March 14

Social 20-1

I gave you a booklet today that is extremely important, it covers major events of the Interwar Years. Please make sure that you put a star on this booklet. Material from this booklet will be tested on your Unit 2 Final Exam, and Part B of the Final Exam in June. We also watched "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" which covered the rise of Hitler to power in Germany. We will go over concepts and events covered in this documentary in the days to come. On Wednesday of next week (March 20th), you will be writing another WRA I three source analysis assignment. It will be on material that I have covered already in Unit 2.

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent writing your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test". On Wednesday, March 20th you will be writing your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test. Please see the study guide below.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• 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)
• nationalization
• 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 (handout)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (handout)

Make sure that you review the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
• "Responding to Classical Liberalism"
• "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism"

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent watching the CNN Cold War series video called "The Wall Comes Down". Most of the focus on this episode was on the breakdown of Eastern European governments in 1989, with the greatest emphasis on East Germany and Erich Honecker's government. On October 17, 1989 Honecker was voted out of the Politburo. The original crisis in East Germany had been caused in part over restrictions on travel. Egon Krenz's government started to make reforms for free travel for East Germans. Street demonstrations demanded more and more from Krenz's government. Many of the East German opposition members wanted Gorbachev-era inspired reforms such as glasnost and perestroika. In the end, a bureaucratic mistake led to East Berliners to mass outside of the gates to West Berlin because the East German government had said that travel restrictions had been lifted. East German border guards then allowed people to pass over to the West. The episode also touched on Poland's Solidarity movement under Lech Walesa, too.
On Wednesday, March 20th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format.

Social 30-1 Cold War Unit Final Study Guide:

• make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts
• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention
Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• 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