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.

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.

March 8

Social 20-1

Today you worked in small groups as representatives of Russia, France, Great Britain, and Austria-Hungary, and tried to avert the outbreak of the First World War. Hopefully you had fun!

Social 10-1

You went through the "recipe for success" today in class, and you had a chance to see a sample WRA II essay sheet. In small groups you should brainstormed argumentation and evidence. In tomorrow's class you will get the actual Unit 1 WRA II Essay question sheet.

IB 30/35

You watched the final episode of the CNN Cold War series "Conclusions" (1989-1991). I created a Google Doc for this video, so hopefully you've added your notes to it. Please be aware that you have your Cold War Exam on Tuesday, March 13th, 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

April 3

IB 30/35

We finished watching the CNN Cold War series today by watching the final chapter in the series called "Conclusions (1989-1991)". This chapter focused on the break-up of Eastern bloc countries such as Czechoslovakia and Romania as well as the break-up of the Soviet Union. As I said in class, some of Gorbachev's domestic policy reforms coupled with his foreign policy decisions contributed to the end of the Cold War. Please remember that you have your Cold War Exam on Thursday, please see the study guide here.

IB 20

We finished watching the History Channel documentary "The French Revolution" today. We then moved directly into a PowerPoint presentation on the Napoleonic Age, which we will finish tomorrow.

April 2

IB 30/35

We continued our examination of the Cold War today by watching another video from the CNN Cold War series called "The Wall Comes Down (1989)" which covered not only how the communist bloc broke apart in East Germany, but also in Hungary and Poland.

The Cold War Exam is on Thursday, April 5th. It is a 70-75 multiple choice questions.

Here are some 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 your own notes from the Vietnam War Assignment booklet, and the notes that I posted on the IB 30/35 Wiki 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 on 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 Cold War period
• understand how certain Cold War concepts can be illustrated by key events in the Cold War (ex. brinkmanship in the Cuban Missile Crisis)
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this topic
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout or that is posted on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

IB 20

We started watching a History Channel video called "The French Revolution". We will continue watching this video again tomorrow.