March 19

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent watching the National Geographic documentary "Inside North Korea". The host of the documentary Lisa Ling used to be on "The View", and she has a show on the OWN network now. Interestingly enough, she has a younger sister named Laura Ling. Laura Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee were detained in North Korea after they illegally crossed into North Korea from the People's Republic of China without a visa. They were tried and convicted, then subsequently pardoned after former US President Bill Clinton flew to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-il personally.

Please make sure that you review for your Cold War Exam tonight. Please see the study guide for this exam below. This is test is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 20th.

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 the Cold War 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

Social 20-1

We finished off yesterday's GCSE's focus task on "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" and moved on to look at the rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan. I will continue this lecture on Thursday. Please remember that you are writing a three source analysis on Unit 2 material. This Unit 2 WRA I will be on one of the following topics: causes of WWI, World War I itself or the Paris Peace Conference.

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint lecture on "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" today. I will be sending this presentation to you today. I also gave you a handout on the Soviet Economic System. Please review tonight for your Market and Mixed Economies Test. Please see the study guide below. This test is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 20th.

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"