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AP European History Summer Assignment (Subject to Change during summer)
2016-2017
[email protected]
Welcome to AP European History! Hopefully you are having a fun and safe
summer vacation. However, we do not have that much time, therefore we must
get started as soon as possible. As a class, we have the immense task over
covering and researching roughly 500 years of European history into 20 weeks!
First and foremost, as you already know my name is Mr. Mazzola but
students like to call me “Mr. Mazz”. If you have any questions and concerns about
the summer assignment provided below feel free to contact me at my email
[email protected]. I will try to check my email as much as possible
throughout our break.
After reviewing the entire summer assignment pages, please send me an
email just introducing yourself, so when I add more to the summer assignment,
I can directly contact you with further information. Please note that all summer
assignment work will be collected and graded on the 1st day of school. Grading
rubric will be sent ASAP for the summer assignment.
I look forward to working with you in the upcoming school. Although it will
be a lot of work and responsibility on your part, I will do my best to not only
prepare you for the AP final exam but try to help you find a “passion” for
European History.
1. Maps - You are expected to have general working knowledge of the
geography of Europe. These maps should be printed in color, large and
next to you when reading your summer book.
Map #1: type Europe 1938 World War II in Google Images
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~henrym1/Maps/ww2.html
Map of Europe before the start of World War II
Map #2: type map of Europe D-Day in google Images
2.
Summer textbook: The Third
Reich: A Layman's Guide by Scott Addington
Please purchase this book on amazon kindle. It is a great
book for beginners and gets right to the point! How did Hitler
come to Power? Why? Why did the world watch? How did
Nazi Germany conquer Europe? What was the downfall of
Nazi Germany? Why did the Holocaust happen? Who was
involved?
3. Make your own book! It will come in handy for AP Euro and USII this
year! Using the Third Reich book, make even more basic notes
including pictures and brief notes; pretned your giving a resenation to
your parents that know nohting about this topic! “Baby steps”! Please
include the following topics!
Hitler’s rise and downfall (WWII)
 What was Hitler doing during WWI? Treaty of Versailles?
Outcome of World War I? Hitler’s attitude why Germany lost?
How was Germany punished?
 Weimar Republic? How was Germany economic situation during
the 1920s?
 Hitler’s attitudes? How & why did Hitler join the Nazi Party?
 Why was Hitler put in jail? Mein Kempf? “Lebensraum”, unite all
German speaking people? Aryan Race
 Hitler’s rise to German Chancellor? Who were the SA? Reichstag Fire?
Enabling Act? Hindenburg’s Death? Night of the Longknives
 How did Hitler violate the Treaty of Versailles? Rhineland? Austria?
 Sudetenland, Munich Agreement*** (You give someone an inch they will
take a mile)
 1939 Nonaggression Pact with Stalin “Frenemies” regarding Poland
 Invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 “Blitzkrieg” START OF WWII
 Invasion of France through Belgium (Around the Maginot Line); Paris
 Battle of Great Britain
 Hitler stabs Stalin in the back invades Soviet Union
 U.S. enters WWII Dec. 7, 1941
 Hitler fighting on 2 fronts (Soviet Union, North Africa) than D-Day occurs 3
Fronts
 The Allies begin closing on Nazi Germany from all 3 fronts! Hitler’s drug
abuse, distrust for his generals
 Third Reich’s downfall and end; Children soldiers (“Hitler’s youth) fighting
to defend Berlin at the very end? Hitler commits suicide in his bunker! VE
Day
 Holocaust Timeline Section
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Hitler takes power in 1933
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German Jews loses citizenship and are not allowed to have relationships or marriages with Aryans in
1935; Boycott Jewish businesses
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Joseph Goebbels and Nazi propaganda towards Jews; Nazi’s want the Jews to leave Germany
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1936 Berlin Olympics- Nazi Germany tones down anti-Semitism to show the world that “Hey were a
tolerant society!”
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Kristallnacht 1938 (Turning Point in Holocaust History!); mass exodus of Jews to neighboring countries,
U.S., Palestine (Israel)
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Story of the St. Louis (U.S. Anti-Semitism; can you compare it to the Syrian refugees today)
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Jewish Ghettos in Poland’s (Poland had the highest population of Jews)
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Einsatzgruppen “ mobile killing squads” Death by bullets in the Soviet Union
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Final Solution (1941-1945)
4. Please read Night by Ellie Wiesel (Holocaust survivor)
It can be read online for free! Type Elie Wiesel night pdf
into google. Please click on the 2nd one down “Elie Wiesel
- Night FULL TEXT.pdf”.
Before reading the book. Please do a little research on
Auschwitz and who was Dr. Mengele “Angel of Death”.
Please handwrite a one page book review. Did you enjoy
the book? What shocked you? Would you recommend it
to someone else? Did you enjoy reading a book on this
topic?
Directions: Please watch Oprah Winfrey’s documentary at Auschwitz
concentration camp with Elie Wiesel in it’s entirely. It can be found on
schooltube.com, https://www.schooltube.com/video/7d5afe2a261101d87e45/.
Please handwrite a 1 page review of the Documentary. It is roughly an hour
long.