Friday, July 13, 2012

July 13

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I at the beginning of class today. This was the last assessment before your Midterm Report which is on Monday. After the WRA I, I wrote a few notes on the board to introduce some of the early stages of WWII in both Europe and the Pacific. We looked at the start of the war in the Pacific with the attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The Japanese were inspired by the successes of Nazi Germany in Europe, and they too had aspirations of establishing an empire in the Pacific so in late 1941 they began to attack two key holdings of rivals in the Pacific: the British colony of Hong Kong and the headquarters of the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. These attacks were coordinated, with the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941 while attacking Hong Kong on the same day (it's December 8 in Hong Kong though). With the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States will formally enter WWII on the side of the Allies. After the break we watched an excerpt from the movie "Pearl Harbor". After watching the movie we watched a documentary on the internment of Japanese-Canadians after the attack on Pearl Harbor. I will also be posting a PowerPoint presentation on the wiki on the internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII that I highly recommend that you read and study. I will put it up on the wiki under Unit 2 Presentations this afternoon. You have your Chapter 5-6 Test on Monday, please see the study guide below.

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)

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