Tuesday, February 06, 2018

February 6


We were in the Blenheim Room today working on a Google Doc on the Chinese Civil War. I'd say as a group you got through about 90% of the task, so you'll finish it off tomorrow, and start building review exercises/games to play on Friday. Don't forget that you have your WWII Test on Thursday (please see the study guide below). Please remember to bring your laptop to class tomorrow (if you have one).


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


I went through a lecture on the Enlightenment today. You have a quiz tomorrow on the Enlightenment thinkers that were introduced in the lecture today. You also have your World Geography Test on Monday, February 12th (please see the study guide below).


This quiz has a matching format. Please make sure that you focus your review on the following Enlightenment thinkers:
  • John Locke
  • Montesquieu
  • Rousseau
  • Adam Smith
  • Francois Quesnay
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Voltaire
Please make sure that you know their views on the nature of human beings, quotes attributed to them, their main ideas/key beliefs, and their major works (what books, articles they wrote). 



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!!**





I assigned your Global Connections Essay todayYour Global Connections Map is due on Thursday. Your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, February 8th. Please check out the instructions for your Global Connections Map below. You have your World Geography Test on Monday, February 12th (please see the study guide below). 

Here are the instructions for the map (which is due on Thursday):
  • your map must have a title ("Global Connections Map")
  • you do not need compass directions on your map
  • you do not need a border for your map
  • you must have a simple key on the front of the map and a detailed key on the back on the map
  • your simple key will consist of the following: 5-6 colored boxes (depending on how many categories you had for your 25 item chart) which will be labeled- food, clothing, electronics, entertainment, household goods, miscellaneous AND you must also draw a colored dot and label it "people" (for the information from the Global Bingo game that we played)
  • you will only color countries and label ones that you have a connection to through the 25 item chart (for example, you own a sombrero that is from Mexico, you would color Mexico and label it "Mexico")
  • there will only be 5-6 colors on the map, you don't need to have 25 different colors for each of your 25 items
  • you also have to label the 16 people that you talked to during our Global Bingo game, they will be represented by colored circles (pick a common color for all people) and numbers (1-16, if you didn't talk to 16 people, you label as many as you talked to)--you do not color the countries that are represented on your Global Bingo card, you simply draw a circle on the country, color it, put a number beside it, and label the country (for example, if the only connection you have to Australia is that one of your classmates went on a vacation there, you draw the circle, write the number beside the circle, and label the country "Australia"-- you don't color the country)
  • on the detailed key on the back of your map, you will be recreating your 25 item chart (make sure that you have the categories clearly colored and matching the simple key on the front of the map) and the information from the Global Bingo card (clearly identify people by number) Your Global Connections Map is due on Monday, February 10th.


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:

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