May 13

SOCIAL 20-1

I gave you time to work on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions today (they are due on Thursday). 

You will be writing the Unit 2 Final Exam tomorrow. You can find the study guide for this exam below. Don't forget that your Unit 2 Dossier Assignment is due on Wednesday, May 15th. 

UNIT 2 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

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. Study the following key terms, 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 (what are successor states? What is self-determination?)

SOCIAL 30-1

We continued Unit 3 material today. We went through the electoral college system (and we watched a couple of YouTube videos on the subject). We also talked about gerrymandering. One of the key concepts that I want you to connect to these two topics (electoral college and gerrymandering) is the will of the people. Is the will of the people reflected in the outcome of elections that use the electoral college system and have gerrymandered districts? Couple these concepts with super PACS and "dark money" and you have some interesting criticisms of the American political system. Your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions are due on tomorrow. Your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on Thursday, May 16th. You can work by yourself, or with a partner (no groups of three!).