Monday, December 05, 2016

December 5

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay today in class. You'll get your Unit 2 WRA I that you wrote last Monday back tomorrow. I'll try to find time to post these results on D2L too. Please don't forget that your Unit 2 Dossier Assignments are due tomorrow. One week from today, you'll be writing your Unit 2 Final Exam, please see the study guide below. We're starting Unit 3 material tomorrow.

The format for your Unit 2 Final Exam is multiple choice.

1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:
  • The Causes of World War I
  • Total War-Allied Victory in WWI-Paris Peace Conference
  • Ultranationalism in WWII: Italy, Japan, Germany
  • The Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII
  • The Holocaust
  • Eight Stages of Genocide (from the Genocide Watch website)
  • Contemporary Examples of Genocide

2. Know the following key concepts:
  • national interest
  • domestic policy
  • foreign policy
  • Triple Alliance
  • Triple Entente
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Big Four (Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando)
  • appeasement
  • ultranationalism
  • propaganda
  • conscription crisis
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Nazis
  • Hirohito
  • Tojo
  • Kristallnacht
  • The Way of Subjects
  • League of Nations
  • total war
  • internment
  • War Measures Act
  • Great Depression
  • the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • irredentism
  • genocide
  • crimes against humanity
  • war crimes
  • Holocaust
  • ethnic cleansing
  • lebensraum
  • Weimar Republic
  • Final Solution
  • decolonization
  • successor state
  • self-determination

3. Make sure that you review the following broad topics in your review of Unit 2 (and make sure that you can answer ALL of the questions on the Unit 2 Worksheet):
  • World War I (don't concern yourself with memorizing battles though)
  • Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
  • The Interwar Years
  • Rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Japan, and Italy
  • Causes of World War II and key events (turning points in the war)
  • The Holocaust
  • Contemporary examples of genocide (review case studies that were emphasized in class and in the textbook, review your notes for "Scream Bloody Murder", "Shake Hands with the Devil")
  • Decolonization and self-determination (quick review of Vietnam and India from textbook)
  • what are successor states? 
  • what is self-determination? (Kosovo case study)



We continued our examination of Hitler today, by watching Part 1 of the A & E Biography of Hitler called "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". We'll watch Part 2 tomorrow. As you watched this documentary, you were supposed to take notes. This documentary will help you understand the historical context of Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Please continue to edit your assigned Google Doc to prepare for this Friday's Paper 2 on Hitler and/or Stalin. You MUST study historiography for both of these dictators too, and you can find Google Slides/PowerPoint presentations on the wiki on the "Dictatorships" page.

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