

1. Please study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• crimes against humanity
• genocide
• war crimes
• the Holocaust
• ethnic cleansing
• lebensraum
• Weimar Republic
• Final Solution
• decolonization
• successor state
• self-determination
• Wansee Conference
• Nuremberg Trials
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Jawaharlal Nehru (1st PM of India)
• Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1st leader of Pakistan)
• home rule (desire for self-government for India)
• Hutu
• Tutsi
• Romeo Dallaire
• Manhattan Project
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki
• Robert Oppenheimer
• FDR
• Harry Truman
• Potsdam Conference
• Slobodan Milosevic

2. You should be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 2 worksheet from Chapter 7 and 8.

IB 20 HOTA

You handed in your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment today. You also took most of the period to write your Political Systems Test. I should be able to give you the results of this test tomorrow in class (please remind me). We'll be continuing our investigation of Joseph Stalin and the USSR tomorrow. Please print off a hard copy of the PowerPoint lecture "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" and bring it to class.