November 2

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 7 Key Terms today. I started a PowerPoint lecture called "The Origins of the Cold War". I should be able to wrap up talking about the outbreak of the Cold War tomorrow. I also gave back your Unit 2 WRA I today. In tutorial tomorrow morning I'll walk you through the Unit 2 WRA I, so your attendance is strongly encouraged.

IB 30/35

I gave back your Civil War and Reconstruction Era Paper 3 today. Overall, I was pretty happy with the results. We started Prescribed Subject 1 today by looking at the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles. We were just covering reparations, which is where I'll pick it up tomorrow.

Social 10-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation "Foundations of Economic Globalization" today. Your Chapter 10 Key Terms are due tomorrow. One week from tomorrow, you'll be writing your Unit 2 Final Exam, on November 10th.

November 5

IB 30/35

You finished off your WWI Battle Presentations today. After the presentations Mr. Fitz went over the fight to ratify the Treaty of Versailles in the United States.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Nazi Germany Quiz today. You watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series: "The Road to Berlin" and "Cold War Confrontation". You should have also started the Cold War Events booklets. The Cold War Events Notes will be due on Thursday.

Social 20-1

You started a film study of the HBO Documentary "White Light/Black Rain". While you were watching this film, you were supposed to answer the film study questions.

October 30

Social 20-1

You were able to select your topic for the Unit 2 Research Project. This project is due on November 25th. After you made your selections I was able to complete a PowerPoint lecture on "The Holocaust". This presentation is on the Social 20-1 wiki (see link under Social 20-1 Links here on the blog) and you have a hard copy in your blue Social 20-1 study booklets. We'll continue our examination of the Holocaust tomorrow.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis assignment in class today. Please remember that you are writing your Chapter 5 Test tomorrow. Please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, October 31st. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (see wiki)
• Lenin notes (see wiki)
• Stalin notes (see wiki)
• Soviet Economy notes
• Soviet Economic System notes
• Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
• Gorbachev to Collapse notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• 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 and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

• centrally planned economies
• initiative
• FDR and the New Deal
• Reaganomics
• consumer sovereignty
• invisible hand
• Keynesian economics
• laissez faire economics
• War Communism
• Five Year Plans
• mixed economies
• indicative planning
• proportional representation
• democracy
• dictatorship
• political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
• status quo
• egalitarianism
• conservative
• reactionary
• liberal
• radical
• SA
• Hitler
• Bolshevik
• fascism
• communism
• indoctrination
• controlled participation
• terror and force
• direction of popular discontent
• democratic socialists
• supply-side economics
• authoritarian
• tyrant
• totalitarian
• totalitarianism
• ultranationalism
• nationalization
• privatization
• propaganda
• progressive taxation
• Marx
• Lenin
• utopian socialism
• Gorbachev
• martial law
• Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
• referendum
• collectivization
• modernization
• classical liberal
• laissez faire free market economy
• mixed economy
• planned economy
• (review your economic political quadrant model)
• Das Kapital
• Mein Kampf
• The Wealth of Nations

IB 30/35

We covered Latin America's role in the First World War today. We began to transition to our Prescribed Subject 1 topic today, "Peacemaking, Peacekeeping and International Relations (1918-1936)" as well. Please remember that your IA rough draft is due tomorrow. WWI battle presentations are starting on Monday, November 4th.

November 1

IB 20

Most of today's class was spent preparing for tomorrow's Haitian Revolution debate. You also wrote a current events quiz.

Social 10-1

I continued lecturing from the "Foundations of Economic Globalization" PowerPoint presentation today. I will send this presentation to your e-mail accounts this afternoon.

IB 30/35

We started Prescribed Subject 1: Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, International Relations 1918-1936 today. I began a lecture on this topic, the lead in to understanding the Paris Peace Conference. We'll continue this topic on Monday. Tomorrow, you will have a Paper 2 on the First World War. On Monday, you'll have a matching quiz on WWI. Make sure that you complete the chart activity that I assigned yesterday from your 20th Century History IB Companion Textbook on the causes of WWI. This will help you with historiography for the outbreak of WWI.