March 12

IB 30/35

We skipped backwards in time today to talk about the Antebellum South and the issue of slavery. One thing that I forgot to show was an animation of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade (please have a look at it below). Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade


We also started a film study of "12 Years a Slave" which we will pick up again on Wednesday. Please remember that you are writing your Cold War Exam tomorrow (please see the study guide below).

COLD WAR EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

On Tuesday, March 13th 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 10-1

We spent the entire period in the Blenheim Room working on your first draft of the first paragraph of your Unit 1 WRA II Essay. After writing the first paragraph, you were able to have a few classmates peer edit your work, and then you could have made the edits to your position paper. You're finishing off this essay tomorrow.

Social 20-1

I lectured about the Paris Peace Conference today, I taught you the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe). We might look at the Paris Peace Conference in greater detail tomorrow.

Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, March 15th.