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You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today in class. You should get the results back tomorrow. Please remember to prepare for your Unit 2 WRA II Essay tonight! You'll be writing this essay on Thursday, May 7th in the Blenheim Room. This will be the last essay in Social 30-1 that you will be able to prepare in advance for, so I strongly encourage you to work on your argumentation and evidence ideas tonight.
Social 20-1
We continued watching "Gandhi" today in class. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7-8 Test on Thursday, May 7th. Please follow the study guide below.
This test is on Thursday, May 7th. 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" (this will be posted on the wiki)
"8 Stages of Genocide" (see the Genocide Watch website: http://www.genocidewatch.org/; it's also posted on the wiki)
"Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (this will be posted on the wiki)
Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:
36 Questions About The Holocaust
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: genocide:
crimes against humanity
war crimes
the Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
Wansee Conference
Nuremberg Trials
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
home rule
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.
I spent part of today's class lecturing on the Canadian political system, and key characteristics of our system (federalism, constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, bicameral legislature). I went through the structural diagram for the Canadian government that appears in your Social 30-1 study booklets. I also gave you class time to move into small groups to brainstorm argumentation and evidence for your Unit 2 WRA II Essay (you're writing this essay on Thursday, May 7th). Please remember that you have your Unit 2 Final Exam tomorrow (the study guide is below).
Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, May 5th. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:
study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
supply-side economics
boom and bust cycle/business cycle
laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
basic economic problems/questions
advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
causes of the Great Depression
FDR and the New Deal
please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
characteristics of a mixed economy
nationalization
privatization
democratic socialism
welfare capitalism
Keynesian economics
the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
demand-side economics
neo-conservatives
monetarism
trickle down economics
supply-side economics
Thatcherism and Reaganomics
Milton Friedman
Friedrich Hayek
how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
characteristics of a centrally planned economy
advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
establishment of the Soviet Union
Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
"Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
"Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
modern liberalism
features of the Nazi state
Hitler's rise to power
Characteristics of Democracy
Characteristics of Dictatorship
Democratic Systems notes
Non-Democratic Systems notes
Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
Totalitarianism notes
Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model
Social 20-1
We continued our film study of "Gandhi". We'll continue watching this film tomorrow, and we should be able to finish it tomorrow. Please don't forget to study for your Chapter 7-8 Test, which is on Thursday, May 7th.
Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:
This test is on Thursday, May 7th. 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" (this will be posted on the wiki)
"8 Stages of Genocide" (see the Genocide Watch website: http://www.genocidewatch.org/; it's also posted on the wiki)
"Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (this will be posted on the wiki)
Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:
36 Questions About The Holocaust
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: genocide:
crimes against humanity
war crimes
the Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
Wansee Conference
Nuremberg Trials
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
home rule
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.
You had the entire period to work on your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions, which are due onMonday. Please remember that you have your Unit 2 Final Exam on Tuesday, May 5th (you can find the study guide below). On Monday, you'll get about 40 minutes to work in small groups brainstorming argumentation and evidence ideas for your Unit 2 WRA II Essay. You'll be writing the Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Thursday, May 7th. Don't forget to do the Alberta Vote Compass survey.
Social 30-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, May 5th. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:
study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
supply-side economics
boom and bust cycle/business cycle
laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
basic economic problems/questions
advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
causes of the Great Depression
FDR and the New Deal
please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
characteristics of a mixed economy
nationalization
privatization
democratic socialism
welfare capitalism
Keynesian economics
the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
demand-side economics
neo-conservatives
monetarism
trickle down economics
supply-side economics
Thatcherism and Reaganomics
Milton Friedman
Friedrich Hayek
how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
characteristics of a centrally planned economy
advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
establishment of the Soviet Union
Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
"Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
"Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
modern liberalism
features of the Nazi state
Hitler's rise to power
Characteristics of Democracy
Characteristics of Dictatorship
Democratic Systems notes
Non-Democratic Systems notes
Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
Totalitarianism notes
Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model
Social 20-1
We started our film study of "Gandhi". We'll continue watching this film on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Please don't forget to study for your Chapter 7-8 Test, which is on Thursday, May 7th.
Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:
This test is on Thursday, May 7th. 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" (this will be posted on the wiki)
"8 Stages of Genocide" (see the Genocide Watch website: http://www.genocidewatch.org/; it's also posted on the wiki)
"Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (this will be posted on the wiki)
Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:
36 Questions About The Holocaust
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: genocide:
crimes against humanity
war crimes
the Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
Wansee Conference
Nuremberg Trials
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
home rule
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.
You got the results back from yourChapter 7 Cold War Exam today. I did a short lecture on the differences between positive freedoms and negative freedoms. If you missed class today, please make sure that you get these notes from a classmate. You had the remainder of class time to work on the Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions. These key terms and questions are due on Friday, May 1st. Please remember to review Unit 2 material. You will be writing your Unit 2 Final Exam on Tuesday, May 5th (please see the study guide below). If you're looking for practice multiple choice questions, please take the Test II at the back of your Social 30-1 study booklet. There are 137 multiple choice questions on this test. Split it up over three days, and do about 40 or so questions a night in the lead-up to the Unit 2 Final Exam.
Social 30-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, May 5th. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:
study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
supply-side economics
boom and bust cycle/business cycle
laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
basic economic problems/questions
advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
causes of the Great Depression
FDR and the New Deal
please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
characteristics of a mixed economy
nationalization
privatization
democratic socialism
welfare capitalism
Keynesian economics
the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
demand-side economics
neo-conservatives
monetarism
trickle down economics
supply-side economics
Thatcherism and Reaganomics
Milton Friedman
Friedrich Hayek
how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
characteristics of a centrally planned economy
advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
establishment of the Soviet Union
Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
"Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
"Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
modern liberalism
features of the Nazi state
Hitler's rise to power
Characteristics of Democracy
Characteristics of Dictatorship
Democratic Systems notes
Non-Democratic Systems notes
Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
Totalitarianism notes
Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model
Social 20-1
You had the entire period to complete background research on the history of India. This activity will provide you with background knowledge necessary to better understand the film "Gandhi". We will be starting our film study of "Gandhi" on Friday. Please remember that you are writing your Unit 2 WRA II Essay tomorrow. I'll take in the Indian independence movement colonial history/background questions on Friday as well. You are writing the Chapter 7-8 Test on Thursday, May 7th (please see the study guide below).
Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:
This test is on Thursday, May 7th. 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" (this will be posted on the wiki)
"8 Stages of Genocide" (see the Genocide Watch website: http://www.genocidewatch.org/; it's also posted on the wiki)
"Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (this will be posted on the wiki)
Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:
36 Questions About The Holocaust
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: genocide:
crimes against humanity
war crimes
the Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
Wansee Conference
Nuremberg Trials
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
home rule
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.
We started Unit 3 by looking at your results for the Political Compass survey. We also watched a video from BBC World called "10 Questions About Democracy" (here is a link to the companion website if you'd like to hear what people had to say again). You are responsible for finishing the entire film study that went along with this video for Monday's class (I'll be doing a homework check on it, and in all likelihood, we'll be able to discuss some of the questions in the video). One of the people that was interviewed in the video, Stanley Fish, is a writer for the New York Times; here's an article he wrote after he was interviewed for the documentary.
Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
It will be a 75 multiple choice question test which will be held on Monday, November 25th. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:
study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
supply-side economics
boom and bust cycle/business cycle
laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism) also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
characteristics of a mixed economy
nationalization
privatization
democratic socialism
welfare capitalism
Keynesian economics
the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
demand-side economics
neo-conservatives
monetarism
trickle down economics
supply-side economics
Thatcherism and Reaganomics
Milton Friedman
Friedrich Hayek
how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
characteristics of a centrally planned economy
advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
establishment of the Soviet Union
Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
"Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
"Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
modern liberalism
features of the Nazi state
Hitler's rise to power
Democratic Systems notes
Non-Democratic Systems notes
Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
Totalitarianism notes
Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model
Social 20-1
We finished watching "Gandhi" today. The film study guide for "Gandhi" is due on Monday. One week from today, you have your Chapter 7-8 Test. Please remember that your Unit 2 Research Project is due on Monday, November 25th.
Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:
This test is on Thursday, November 24th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3-4 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:
"Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (you have a hard copy in your Social 20-1 blue study booklets)
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: genocide:
crimes against humanity
war crimes
the Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
Wansee Conference
Nuremberg Trials
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
home rule
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 30/35
Despite the delays with the fire alarm, we were able to finish off the "1920s Conservatism in the USA" PowerPoint presentation. Please bring your United States and Its People textbooks to class on Monday. You are writing your Paper 1 on Prescribed Subject 1 on Tuesday, November 26th. This is your last weekend to prepare for it, so I suggest that you work very methodically through the Paper 1 duotang, and do some research into historiography for the various topics that the sources potentially could be on with the Paper 1. Use this long weekend to your advantage!
We continued our film study of "Gandhi", we should be able to finish it off tomorrow. I did a homework check on the Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions and the colonial background information on India. You have your Chapter 7-8 Test on Thursday, November 28th, please see the study guide below.
Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:
This test is on Friday, November 26th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3-4 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:
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: genocide:
crimes against humanity
war crimes
the Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
Wansee Conference
Nuremberg Trials
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
home rule
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.
Social 30-1
We did some housekeeping today, with me returning some homework checked assignments and sharing results on the Cold War Exam. We watched the National Geographic documentary called "Inside North Korea" as well today. Please complete the Political Compass survey and bring in your quadrant print out to class tomorrow. Please check out the Unit 2 Final Exam study guide below.
Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
This Unit Final is on Monday, November 25th, it will be a 75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:
study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
supply-side economics
boom and bust cycle/business cycle
laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
basic economic problems/questions
advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
causes of the Great Depression
FDR and the New Deal
please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
characteristics of a mixed economy
nationalization
privatization
democratic socialism
welfare capitalism
Keynesian economics
the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
demand-side economics
neo-conservatives
monetarism
trickle down economics
supply-side economics
Thatcherism and Reaganomics
Milton Friedman
Friedrich Hayek
how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
characteristics of a centrally planned economy
advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
establishment of the Soviet Union
Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
"Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
"Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
modern liberalism
features of the Nazi state
Hitler's rise to power
Characteristics of Democracy
Characteristics of Dictatorship
Democratic Systems notes
Non-Democratic Systems notes
Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
Totalitarianism notes
Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model
IB 30/35
You watched the A & E Biography of Benito Mussolini. I also shared some upcoming key dates with you on the IB calendar.
Paper 1 on Prescribed Subject 1: Tuesday, November 26th
Diploma students: TOK Essay meeting during tutorial on Thursday, November 28th. Attendance is mandatory.
Prescribed Subject 1 Quiz on Friday, November 29th .
I gave you back your Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement today. We watched a video from the US History series that covered U.S. Politics from 1980-2000. While the video was playing, you were supposed to take notes. We also did some exercises related to Paper 1.
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You wrote your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam today. You'll get the results back tomorrow. Please remember that your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).
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We finished our film study of "Gandhi" today. The film study questions (the content questions) are due on Thursday. I have bumped the due date for the Unit 2 Research Project until Monday, May 6th because I forgot to send out the rubrics.
I delivered a lecture on the Clinton Administration today, which took most of the class period. I have posted this PowerPoint presentation and the George H.W. Bush presentation on the IB 30/35 wiki in the American Presidents section. We didn't have time to continue with the Clinton documentary today, and we won't on Monday either. If you wish to continue watching it, you can find a link to the PBS American Experience website on the Presidents.
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You were given most of the period to work on your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Monday. Some of you used the time that you given very effectively, others not as much. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam on Monday, April 29th. you can find the study guide for this exam here(scroll down to find it). The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd, please see the study guide here(scroll down to find it).
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I returned some homework checked work at the beginning of the class. We continued our film study of "Gandhi" today. We should be able to finish this film off on Monday. Please make sure that you are keeping up with the questions. This is your last weekend to work on your Unit 2 Research Project, which is due on Tuesday, April 30th.
You were supposed to hand in your background information on India questions today. We started our film study of "Gandhi" today. I don't think that we'll be able to finish it off tomorrow. In all likelihood, we'll finish this film on Monday. Please remember that your Unit 2 Research Project is due on April 30th.
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We finished watching "Good Night, and Good Luck" today. Your film study questions are due tomorrow. The film study for this is due on Thursday. "Good Night, and Good Luck" contains a few powerful scenes that I will post here on the blog.
This film explores a lot of issues that are relevant to today. You also have to understand the political climate at the time in the United States to fully understand the movie. Many Americans were drawn to communism in the 1930s due to the effects of the Great Depression, especially academics and those in the labour fields. In the movie they made reference to friends and spouses that had attended meetings long ago. The "Red Scare" caused a huge backlash against those sympathetic to communism or the USSR. Remember, during WWII the Soviet Union was an ally, and many people may have attended meetings out of curiosity. The junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy in 1950 charged there were communist sympathizers in the U.S. State Department. Hearings were held, charges were discovered to be unfounded. McCarthy continued accusing communist infiltration in the Democratic Party. McCarthy became the chairman of the House Subcommittee on the investigation of un-American activity (HUAC). On December 2, 1954, McCarthy’s actions were called into question and his accusations were deemed unfounded. On Murrow's show "See it Now", he begins to publicly go after McCarthy. A very public feud develops when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. Murrow is accused of having been a member of the leftist union Industrial Workers of the World, which Murrow claimed was false.
In this climate of fear and reprisal (which we now refer to as McCarthyism), the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity ultimately strikes a historic blow against McCarthy. Historical footage in the movie also shows the questioning of Annie Lee Moss, a Pentagon communication worker accused of being a communist based on her name appearing on a list seen by an FBI infiltrator of the American Communist Party. In the first half of the film Murrow talks about how McCarthy didn't create the political climate and anti-Communist hysteria sweeping the country, but that he capitalized on it for political gain very effectively. As David Strathairn (playing Murrow in the film says, "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate responsibility.") The film is framed by the performance of the speech given by Murrow to the Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1958, in which Murrow harshly admonishes his audience not to squander the potential of television to inform and educate the public. I found this short video on YouTube that spliced together Edward R. Murrow's speech that appears at the beginning of the film and continues at the end of the film. I find that this speech has relevance even today when you talk about the level of discourse in the media.
Your Chapter 7 Test (The Cold War) is on Monday, April 29th, please see the study guide below. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd, please see the study guide here.
Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:
It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:
study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
study notes on the Korean War
study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements)
know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences
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We finished off the George H.W. Bush Administration today. I will post my PowerPoint lecture on the wiki tonight. We also started to watch part of the Clinton documentary from the American Experience series on "The Presidents". There's a link to these videos on the wiki in the American Presidents section. You'll probably have to watch these videos directly from the PBS website. I will try to lecture on the Clinton Administration tomorrow (if my voice holds out).
We started looking at the film "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. This film explores McCarthyism in the early 1950s. The film study that I provided you with also has a film review (if you are having a hard time understanding the film so far, it might be a good idea to read this over tonight), and some study questions and some discussion questions. This film definitely has relevance in today's world (which we'll be talking about more tomorrow and in Unit 3 of the course). Hopefully, we'll finish off the film tomorrow, and be able to have a short discussion period of some of the issues the film raises. In all likelihood, the study questions from the film study will be due on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Exam (Cold War Exam) on Monday, April 26th and your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday, April 29th. Please see the study guides for both exams here (scroll down to find the study guides).
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I gave you a reading from Pulitzer Prize winning writer Samantha Power today. I would like you to read her article entitled "Never Again-The World's Most Unfulfilled Promise". I will also be sending you a PowerPoint presentation on other genocides that have occurred in the 20th century.
We have now moved on to another topic in Unit 2, that being a case study of the Indian independencemovement. I gave you a background reading booklet and a case study booklet. You were given the entire class period to complete the "Background and Colonial Period for India" section questions in the case study booklet. These questions will be due tomorrow. We'll begin our film study of "Gandhi" tomorrow.
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We finished off the HBO documentary on Ronald Reagan today, and then we started looking at his successor George H.W. Bush.
