May 14

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today, the marks have been posted on PowerSchool already. Don't forget that your Unit 2 Dossier Assignment is due tomorrow.

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions today. If you still haven't written the Unit 2 Essay or the Unit 2 Final Exam, it's your job to remind me that you need to write them! Remind me tomorrow! I went through the second half of the "Political Challenges to Liberalism" emphasizing the non-democratic systems featured in the second part of the lecture. I also showed you a documentary from the CBC show The Fifth Estate called "Vladimir Putin's Long Shadow" (please watch it below). Your Comparative Government Assignment is due this Thursday (May 16th).

May 13

Social 30-1

We finished off the PBS Frontline documentary "Putin's Way" today in class. I'm embedding the video below, just in case you want to find some information from the video. Putin's Russia is your case study of an oligarchy. We started looking at the People's Republic of China today as an example of an authoritarian government, characterized as an ideological one-party state. I had your read a little bit from your Social 30-1 study booklet on "The Modern History of China" (pages 230 to 235). We watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "One Man's Revolution". We'll continue looking at China tomorrow. There is a possibility that we'll start looking at North Korea tomorrow as well. Please remember that your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on Tuesday, May 19th.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today, which took the entire class period. You will get the results back for this test tomorrow. Please remember that your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, May 19th.

May 12

Social 30-1

I went through part of a PowerPoint presentation on the "Political Challenges to Liberalism". I focused on the non-democratic systems in this presentation, namely: absolute monarchies, autocracy, oligarchy, military dictatorships, minority tyranny, and one-party states. We started watching a PBS Frontline documentary called "Putin's Way" that charts how Putin rose to power in the Russian Federation. We will continue this film tomorrow. We'll also start looking at a case study of another authoritarian state, the People's Republic of China.

Social 20-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation on "Nations, Nation-States, and Internationalism". I gave you the remaining 20 minutes to work on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions, which are due one week from today (May 19th). Please remember that you have your Unit 2 Final Exam tomorrow, you can find the study guide below.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam will be written on Wednesday, May 13th. It is a multiple choice exam.

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. Know the following key 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 Great 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
• Rise 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 (quick review of "Gandhi" film study booklet, what are successor states? What is self-determination? Kosovo case study)