October 19

Social 30-1

You wrote your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test today. It took most of the period, you will get the results of this test tomorrow. Make sure that you have read, highlighted and annotated the notes on Marx, Lenin, and Stalin that I gave you on yesterday, along with all of the readings on the command economy and the Soviet economic system prior to tomorrow's class.

Social 20-1

I gave back your World War I maps today, generally speaking, these were really well done. I also gave you a homework assignment today called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" which is due tomorrow. You must make a T-chart of the arguments in favor and against appeasement as they are presented in the Focus Task page. You are also to complete 2a and 3a and 3b in the Focus Task for tomorrow. I also started a PowerPoint presentation today called "Ultranationalism in WWII" which looked at the rise of ultranationalistic right-wing dictatorships in Italy, Germany and Japan. We'll finish this presentation off tomorrow. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, and you will have homework tomorrow as well in all likelihood, so it's probably better to get this homework out of the way.



This is the map that I referred to in class today when I was talking about the scramble for Africa. We don't always get a sense of how large the African continent actually is until we compare it to other countries and continents. Most maps that we use are based on Mercator projections so Africa is undersized and there's distortion at the poles. Pretty impressive, eh?