We finished off the
CNN Cold War series today. The episode was called
"Conclusions" and it covered the fall of communism and implications for the future. As you saw in the video, communism ended with a whimper, not a bang in most Eastern European countries and the USSR. In Romania there was a popular uprising with about 1,000 people being killed, but in other Eastern bloc countries in the transition away from communism was mostly peaceful. Towards the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was experiencing economic hardship due in part to military spending, which led Gorbachev to enter into arms reduction talks more readily. Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost had the effect of helping change occur more rapidly in the USSR. Unfortunately for Gorbachev and the CPSU, there was no way to control the changes to Soviet society and its citizens that occurred as a result of the introduction of these reform measures. On Monday, many of you will be attending a play in the school's theatre as part of your English IB class. Certificate students from Mr. Johnson's class and ours will meet in Room 111 for some fun and games. Please remember that you have your
Cold War Unit Exam on Wednesday, March 20th. Please see the study guide for this exam below.
- 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 the Cold War 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 is testable material and should be reviewed!!
- know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences
We reviewed private enterprise and supply side economics today, as well as the basic economic values associated with the economic systems. We will be starting to look at the command economy on Monday, so it will be helpful to review the Russian history notes that I am sending to you. We'll be using the USSR as our case study of a communist state that employed a centrally planned economy. Please remember that you have your
Market and Mixed Economy Test on Wednesday, March 20th. Please see the study guide below.
- 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)
- 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 (handout)
- how supply-side economics deals with a recession (handout)
Make sure that you review the following PowerPoint presentations:
- "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
- "Responding to Classical Liberalism"
- "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism"
We focused on the post-WWI desire of the Allied Powers to make Germany pay. We watched a video from the
BBC 20th Century History series called
"Make Germany Pay". As you watched this video you were to take notes on it on the worksheet that was provided. Next week we'll look at the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis again and look at the appeasement of Hitler by Western powers. On
Wednesday, March 20th you will be writing a Unit 2 WRA I assignment. You will not be allowed to have any reference materials or notes on how to write these assignments out in front of you, so you should memorize how to write these types of assignments prior to Wednesday.
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