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Name:_____________________________________

Ms. Raia

AP European History / Sec:____

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World War II & The Cold War

Chapter 28 pgs 907-92, Chapter 29 pgs 924-931; 937-944, Chapter 30 pgs 960-962; 968-970; 982-991

The purpose of these packets are to help with memorization, reading comprehension and retention as well as with analysis. Remember, the effort and time you put into your work is what you will get out of it on exams, class activities and especially on the AP exam in May.

Part I: By the end of the unit you will be able to define the following:

Part II: Take time to reflect and comprehensively answer the following questions. These are to be answered as short answers not in essay format. Answers must reflect content from reading the chapter. Answers based solely on the provided notes are incomplete.

1. What was Hitler’s main goal? What was the British and French response to that goal? Why did they respond that way?

2. How did Aggression and Appeasement cause World War II?

3. What was blitzkrieg was it successful? What was the Battle of Britain and was it successful?

4. Why did Hitler invade the Soviet Union? Compare him with Napoleon.

5. Trace German policy toward the Jews during World War II. What was the final solution to the Jewish questions? Why did this occur and who was responsible?

6. What motivated Japan to attack Pearl Harbor? How did this change the nature of World War II? How successful was Japan militarily through mid-1942?

7. How did the Allies finally defeat Hitler? How did the war in the Pacific end?

8. Discuss the significance of the Nuremburg Trials. Why are they considered a turning point in international justice?

9. What were the political, social and economic effects of World War II?

10. Describe the dispute between the United States and USSR at the end of World War II. How and why did it escalate into a cold war?

11. What were the Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine and NATO? How did each contribute to the cold war? What factors contributed to the intensification of the cold war?

12. Evaluate Stalin’s postwar policy and actions both in the USSR and the smaller Eastern European nations. How do you judge Stalin’s place in Soviet history?

13. What is meant by de-Stalinization and what were the results?

14. What were the reasons for Khrushchev’s fall from power and the beginning re-Stalinization of Russia in 1964? Were there significant changes in Soviet domination of eastern Europe?

15. Describe life in the USSR after 1964. What were the positive and negative features of the Soviet state in the Brezhnev era?

16. What is the significance of the Hungarian uprising and the Prague Spring?

17. Explain the term détente. What role did both West Germany and the Americans play in détente?

18. Describe the ways in which Solidarity confronted the communist system in Poland.

19. How did Gorbechev attempt to move away from traditional communism. Compare with Lenin

20. Discuss how anticommunist revolutions swept thorough Eastern Europe in 1989 and the immediate consequences.

21. What are the lasting effects of the Cold War?

Part III: Complete the Primary Source Reader and answer the assigned questions found below.

Part IV. Prepare the Debate Readings for class debate activity

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Packet Assigned: 3/25/15

Packet Due: 4/21/15

Willy Brandt

Ostpolitik

Détente

SALT I

Solidarity

Pope John Paul II

Lech Walesa

Atlantic Alliance

Margaret Thatcher

Helmut Kohl

Ronald Regan

Mikhail Gorbechev

Glasnost

Perestroika

INF Treaty

START Treaty

Revolutions of 1989

Velvet Révolution

Vaclav Havel

Nicolai Ceaucescu

Boris Yeltsin

Chechnya

Vladimir Putin

Massive retaliation

Eastern bloc

Stalin

Gulag

Josip Broz Tito

Nikita Khrushchev

De-Stalinization

Gosplan

Boris Pasternak

Aleksandr Solzenitsyn

Hungarian Uprising

Peaceful Coexistance

Geneva Conference

Sputnik

Space Race

U-2 incident

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Leonid Brezhnev

Prague Spring

Alexander Dubcek

Helsinki Conference

Imre Nagy

Brezhnev Doctrine

Holocaust

Ghettos

Wannsee Conference

Final Solution

Auschwitz

El alamein

Stalingrad

D-Day

Battle of the Bulge

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Tehran Conference

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

Iron Curtain

Winston Churchill

East Germany

West Germany

Truman Doctrine

Containment

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

NATO

Warsaw Pact

Manchuria, 1931

Spanish Civil War

Francisco Franco

Rome-Berlin Axis

Rhineland, 1936

Appeasement

Pacifism

Anschluss

Sudetenland

Munich Conference

Neville Chamberlain

Polish Corridor

German-Soviet Non Agression Pact

Blitzkrieg

Vichy France

Charles de Gaulle

Tripartite Pact

Battle of Britain

Lebensraum

Great Patriotic War of the Fatherland

Atlantic Charter

Lend-Lease Act

Pearl Harbor

Grand Alliance

Assignment 8 – Fall of the USSR and Eastern Bloc

1. Textbook pages 982-991

2. Packet Questions:18-21

3. Prepare Cold War Debate

4. Study for exam

5. Reader

• Pages 481-483, Question on pg.483

Assignment 9 – Debate and Studying

1. Prepare for debate on Stalin

• Study for exam

Suggested Unit Breakdown

Assignment 1 – Europe At War

1. Textbook pages 907-914

2. Packet Questions: 1-5

3. Reader:

• 385 – 388 #1

• 388-392 #1,2,5,6

• 393 – 394 #1

• 398-400 # 1&2

Assignment 2 – War in the Pacific

1. Textbook pages 914-918

2. Packet Questions: 6-7

3. Study for Quiz

4. Reader

Assignment 3 – End of the War

1. Textbook pages 918-920; 924-927

2. Packet Questions: 8-10

3. Reader

• 428-430 #1

Assignment 4 – Cold War Begins

4. Textbook pages 927-931

5. Packet Questions:11 & 12

6. Reader

• Page 452-456 #2-5

Assignment 5 – AP Exam Review

Begin AP Exam Review

1. Complete the DBQ

2. Complete the FRQ thesis practice

3. Begin content review – You should have at least 1 review book to study from.

Assignment 6 – Cold War & Khrushchev

1. Textbook pages 937-944

2. Packet Questions:13 & 14

3. Work on Cold War Debate

4. Reader

• Page 463-467 #4-6

Assignment 7 – Cold War, Brezhnev & Détente

1. Textbook pages 960-962; 968-70

2. Packet Questions:15-17

3. Prepare Cold War Debate

4. Study for exam

5. Reader

• Pages 476-477, Question on pg. 477

March /April 205

|Monday |Tuesday |Wednesday |Thursday |Friday |

| | |3/25 |3/26 |3/27 |

| | |Assign #1 |Assign #1 |Assign #2 |

|3/30 |3/31 |4/1 |Holy Thursday |Good Friday |

|Retreat |Assign #4 |WWII Quiz | | |

|Assign #3 | |Assign #5 | | |

|4/13 |4/14 |4/15 |4/16 |4/17 |

|Assign #6 |Assign #7 |Assign #7 |Assign #8 |Assign #8 |

|4/20 |4/21 |4/22 | | |

|Assign #9 |Debate |Exam | | |

| |Packet Due | | | |

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