March 22

Social 10-1

I finished off the PowerPoint called "Legacies of Historical Globalization" which I will be sending to you by e-mail tonight and putting up on the wiki as well. We also started watching a video from the Africans series called "Tools of Exploitation", which we will finish on Thursday. Tomorrow you will have library reasearch time for your Imperialism Research Projects. This is your one and only class period to do this research, please come to the classroom first and then we'll go down to the library.

Social 30-1

I gave you back the results of the Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test today, and the results were very good. Please remember that you have your Economic Systems Final Exam on Thursday, please see the study guide here. Most of the period was spent looking at how to write the WRA I from Part A of your Diploma Exam. On Monday, April 4th you will be writing a Unit 2 WRA I, so please make sure that you know how to write these assignments. I will be sending today's PowerPoint presentation to you tonight. I also gave you a couple of handouts on democratic and non-democratic systems, please make sure that you read both of these handouts. Tomorrow, we'll continue on looking at types of dictatorships and totalitarianism. On Tuesday, April 5th, you will be writing a Chapter 5 Test which will cover the USSR and Nazi Germany, please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, April 5th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt): I will be sending this PowerPoint to you
• 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
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has 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