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AP European History
Reading Plan
April 15 to April 28, 2011
Key Topics: Cold War and Modern Europe
Homework Reading Assignment
Pages
Friday 4/15
Topics
Test: World War II
980-987
Monday 4/18
987-995
Tuesday 4/19
996-1003
The Emergence of the Cold War
 Containment in American Foreign Policy
o The Truman Doctrine
o The Marshall Plan
 Soviet Domination of Eastern Europe
 The Postwar Division of Germany
o Disagreements over Germany
o Berlin Blockade
 The Church and the Communist Party Clash over Education in
Hungary
 NATO and the Warsaw Pact
 The Creation of the State of Israel
o British Balfour Declaration
o The U.N. Declaration
o Israel Declares Independence
 The Korean War
The Khrushchev Era in the Soviet Union
 Khrushchev’s Domestic Policies
 The Three Crises of 1956
o The Suez Intervention
o Polish Efforts toward Independent Action
o The Hungarian Uprising
 Khrushchev Denounces the Crimes of Stalin: The Secret Speech
Later Cold War Confrontations
 The Berlin Wall
 The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Brezhenev Era
 1968: The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
 The United States and Détente
 The Invasion of Afghanistan
 Communism and Solidarity in Poland
 Relations with the Regan Administration
Decolonization: The European Retreat from Empire
 Major Areas of Colonial Withdrawal
 India
 Further British Retreat from Empire
 Gandhi Explains his Doctrine of Nonviolence
The Turmoil of French Decolonization
 France and Algeria
 France and Vietnam
 Vietnam Drawn into the Cold War
 Direct United States Involvement
AP European History
Reading Plan
April 15 to 28, 2011
(Page 2)
Key Topics: Cold War and Modern Europe
Wednesday 4/20
1003-1010
Thursday 4/21
1011-1015
Friday 4/22
1026-1034
Monday 4/25
1034-1040
The Collapse of European Communism
 Gorbachev Attempts to Reform the Soviet Union
o Economic Perestroika
o Glasnost
 1989: Revolution in Eastern Europe
o Solidarity Reemerges in Poland
o Toward Hungarian Independence
o German Reunification
o The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
o Violet Revolution in Romania
o The Soviet Stance on Revolutionary Developments
 The Collapse of the Soviet Union
o Renunciation of Communist Political Monopoly
o New Political Forces
 Gorbachev Proposes the Soviet Communist Party Abandon its
Monopoly of Power
o The August 1991 Coup
 Yeltsin Decade and Putin
The Collapse of Yugoslavia and Civil War
The Twentieth-Century Movement of People
 Displacement Through War
 External and Internal Migration
 The New Muslim Population
 European Population Trends
Toward a Welfare State Society
 Christian Democratic Parties
 The Creation of Welfare States
 The Resistance to the Expansion of the Welfare State
New Patterns in Work and Expectations of Women
 Feminism
 More Married Women in the Work Force
 New Work Patterns
 Women in the New Eastern Europe
Transformations in Knowledge and Culture
 Communism and Western Europe
o The Intellectuals
 Existentialism
o Roots in Nietzsche and Kierkegaard
o Questioning of Rationalism
o Sartre Discusses his Existentialism
 Expansion of the University Population and Student Rebellion
 The Americanization of Europe
 A Consumer Society
 Environmentalism
AP European History
Reading Plan
April 15 to 28, 2011
(Page 3)
Key Topics: Cold War and Modern Europe
Tuesday 4/26
1040-1050
Wednesday 4/27
Thursday 4/28
Friday 4/29
Review
Review
Art Since World War II
 Cultural Divisions and the Cold War
 Memory of the Holocaust
The Christian Heritage
 Neo-Orthodoxy
 Liberal Theology
 Roman Catholic Reform
Late Twentieth-Century Technology: The Arrival of the
Computer
 The Demand for Calculating Machines
 Early Computer Technology
 The Development of Desktop Computers
Challenges of European Unification
 Postwar Cooperation
 The European Economic Community
 The European Union
 Discord over the Union
In Perspective
Test: Cold War and Modern Europe
AP European History
Key Content, Terms, Locations & VIPs
Chapter 29 - The Cold War Era and the Emergence of a New Europe
Chapter 30 - The West at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
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Marshall Plan
Goals of Stalin’s Cominform Group
Paris Summit
Brezhnev Doctrine
Helsinki Accords
Arab oil embargo 1973-1974
Russo-Japanese War
Eastern European Intellectual disillusionment
with communism
o Causes and Effects
Greater Serbia
Gulf War
French decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa
De Gaulle’s Fifth Republic
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Glasnost
Perestroika
Containment
European Economic Union
European Union
Papal infallibility
German Greens
Existentialism
Locations/Significance of location to
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Soviet Union
Hungary
Indochina
Vietnam
Somalia and Ethiopia
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Nikita Khrushchev
Imre Nagy
Eisenhower
Brezhnev
Vaclev Havel
Boris Yeltsin
Slobadan Milosevic
Ronald Reagan
 Great Britain’s actions toward colonies
 United States attitude toward Indochina
o Causes and Consequences
 Effectiveness of Gorbachev’s economic policies
 Effect of 1991 attempted coup in the Soviet Union
 Break-up of the Soviet Union
o Causes and Consequences
 Inventions that transformed computer technology
 Difficulty faced by women in the workforce
 First major European nation to create the workings of a
welfare state
 Consequences of female participation in the workforce
 Nations that maintained dictatorships until the mid1970s
 Consequences of growing Muslim presence in Europe
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Ethnic Cleansing
Benelux Countries
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Americanization
Detente
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People’s Republic of China
Czechoslovakia
Bosnia
Afghanistan
Egypt
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Mohandas Gandhi
Henry David Thoreau
Ho Chi Minh
John F. Kennedy
Mikhail Gorbachev
Margaret Thatcher
Willy Brandt
Richard Nixon
Charles de Gaulle
Using the Content/terms, locations, and VIP’s above, complete a chart
similar to the example below and turn in typed on the day of the test.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------Student Name
Date, Class Period
Content/Terms/VIP’s
Meaning/Definition/Significance
Black Death
Refers to the bubonic plague that struck Europe
in the mid-1300’s. The plague had a significant
effect on Europe including a shrunken supply of
labor, which resulted in higher farm wages and a
decline in the power of noble landholders. Etc..