July 12

Social 20-1

You got the results back for both the Unit 1 WRA I and the Unit 1 Final Exam. We went over the answers to the Focus Task in the "Making Peace" booklet on the perspectives/statements from Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd George. I went over the Unit 1 WRA I in a little bit more detail. I did a homework check on the Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions, and you will get them back tomorrow. I gave you a booklet on the timeline of key events in the Interwar Years, which you will be tested on. We covered a lot of ground again today by looking at a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay", and while you were watching this video you were to complete a video study guide sheet. I also taught you another mnemonic device to go along with the MAIN causes of World War I, and the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe). The mnemonic for today was the FAILURe of the League of Nations. This is not to say that the League of Nations was completely unsuccessful, it did enjoy successes in negotiating settlements and agreements between lesser powers. The League did have great difficulty with aggressive nation-states that were engaging in expansionist foreign policies, namely Japan (in Manchuria in 1931), Italy (in Abyssinia in 1935) and Germany. We looked at the concept of appeasement as well today, and how political leaders in Britain (Neville Chamberlain) and France (Edouard Daladier) gave in to Hitler's demands repeatedly. We watched a video on appeasement from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?", and then after the break we looked at some GCSE material with the booklet "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?". I then delivered a PowerPoint lecture on "Ultranationalism in Italy, Japan and Germany", which I will post on the wiki this afternoon in the Unit 2 Presentations section. A couple of reminders for tomorrow: your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow, and you have your Unit 2 WRA I as well. Please remember that you have your Chapter 5-6 Test on Monday, please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

This test is on Monday, July 16th. The format of the test is matching and short answer. Please use this study guide to focus your review efforts. Study the following presentations:

• "The Road to War: Causes of World War I" (ppt)
• "Total War, Allied Victory, Paris Peace Conference" (ppt)
• "Ultranationalism in WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan" (ppt)

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 Nuremburg 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)
• 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)