April 23

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Most of today's class was spent writing your Interwar Years Quiz. Please make sure to hand in your Interwar Years Timeline Assignment tomorrow in class, if you didn't hand it in today. You still have your Interwar Years Unit Exam on Monday, April 27th, please see the study guide here.

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I did a homework check to see if you had printed off your "Contemporary Examples of Genocide" PowerPoint presentation at the beginning of class. We then started to watch the film "Shake Hands with the Devil". We will finish this film tomorrow, the film study questions that go along with this film will be due next week.

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I started class by doing a quick review of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe) and the other mnemonic that I have taught to you, the FAILURe of the League of Nations. I then gave you a booklet on key events in the Interwar Years. This booklet is what you should review when it comes time to study for the Diploma Exam because it does a nice job of covering key events that occurred between WWI and WWII. We also did a worksheet on "Hitler's Road to WWII" from A History of the 20th Century (pages 30-38). Tomorrow, we'll be talking about appeasement, and whether or not it was the right approach in dealing with Hitler's demands prior to the outbreak of WWII.

April 23

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We brainstormed some of the causes of WWII in small groups at the beginning of class today, and then we collected our ideas into a concept map. I also gave you a package of maps and readings that cover many key events in WWII. Please make sure that you read through this material! I'm also sending you a timeline of sorts that charts the road to WWII, so please check your e-mail tonight. Your Interwar Years Timeline Assignment is due tomorrow. Also, you have your Interwar Years Quiz tomorrow (short answer format) and your Interwar Years Unit Exam on Monday, click here for the study guide for these exams.

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I went through some notes on the board today on the League of Nations, so if you missed class today, you need to get these notes from a classmate. I taught you another mnemonic to remember that the League of Nations was a failure:

French and British self-interest
Absent powers
Ineffective sanctions
Lack of armed forces
Unfair treaties
Reaching decisions too slowly

I then gave you a worksheet on the League of Nations that you were to complete using pages 26-29 in A History of the 20th Century. We went over the answers to this worksheet in class. I also gave you a handout on how the League of Nations was organized that you must read.

Social 20-1

We finished watching "Scream Bloody Murder" today, which provided us with a nice lead into a PowerPoint presentation that I started on "Contemporary Examples of Genocide". I have sent this presentation to you already, please print it off and read it, and bring it class tomorrow for homework check marks.

April 21

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I gave you back the results of the Unit 2 Written Response Assignment I (Part A, in-class 3 source analysis writing assignment)and your Chapter 5-6 Test. I went through a presentation today from the Genocide Watch website which highlights the "Eight Stages of Genocide". If you want to find this PowerPoint on the Genocide Watch website please go here (scroll to the bottom of the page to find the PowerPoint file to download it). We then began watching a CNN program called "Scream Bloody Murder" which is providing us with an overview of genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries, and includes interviews with witnesses to these various genocides. We will continue watching this documentary tomorrow.

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We started off watching a short video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay". While you were watching this film you were to take notes on the video on a worksheet. We then moved on to an examination of the rise of Hitler in Germany. The worksheet is from material in A History of the 20th Century (pages 14-17).

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We started our examination of WWII today by looking at the "big picture", an overview of the entire war by watching a video called "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb". With this video I gave you summary notes of the video itself. I also gave you a package of maps and readings that covers major events in WWII as well. We'll continue looking at WWII tomorrow. Please remember to review for your Interwar Years tests, here is the study guide. Your first test on this material is on Thursday, April 23rd and it's your Interwar Years Quiz (short answer format). Your Interwar Years Timeline Assignment is due on Thursday as well.

April 20

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I went through a PowerPoint presentation on "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conference", which I will be sending to you this afternoon. I also gave you some other handouts/worksheets today, "The Price of Defeat" (we went over the answers to this one in class), and "Making Peace" (GCSE booklet), and another handout on the Treaty of Versailles. Make sure that you have read all of these handouts!

Social 20-1

Most of today's class was spent in the library doing research for your Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Project. This is the only class period that you will get to work on this project, the rest of the time will be on your own.

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Most of today's class was spent working on the Munich Agreement, and looking at the chronology of events leading to the outbreak of WWII. Please make sure that you complete not only the Munich Crisis booklet questions, but also the chronology of events on the back of the booklet. That chronology of events is EXTREMELY important to understand for your Interwar Years tests coming up this week and next week. Please see the study guide for your Interwar Years tests here.

April 17

Sorry for posting later tonight...

Social 33

We finished watching "One Day of War" today. I then delivered a PowerPoint presentation to review the outbreak of WWI with you, we'll be moving onward in Topic B next week.

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We finished off "White Light/Black Rain" today, I hope that you enjoyed this documentary. We then talked about the organization of your collaborative inquiry projects. We're moving on to the next phase of this project on Monday, by heading down to the library and retrieving information on your chosen topics.

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Today was the class period to work on the Interwar Years Timeline Assignment. This assignment is due on Thursday, April 23rd. You should do the rest of this project outside of class time. You should also be preparing for your Interwar Years exams, please see the study guide here.

April 16

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Today's class was spent in the library working on your Interwar Years Timeline Assignment. This assignment will due in one week's time (April 23rd). Tomorrow will be your last class period to work on this project. You should also be preparing for your upcoming exams on the Interwar Years, please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

Most of today's class was spent watching the documentary film "White Light/Black Rain" and completing a film study. We will finish this film off tomorrow.

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We did an opinion survey at the start of our study of Topic B. We also started watching "One Day of War", which we will finish tomorrow.

April 15

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We covered a lot of ground today! If you missed class today, you will need to get some Interwar Years Notes that I wrote up on the board. These Interwar Years notes were the lead-in to the BBC 20th Century History video that we watched today called "Why Appeasement?" While you were watching this film, you were to complete the film study worksheet that went along with the film. I also gave you note packages on three case studies which illustrate the failure of the League of Nations: the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War. I also gave you a booklet on the Great Depression, appeasement, the FAILURe of the League of Nations, and the Munich Agreement. I have also sent to you some summary notes on the League of Nations, and Making Germany Pay (post-WWI)which you must print off, read, and add to your notes. You need to prepare for your Interwar Years tests coming up next week. On Thursday, April 23rd (note the date change) you have your Interwar Years Quiz (short answer format), and then on Monday, April 27th (note the date change) you will have your Interwar Years Unit Exam (70 multiple choice questions). Please use the following study guide to prepare for both tests.

Social 30 Interwar Years Study Guide:

Make sure that you have read all of the chapters in Global Forces in the 20th Century that pertain to the Interwar Years (Chapters 3-6). Also, make sure that you have studied all of the summary notes that I have given to you and sent to you by e-mail.

Know all of the following key concepts:

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Washington and London Naval Conferences
• Dawes Plan
• Locarno Pact
• Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Young Plan
• isolationism
• collective security
• self-determination
• Maginot Line
• Treaty of Versailles
• appeasement
• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
• Anit-Comintern Pact
• League of Nations
• demilitarization of the Rhineland
• the Spanish Civil War and bombing of Guernica
• Anschluss
• Sudetenland
• Berchdestgarden
• Badgottesberg
• Munich Conference
• invasion of Abyssinia
• invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese

Know key events (chronological order as well) in the rise of Hitler in Germany:

• invasion of the Rhineland
• Sudetenland
• rearmament of Germany
• Munich Agreement
• Beer Hall Putsch
• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
• democratic elections into the Reichstag
• the Enabling Act
• Kristallnacht (Crystal Night, the Night of the Broken Glass)
• Anschluss with Austria
• lebensraum announced as foreign policy (expansionism)
• the Night of the Long Knives (elimination of the SA)
• invasion of Poland (start of WWII)

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Much of today's class was spent writing your Economic Systems Unit Final (50 multiple choice questions). We did start working on the second half of the course, Topic B.

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Yesterday, we finished up our look at the end of WWII in Europe, and today was spent on looking at the end of the war in the Pacific. We began our discussion of the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and then took a few steps backward in time to look at the development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project in the United States. We watched a video from the Turning Points of History series called "The Atomic Bomb" which covers the development and use of the atomic bomb. We will continue our examination of the moral and ethical questions surrounding the use of the development and use of the nuclear bombs on Japan tomorrow.