Thursday, March 31, 2016

March 31


We finished off Episode 1 of "Eyes on the Prize" today. Please remember that you must answer the questions with the film study sheet. We started Episode 2, and we'll finish it off tomorrow. Here's a list of upcoming important dates: 


  • Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Wednesday, April 6th
  • Paper 3 Essay Outline (Diploma students only) is due on April 11th
  • Civil Rights Movement Test is on April 13th
  • Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement is on April 20th

Please remember that the "Economic Planning in the USSR" section in your Social 30-1 workbook is due tomorrow. On Monday, April 4th you'll be writing your Economic Systems Exam (please see the study guide below). One week from today (April 7th) you will be writing your Chapter 5 Test (please see the study guide below). 





This exam will be written on Monday, April 4th. 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)



I went through a lecture today called "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada". You can find this presentation on the Social 10-1 wiki under Unit 2 Presentations. One week from today, you'll be writing your Unit 2 WRA I. Don't forget that you have your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions due tomorrow. Also, you have the Chapter 7 Test on Monday, April 4th (please see 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?

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

March 30


I finished off the "Civil Rights Movement" PowerPoint lecture today, and we started watching Episode 1: Awakenings of the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize". You have a film study sheet that goes with Episode 1, so as you watch the documentary series I want you to answer the questions on a separate piece of paper. You will be submitting these for homework check marks. On April 13th you will be writing a Civil Rights Movement Test, and on April 20th you will be writing a Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement. Here's a list of upcoming important dates:


  • Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Wednesday, April 6th
  • Paper 3 Essay Outline (Diploma students only) is due on April 11th
  • Civil Rights Movement Test is on April 13th
  • Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement is on April 20th


I showed you a couple of videos today, although one of them messed up due to the shoddy Internet connection at the school. I'm embedding both videos below. I also gave you time to work on your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Friday. Please don't forget that you have your Chapter 7 Test on Monday, April 4th (please see 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?


We went through the "Gorbachev to Collapse" reading today, and you had time to work on either your Chapter 5 Questions (due tomorrow, March 31st) or the "Economic Planning in the USSR" section in your Social 30-1 workbook.





This exam will be written on Monday, April 4th. 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)

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

March 29


We started a new unit today on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. We're half way through this lecture, which we should be able to finish off tomorrow. I also gave you back your Social 30-1 WRA I assignment.

We covered the Soviet economic system today in class, and we covered some general notes on the Soviet leaders. You have to go through the readings that I assigned from your 30-1 workbook.




This exam will be written on Monday, April 4th. 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)


I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Legacies of Historical Globalization" today. we'll be talking about the Scramble for Africa in greater detail tomorrow. I gave you back your Unit 1 WRA II Essay today as well.



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, March 17, 2016

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

March 15


We watched the last episode of the CNN Cold War series called "Conclusions (1989-1991)" today. You should have taken notes on this video while it was playing. This Thursday (March 17th) you are writing a Social 30-1 Cold War Exam; please see the study guide below.



On Thursday, March 17th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format

Make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts: 
    • deterrence
    • disarmament
    • isolationism
    • appeasement
    • collective security
    • direct confrontation
    • brinkmanship
    • containment
    • detente
    • collective intervention
    Be able to define the following key concepts:
    • superpower
    • sphere of influence
    • arms race
    • Suez Canal War 1956
    • brinkmanship
    • Korean War
    • Cold War
    • decolonization
    • Cuban Missile Crisis
    • detente
    • NATO
    • collective security
      • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
      • know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
      • know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
      • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
      • know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
      • anything that I gave you as a handout/notes on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
      • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences




      I showed you the Biography documentary on Joseph Stalin called "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror". As you watched this video you were supposed to answer the film study questions.

      On Thursday, March 17th, you'll be writing your Market and Mixed Economy Test, you can find the study guide below. If you want some practice questions from the yellow booklet to prepare for your test on Thursday, give these ones a try:

      Test II: 

      • Q 1-7
      • Q 41-59
      • Q 129-132
      Test II: 
      • Q 70, 73, 76, 85-87, 91




      This exam will be on Thursday, March 17th
      • 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



      I gave you a little bit of time to continue with the peer editing session that we started yesterday. I finished off the PowerPoint lecture "Historical Globalization and Imperialism" today as well. You can find this presentation on the Social 10-1 wiki under Unit 2 Presentations. You are writing the rest of your Unit 1 WRA II Essays on Thursday in Room 104. If you haven't yet, please look at the sample Unit 1 WRA II Essays on the wiki.

      Monday, March 14, 2016

      March 14


      We watched an episode of the CNN Cold War series called "The Wall Comes Down (1989)" today. You should have taken notes on this video while it was playing. This Thursday (March 17th) you are writing a Social 30-1 Cold War Exam; please see the study guide below.



      On Thursday, March 17th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format

      Make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts: 
        • deterrence
        • disarmament
        • isolationism
        • appeasement
        • collective security
        • direct confrontation
        • brinkmanship
        • containment
        • detente
        • collective intervention
        Be able to define the following key concepts:
        • superpower
        • sphere of influence
        • arms race
        • Suez Canal War 1956
        • brinkmanship
        • Korean War
        • Cold War
        • decolonization
        • Cuban Missile Crisis
        • detente
        • NATO
        • collective security
          • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
          • know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
          • know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
          • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
          • know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
          • anything that I gave you as a handout/notes on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
          • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences



          You wrote the first draft of your first paragraph for your Unit 1 WRA II Essay today, and you also did some peer editing as well. You'll be writing the second part of this essay on Thursday (not tomorrow, as we had originally planned). I gave you back your Unit 1 WRA I assignments, and the results of your Illustrated Concept Maps as well. I'll show you the results of your Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow, or you can check your marks on D2L now.


          We continued working through Chapter 5 material today. I did a homework check on your Chapter 5 Key Terms at the beginning of class. I also delivered half of a PowerPoint lecture on "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (you are responsible for studying both parts of the lecture, the Soviet Union AND Nazi Germany).

          On Thursday, March 17th, you'll be writing your Market and Mixed Economy Test, you can find the study guide below. If you want some practice questions from the yellow booklet to prepare for your test on Thursday, give these ones a try:

          Test II: 

          • Q 1-7
          • Q 41-59
          • Q 129-132
          Test II: 
          • Q 70, 73, 76, 85-87, 91




          This exam will be on Thursday, March 17th
          • 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


          Friday, March 11, 2016

          March 11


          You wrote a Social 30-1 WRA I on the Cold War today. Next Thursday (March 17th) you are writing a Social 30-1 Cold War Exam; please see the study guide below.



          On Thursday, March 17th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format

          Make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts: 
            • deterrence
            • disarmament
            • isolationism
            • appeasement
            • collective security
            • direct confrontation
            • brinkmanship
            • containment
            • detente
            • collective intervention
            Be able to define the following key concepts:
            • superpower
            • sphere of influence
            • arms race
            • Suez Canal War 1956
            • brinkmanship
            • Korean War
            • Cold War
            • decolonization
            • Cuban Missile Crisis
            • detente
            • NATO
            • collective security
              • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
              • know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
              • know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
              • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
              • know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
              • anything that I gave you as a handout/notes on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
              • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences



              You got the results for your Unit 1 Final Exam back today. I started talking about "Historical Globalization and Imperialism" today. I'll finish off this lecture next week. Please remember that you are writing your Unit 1 WRA II Essay on Monday and Tuesday. You will get 45 minutes on Monday to write, then we'll do a peer editing session. On Tuesday, you will get the entire period to finish off your essay.


              You got the results back for your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, which you wrote yesterday. I went through the Russian History notes from your Social 30-1 workbook on page 104. You are responsible for reading, highlighting and annotating the notes on Karl Marx (pages 94-96), Vladimir Lenin (pages 97-98), and Joseph Stalin (pages 99-101).

              On Thursday, March 17th, you'll be writing your Market and Mixed Economy Test, you can find the study guide below.



              This exam will be on Thursday, March 17th
              • 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


              Thursday, March 10, 2016

              March 10


              I showed you a short documentary from the Discovery Channel called "Escape from Berlin" which detailed the construction of the Berlin Wall. We then did a review of how to write a WRA I, and I gave you a sample Social 30-1 WRA I from the Great Depression. Please remember that you're writing a Social 30-1 WRA I on the Cold War tomorrow.


              You wrote your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test today. You will get the results of this test back tomorrow. You'll also find out what your overall mark is in Social 30-1 to this point in the semester. The deadline to switch from Social 30-1 to 30-2 is March 17th. Your parents need to sign the form, so if you're switching, you need to take these forms home soon.


              Tuesday, March 08, 2016

              March 8


              I showed you Episode 18 of the CNN Cold War series called "Backyard" (1954-1990). I've posted a link to a Google Doc with notes from the video on the IB 30/35 wiki. Please don't forget that your Vietnam War Assignment is due tomorrow (you don't have to cite any of the information in the assignment because it would be considered common knowledge). Please remember that you're writing a Social 30-1 WRA I type assignment this Friday (March 11th).

              Your Vietnam War Assignment is due tomorrow
              A. PEOPLE
              Identify and explain the role each played in the Vietnam War
              1. Ho Chi Minh
              2. Ngo Dinh Diem
              3. Lyndon B. Johnson
              4. Richard M. Nixon
              5. Viet Minh
              6. Viet Cong
              7. Le Duc Tho
              8. Henry Kissinger
              9. William Westmoreland
              10. "Draft Dodger"

              B. CONCEPTS/TERMS
              Explain the significance of the following with regards to the Vietnam War (identify participants or individuals if appropriate)
              1. Ho Chi Minh Trail
              2. defoliation
              3. "search and destroy" mission
              4. "Vietnamization of the war"
              5. Gulf of Tonkin Incident
              6. My Lai Massacre
              7. domino theory
              8. Kent State University protest (May 4, 1970)
              9. Tet Offensive (January 1968)
              10. Geneva Agreement (1954)

              C. ISSUES
              Provide the information requested
              1. The predominant religion of Vietnam
              2. The battle which marked the end of French colonial rule in Indo-China
              3. The scandal which led to the only resignation of an American President
              4. The Vice President who replaced the President after his resignation
              5. Why was November 1963 a "bad month" for the governments of South Vietnam and the United States?



              I showed you your current mark in Social 30-1, and I told you that the deadline to switch from Social 30-1 to 30-2 is March 17th. I started a PowerPoint presentation called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism", which I will continue tomorrow. Don't forget that you are writing your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Thursday, March 10th (please see the study guide below).

              You have a test this Thursday that covers Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4, please see the study guide below.



              This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, March 10th. This test covers material from Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4. 

              1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 
              • "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
              • "Responding to Classical Liberalism"
              2. Be familiar with key concepts introduced in Chapters 3 and 4. 
              3. The Industrial Revolution: 
              • understand fundamental economic, social and political changes that were caused by the Industrial Revolution
              • understand the connection between the Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
              • understand the differences, advantages and disadvantages of the cottage system and the factory system
              4. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet 
              5. Key beliefs of the various ideologies (review the spectrums briefly); also review this material from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation: 
              • Adam Smith
              • laissez faire economics/capitalism (key ideas)
              • John Stuart Mill
              • Karl Marx (key ideas and beliefs associated with Marx, Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, withering away of the state, dictatorship of the proletariat, view of history, etc. ) and Friedrich Engels (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
              • Edmund Burke and classical conservatism
              6. Some questions may require you to make connections between this year's material and what you learned in 10-1 and 20-1 as well

              We continued talking about preparing to write your Unit 1 WRA II Essay. I gave you the "recipe for success" for writing a position paper today, and I went through this handout with you, and gave you notes on how to organize your first paragraph. There are sample essays on the Social 10-1 wiki under "Student Writing Samples". I gave you the essay question sheet for your Unit 1 WRA II Essay. You're writing for 45 minutes on Monday, and we'll do a peer editing session afterwards. On Tuesday (March 15th), you'll finish off the essay, and you'll have the entire 80 minutes to write it. Please remember that you're writing your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow.



              Unit 1 Final Exam will be Wednesday, March 9th. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

              Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
              1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:
              • globalization
              • pluralistic society
              • transnationals
              • society
              • “the global village”
              • United Nations
              • G-8
              • La Francophonie
              • NATO
              • individual identity
              • collective identity
              • traditions
              • minority group
              • official bilingualism
              • universalization of pop culture
              • hybridization
              • media transnationals
              • media consolidation
              • CBC/SRC
              • Official Languages Act
              • CRTC
              • Canadian Content (CanCon)
              • homogenization
              • monoculture
              • assimilation
              • marginalization
              • accommodation
              • secularism
              • integration
              • cosmopolitan
              • acculturation
              • cultural revitalization
              • Charter of Rights and Freedoms
              2. Know your case studies extremely well!
              3. Be able to apply key concepts!