Monday, February 05, 2018

February 5


We had our debate on the American decision to use the atomic bombs. This took the entire period. Don't forget that you have your WWII Test on Thursday (please see the study guide below). We're starting the Chinese Civil War tomorrow.


This test consists of 70 multiple choice questions (but there will be 7 questions that will be omitted from the test, so really 63 questions), and you will write in on Thursday, February 8th.

Key terms, concepts, people mentioned in the exam (knowing these terms, concepts and people will help you eliminate them as possible answers):

  • Treaty of Versailles (study the terms of the treaty: GARGLe)
  • Marshall Plan
  • Lend-Lease Act
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Helsinki Accord
  • lebensraum
  • blitzkrig
  • anschluss
  • Winston Churchill
  • Austro-Hungarian Empire
  • Maginot Line
  • Munich Conference
  • invasion of Abyssinia
  • Mussolini
  • Hitler
  • appeasement
  • League of Nations
  • "Night of the Broken Glass" (Kristallnacht)
  • "Final Solution"
  • "the Low Countries"
  • Polish Corridor
  • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
  • brinkmanship
  • diplomacy
  • Second Battle of El Alamein
  • invasion of Manchuria
  • Marco Polo Bridge Incident
  • Battle of Coral Sea
  • Battle of Midway
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact
  • Operation Barbarossa
  • deterrence
  • Great Depression
  • Battle of Stalingrad
  • Dunkirk
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Nuremberg Trials
  • Phoney War
  • The Dieppe Raid

We finished off with the envelopes filled with globalization images today, and then we played a little "Global Bingo" today as well (don't lose those sheets, you'll need them for a subsequent mapping assignment). You have some homework tonight: you must create a 25 item chart (please see instructions below). I gave you some time to work on your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions today, these will be due on Thursday, February 8th. You will have a World Geography Test next Monday, the study guide for this test is in today's post (scroll down).

25 Item Chart Instructions:

  • find 25 items from 25 different countries (you can't have 5 items from one country!)
  • find items from any of the following categories: food, clothing, electronics, household goods, entertainment, and miscellaneous (if it doesn't fit into any of the previous categories)
  • you must have a minimum of 5 categories (in other words, you can't have 25 food items from 25 different countries)
  • don't just find items from one category (for example, 25 food items)
  • try to find 4-6 items from each category
  • collect your information about your items in a 3-column chart (item, country, category)
  • don't assume that an item is from a particular country (for example, a Sony PS3 may be manufactured in Indonesia, Malaysia or South Korea, that is the information that we want
  • for entertainment, for example a CD (or MP3) we want to know where the recording artist is from, not where the CD was manufactured, this will better illustrate social globalization
    when you are collecting the information for your chart, number off the items (1-25) and have the categorized separate (in other words, the first 5 items on your chart should belong to the same category, etc.)
  • the more organized your chart is, the easier it will be to put that information on to a map!


This test will take place on Monday, February 12th. It is simply a country and capital cities identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries, capital cities, and places identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:
  • any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU)
  • any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
  • any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
  • full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
  • to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan
  • other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, China, India, Myanmar (Burma), Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel
  • **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**



Please use the following links for studying for this test:



I finished off the lecture on "Nation and Identity". Make sure that you understand all of the key concepts that were introduced in this presentation for upcoming exams. You had the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions (which are due on Wednesday, February 7th). Your World Geography Test is on Monday, February 12th (see study guide below).



This test will take place on Monday, February 12th. It is simply a country identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:
  • any of the EU countries (there are 28 countries in the EU, a map of the EU is in your textbook on page 265, but it's out of date, it says that there's 27 countries in the EU. I'm not even talking about Brexit here...)
  • any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
  • any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
  • full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
  • to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
  • other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, Serbia, Georgia, China,
    India, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq,
    Israel
  • **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**





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