November 30

SOCIAL 20-1

I went through the "recipe for success" for writing WRA II Essays. You'll be writing the Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Monday (December 5th). You'll be writing your Chapter 7-8 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below.  Don't forget that your Unit 2 dossier research project is due on December 6th.

Please note the following upcoming key dates: 

• 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 Dossier Assignment is due on Tuesday, December 6th
• 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

We watched a documentary from the BBC 20th Century History series, the episode was called "Stalin and the Modernization of the USSR". I continued with the "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" PowerPoint, but you'll have to go through the rest of the lecture. Please keep on the look out in your e-mail inboxes for links to a series of Google Docs. Some of you will be able to edit the documents, whereas others you will only be able to view them. The Google Docs will require you to do some reading from the Authoritarian States textbook on Hitler and Stalin.