April 2

IB 30/35

We continued our examination of the Cold War today by watching another video from the CNN Cold War series called "The Wall Comes Down (1989)" which covered not only how the communist bloc broke apart in East Germany, but also in Hungary and Poland.

The Cold War Exam is on Thursday, April 5th. It is a 70-75 multiple choice questions.

Here are some 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 your own notes from the Vietnam War Assignment booklet, and the notes that I posted on the IB 30/35 Wiki 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 on 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 Cold War period
• understand how certain Cold War concepts can be illustrated by key events in the Cold War (ex. brinkmanship in the Cuban Missile Crisis)
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you 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 or that is posted on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

IB 20

We started watching a History Channel video called "The French Revolution". We will continue watching this video again tomorrow.