European History AP/ Miller
Summer Assignment 2015-2016
Text: McKay, A History of Western Society
Chapter 30: Cold War conflicts and Social transformations 1945-1985
and
Chapter 31: Revolution, Rebuilding, and New Challenges: 1885- The Present
Dear Student of European History,
Congratulations on your decision to take EHAP next school year! You should have an interesting and
rewarding experience, provided you put in the necessary effort and are consistent in your study habits.
During the year long course you will be expected to follow a rigorous reading schedule, write frequent
essays, interpret primary source documents, participate in classroom discussions, and collaborate on
group projects. You must be able to dedicate at least 1 hour each and every day outside of class to
reading and homework for EHAP.
You will take the AP European History Exam in May, 2016. Due to the fact that we will only have 8
months of instructional time between September and May, it is necessary for us to do some preliminary
preparations over the summer:
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You must pick up a copy of A History of Western Society (McKay, Hill, Buckler) from the school
library. By the beginning of school in September you must read Chapters 30 and 31 that cover
the Post War, Decolonization, and Cold War periods, the Fall of Soviet Communism and the New
Era of European Unity and its challenges. The study guides for Chapters 30 and 31 are attached
here in the form of Study Guide Review Questions and Flashcard items. Once you have
completed the reading, please complete the study guide carefully, answering all 20 questions
thoroughly and by hand in 3 or more complete sentences.
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Each study guide question must be answered in at least three complete sentences, or more,
using specific examples from the text. You must write the Study guide work by hand; please
do not word process this work!
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Note: Pace yourself. This assignment is not meant to be completed at one sitting, and should
not be put off until just before school starts! You should allow at least 15 hours for the entire
assignment, including the reading, and you should break it up into palatable chunks of one to
two hours at a time over many days. Please do not try to do the entire reading in one sitting!
You should make a list of words that are unknown to you, but you should only look up a word if
it appears more than once or is crucial to the understanding of the reading. In other word you
may “read around” many of words that you don’t know, but make a note of which words they
are for future clarification. (Many of these will be SAT type words that you will learn over the
next year!)
All of your work will be checked and is due on the first day of class during the last week of
August!
Part A: Reading Chapters 30 and 31. Complete the reading, then move on to parts B and C, questions
and flashcards.
Part B (Study Guide review Questions) requires that you answer 19 Review questions thoughtfully.
Write your answers to the the 19 review questions on a separate sheet of paper, legibly. The questions
are here, below:
1.
Describe the dispute between the United States and Russia at the end of the war. How and why
did it escalate into a cold war?
2.
Why were the Teheran and Yalta conferences important in shaping the map of postwar Europe?
3.
How did Europe accomplish economic recovery after the war? What factors contributed to its
growth?
4.
Describe the steps taken toward European economic unity. What impact does this unity have on
the European and world economy?
5.
Describe the circumstances surrounding Khrushchev's famous Twentieth Party Congress speech
in 1956. What were the results of his policy/? (Think Hungary..)
6.
Describe life in the Soviet Union after 1964. What were the positive and negative features of the
Soviet state in the Brezhnev era?
7.
"Postwar domestic politics in the United States consisted largely of making modest adjustments
to the status quo." Why was this so?
8.
What were the milestones in the civil rights revolution?
9.
What changes have taken place in the European class structure since the war? Does greater or
less mobility exist? Has the distribution of income remained the same? Do you think these
changes are an accident, or are they the results of government policy?
10.
What is meant by the “re-Stalinization” of the Soviet bloc and the Soviet Union? Did a true ReStalinization occur? Why or why not?
11.
Discuss the Solidarity movement in Poland in terms of origins, objectives, and outcome. What is
so politically ironic about the situation?
12.
What were the motives and the plans of Gorbachev? Why did he topple from power?
13.
Describe what happened to the Soviet Union under Boris Yeltsin. Do you consider Yeltsin a
success?
What were the causes of German Reunification? How was it tied to events in the Soviet Union?
14.
15.
Describe the "new global economy" model that most European states began to follow in the
1990s.
16.
Were the new states of Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic successful in the 1990s?
Explain.
17.
What happened in the former Yugoslavia to cause its civil war? How did the Ottoman History of
portions of the former Yugoslavia determine the lines of conflict? How was it dealt with by the
outside world? (Mention Clinton, Dayton Accords)
18.
In what ways had the European Union moved toward economic unity? Why have some people
opposed this? Give specific examples. .(ie: Maastricht 1992).
19.
Is there such a thing as “European Culture” that is different from the local and national cultures
that exist throughout Europe? Explain
20.
What do you think are Europe’s current and future challenges?
Part C: Terms to Learn/flashcards requires that you make a flashcard for each of the key concepts and
terms (“Decolonization” to “ Osama Bin Laden). Use as few words as possible to give as much
information as possible. (Who? What?, Where?, When?, Why important?)
Make a flashcard for each of the key concepts and terms. When you are done making the flashcards,
put them in small piles, with other cards that relate to them by topic and event. For example: the cards
“Dubcek” “Prague Spring 1968” and “Socialism with a Human Face” are related and should be seen
together. Study them in this way, fleshing out the possible connections in your mind and arranging the
cards accordingly. The most closely related cards should be right next to each other, etc. During the first
week of class there will be a flashcard quiz, where you will be challenged to prove that you have learned
all of the flashcards! The 65 Flashcard items are below in no particular order:
decolonization
neocolonialism
European Steel and Coal
Community
Brown vs. Board of Education
Martin Luther King
Warsaw Pact
Organization of European
Economic
Cooperation
Marshall Plan
Common Market (EEC)
Taft-Hartley Act
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Josip Tito
Johnson's "War on Poverty"
Nikita Khrushchev
Simone de Beauvoir
Betty Friedan
Charles de Gaulle
Tet Offensive
Brezhnev Doctrine
"Socialism with a human
face"
Détente
Space Race
Sputnik
cold war
Truman Doctrine
Hungarian Revolt of 1956
Prague Spring, 1968
Dubcek
Willy Brandt
Leonid Brezhnev
Chiang Kai-shek
Teheran (November 1943)
Yalta (February 1945)
Potsdam (July 1945)
Berlin Airlift of 1948
Schuman Plan (1950)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gdansk Agreement of 1980
Single European Act of 1986
Maastricht Treaty of 1990
Paris Accord of 1990
"Polish miracle" of 1980
Solidarity
De-Stalinization
OPEC
economic nationalism
"brain drain"
NATO
British Labour Party
perestroika
glasnost
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Lech Walesa
Nicolae Ceausescu
Bill Clinton
Helmut Kohl
Saddam Hussein
Slobadan Milosevic
Francois Mitterand
Jacques Chirac
Osama Bin Laden