Wednesday, June 5, 2013

June 5


We did some essay preparation today by looking at a source that had an economics theme to it. We brainstormed the first paragraph of an essay using the source. I will send you the essay outline that we started, and I will send you some past essay outlines that my previous classes put together. Make sure that you check your e-mail tonight. Study these outlines, some of the arguments and evidence would be applicable to various economics-themed essays. You have your Trial Final Exam on Monday. Tomorrow you'll have to make a decision about which test result you want to throw out with the Trial Final Exam. Remember, the study guide is the Diploma Exam Review Study Guide that I sent to you yesterday.


I finished off the last PowerPoint lecture today on "Regional Disparity". I will send it this presentation to you today. Your Chapter 14-15 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday.


We did some essay preparation today, by finishing off the political-themed essay outline that we started yesterday and the starting an economics-themed one today. There are some sample essay outlines up on the wiki under Diploma Exam Review. You have your Political Systems Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide below. You have the Trial Final Exam on Monday. The study guide for the Trial Final Exam is on the wiki under Diploma Exam Review, it is the Word document called Social 30-1 Diploma Exam Review v2.


The Political Systems Test will be on Thursday, June 4th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
  • Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
  • Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
  • Soviet Economy notes
  • Soviet Economic System notes
  • Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
  • Gorbachev to Collapse notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • Characteristics of Democracy
  • Characteristics of Dictatorship
  • Democratic Systems notes
  • Non-Democratic Systems notes
  • Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
  • A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
  • Totalitarianism notes
  • review fascism and Nazism (test has questions on the techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
  • do a brief review of the political and economic spectrums
The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

  • centrally planned economies
  • initiative
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • Reaganomics
  • consumer sovereignty
  • invisible hand
  • Keynesian economics
  • laissez faire economics
  • War Communism
  • Five Year Plans
  • mixed economies
  • indicative planning
  • proportional representation
  • democracy
  • dictatorship
  • political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
  • status quo
  • egalitarianism
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • liberal
  • radical
  • SA
  • Hitler
  • Bolshevik
  • fascism
  • communism
  • indoctrination
  • controlled participation
  • terror and force
  • direction of popular discontent
  • democratic socialists
  • supply-side economics
  • authoritarian
  • tyrant
  • totalitarian
  • totalitarianism
  • ultranationalism
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • propaganda
  • progressive taxation
  • Marx
  • Lenin
  • utopian socialism
  • Gorbachev
  • martial law
  • Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
  • referendum
  • collectivization
  • modernization
  • classical liberal
  • laissez faire free market economy
  • mixed economy
  • planned economy
  • (review your economic political quadrant model)
  • Das Kapital
  • Mein Kampf
  • The Wealth of Nations

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