April 30

IB 30/35

We focused on Paper 2 today. We looked at a Topic 1 essay question, which focused in on the short-term and long-term results of the First World War, and a Topic 5 essay on the Cold War. With the Topic 1 essay you were to write the introductory paragraph and outline your subsequent arguments and evidence. With the Topic 5 essay you were given a sample and were asked to read it and evaluate it using the Paper 2 markbands. I also had you outline the essay. We have an optional class on Tuesday, May 7th, where we'll look at the Paper 3.

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I gave you a list of upcoming important dates at the beginning of class that I'll post here on the blog as well. You had the entire class period to read Chapter 7 and complete the key terms and questions. The Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. The Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Tuesday, May 7th.

Upcoming Important Dates:

• Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, May 1st
• Unit 2 WRA I is on Thursday, May 2nd
• Unit 2 Research Project is due on Monday, May 6th
• Chapter 7-8 Test is on Monday, May 6th (please see the study guide below)
• Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Tuesday, May 7th
• Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, May 13th

Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:

This test is on Monday, May 6th. 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!

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 30-1

We also watched a video from BBC World called "10 Questions About Democracy" (here is a link to the companion website if you'd like to here what people had to say again). You are responsible for finishing the entire film study that went along with this video for tomorrow's class (I'll be doing a homework check on it, and in all likelihood, we'll be able to discuss some of the questions in the video). You have another homework assignment tonight: please go to the following website-Political Compass, complete the political survey (from the left-hand navigation menu, click on "Take the test"), print off where you fall in the economic-political grid and bring it to class tomorrow. We'll be able to talk about this tomorrow. Please remember that you have your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday, May 2nd, please check out the study guide here (scroll down to find it). I also gave back the results of your Chapter 7 Test as well today. Please check your e-mail today because I will be sending you a copy of the "10 Questions About Democracy" video study and I will also be sending you a handout that looks at positive and negative freedoms (I'm trying to clear up some confusion about this concept; this relates to material in Chapter 8).

April 29

IB 30/35

I gave you back your Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement today. We watched a video from the US History series that covered U.S. Politics from 1980-2000. While the video was playing, you were supposed to take notes. We also did some exercises related to Paper 1.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam today. You'll get the results back tomorrow. Please remember that your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

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We finished our film study of "Gandhi" today. The film study questions (the content questions) are due on Thursday. I have bumped the due date for the Unit 2 Research Project until Monday, May 6th because I forgot to send out the rubrics.

April 26

IB 30/35

I delivered a lecture on the Clinton Administration today, which took most of the class period. I have posted this PowerPoint presentation and the George H.W. Bush presentation on the IB 30/35 wiki in the American Presidents section. We didn't have time to continue with the Clinton documentary today, and we won't on Monday either. If you wish to continue watching it, you can find a link to the PBS American Experience website on the Presidents.

Social 30-1

You were given most of the period to work on your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Monday. Some of you used the time that you given very effectively, others not as much. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam on Monday, April 29th. you can find the study guide for this exam here (scroll down to find it). The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it) .

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I returned some homework checked work at the beginning of the class. We continued our film study of "Gandhi" today. We should be able to finish this film off on Monday. Please make sure that you are keeping up with the questions. This is your last weekend to work on your Unit 2 Research Project, which is due on Tuesday, April 30th.

April 25

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You were supposed to hand in your background information on India questions today. We started our film study of "Gandhi" today. I don't think that we'll be able to finish it off tomorrow. In all likelihood, we'll finish this film on Monday. Please remember that your Unit 2 Research Project is due on April 30th.

Social 30-1

We finished watching "Good Night, and Good Luck" today. Your film study questions are due tomorrow. The film study for this is due on Thursday. "Good Night, and Good Luck" contains a few powerful scenes that I will post here on the blog.



This film explores a lot of issues that are relevant to today. You also have to understand the political climate at the time in the United States to fully understand the movie. Many Americans were drawn to communism in the 1930s due to the effects of the Great Depression, especially academics and those in the labour fields. In the movie they made reference to friends and spouses that had attended meetings long ago. The "Red Scare" caused a huge backlash against those sympathetic to communism or the USSR. Remember, during WWII the Soviet Union was an ally, and many people may have attended meetings out of curiosity. The junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy in 1950 charged there were communist sympathizers in the U.S. State Department. Hearings were held, charges were discovered to be unfounded. McCarthy continued accusing communist infiltration in the Democratic Party. McCarthy became the chairman of the House Subcommittee on the investigation of un-American activity (HUAC). On December 2, 1954, McCarthy’s actions were called into question and his accusations were deemed unfounded. On Murrow's show "See it Now", he begins to publicly go after McCarthy. A very public feud develops when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. Murrow is accused of having been a member of the leftist union Industrial Workers of the World, which Murrow claimed was false.
In this climate of fear and reprisal (which we now refer to as McCarthyism), the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity ultimately strikes a historic blow against McCarthy. Historical footage in the movie also shows the questioning of Annie Lee Moss, a Pentagon communication worker accused of being a communist based on her name appearing on a list seen by an FBI infiltrator of the American Communist Party. In the first half of the film Murrow talks about how McCarthy didn't create the political climate and anti-Communist hysteria sweeping the country, but that he capitalized on it for political gain very effectively. As David Strathairn (playing Murrow in the film says, "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate responsibility.") The film is framed by the performance of the speech given by Murrow to the Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1958, in which Murrow harshly admonishes his audience not to squander the potential of television to inform and educate the public. I found this short video on YouTube that spliced together Edward R. Murrow's speech that appears at the beginning of the film and continues at the end of the film. I find that this speech has relevance even today when you talk about the level of discourse in the media.




Your Chapter 7 Test (The Cold War) is on Monday, April 29th, please see the study guide below. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd, please see the study guide here.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

IB 30/35

We finished off the George H.W. Bush Administration today. I will post my PowerPoint lecture on the wiki tonight. We also started to watch part of the Clinton documentary from the American Experience series on "The Presidents". There's a link to these videos on the wiki in the American Presidents section. You'll probably have to watch these videos directly from the PBS website. I will try to lecture on the Clinton Administration tomorrow (if my voice holds out).

April 24

Social 30-1

We started looking at the film "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. This film explores McCarthyism in the early 1950s. The film study that I provided you with also has a film review (if you are having a hard time understanding the film so far, it might be a good idea to read this over tonight), and some study questions and some discussion questions. This film definitely has relevance in today's world (which we'll be talking about more tomorrow and in Unit 3 of the course). Hopefully, we'll finish off the film tomorrow, and be able to have a short discussion period of some of the issues the film raises. In all likelihood, the study questions from the film study will be due on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Exam (Cold War Exam) on Monday, April 26th and your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday, April 29th. Please see the study guides for both exams here (scroll down to find the study guides).

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I gave you a reading from Pulitzer Prize winning writer Samantha Power today. I would like you to read her article entitled "Never Again-The World's Most Unfulfilled Promise". I will also be sending you a PowerPoint presentation on other genocides that have occurred in the 20th century. We have now moved on to another topic in Unit 2, that being a case study of the Indian independence movement. I gave you a background reading booklet and a case study booklet. You were given the entire class period to complete the "Background and Colonial Period for India" section questions in the case study booklet. These questions will be due tomorrow. We'll begin our film study of "Gandhi" tomorrow.

IB 30/35

We finished off the HBO documentary on Ronald Reagan today, and then we started looking at his successor George H.W. Bush.

April 23

IB 30/35

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation on Ronald Reagan in class today, then we went down to Room 121 to watch an HBO documentary on Reagan.

Social 20-1

We finished watching "Shake Hands with the Devil" today. Please remember that the film study questions are due tomorrow. Your Unit 2 Research Project is due on April 30th, one week from today.

Social 30-1

We started tying up some loose ends with the Cold War today. We look at bilateral and multilateral disarmament agreements and treaties, and we also talked about key features of the post-Cold War world. I sent you some notes as well today, so please check your e-mail. Please remember that your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam is on Monday, April 29th. You can find the study guide for this exam below. Please also remember that your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd; you can find the study guide for this exam below as well.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 30-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:

• study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
• study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
• study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
• 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), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• 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 (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
• modern liberalism
• features of the Nazi state
• Hitler's rise to power
• 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 spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

April 22

IB 30/35

We picked up where Mr. Johnson left off last week. I covered the Ford and Carter administrations very quickly. I will post this presentation on the wiki. Make sure that you check out the sections in your Modern America, your IB History Companion textbook, and The United States and Its People textbook for more information on these two administrations. I also started the Reagan administration as well today.

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent watching the documentary film "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam". One week from today you will be writing your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam. Please see the study guide below. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. I will post the study guide for this exam later this week.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 20-1

We started our film study of "Shake Hands with the Devil". We should be able to finish off this video tomorrow. The film study questions are due on Wednesday, April 24th.

April 18

Social 20-1

You should have finished the "Scream Bloody Murder" documentary today. After the video was over you should have been given a booklet on Contemporary Examples of Genocide. Make sure that you study the contents of this booklet.

Social 30-1

Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions were due today. Most of today's class was spent watching excerpts from the film "Born on the Fourth of July".

IB 30/35

You wrote your Paper 3 today in Room 121. We'll continue looking at various American presidential administrations next week.

April 17

Social 30-1

You had time today to work on your Southeast Asia booklets. You should have completed this work during class time. You should have also picked up notes on the Vietnam War, and picked up the Vietnam War Assignment. This assignment is due on April 24th.

Social 20-1

Today was spent looking at genocide more closely, specifically by going through the eight stages of genocide. Hopefully you also started the CNN documentary, "Scream Bloody Murder". 

IB 30/35

You should have started the Nixon administration. There is a PowerPoint posted on the wiki that covers the Nixon administration really well, you'll find it under the American Presidents section. You're writing a Paper 3 tomorrow, so make sure that you review your IB command terms!

April 16

IB 30/35

You hopefully finished off looking at the LBJ administration today. If Mr. Johnson didn't start the Nixon administration with you today, hopefully he will tomorrow.

Social 20-1

Today was spent doing research in the library for your Unit 2 Research Project. This is the first and only day for research that you will get in class, so hopefully you used your time wisely. These projects are due on April 30th.

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You watched a video on the construction of the Berlin Wall today, as well as watching another video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev". Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday.

April 15

IB 30/35

You wrote your Civil Rights Movement Test for part of the period today. I then delivered a PowerPoint lecture on "LBJ and the Great Society". This presentation should already be on the wiki under American Presidents. Hopefully, you'll finish off this lecture tomorrow. Please remember that for April 16th to 18th that I'll be in Toronto for SOMA, so you need to go directly to Room 121 for class. You're writing a Paper 3 on Thursday. I also returned homework to you.

Social 30-1

We watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series today. One was called "The Road to Berlin" and the other "Cold War Confrontations". I also covered the Korean War today as best I could. I gave you the Korean War notes today that went along with the PowerPoint.

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We finished watching "White Light/Black Rain" today. You should have completed the film study sheet that went along with the video. I'm including some links here to the CBC Digital Archive on the Hiroshima Maiden Project. If you have some time, you might want to check out these stories.

• CBC Digital Archive: Hiroshima Maidens
• Hiroshima Bombing was justified says survivor

April 12

I just realized that I forgot to post this on Friday. Sorry for the delay...

IB 30/35

We met in Room 121 to watch an A & E Biography of Malcolm X. Please remember that you have your Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday. You also have your Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday, April 18th.

Make sure that you review your IB command terms again! Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:

• What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
• What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
• Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
• To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
• How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
• Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
• What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
• Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
• The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
• Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

Social 30-1

I finished off the "Origins of the Cold War" PowerPoint presentation today. I will send it to you this weekend. Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, April 18th.

Social 20-1

We watched a documentary video from the History's Turning Points series called "The Atomic Bomb" today, and we also started watching "White Light/Black Rain" which covered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We'll finish off the video next week. As you were watching "White Light/Black Rain" you were supposed to be completing a film study sheet.

April 11

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We watched some excerpts today from "Schindler's List" to help illustrate life in the ghetto and the concentration camps. We also started talking about the aftermath of WWII in Europe and the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. We watched a short video on the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and I also gave you a handout with all the defendants and the results of the Nuremberg trial. Tomorrow, we'll be moving on to look at the end of WWII in the Pacific.

Social 30-1

I gave you a handout entitled "Origins of the Cold War" and gave you some supplementary information to go along with it. I then started a PowerPoint on "The Origins of the Cold War" which I will finish tomorrow. I also gave you a booklet on the timeline of the Cold War events (this will be very useful for studying for your Diploma Exam). I also gave you the Chapter 7 Worksheet. Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due in one week's time (April 18th). It's probably a good idea to read Chapter 7 and start chipping away at this assignment because it will take some time and effort to complete it.

IB 30/35

We watched the A & E Biography of Martin Luther King, which should have given you a look at other aspects of King's life. As you watched the video you were to take notes. I'm going to create a page on the wiki that you can edit, this page will be about the life of King. Please remember that you have your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday, April 15th and a Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday, April 18th.

Make sure that you review your IB command terms again! Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:

• What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
• What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
• Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
• To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
• How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
• Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
• What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
• Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
• The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
• Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

April 10

Social 30-1

You wrote your Nazi Germany Quiz today. You'll get the results of this quiz tomorrow. We watched a little bit of "Triumph of the Will" and then you were to use the remainder of class time to read Chapter 7 in your textbook. Make sure that you read this chapter prior to tomorrow's class since we're starting the Cold War tomorrow.

Social 20-1

After having another look at some exemplars of the Unit 2 dossier research assignment, we watched a documentary film called "Genocide". Tomorrow we'll continue with the Holocaust by watching excerpts from "Schindler's List" and the prosecution of the Nazi war criminals at the conclusion of WWII.

IB 30/35

We watched Episode 6 of the PBS documentary series "Eyes on the Prize" today, it was called "Bridge to Freedom". While you watched the film you were to answer questions from the film study worksheet. Your answers to these questions are due tomorrow. Please remember that you have a Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday, April 15th and a Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday, April 18th.

Make sure that you review your IB command terms again! Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:

• What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
• What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
• Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
• To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
• How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
• Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
• What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
• Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
• The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
• Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

April 9

IB 30/35

We watched Episode 5 of the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize" today. This episode was called "Mississippi: Is This America?" and centered obviously on the civil rights struggle in the state of Mississippi. Please make sure that you complete your answers to this episode and hand them in tomorrow. I did a homework check on Episode 4 questions to "Eyes on the Prize" today as well as your major U.S. Civil Rights Movement assignment.

Social 20-1

I started a PowerPoint lecture today that covered the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials. I finished most of the lecture today. We also drew lots today and you drafted topics of interest from Unit 2. One week from today you will get one period of research in library. If you think that you will need more time to research, start doing research now on the topic that you picked.

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent writing your Chapter 5 Test. You will get the results of this test tomorrow. Tomorrow you will be writing a matching quiz on Nazi Germany. Please see the study guide below.

Nazi Germany Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. This quiz will be written on Wednesday, April 10th. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz:

• anti-Semitism
• Aryan
• concentration camp
• corporate state
• Dachau
• decree
• deportation
• dissent
• elite
• Enabling Act
• ethnic
• Führerprinzip
• Gestapo
• Hitler
• Holocaust
• indoctrination
• inequality
• inflation
• judicial
• jugend
• Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht
• nationalism
• Nazi
• Niemoller
• Nuremberg
• passive
• plebiscites
• pogrom
• Reichstag
• Ruhr
• SA
• SS
• state
• swastika
• War Guilt Clause
• White Rose

April 8

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent watching Episode 4 "No Easy Walk (1961-1963)" from the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize". Your answers to this episode's questions are due tomorrow, as is your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment. You will have a Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday, April 15th. You can find the study guide for this test below. Also next week, on Thursday, April 18th you will be writing a Paper 3 on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:

• What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
• What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
• Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
• To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
• How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
• Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
• What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
• Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
• The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
• Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent writing your Unit 2 WRA I. Please don't forget that you have your Chapter 5 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). You also have your Nazi Germany Quiz on Wednesday, please check out the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

The entire class period today was spent writing your Chapter 5-6 Test. We'll begin our examination of the Holocaust tomorrow.

April 5

IB 30/35

I did a homework check on your answers to Episode 2 of "Eyes on the Prize". We watched Episode 3 of "Eyes on the Prize", today's episode was called "Ain't Scared of your Jails (1960-1961)". Your answers to the Episode 3 questions are due on Monday. Please remember that your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Tuesday, April 9th.

Social 30-1

We covered a lot of ground in class today. We looked at key features of democratic systems, the key features of totalitarianism, a comparison of characteristics of communism and fascism. You have an assignment on core fascist values, the steps that Hitler took to gain power in Germany, and the techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and the USSR. The charts in the booklet are due on Monday. Please check your e-mail for a PowerPoint presentation on the "Techniques of Dictatorship". I also sent you a short reading on the White Rose student group. Please remember that you have your Unit 2 WRA I on Monday, April 8th, your Chapter 5 Test on Tuesday, April 9th, and your Nazi Germany Quiz on Wednesday. Please see the study guides below for these tests.

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, April 9th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• 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

Nazi Germany Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. This quiz will be written on Wednesday, April 10th. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz:

• anti-Semitism
• Aryan
• concentration camp
• corporate state
• Dachau
• decree
• deportation
• dissent
• elite
• Enabling Act
• ethnic
• Führerprinzip
• Gestapo
• Hitler
• Holocaust
• indoctrination
• inequality
• inflation
• judicial
• jugend
• Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht
• nationalism
• Nazi
• Niemoller
• Nuremberg
• passive
• plebiscites
• pogrom
• Reichstag
• Ruhr
• SA
• SS
• state
• swastika
• War Guilt Clause
• White Rose

Social 20-1

Most of today's class was spent watching an excerpt from the film "Saving Private Ryan" which demonstrated how difficult it was for the Allies to establish another front in the European theatre. The Normandy invasions was one of the largest amphibious landings in history. I sent you a handout about Canada's role in World War II, and if you've read these notes you know that Canada also had an assigned beach to attack during the invasion called Juno. Please remember that you have your Chapter 5-6 Test on Monday. Please see the study guide for this test below.

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism)

 

April 4

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on "The Way of Subjects" at the start of class. I also returned your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions. We watched "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" today which gave you the "big picture" of WWII from start to finish. I gave you a booklet with video notes to go along with "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb", so make sure that you read and study these notes. Your Chapter 5-6 Test is on Monday, you can find the study guide for this test below.

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism)

Social 30-1

You wrote your Economic Systems Exam today. You'll get the results of this test tomorrow. We have a lot of ground to cover tomorrow, so don't be late! Your Economic Planning in the USSR was due today as well. On Monday, April 8th, you are writing a WRA I (three source analysis assignment). You have a Chapter 5 Test on Tuesday, please see the study guide below. You'll also have a quiz on Nazi Germany on Wednesday, April 10th. You can also find the study guide for this quiz in today's post (scroll down to find it).

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, April 9th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• 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

Nazi Germany Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. This quiz will be written on Wednesday, April 10th. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz:

• anti-Semitism
• Aryan
• concentration camp
• corporate state
• Dachau
• decree
• deportation
• dissent
• elite
• Enabling Act
• ethnic
• Führerprinzip
• Gestapo
• Hitler
• Holocaust
• indoctrination
• inequality
• inflation
• judicial
• jugend
• Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht
• nationalism
• Nazi
• Niemoller
• Nuremberg
• passive
• plebiscites
• pogrom
• Reichstag
• Ruhr
• SA
• SS
• state
• swastika
• War Guilt Clause
• White Rose

IB 30/35

I did a homework check on your "Eyes on the Prize" homework today. We watched Episode 2 of "Eyes on the Prize" today. Today's episode was entitled "Fighting Back (1957-1962)" and it covered attempts at integrating high schools and universities in the South. Most of the episode concentrated on the Little Rock Nine and James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. Your answers to the episode questions are due tomorrow.

April 3

Social 30-1

A lot of yesterday's class was spent re-teaching how to write a three source analysis assignment (WRA I). I will be sending you a handout on how to write a WRA I as well today, so check your e-mail.

We did a quick review of the economic-political grid today. We continued looking at non-democratic systems today. We look at characteristics of non-democratic systems (handout) and types of dictatorships (handout). We also watched the A & E Biography called "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". Please remember that you have your Economic Systems Exam tomorrow. You can find the study guide for this exam here. Your Economic Planning in the USSR booklet is due tomorrow.

Social 20-1

I distributed a handout to you yesterday called "The Way of Subjects". The analysis questions are due tomorrow. We looked at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor yesterday, and the motivations for the attack. We watched a short excerpt from the film "Pearl Harbor" as well yesterday.

Today, we looked at the results of the attack on Pearl Harbor, namely the internment of Japanese-Canadians. I sent you a PowerPoint on this topic yesterday. Today, we completed a film study of the documentary "Tides of War" which looked at the internment. Your Chapter 5-6 Test is on Monday, April 8th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

IB 30/35

Yesterday we started our examination of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. I started a PowerPoint lecture on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, which is already posted on the wiki. I also gave you a Social 30-1 U.S. Civil Rights Movement assignment. This assignment is due on Tuesday, April 9th.

We watched Episode 1 of "Eyes on the Prize" today. You were given a question sheet to go along with this episode, the questions from this worksheet are due tomorrow (April 4th). Episode 1 of "Eyes on the Prize" focused in on the murder of Emmett Till and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On the timeline that is on the video study guide for this episode it also mentions the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, however, the makers of Eyes on the Prize focus in on Emmett Till's murder, and the short public trial of his murderers. You can see Till's murder as a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement, and the open casket funeral of Emmett Till and the publication of the photos as a catalyst for change in America's attitudes. Mississippi, where Till's murder took place gained national notoriety as a hotbed for white supremacy as well. If you are interested in the Till case you might want to do a little investigation of your own into the impact that the murder had on popular culture. Numerous songs, plays, poems, novels, TV shows and movies have drawn inspiration from the murder of Emmett Till and the court case. You may see parallels between the Till case and Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird (one of my personal favorites) to the TV show In the Heat of the Night (it was previously a movie too), to the Bob Dylan song "The Death of Emmett Till". With the Montgomery Bus Boycott segment of the episode you saw the emergence of Martin Luther King on the national stage. We'll be exploring his role and leadership in the movement in the days to come.

I also finished off the U.S. Civil Rights Movement PowerPoint lecture today. This presentation is on the IB 30/35 wiki already. It is strongly recommended that you print this presentation off and study from it as well.