December 3

IB 30/35

I went through a lecture on German Expansion from 1938-1940. You can find these Google Slides on the IB 30/35 wiki on the Prescribed Subject 3 page.

For homework, you should read pages 156-178 in The Move to Global War textbook.

You should also create a chart like the one below to take notes on key pacts and agreements that took place in the road to World War II.  

Social 20-1

You wrote the Chapter 7-8 Test today. Hopefully, I will be able to get results back to you soon. I gave you back your Unit 2 WRA I today. Please remember that the Unit 2 Final Exam on Monday, December 9th (please see the study guide below).

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 Greater 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 
• 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

I went through the Rights Notes in your Social 30-1 course books, we also started talking about the usage of the War Measures Act (only to be used in times of war, invasion, and insurrection), the case study of the internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII. You should this PowerPoint off and highlight key parts of the lecture. Tomorrow, we'll be looking at the FLQ Crisis in greater detail, and the concept of illiberalism as well. You're writing the Unit 3 WRA II position paper on Monday, December 9th (you'll get the essay question sheet in advance).

March 19

Social 20-1

I taught you another mnemonic device today, this time to show you that the League of Nations was a FAILURe. You should be able to remember this mnemonic and be applied to two key case studies in the Interwar Years: the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia. I also showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?" While you watched this video you should have answered the film study questions from your Social 20-1 course books. You also should have the section in your course books called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" and complete the focus task in this section. Tomorrow, we'll start talking about the rise of ultranationalism in Italy, Japan, and Germany.

Social 30-1

I went through the Russian History Notes from your Social 30-1 course books. You must read in your course books the readings on Marx, Lenin, and Stalin (pages 107-114). You should read, highlight, and annotate these readings. I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia", and while you watched this video, you should have taken point form notes on it. I gave you some time to work on your Chapter 5 Key Terms, which are due tomorrow (just the key terms). On Tuesday, April 2nd you will be writing the Market and Mixed Economy Test (please see the study guide below).

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Tuesday, April 2nd

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
• nationalization
• 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 (percolator)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (coffee maker)

March 19

IB 30/35

I started talking about the American Civil War today, and then started Episode 1 of the Ken Burns' The Civil War. We'll finish this video off tomorrow. I've decided to not to teach you specific battles in the Civil War, but rather look at the sectionalism between the North and South, and how the war ends, which will lead to the Reconstruction period. I also gave you back the 30-1 WRA I that you wrote while I was in New York for NHSMUN, this writing assignment was on the Cold War.  

SOCIAL 10-1

I delivered a lecture on the "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada" today. This presentation is on the Social 10-1 wiki under Unit 2 Presentations if you want a digital copy or hard copy. I gave you back your Unit 1 WRA II Essays today as well. 

You have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, March 21st, please see the study guide below. 

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Wednesday, March 21st. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

• globalization
• pluralistic society
• transnationals
• society
• “the global village”
• United Nations
• G-8
• La Francophonie
• NATO
• individual identity
• collective identity
• traditions
• minority group
• official bilingualism
• universalization of pop culture
• hybridization
• media transnationals
• media consolidation
• CBC/SRC
• Official Languages Act
• CRTC
• Canadian Content (CanCon)
• homogenization
• monoculture
• assimilation
• marginalization
• accommodation
• secularism
• integration
• cosmopolitan
• acculturation
• cultural revitalization
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts!

Your Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, April 4th, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and ashort answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

SOCIAL 20-1

I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?". We also looked at the Munich Conference is greater detail and did an activity from your Social 20-1 coursebooks called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" 

Please remember that you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I on Wednesday, March 21st, and you will not be allowed to have any writing guides or analyzing political cartoon sheets out to assist you this time.

October 19

Social 20-1

We watched an A & E Biography episode "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler", which took most of the period. I also touched upon the Munich Conference, appeasement, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the Spanish Civil War, the Great Depression (1929-1939), and the outbreak of WWII. On Friday we'll be looking at appeasement and the failure of the League of Nations to stop the outbreak of the Second World War. Please make sure that you have read, highlight and annotated the notes on the Interwar Years in your Social 20-1 workbook.

IB 20 HOTA

We finished off the History Channel documentary on "The French Revolution". Hopefully you took great notes on this video. I gave you the French Revolution DBA Assignment today, and it is due one week from today (Wednesday, October 26th). I also went through how to write a WRA I three source analysis assignment. You're writing a WRA I on the French Revolution on Friday, October 21st. This means that your current events quiz has been moved to Tuesday, October 24th (we're going to the library to work on the IA on Monday).