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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

China and North Korea Study Guide!
Test on Monday - April 3 - All classes!
Mr. Barry's class -- Complete the North Korea (Blue) Q's in your notebooks by Friday (3/31) for HW!

  1. What is the population of China?
  2. What was the purpose of China's Belt and Road Initiative.  How does it benefit China, but how has it also failed?
  3. What was the purpose of the "child policies" in China?  
  4. What was a problem with the "one-child policy?"
  5. How is Taiwan important to China?
  6. Explain the details of the Cultural Revoltion?
  7. Who was Mao Zedong?
  8. Explain the details of the Tiananmen Square Massacre & what do you think the world thought when they saw the Tank Man video and footage of the Chinese military attacking the protestors?
  9. Who is Deng Xiaoping & what did he do to China when he took power?
  10. Who is Xi Xingping and how is he abusing his power as China's leader? (Provide one detail)
  11. What are SEZ's and provide one positive and negative effect of these.
  12. How many people live in North Korea and roughly how large is the country?
  13. What is the name of the boundary between North and South Korea?
  14. What is Juche? Does juche see realistic for the citizens in North Korea? Why do you think this?
  15. When did Kim Jung Un become the Supreme Leader of North Korea?  What do you think of the title “Supreme Leader”?
  16. How would you explain North Korean media/television after reading about it
  17. What president visited North Korea and attempted to negotiate peace between North and South Korea?


Modern China Study Guide Flick #1



North Korea Flick





Friday, March 24, 2023

China and North Korea Test on Monday, April 3

 China Doc

How China Got Rich -- (6:26-27:08)

Tiananmen Square Protest Video Tiananmen Square 25 yrs later - 2014


Finishing the China Guided Notes

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North Korea




Saturday, March 18, 2023

Week 28: March 20-23


Monday - March 20 -- Holy Sites Trip
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How China Got Rich -- (6:26-27:08)

Monday, March 13, 2023

Week 28: March 13-17, 2k23

Monday -- Globalization & EU Test!

Globalization Notes & Starbucks Assignment due
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The Cultural Revolution - Mao Zedong

The Great Leap Forward

The One-Child Policy...

Now...The THREE-Child Policy!

The Cultural Revolution in China


Friday, March 3, 2023

Week 27: March 6-10, 2k23

Monday -- Purim! -- No Classes!


European Union & Globalization Test Monday, March 13

Study Guide
  1. What is the purpose of the European Union?
  2. Are all the countries in Europe in the European Union?
  3. Why was the EU formed after WWII?
  4. What is a tariff?
  5. What nation was in the process (but has already left) of leaving the EU?  Why did they leave the EU?
  6. What nations in the EU are generally wealthier? Why is this?
  7. What is the currency of the EU called?
  8. What is a trade bloc?
  9. Why do immigrants go to some EU nations but not others?
  10. What is the motto of the EU? What do you think this means?
  11. How does the EU both & divide Europe?


How A Steel Box Changed the World Flick Below!

The Ever Given STUCK in the Suez Canal!