March 13

IB 30/35

I took in your outlines for the essay questions that you prepared yesterday at the beginning of class. I finished off the "End of the Cold War" PDF notes that Ms. Phui prepared today. I recommend you watch the CNN Cold War episodes that I posted on the wiki most recently, namely "The Wall Comes Down" and "Conclusions" episode. On Tuesday (March 17th), you will be writing a Paper 3 on the Cold War and the Americas. On Wednesday (March 18th), you will be writing a Social 30-1 style multiple choice test on the Cold War, I'm posting the study guide below.

COLD WAR EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

On Wednesday, March 18th 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. 

IB 30/35 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

Know the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Yalta Conference
• Potsdam Conference
• domino theory
• proxy war
• deterrence
• containment
• superpower
• sphere of influence
• zones of occupation
• Berlin Blockade/Berlin Airlift
• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• SALT I 
• SALT II
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• Hungarian Revolution 1956
• Prague Spring 1968
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979
• Korean War
• Helsinki Accord 
• Kennedy
• Khrushchev
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Eisenhower
• peaceful coexistence
• satellite state
• Tito
• Yugoslavia
• Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)/Star Wars
• 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 30-1

You wrote the "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" today in class. I've already posted the results on PowerSchool.

Social 10-1

I started a lecture today called "Historical Globalization and Imperialism". You can find this lecture on the Social 10-1 wiki under Unit 2 Presentations. I'll finish it off on Monday.