Asn 1

          All Quiet on the Western Front paragraph. Choose one:

  A. How did Paul change during the war?

  B. Who taught the soldiers more, Kat or Himmelstoss?

  C. Why did Paul lie to the people in his hometown?

  D. Why was it different when Paul killed Gerald Duvall, the printer?

 

 

Asn 2

          Read pages 612-615 and use your notes to answer the following questions:

1.   What is an economic depression?

2.   What do Fascists believe?

3.   Who became dictator of Italy?

4.   What year did Hitler take control of Germany?

5.   What was Hitler’s political party called?

6.   What were the goals of Hitler’s political party?

7.   Who did Hitler direct his racist policies against?

8.   Name two countries Hitler took over before the war started.

9.  Why didn’t other countries stop Hitler?

10.  How and when did WWII start?

 

Asn 3

          5 questions about WWII movie, “Axis Triumph”

            1. Which country did Hitler invade on September 1, 1939?

            2. Who replaced Chamberlain as prime minister of Britain in the spring of 1940?

            3. Where did Londoners hide from the bombings during the battle of Britain?

            4. Which country did Hitler invade in June, 1941?

            5. What naval base was attacked by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941?

 

Asn 4

          5 questions about WWII movie, “Allied Victory”

            1. Name the two naval battles in 1942 that stopped Japanese expansion.

            2. What part of Europe was invaded first by the Allies?

            3. What French peninsula was invaded by the Allies on D-Day June 6, 1944?

            4. Name the two cities hit by atomic bombs in August, 1945.

            5. How many people died during WWII?

 

 

 

 

Asn #6

           Read pages 608-612 to find the answers to these questions

 

1. What is an economic depression?

 

2. How and when did the “Time of Troubles” end?

 

3. Who was the first great Romanov ruler, and what did he do to reform his country?

 

4. What did Catherine the Great do to improve Russia?

 

5. Describe one of the problems Russia faced during the 1800’s.

 

6. What did Czar Alexander II do in 1861? What did he fail to do?

 

7. What happened during the revolt of 1905? What did Czar Nicholas II do?

 

8. How did World War I make Russia’s problems worse?

 

9. What did the Russian people do in March of 1917?

 

10. What were soviets?

 

11. Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks and what did the Bolsheviks promise?

 

12. Who fought in Russia’s civil war?

 

13. Who took control of the Soviet Union’s government in 1928?

 

14. What were the goals of Stalin’s Five Year Plans?

 

15. What is a collectivized farm?

 

Asn #7

       Communism crossword puzzle

 

 

 


Asn #8

       Supply and Demand graphs using the following data:

 

#1

Price

Qd

Price

Qs

#2

Price

Qd

Price

Qs

 

10

50

10

200

 

100

20

100

80

 

8

100

8

150

 

75

40

75

60

 

6

150

6

100

 

50

60

50

40

 

4

200

4

50

 

25

80

25

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#3

Price

Qd

Price

Qs

#4

Price

Qd

Price

Qs

 

1000

10

1000

40

 

0.8

300

0.8

800

 

750

20

750

30

 

0.7

400

0.7

700

 

500

30

500

20

 

0.6

500

0.6

600

 

250

40

250

10

 

0.5

600

0.5

500

 

 

 

 

 

 

0.4

700

0.4

400

#5

Price

Qd

Price

Qs

 

0.3

800

0.3

300

 

20

1000

20

4000

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

2000

15

3000

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

3000

10

2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

4000

5

1000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asn #9

       Define Economics terms:


1. Monopoly

2. Scarce

3. Trade-off

4. Opportunity Cost

5. Specialize

6. Capital

7. Barter

8. Demand

9. Supply

10. Profit

11. Currency

12. Inflation


Asn #10

          Economics X-word puzzle

 

Asn #11

 

       Foreign Exchange: Who wants to be a millionaire?

How much American money would it take to have a million of the following currencies?

1,000,000 / exrate = dollars you need to be a millionaire in that country

 

          Canada                exrate=  1.4579 dollars

          Japan                   exrate= 119.83 yen

          Hungary               exrate=  223.29 forints

          Mexico                exrate= 10.435 new pesos

          South Korea        exrate=  12020.5 won

          Venezuela           exrate=  1600 bolivars

          Britain                  exrate=  0.626135 pounds

 

 

Asn #12 Gang of 15

       This technology project follows a gang of criminals across the globe. Print off page 4 from the computer, and save the file on your student technology project.                                                                   

 

 

Asn #13

       City of the Future: Design a city of the future.                          

 

Asn #14

       Job of the Future: Apply for a career by writing a resume