- AP Euro Week 17 – Week 18
4th Week of April / 1st Week of May
showdowns like 1961’s Cuban
Monday
_____ Crisis showed the limits of
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“Pardon My Reach”: Settling the Postwar World
Khrushchev’s
power.
After
and the Showdown With Communism
Khruschev came Leonid _____
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Spotlight On: The Berlin Crisis
who tried to reestablish the true
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Reading and Analysis: Communism’s Appeal
legacy of communism”
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HOMEWORK: S&D: pp. 933-944
1. Why did economies in the West grow,
where they stagnated in the East?
Tuesday
2. Define the Christian Democrats. With
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whom should we associate this term?
3. Define the beliefs of Britain’s Labour Party.
Wednesday
4. What were the goals of the Bretton
Life Behind “The Wall”: An Analysis of East
Woods Conference and the
Germany and the Soviet Union
establishment of the OEEC?
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Reading: A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
5. What is meant by the term “common
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Analysis: Stasiland
market”? Did it work?
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HOMEWORK: Study for Unit 8 Test
6. How did the rise of consumerism help
bring struggling economies out of
Thursday
depression?
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7. In describing postwar life under Stalin, fill
in the blanks:
Friday
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The
new
“motto”
of
the
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Unit 8 Test and DBQ
Communist Party was “The war
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HOMEWORK: S&D: pp. 944-950; 953-955. (NOTE:
on Fascism ends, the war on
Just “skim” the pages to find the answers…)
_____ begins”. The only Eastern
1. What is meant by the term
country to truly stand up to the
“decolonization”? Why did the “Great
spread of communism was _____.
Powers” agree to this ideology?
Communism placed emphasis
2. List the countries described in the book
on creating heavy _____ and
that struggled with decolonization and
_____. When Stalin finally died in
list their “decolonization leaders”.
_____, new leader Nikita _____
3. What happened in 1956 in Egypt?
took over, and through the
4. Describe decolonization in Algeria.
policy of de-_____, tried to
5. How did World War II affect a woman’s
create “peaceful _____” with
status?
capitalism. But in the end,
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Monday
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Wednesday
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Tuesday
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Return Unit 8
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Introduce new unit: Contemporary Society
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Analysis: Out With the Old, In With the New:
Decolonization and Feminism
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Spotlight On: “Civilized Europe”
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HOMEWORK: S&D: pp. 960-970. (NOTE: Just “skim”
the pages to find the answers…)
1. Define détente.
2. What is the legacy of Willy Brandt in
Germany?
3. Why did Europeans fear the so-called
“Supermarket Revolution”?
4. Define the New Left.
5. Define the “68ers”.
6. In the Soviet Union, after Khrushchev
comes Leonid Brezhnev. Describe his
“Brezhnev Doctrine”.
Thursday
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60s Society: The East and West
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Consumerism vs. Socialism: A Tale of Two Cities
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Readings: “21 Demands” and “Perestroika”
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HOMEWORK: NONE! YOU’RE DONE!
Friday
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