I did a homework check on
"The Way of Subjects" at the start of class. I also returned your
Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions. We watched
"Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" today which gave you the "big picture" of WWII from start to finish. I gave you a booklet with video notes to go along with "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb", so make sure that you read and study these notes. Your
Chapter 5-6 Test is on Monday, you can find the study guide for this test below.
1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Triple Alliance
- Triple Entente
- the Black Hand
- Gavrillo Princip
- Tsar Nicholas II
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Battle of Tannenberg
- the Schlieffen Plan
- Plan 17
- General von Moltke
- Battle of the Marne
- Alsace and Lorraine
- total war
- Battle of Verdun
- Battle of the Somme
- the Brusilov Offensive
- sinking of the Lusitania
- the Zimmermann Telegram
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- General Ludendorff
- Friedrich Ebert
- Paris Peace Conference
- David Lloyd George
- Woodrow Wilson
- Fourteen Points
- Georges Clemenceau
- Vittorio Orlando
- League of Nations
- plebiscites
- reparations
- collective security
- war debts
- Treaty of Versailles
- "war guilt clause"
- "Manchurian Incident"
- Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
- expansionism
- Hirohito
- Hideki Tojo
- Benito Mussolini
- Adolf Hitler
- Kristallnacht
- the Nuremberg Laws
- any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material
2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that
WILL NOT be on this test, especially
if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty
won't be on the test)
3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:
- MAIN Causes of World War I
- the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
- the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
- Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
- the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
- Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
- the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years booklet)
- the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
- ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
- failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
- appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism)
You wrote your
Economic Systems Exam today. You'll get the results of this test tomorrow. We have a lot of ground to cover tomorrow, so don't be late! Your Economic Planning in the USSR was due today as well. On
Monday, April 8th, you are
writing a WRA I (three source analysis assignment). You have a
Chapter 5 Test on Tuesday, please see the study guide below. You'll also have a
quiz on Nazi Germany on Wednesday, April 10th. You can also find the study guide for this quiz in today's post (scroll down to find it).
The
Chapter 5 Test will be on
Tuesday, April 9th. It is a
70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:
- "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
- 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
This quiz is a
short matching quiz, with a
word bank. This quiz will be written on
Wednesday, April 10th. What you'll have is a
list of key people,
key terms and
key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz:
- anti-Semitism
- Aryan
- concentration camp
- corporate state
- Dachau
- decree
- deportation
- dissent
- elite
- Enabling Act
- ethnic
- Führerprinzip
- Gestapo
- Hitler
- Holocaust
- indoctrination
- inequality
- inflation
- judicial
- jugend
- Mein Kampf
- Kristallnacht
- nationalism
- Nazi
- Niemoller
- Nuremberg
- passive
- plebiscites
- pogrom
- Reichstag
- Ruhr
- SA
- SS
- state
- swastika
- War Guilt Clause
- White Rose
I did a homework check on your
"Eyes on the Prize" homework today. We watched
Episode 2 of "Eyes on the Prize" today. Today's episode was entitled
"Fighting Back (1957-1962)" and it covered attempts at integrating high schools and universities in the South. Most of the episode concentrated on the
Little Rock Nine and
James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. Your
answers to the episode questions are due tomorrow.
