April 29

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I gave you back your Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement today. We watched a video from the US History series that covered U.S. Politics from 1980-2000. While the video was playing, you were supposed to take notes. We also did some exercises related to Paper 1.

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You wrote your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam today. You'll get the results back tomorrow. Please remember that your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

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We finished our film study of "Gandhi" today. The film study questions (the content questions) are due on Thursday. I have bumped the due date for the Unit 2 Research Project until Monday, May 6th because I forgot to send out the rubrics.

April 24

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We started looking at the film "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. This film explores McCarthyism in the early 1950s. The film study that I provided you with also has a film review (if you are having a hard time understanding the film so far, it might be a good idea to read this over tonight), and some study questions and some discussion questions. This film definitely has relevance in today's world (which we'll be talking about more tomorrow and in Unit 3 of the course). Hopefully, we'll finish off the film tomorrow, and be able to have a short discussion period of some of the issues the film raises. In all likelihood, the study questions from the film study will be due on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Exam (Cold War Exam) on Monday, April 26th and your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday, April 29th. Please see the study guides for both exams here (scroll down to find the study guides).

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I gave you a reading from Pulitzer Prize winning writer Samantha Power today. I would like you to read her article entitled "Never Again-The World's Most Unfulfilled Promise". I will also be sending you a PowerPoint presentation on other genocides that have occurred in the 20th century. We have now moved on to another topic in Unit 2, that being a case study of the Indian independence movement. I gave you a background reading booklet and a case study booklet. You were given the entire class period to complete the "Background and Colonial Period for India" section questions in the case study booklet. These questions will be due tomorrow. We'll begin our film study of "Gandhi" tomorrow.

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We finished off the HBO documentary on Ronald Reagan today, and then we started looking at his successor George H.W. Bush.

April 23

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I finished off the PowerPoint presentation on Ronald Reagan in class today, then we went down to Room 121 to watch an HBO documentary on Reagan.

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We finished watching "Shake Hands with the Devil" today. Please remember that the film study questions are due tomorrow. Your Unit 2 Research Project is due on April 30th, one week from today.

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We started tying up some loose ends with the Cold War today. We look at bilateral and multilateral disarmament agreements and treaties, and we also talked about key features of the post-Cold War world. I sent you some notes as well today, so please check your e-mail. Please remember that your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam is on Monday, April 29th. You can find the study guide for this exam below. Please also remember that your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd; you can find the study guide for this exam below as well.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• 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

Social 30-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:

• study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
• study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
• study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
• 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), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• 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 (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
• modern liberalism
• features of the Nazi state
• Hitler's rise to power
• 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
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

April 22

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We picked up where Mr. Johnson left off last week. I covered the Ford and Carter administrations very quickly. I will post this presentation on the wiki. Make sure that you check out the sections in your Modern America, your IB History Companion textbook, and The United States and Its People textbook for more information on these two administrations. I also started the Reagan administration as well today.

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Most of today's class was spent watching the documentary film "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam". One week from today you will be writing your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam. Please see the study guide below. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. I will post the study guide for this exam later this week.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• 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

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We started our film study of "Shake Hands with the Devil". We should be able to finish off this video tomorrow. The film study questions are due on Wednesday, April 24th.