May 5

Social 20-1

I went over the new major writing assignment format that you will be facing next year on your Social 30-1 Diploma. I gave you a handout package, giving you a "recipe for success" on the Written Response Assignment II. A part of this package includes a section on "Analyzing Quotes", which we'll be looking at tomorrow. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7-8 Test on Thursday, here's the study guide (scroll down to find it).

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We looked at the Nuremberg Trials that occurred after WWII, and did some wrap-up activities to cover WWII. Please remember that you have your Interwar Years-WWII Exam on Thursday (40 multiple choice questions and 1 writing assignment), please see the study guide here.

Social 30

We watched a video on North Korea today called "Inside North Korea" which provides a fascinating look at the "hermit kingdom" of Kim Jong Il. Please study tonight for your World War II Unit Exam, which is tomorrow, here is the study guide.

May 4

Social 33

I gave you the study for the Interwar Years-WWII Exam, which is on Thursday, May 7th. I am also posting it here on the blog, so please check below if you missed class today. I gave you a handout on the Timeline of the Holocaust, and had you add notes to this handout. I then showed you a documentary called "Genocide" which does a very good job of summarizing the Holocaust. Tomorrow, we'll be looking at the Nuremberg Trials which occurred after WWII was over.

Interwar Years-WWII Exam Study Guide:

Key Terms, Key People, Key Events:

• League of Nations


• Woodrow Wilson


• Nazis


• Treaty of Versailles


• Paris Peace Conference


• "Big Three"


• isolationist policy of the United States


• self-determination


• Manchuria


• Abyssinia


• Mein Kampf


• Neville Chamberlain


• appeasement


• Munich Conference/Munich Agreement


• Anschluss


• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact


• blitzkrieg


• the Holocaust


• concentration/extermination camps


• Pearl Harbour


• collective security and the League of Nations


• Maginot Line


• Rhineland


• Stalin


• Battle of Britain
  

Other Tips:

• key points in the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe)


• FAILURe of the League of Nations (why did the League of Nations fail?)


• examples of the failure of the League of Nations (Abyssinia, Manchuria, the Spanish Civil War)


• who were the "Big Three" at the Paris Peace Conference, and what did they each want?


• know about the breakup of empires in post-WWI world (Austro-Hungarian as an example)


• what is self-determination?


• Hitler's main ideas and how he put them into action


• what is appeasement? why did Chamberlain employ it at the Munich conference?


• how did Hitler rise to power?


• what is Anschluss?


• what does blitzkrieg mean? what tactics are used in blitzkrieg?


• be able to name some Nazi concentration camps


• significance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour


• major turning points in WWII (fall of France, attack on Pearl Harbour, D-Day landing, use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki)

Social 20-1

Today, we looked at the case study of Kosovo today. We watched an episode of CBC News in Review April 2008 on Kosovo. While you were watching this video, you were to work on the question booklet that went with the video. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow, I will do a homework check on this tomorrow. Your Chapter 7-8 Test is on Thursday, May 7th, please see the study guide below. If you miss class on Thursday due to IB Exams, you will write this test when I see you next (the exam, of course, will be different from the one written by the rest of the class).

Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:

This test is on Thursday, May 7th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "The Holocaust"


• "8 Stages of Genocide" (see the Genocide Watch website: http://www.genocidewatch.org/)


• "Contemporary Examples of Genocide"
  

Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:

• 36 Questions About The Holocaust


• Turning Points in History: The Atomic Bomb (film notes)


• White Light/Black Rain (film notes)


• Shake Hands with the Devil (film notes + package)


• Unit 2 Worksheet (chapter questions for Chapter 7 and 8)


• make sure that you have read Chapters 7 and 8!


• read the links about the genocide in Darfur that I will send to you!
  

1. Please study the following key concepts/key people/key events:
genocide:

• crimes against humanity


• war crimes


• the Holocaust


• ethnic cleansing


• lebensraum


• Weimar Republic


• Final Solution


• decolonization


• successor state


• self-determination


• Wansee Conference


• Nuremberg Trials


• Mahatma Gandhi


• Jawaharlal Nehru


• Mohammed Ali Jinnah


• home rule


• Hutu


• Tutsi


• Romeo Dallaire


• Manhattan Project


• Hiroshima


• Nagasaki


• Robert Oppenheimer


• FDR


• Harry Truman


• Potsdam Conference


• Slobodan Milosevic

2. You should be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 2 worksheet from Chapter 7 and 8.

Social 30

We covered a lot of ground today. I have sent you a PowerPoint presentation on "The United Nations" and notes on the United Nations, so please check your e-mail. Print these notes off, read them, and add them to your binders. I also went through a PowerPoint presentation on "The Korean War" ans showed you a video on the Korean War. Please remember your WWII Unit Exam is on Wednesday, May 6th, here is a link to the study guide.

May 1

Social 33

I gave you some time to finish your "Events of WWII" booklets at the beginning of class. We watched an excerpt from the film "Pearl Harbor". You were supposed to hand in your Causes of WWII Assignment today.

Social 20-1

You handed in your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class. We finished watching "Gandhi" today. All of the questions from the "Gandhi" film study are due on Monday, May 4th (content questions and thought questions). This weekend might be a good time to do some more work on your Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Projects.

Social 30

I gave you a package on the "End of World War II" which also went beyond to cover the "Iron Curtain Speech", the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, the division of Germany, the formation of the NATO and Warsaw Pact military alliances. I then showed you a video called "The Road to Berlin" which quickly covers the final years of WWII. We then watched "Cold War Confrontation". I published a study guide for your World War II Unit Exam (which is on Wednesday, May 6th) yesterday on the blog, please see the study guide here.

April 30

Social 30

I did a presentation on "The Origins of the Cold War" at the beginning of class today. I will send you a copy of this PowerPoint presentation this afternoon. I will also be giving you some notes on the "big picture" of the Cold War tomorrow. At the end of class I gave you a reading on "The Seeds of the Cold War" (you MUST read this!), and some questions around the post-WWII map of Europe. The questions and the map are due tomorrow. Please make sure that you have read and taken notes on Chapters 9 and 10 in Global Forces in the 20th Century (use the information in the "Seeds of the Cold War" to focus your note-taking). I will post some maps of Europe here this evening.

World War II Unit Exam Study Guide:

This unit exam is on Wednesday, May 6th. It is a multiple choice format exam. Please make sure that you study the following material:

• Read Chapters 7 and 8 in Global Forces of the 20th Century
• Study the chronology of events leading up to WWII
• Causes of WWII concept map/notes
• Study "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" notes
• Study key events/maps of WWII package (Blitzkrieg, Operation Barbarossa, War in the Pacific, Hitler Tastes Defeat, End of WWII in Europe and Asia)
• "The Holocaust" PowerPoint presentation
• WWII Conferences and Agreements (notes)
• Effects, results, consequences of WWII

Social 20-1

We continued watching "Gandhi" today in class. For homework tonight, please complete the Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions. I will be doing a homework check on this tomorrow.

Social 33

We watched the opening sequence from "Saving Private Ryan". We'll continue our examination of WWII tomorrow and next week. You worked on putting key events of WWII in chronological order on a worksheet for the remainder of class time. I'll give you the key to this worksheet next week. Please remember that your Causes of WWII Assignment is due tomorrow.