Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Stalin

Happy New Year!

This weeks blog is research related. I need you to research Joseph Stalin and discuss the following issues:

His power struggle
Collectivization and Industrialization
Five Year Plans
Constitution under his rule
Cult of Personality
Purges
Impact on Society
Foreign Relations to 1941

Due Sunday night at 9:00 p.m. (January 4th)

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Internal Assessment and Extended Essay

Compare and contrast the governments in your Internal Assessment to the government in your Extended Essay. Your IA focus included a civil war therefore there were issues within that particular country. 

Due Wednesday, December 24th by 9:00 p.m. 

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Authoritarian Single Party States

To what extent were the social and economic policies of the following successful: Mao, Nasser, Stalin?

Due Tuesday at 9 pm

Thursday, December 4, 2014

South Africa - Democratic States

Democratic states - challenges and responses

The 20th century witnessed the establishment, survival, destruction and re-emergence of democratic states. Democratic systems faced treats to their existence from internal and external sources. In some cases the system coped successfully, in other cases the pressures proved difficult to withstand. The performance of democratic states in relation to such pressures- economic, political and social- form the basis for this topic.

Please use South Africa as a base for the following research:

1) Nature and structure of democratic (multiparty) states
    Constitutions (written and unwritten)
    Electoral systems, proportional representation, coalition governments
    Role of political parties: role of an opposition
    Role of pressure (interest/lobby) groups

2) Economic and social policies
    Employment
    Gender
    Health, education
    Social welfare

3) Political, social and economic challenges
    Political extremism
    Ethnicity, religion, gender
    Movements for that attainment of civil rights
    Inequitable distribution of wealth/resources