Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Make-up Tests and Essays............

If you have any remaining tests and/or essays to be made up, please do so by Monday, May 13th.  The testing center file will be emptied after this date and all tests/essays not made up will receive a score of "0".  Please plan accordingly.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Chapter 34 Power-point Notes


Chapter 34 GSPRITE Review


Geography
What happened to Korea during the Cold War Era?
Social
Reforms introduced to Japan during occupation?
In what ways was Vietnam similar to other 3rd World Nations?
Political
Douglas MacArthur
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan- Problems?
Kim IL-Sung  and Syngman Rhee
What type of leadership guided South Korea during the 1960’s-1980’s?
What leader established the autocratic government of Taiwan?
What did the U.S. do in regards to Taiwan in 1978?
How does Mao lose his power as state chairman?
“The Gang of Four”
Vietminh
Dien Bien Phu
Intellectual/ Technology
Differences between Chinese Communism and Russian Communism?
The Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
One Child Policy of China
Economy
Factors of economic success in post-war Japan?
Japan and South Korea have become economic powerhouses in Pacific Rim
Hyundai- What country does it help out?

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Chapter 33 GSPRITE Notes


Geography
Why so much ethnic conflict in Africa?

Social
“Population Bomb”
Factors that contribute to high birth rate

Political
Military regimes common across Africa
Ghana- Kwame Nkrumah-What happened to his programs?  What did he do about criticism?
Uganda-Idi Amin
Egypt- Gamal Abdul Nasser
Anwar Sadat (Egypt)- Ended war with Israel
Jawaharlal Nehru- First elected leader of free India
Iran-Ayatollah Khomeini
Iran has war with Iraq in early 1980’s
South Africa- dominated by Nationalist Party until 1994
Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk


Intellectual/ Technology
Aswan Dam project- Modernize Egypt
India is most successful at preserving civil rights
Iranian Revolution is fundamentalist regime (like the Taliban or Mahdi)
What are“homelands” (South Africa)

Economy
Some countries have started to export oil to boost economy

Chapter 33 Power-point Notes


Wednesday, April 10, 2013

BGHS Literacy Survey......

Please take a few moments to complete this short survey located at the following address......

https://sites.google.com/a/d214.org/calendar/

click on "student literacy survey" in the upper left hand corner of the page.

Please submit your survey by Friday evening.

Thanks for your help,

McCabe

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Chapter 32 GSPRITE Notes



Social           
Guatemalan reforms of Jose Arevelo
Castro’s reforms for Cuba
Military Officers in Latin American (how do they see themselves)
Latin American population- since 1950 it has doubled
Problems faced by Latin America

Political
Political institutions remain unchanged (dictatorships)
CIA in Guatemala
Fidel Castro
26th of July Movement
Ernesto Che Guevara
New Cuban Government-Type of Gov’t?  Received support from who?
Tactics used by military governments in Latin America
Invasion of Panama

Religious
Dominate religion is Roman Catholic

Intellectual/ Technology
1st, 2nd and 3rd World
Where can we find communism today?
“Banana Republics”
“Good Neighbor Policy”
Containment of Communism-How does it affect Latin America?

Economy
United Fruit Company
Percentage of imports Cuba received from U.S. before embargo=3/4

Chapter 32 Power-point......


Sunday, April 7, 2013

Just a reminder of the tutoring schedule for this week......
I will be around before and after school on Wednesday and after school on Thursday of this week.  I will not be in the building on Friday so their will be no review the morning of the test.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

C&C Essay Topic for April 16th.......

We will be completing a full Compare and Contrast essay in class on Tuesday, April 16th.  Here is the prompt you will address......

Compare and contrast how the First World War and its outcomes affected Two of the following regions in the period from the war through the 1930's
-East Asia
-Middle East
-South Asia (Indian Subcontinent)

Monday, April 1, 2013

Chapter 31 GSPRITE Notes



Geography
-Countries of the Eastern Block
-Division of German territory
-Countries that had communist governments separate from Soviet Union- Albania, Greece and Yugoslavia


Political
-Colonies that breakaway from European control (Egypt, Vietnam and India)
-Solidarity
-Nikita Khrushchev- How did he change Soviet government after Stalin?
-Mikhail Gorbachev
-NATO-Why was it established?  What did it do?


Economic
-Marshall Plan
-Western European countries received aid to fight communism
-Military spending was #1 in US during Cold War
-Welfare state-What services were being offered?
-Technocrat
-European Economic Community (EU)
-European economy post WWII?- All time high,  low unemployment



Chapter 31 Notes


CCOT Essay Prompts for Friday....

Here are the three locations/ dates for the CCOT essay prompts we will be completing this Friday.  These particular essays will have you select one of the locations listed for each question.  Remember that there will be specific GSPRITE topics you will need to attached to these topics to complete a thesis.  You will only be responsible for writing a thesis statement for each prompt.

#1- Time Period: 1750-1914 C.E.
       Locations: Latin America/Caribbean, Russia and Sub-Saharan Africa

#2- Time Period: 1450-1750 C.E.
       The Americas, China, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa

#3- Time Period: 600-1750 C.E.
       Trans-Saharan, Silk Road, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea