AP European History: Unit 10 ID-Sigs (Chap. 30 & 31)
Part A: Chapter 30 (pp.989-997) Birth of the Cold War & Post War Western Europe
1. Create a chart for the following events: Tehran Conference / Yalta Conference / Potsdam Conference
 For each: provide date / nations & leaders who attended / purpose & or outcome of the conference
2. Read the section: West Versus East (p. 992-993) – summarize the actions taken by the United States & the Soviet
Union that escalated the tensions between the two nations.
3. Describe the post war economic conditions of Western Europe, and summarize the role of Christian Democrats in
addressing these problems.
4. Read the section: Toward European Unity (pg. 997) Identify the events & significant people that led to the
establishment of the European Common Market in 1957.
5. Analyze the actions of France that limited the success of post war unity.
Part B: Chapter 30 (pp.997-1007) Decolonization & De-Stalinization
1. Create a Chart for the following topics: India / China / Palestine / Egypt / Africa
 Read the section Decolonization (p. 999-1002) – for each topic above identify the significant people and events
during the period of decolonization
2. Why was the re-imposition of the Stalin dictatorship in post WWII Russia hard to accept? How did these actions lead
to greater tension with the West?
3. Summarize the period of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 by discussing the actions of
Nikita Khrushchev, and the impacts on Soviet society and Eastern Europe.
4. Individuals in Society: Josip Tito (p. 1005) – What were the characteristics of Tito’s independent communism? How
did it enhance his status as a leader?
5. Discuss the reasons for conservative opposition to Khrushchev in the communist party (be sure to discuss the role of
the Cuban missile crisis)
6. Summarize the events in Czechoslovakia in the 1960’s and Brezhnev’s response.
Part C: Chapter 30 (pp. 1007-1014) Post War Social Transformations
1. Discuss the impact of WWII on the development of new technology.
2. Explain how the competition between the United States and the U.S.S.R. led to the development of Big Science in
the post war era and provide specific examples.
3. Analyze the changes that occurred in the middle class in post war Europe, and discuss the measures in which the
governments took to help the lower class.
4. Discuss the demographic changes took place in European families and analyze how these changes influenced the
role of women in the work place.
5. Identify the changes in post war education and lifestyle of young people.
6. Discuss the factors the contributed to the development of the international youth culture and the subsequent political
actions of the counterculture movement.
Part D: Chapter 30 & 31 (pp. 1014-1022) Conflicts & Challenges in the Late Cold War
1. Summarize the events of the Vietnam War by analyzing the actions of the each American president (from Kennedy
to Nixon) and the consequences of the war.
2. Discuss Willy Brandt’s attempts to create peace in Europe during the period of détente.
3. Discuss the actions of the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1970’s that brought an end to détente.
4. Analyze the role of Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan in bring about the feminist movement of the 1970’s and
identify the overall objectives of this movement.
5. Analyze the causes of the economic crises of the 1970’s and explain how the misery index was used to measure the
extent of the crises.
6. Compare the actions of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Francois Mitterrand in dealing with the growing
demands to slow the growth of public spending and welfare programs in the U.S., G.B., and France.
Part E: Chapter 31 (pp. 1027-1051) Decline of Communism & the establishment of the EU
1. Analyze the period of Russian history from 1968 to 1985 by discussing the characteristics of re-Stalinization and the
underlying social revolution occurring simultaneously.
2. Discuss the events in Poland that led to the Solidarity movement, and describe how the communist hard-liners
responded to this movement.
3. Analyze the successes and failures of Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms in the Soviet Union.
4. Create a chart with the following titles: Poland / Hungary / East Germany / Czechoslovakia
 For each identify the significant events and people that led to the end of communist rule
5. Explain how Gorbachev’s attempts to maintain communism led to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
6. Identify the three factors responsible for the unification of West and East Germany.
7. Summarize the positive and negative reactions to the Maastricht treaty.
NO ID-Sigs this unit – these are a list of terms and people to know!
Chapter 30 & 31
Terms to Know!
1. Potsdam Conference
2. Truman Doctrine
3. Marshall Plan
4. NATO
5. Korean War
6. Cold War
7. Christian Democrats
8. Common Market
9. Brezhnev Doctrine
10. détente
11. misery index
12. Gdansk Agreement
13. Solidarity
14. perestroika
15. glasnost
16. Velvet Revolution
17. Paris Accord
18. Third Way
19. Maastricht treaty
20. European Union
Persons to Know!
1. Konrad Adenauer
2. Ludwig Erhard
3. Mohandas Gandhi
4. Mao Zedong
5. Ho Chi Minh
6. Gamal Abdel Nasser
7. Nikita Khrushchev
8. Leonid Brezhnev
9. President John F. Kennedy
10. Alexander Dubcek
11. Willy Brandt
12. Margaret Thatcher
13. Mikhail Gorbachev
14. President Ronald Reagan
15. Pope John Paul II
16. Lech Walesa
17. Vaclav Havel
18. Mikhail Gorbachev
19. Boris Yeltsin
20. Francois Mitterrand