Thursday, October 29, 2015

October 29


You handed in your IA at the beginning of class today. I started a PowerPoint presentation on the "United States in the First World War", which you can find on the IB 30/35 wiki on the Emergence of the Americas page. I'll be starting Prescribed Subject 1 on Monday. Please enjoy your long weekend, you've earned it.

I gave you the results of your Chapter 5 Test today. Today was a work period, you had the period to read Chapter 7 and complete the Chapter 7 Key Terms. I will take in your Chapter 7 Key Terms on Monday. You don't have to complete your Chapter 7 Questions yet. We'll be starting the Cold War on Monday.


We started Unit 3 material today. I started a PowerPoint called "The Foundations of Economic Globalization", which I'll continue on Monday. You can find this presentation on the wiki under Unit 3 Presentations. It's probably a good idea to read Chapter 10 this weekend.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

October 28


You wrote your Chapter 5 Test today, please remind me to share with you the results of this test tomorrow.


We finished doing the WWI battle presentations today. We'll examine the role that the United States played in the First World War.

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I today. Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, November 10th, I will post the study guide next week on the blog.

Monday, October 26, 2015

October 26


I showed you the results for the Economic Systems Exam today. I gave you some time to go through the Fascism/Nazism section in your Social 30-1 booklet today. I also went through a PowerPoint presentation on "The Techniques of Dictatorship". Please remember that you are writing your Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow. You are writing your Chapter 5 Test on Wednesday (please see the study guide below). If you are looking for some practice multiple choice questions from your yellow booklet to practice for your Chapter 5 Test, please check out the following questions:

  • Test II: Q10-24, Q88-99
  • Test III: Q89
  • Released Items: Q2-3, Q8, Q16-17, Q 26-29, Q33-37, Q45
The Chapter 5 Test will be on Wednesday, October 28th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • 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
 

I went through "Canada's Role in World War I" today. You can find this PowerPoint on the Emergence of the Americas page on the IB 30/35 wiki. You had a little bit of time to touch base with your WWI battle presentations team members at the end of class. We're starting these presentations tomorrow. Each presentation should be no more than 10 minutes long. Don't forget that the good copy of your IA is due on Thursday, October 29th.
 

You got results back for your Chapter 7 Test today. We started a film study of "Where the Spirit Lives" today. I'll show you the second part of the film tomorrow. You will write a short quiz on this film tomorrow. Your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow (Tuesday, October 27th). You are writing a Unit 2 WRA I on Wednesday, October 28th.  Review how to write a WRA I.

 

Friday, October 23, 2015

October 23


We went through a comparison between communism and fascism today. I also went through how to prepare for a WRA I. Please make sure that you check out the Diploma Exam Review page on the IB 30/35 wiki for all of the past WRA I assignments that have appeared on the Diploma Exam. You'll be writing the Unit 2 WRA I on Tuesday, October 27th. You have your Chapter 5 Test on Wednesday, October 28th, you can find the study guide below.


The Chapter 5 Test will be on Wednesday, October 28th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • 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


Luckily, we were able to get into a computer lab today, so you could start putting together your WWI battle presentations. We will be starting these presentations on Tuesday, October 27th. Please make sure that your presentation is no longer than 10 minutes, and that people are able to notes from the presentation that you will deliver. Don't forget that the good copy of your IA is due on Thursday, October 29th.


You wrote your Chapter 7 Test today. Your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, October 27th.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

October 22


I talked about the outbreak of WWI as if it were a barfight at the beginning of class, and then I continued with the "Allied Victory in World War I" PowerPoint presentation. You split yourselves into groups for presentations that we will start on Tuesday, each presentation should be no more than 10 minutes in length, and cover your assigned WWI battle. Each of the battles that you must research is one in which either Canada or the United States played a significant role. Please remember to add your names to the chart indicating the members of your group. Don't forget that the good copy of your IA is due one week from today (October 29th).


You wrote your Economic Systems Exam today, you'll get the results back tomorrow.


I finished off the "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada" PowerPoint presentation today. I did a homework check on your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions. I gave you some time to work on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions (due Tuesday). Don't forget that you are writing your Chapter 7 Test (the study guide is below).


This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and a short answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:
  • historical globalization
  • the Silk Road
  • international trade
  • the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
  • mercantilism
  • capitalism
  • free market
  • Adam Smith
  • entrepreneur
  • communism
  • industrialization
  • the Industrial Revolution
  • cottage system
  • physiocrats
  • exploitation
  • imperialism
  • Eurocentrism
  • ethnocentrism
  • European imperialism
  • "old" imperialism
  • "new" imperialism
  • colony
  • protectorate
  • sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

  • What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
  • What values are associated with capitalism?
  • Whose values did industrialization effect?
  • Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
  • What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
  • In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

October 21


I tried to cover a couple of concepts today, including totalitarianism and different types of dictatorships. I also showed "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". Please remember that you have your Economic Systems Exam tomorrow.


This exam will be written on Thursday, October 22nd. It is a multiple choice question format test. 
This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 74 multiple choice questions
  • Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki under Unit 2 (check your notes): The Development of Classical Liberalism, Responding to Classical Liberalism, The Evolution of Modern Liberalism, 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism (just the USSR section of this PowerPoint)
  • In Chapter 5just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
  • please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise), page 78-80 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • supply-side economics (page 84 in study booklet)
  • boom and bust cycle/business cycle (pages 50-54 and pages 56-62 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • 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 (pages 63-64 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • 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): pages 73-76 in the study booklet
  • also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics/"womb to tomb economics"): pages 65-72 in 30-1 booklets
  • 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)
  • 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) pages 81-82 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • 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): pages 81-82 in the 30-1 booklet
  • 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 (pages 94-96 in 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (pages 97-98 in 30-1 booklet)
  • establishment of the Soviet Union
  • Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process): study pages 105-114 in the Social 30-1 booklet
  • Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
  • "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
  • Stalin notes (pages 99-101)
  • "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev): pages 116-117 in 30-1 booklet
  • Gorbachev to Collapse Notes: pages 118-121 in 30-1 booklet
  • Economic Planning in the USSR: pages 122-129 in 30-1 booklet
  • Market Socialism (pages 130-132 in the Social 30-1 booklet)


We looked at the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by watching a documentary from a BBC series called "Days That Shook the World". I started going through a PowerPoint presentation that covered "Allied Victory in WWI", which I'll try to finish off tomorrow.

We finished watching "Tools of Exploitation" today. I started a PowerPoint lecture on "The Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada" today. I should be able to finish off this lecture tomorrow. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow as well. You have your Chapter 7 Test on Friday, please make sure that you prepare for it using the study guide below.



This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and a short answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:
  • historical globalization
  • the Silk Road
  • international trade
  • the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
  • mercantilism
  • capitalism
  • free market
  • Adam Smith
  • entrepreneur
  • communism
  • industrialization
  • the Industrial Revolution
  • cottage system
  • physiocrats
  • exploitation
  • imperialism
  • Eurocentrism
  • ethnocentrism
  • European imperialism
  • "old" imperialism
  • "new" imperialism
  • colony
  • protectorate
  • sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

  • What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
  • What values are associated with capitalism?
  • Whose values did industrialization effect?
  • Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
  • What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
  • In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?
 

Monday, October 19, 2015

October 19


You wrote your Market and Mixed Economy Test today. Please remember that you have "Economic Planning in the USSR" booklet due tomorrow. Please also remember that you have your Economic Systems Exam on Thursday (please see the study guide below). If you're interested in taking a survey to see how you might have voted in the 2015 Federal Election, you can answer questions at this website: https://votecompass.cbc.ca/



This exam will be written on Thursday, October 22nd. It is a multiple choice question format test. 
This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 74 multiple choice questions
  • Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki under Unit 2 (check your notes): The Development of Classical Liberalism, Responding to Classical Liberalism, The Evolution of Modern Liberalism, 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism (just the USSR section of this PowerPoint)
  • In Chapter 5just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
  • please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise), page 78-80 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • supply-side economics (page 84 in study booklet)
  • boom and bust cycle/business cycle (pages 50-54 and pages 56-62 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • 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 (pages 63-64 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • 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): pages 73-76 in the study booklet
  • also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics/"womb to tomb economics"): pages 65-72 in 30-1 booklets
  • 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)
  • 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) pages 81-82 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • 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): pages 81-82 in the 30-1 booklet
  • 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 (pages 94-96 in 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (pages 97-98 in 30-1 booklet)
  • establishment of the Soviet Union
  • Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process): study pages 105-114 in the Social 30-1 booklet
  • Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
  • "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
  • Stalin notes (pages 99-101)
  • "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev): pages 116-117 in 30-1 booklet
  • Gorbachev to Collapse Notes: pages 118-121 in 30-1 booklet
  • Economic Planning in the USSR: pages 122-129 in 30-1 booklet
  • Market Socialism (pages 130-132 in the Social 30-1 booklet)



We started our examination of the causes of World War I. Studying the causes, courses/practices and results of WWI will aid us in studying Prescribed Subject 1.


I finished off the PowerPoint "Historical Globalization and Imperialism". As I went through this presentation, you should have taken down notes. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Test on Friday, October 23rd, you can find the study guide below.



This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and a short answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:
  • historical globalization
  • the Silk Road
  • international trade
  • the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
  • mercantilism
  • capitalism
  • free market
  • Adam Smith
  • entrepreneur
  • communism
  • industrialization
  • the Industrial Revolution
  • cottage system
  • physiocrats
  • exploitation
  • imperialism
  • Eurocentrism
  • ethnocentrism
  • European imperialism
  • "old" imperialism
  • "new" imperialism
  • colony
  • protectorate
  • sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

  • What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
  • What values are associated with capitalism?
  • Whose values did industrialization effect?
  • Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
  • What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
  • In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

Sunday, October 18, 2015

October 16

I'm really sorry that I didn't post this on Friday, it was a really busy Model UN weekend!



We started off with some "E-Cow-nomics" on Friday. I then gave you some notes on leaders of the Soviet Union, so if you missed class today, you need to get these notes from a classmate. You were supposed to read, highlight and annotate the following notes from your Social 30-1 study booklet:


  • Changes to the Soviet Union since Stalin
  • Gorbachev to Collapse
  • complete the note-taking activity in the "Economic Planning in the USSR" section as well
  • your Chapter 5 Questions are due on Tuesday, October 20th
Your Market and Mixed Economy Test is on Monday, October 19th, please see the study guide below. You also have your Economic Systems Exam on Thursday, October 22nd




This exam will be on Monday, October 19th
  • Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
  • nationalization
  • 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
  • how supply-side economics deals with a recession



This exam will be written on Thursday, October 22nd. It is a multiple choice question format test. 
This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 74 multiple choice questions
  • Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki under Unit 2 (check your notes): The Development of Classical Liberalism, Responding to Classical Liberalism, The Evolution of Modern Liberalism, 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism (just the USSR section of this PowerPoint)
  • In Chapter 5just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
  • please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise), page 78-80 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • supply-side economics (page 84 in study booklet)
  • boom and bust cycle/business cycle (pages 50-54 and pages 56-62 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • 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 (pages 63-64 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • 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): pages 73-76 in the study booklet
  • also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics/"womb to tomb economics"): pages 65-72 in 30-1 booklets
  • 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)
  • 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) pages 81-82 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • 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): pages 81-82 in the 30-1 booklet
  • 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 (pages 94-96 in 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (pages 97-98 in 30-1 booklet)
  • establishment of the Soviet Union
  • Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process): study pages 105-114 in the Social 30-1 booklet
  • Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
  • "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
  • Stalin notes (pages 99-101)
  • "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev): pages 116-117 in 30-1 booklet
  • Gorbachev to Collapse Notes: pages 118-121 in 30-1 booklet
  • Economic Planning in the USSR: pages 122-129 in 30-1 booklet
  • Market Socialism (pages 130-132 in the Social 30-1 booklet)



You wrote your Paper 3 on the Civil War and Reconstruction on Friday. On Monday, we'll be moving into a topic for Paper 2 Topic 1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War when we begin our examination of the causes of the First World War. We'll cover WWI in detail, and then follow that up with our Prescribed Subject 1: Peacemaking, Peacekeeping and International Relations 1918-1936.


I started a PowerPoint called "Historical Globalization and Imperialism", which we'll continue on Monday. On Friday, October 23rd you will have a test on Chapter 7 Test. You can find the study guide below.


This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and ashort answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:
  • historical globalization
  • the Silk Road
  • international trade
  • the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
  • mercantilism
  • capitalism
  • free market
  • Adam Smith
  • entrepreneur
  • communism
  • industrialization
  • the Industrial Revolution
  • cottage system
  • physiocrats
  • exploitation
  • imperialism
  • Eurocentrism
  • ethnocentrism
  • European imperialism
  • "old" imperialism
  • "new" imperialism
  • colony
  • protectorate
  • sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

  • What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
  • What values are associated with capitalism?
  • Whose values did industrialization effect?
  • Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
  • What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
  • In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

Thursday, October 15, 2015

October 15


You wrote your Civil War and Reconstruction Test today. Remember, you have your Paper 3 on the Civil War and Reconstruction tomorrow.

You watched the A & E Biography of Joseph Stalin, which was called "Stalin: Red Terror". As you watched this documentary, you should have completed all of the film study questions. You had the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 5 Questions. Please check out the study guides below for your upcoming tests.



This exam will be on Monday, October 19th
  • Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
  • nationalization
  • 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
  • how supply-side economics deals with a recession



This exam will be written on Thursday, October 22nd. It is a multiple choice question format test. 
This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 74 multiple choice questions
  • Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki under Unit 2 (check your notes): The Development of Classical Liberalism, Responding to Classical Liberalism, The Evolution of Modern Liberalism, 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism (just the USSR section of this PowerPoint)
  • In Chapter 5just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
  • please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise), page 78-80 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • supply-side economics (page 84 in study booklet)
  • boom and bust cycle/business cycle (pages 50-54 and pages 56-62 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • 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 (pages 63-64 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • 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): pages 73-76 in the study booklet
  • also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics/"womb to tomb economics"): pages 65-72 in 30-1 booklets
  • 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)
  • 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) pages 81-82 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • 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): pages 81-82 in the 30-1 booklet
  • 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 (pages 94-96 in 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (pages 97-98 in 30-1 booklet)
  • establishment of the Soviet Union
  • Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process): study pages 105-114 in the Social 30-1 booklet
  • Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
  • "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
  • Stalin notes (pages 99-101)
  • "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev): pages 116-117 in 30-1 booklet
  • Gorbachev to Collapse Notes: pages 118-121 in 30-1 booklet
  • Economic Planning in the USSR: pages 122-129 in 30-1 booklet
  • Market Socialism (pages 130-132 in the Social 30-1 booklet)