AP European History Assignments

Newscast from the Past

15 Week Assignment Sheet Due

Return all class set of handouts or handouts you didn't write on

check ABI for all essay and test scores

Period 3
Find in Spielvogel the sections dealing with Athenian government, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Roman Republic - gov't, writing down of laws, patrician vs plebian.

AP EXAM

This teacher's website has a number of theme related crossword puzzles like "isms, "women", the French Revolution", "17th Century"
Also if you click on Study Aids and scroll down there are powerpoints on the 30 years war, reforms of Peter the Great, comparison of Bacon and Descartes

http://apeuro.nathanbarber.com/LearningTools/crossword.html

Complete practice exam
No ifs, ands, or buts...
Set your clock for 55 minutes
No interruptions
Don't change your answers
Your score won't count but I need to know where everyone is at

Unit 10 & 11 Test
Have the parts dealing with World War II, and 1945 to the present from the 1870 to the Present packet done for the test. Use as a review. Though don't forget to work on the other part.

Cool website to review the Cold War
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/superpower/
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/superpower/indexsecond.htm

Chapter 29 Questions or Outline Due

Assignment Sheets Due

Complete Manchester DBQ

Read and take left side notes from "Life Under Communism"
posted below

Complete Casualties of WWII Worksheet

Chapter 28 Due
Everyone must do the worksheet "the Cold War Who is Responsible"?
Chapter 28: Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1970; Spielvogel, 803-834

Have finished Essential Date 1715-1870

work on Chapter 28 and Essential Data from 1715-1870

Work on Chapter 28 questions or outline

Finish the part of Ch 26 dealing with Hitler and Mussolini
Chapter 27 Due
Have finished "A Review of 1450-1715"

UNIT 9 TEST

Chapter 26 762-768

Review Planning Calendar

Start reading Chapter 26 pp 740-746 and 758-761 and answer the questions below or on the attached page.

1. Why was the League of Nations ineffective in maintaining peace?
2. How much did Germany owe the Allies for the war and how did France respond to Germany's inability to make its reparation payments?
3. Why did inflation create problems for the newly created Weimar Republic?
4. What was the Dawes Plan?
5. Identify the various methods [treaties, negotiations, agreements, etc…] used by the European powers and the United States to establish and maintain peace and military disarmament during the 1920s. Why might some of those methods be considered politically naïve?
6. Identify the major causes of the Great Depression.
7. What were the political, economic, and social repercussions?
8. How did the Great Depression spread from the United States to the rest of the world?
9. Use the document (743) to describe the social effects of unemployment during the Great Depression. How did fascist politicians and military leaders use these conditions to gain popular support?
10. What advice did John Maynard Keynes offer to the British government? How did Britain respond to his advice?
11. What was the Popular Front? What were the reforms initiated and why did the Popular Front government fail within a year?
12. What services did the Scandinavian governments offer their citizens?
13. Compare the Pilgrim Trust report on unemployment to the description of Depression life by George Orwell (745). What common images and problems do you find?


The Soviet Union, 758-761
1. What economic issues did Russia have during the civil war and immediately after it?
2. What were the major components of the NEP and how did the NEP represent a compromise with capitalism?
3. What were the differences between Trotsky and Stalin?
4. Why did Stalin, and not Trotsky, emerge as Lenin’s successor? What did Stalin do with Trotsky?
5. What was the underlying assumption of Stalin's First Five-Year Plan? What were the specific parts of the Plan that dealt with industry? with agriculture?
6. What was collectivization, and how did the kulaks respond to it?
7. How did Stalin mobilize an entire nation in making Russia an industrial giant almost overnight? What techniques were used against those who couldn't or wouldn't measure up to the task?
8. What caused the Stalinist purges of 1934-1939? Who were the major targets of Stalin's wrath? What were the final tallies of victims?
9. How was life restricted for women under Stalin?
10. What was the political pattern followed by many of the governments in Eastern Europe in the 1920s and then in the 1930s?

No Homework Ticket
complete Part A and B on a separate sheet of paper

Read article Women, Work, and World War I
Take left side reading notes
Start reading chapter 26

Chapter 25 Due
Chapter 25 Test

UNIT 8 TEST

Spielvogel 710-715.
Study for Thursday's test. Go over things to Consider for Unit 8 relating to imperialism. same thing with past FRQs.

PAY FOR AP EXAM (Starting February 22)

VICTORIAN AGE SKITS
PRESENTATIONS ARE TODAY

Chapter 24 Due

5 WEEK ASSIGNMENT SHEET DUE

Using Palmer pps 555-558
List the reasons for
1)population growth
2)The decline in the birthrate
Remember, my list has 38 reasons

Spielvogel
672-679

Read and outline Spielvogel pp 663-670
Chapter 23 Outline due
Chapter 23 Test

Read and outline Spielvogel pp 658-662

Read and outline Spielvogel pp 655-658

Read and outline Spielvogel pp 651-654

Read and take left side reading notes on article "Emancipation of the Russian Serfs 1861"

Unit 7 Test

Read and outline Spielvogel pp 647-651

Read and outline Spielvogel pp 644-647

Complete analysis of German nationalism/Revolutions DBQ

Read and outline Spielvogel pp 642-644

Italian/German Unification Significance

Chapter 22 Outline Due

Read and outline Spielvogel 624-629

Meeting of the Minds
If you were absent on Monday you need to research the following person:
Kristina C, period 2-Emperor Mutsuhito of Japan (Meiji Restoration)
Mimi, period 3 Czar Alexander II
Ellis, period 3-Abraham Lincoln
Diego, period 3-Count Camillo Cavour of Sardinia-Piedmont/Italy

1. What would you like to say about yourself in a one-minute introduction to the audience?
2. What is your view on the concept of nationalism?
3. What steps did you take to achieve it in your country?
4. What impediments did you face in achieving a sense of nationalism?
5. How would you evaluate your success in achieving nationalism in your country?
6. Finally, how would you respond to the following statement by Prince Metternich on the subject? "The existing society is on the decline. Nothing ever stands still...and society has reached its zenith. Under such conditions to advance means to descend....Such periods appear interminable to contemporaries, but what are two to three hundred years in the annals of history?...My life has fallen into a terrible period. I was born either too soon or too late....Formerly I would have enjoyed life, later I could have helped in the reconstruction. Now I spend my time shoring up decaying buildings..

Read and outline Spielvogel pp 614-617
Palmer 475-480

Read and outline Spielvogel pps 611-614
Read Palmer 445-450

Chapter 21 Outline Due

Age of Metternich Chart
Use Spielvogel
Also refer to pages 456-465; 476-487 in Palmer