UNIT XVIII: THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND

UNIT XVIII: THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND

THE DEVELOPMENET OF THE COLD WARGAME: THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR1917-1924: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION TO STALIN1924-1939: INTERWAR YEARS AND STALIN1939-1945: WORLD WAR IITHE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR GAMEWe will have three teams. Each team will meet and try to come up with as many things that led to the Cold War as possible. Then we will meet as a class and see which team can come up with the most origins. Each team gets three strikes and unlimited cheez. Please pick a team spokesperson. Take careful notes during the game and fill in your chart.THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR: 1919-1924The Bolshevik RevolutionThe Treaty of Brest LitovskThe World RevolutionThe murder of Nicholas II and his familyThe debate over loansLenin and the Red TerrorAllied intervention in the Russian Civil WarTHE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

THE TREATY OF BREST LITOVSK

THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR: 1924-1939STALINS COLLECTIVIZATION POLICIESSTALINS FIVE YEAR PLANSSTALINS GULAGSSTALINS PURGESWESTERN POLICY OF APPEASEMENTPOPULAR FRONT GOVERNMENTSTHE RISE OF THE REVISIONIST STATESTHE SPANISH CIVIL WARTHE NAZI SOVIET PACTAMERICAN RECOGNITION OF THE USSRTHE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR: 1939-1945THE PARTITION OF POLANDTHE KATYN FOREST MASSACRETHE SUPPRESSION OF THE POLISH HOME ARMYTHE YALTA AGREEMENTSTHE LUBLIN POLESTHE SECOND FRONT CONTROVERSEYEASTERN EUROPE AND A BUFFER ZONEGERMANYBERLINLEND LEASE AIDTHE ATOMIC BOMBTHE WAR AGAINST JAPANAN ALLIANCE OF CONVENIENCETHE POTSDAM CONFERENCETHE NAZI-SOVIET PACT AND PARTITION OF POLAND

THE KATYN FOREST MASSACRE: POLISH INTELLIGENTSIA MASSACRED BY SOVIETS

POLISH HOME ARMY UPRISING: STALIN REFUSES TO HELP THEM

SOVIETS SET UP LUBLIN POLES IN POLAND IN VIOLATION OF YALTA AGREEMENT

THE WINTER WAR: WORLD OPPOSES THE SOVIET INVASION

SECOND FRONT CONTROVERSEY

CONFLICT OVER EASTERN EUROPE

ALLIED DISAGREEMENTS AT YALTA

CONFLICTS AT THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE

CONFLICT OVER BERLIN

CONFLICT OVER THE USE OF THE ATOMIC BOMB

CONFLICT OVER RUSSIAN ENTRANCE INTO WAR IN THE PACIFIC

THE COLD WAR AND A NEW WESTERN WORLDA. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLD WAR1. CONFRONTATION OF THE SUPERPOWERS2. NEW SOURCES OF CONTENTION3. THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS4. THE VIETNAM WAR1. CONFRONTATION OF THE TWO SUPERPOWERS

A NEW LEADER AND SIGNS OF TROUBLE: TRUMAN I am tired of babying the Soviets!

a. DISAGREEMENT OVER EASTERN EUROPE

THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE

DISINTEGRATION OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE

IRANIAN CRISIS OF 1946

UNITED NATIONS

AMERICAN DEMOBILIZATION

CHURCHILL AND THE IRON CURTAIN SPEECH

THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE

TRUMANWe will help those peoples who are resisting armed subjugation from within and from without.TENSIONS IN GREECE; THE GREEK CIVIL WAR

CHURCHILL STALIN PERCENTAGE DEAL

SOVIET PRESSURE ON TURKEY

PAIR AND SHARE ACTIVITYWas Soviet foreign policy any different than Tsarist foreign policy?PAIR AND SHARE ACTIVITYHOW WAS THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE ESSENTIALLY AN EXTENSION OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE TO THE ENTIRE WORLD?THE CONTAIMENT POLICY: THE MR. X ARTICLE

THE MARSHALL PLAN

AMERICAN AID TODAYQUESTION: Should we cut back aid to countries that are not exactly friendly towards the United States today?CONTENTION OVER GERMANY

BERLIN AIRLIFT

NEW MILITARY ALLIANCES; MUTUAL DETERRENCE

THE FORMATION OF NATO

PAIR AND SHARE EXERCISEONE OBSERVED NOTED THAT THERE WAS NOTHING DEMOCRATIC OR ATLANTIC ABOUT NATO. DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE?SOVIETS RESPOND WITH THE WARSAW PACT

THE GLOBALIZATON OF THE COLD WAR

CLASS EXERCISEIDENTIFY WHAT IS THE FIRST WORLD, SECOND WORLD AND THIRD WORLD.

WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO DEFINE THE THIRD WORLD?

WHY HAVE SOME ARGUED THERE IS A FOURTH WORLD TODAY?THE KOREAN WAR: THE COLD WAR GETS HOT

TRUMAN AND UNITED STATES INTERVENE IN THE KOREAN WAR

WHY DID TRUMAN DECIDE TO INTERVENE IN THE KOREAN WAR? CHART EXERCISEMACARTHUR AND THE BATTLE OF INCHON TURNS THE TIDE OF THE WAR

US DECISION TO CROSS THE 38TH PARALLEL: ROLL BACK

CHINA INTEREVENES IN THE KOREAN WAR: THE BATTLE OF CHOSIN RESERVOIR

EISENHOWER SIGNS ARMISTICE

PAIR AND SHARE EXERCISEWhy did the Korean War remain a limited war?NORTH KOREA TODAY: STILL A THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES

FRANCE AND THE VIETNAM WAR: THE BATTLE OF DIEN BIEN PHU

CLASS DISCUSSIONWhy did the United States learn almost nothing from the French experience in Vietnam?VIETNAM DIVIDED AT 17TH PARALLEL

ESCALATION OF THE COLD WAR; MASSIVE RETALIATION

ANOTHER BERLIN CRISIS

DISCUSSIONWHY DID ONE HISTORIAN ARGUE THAT THE BUILDING OF THE BERLIN WALL WAS A BRILLIANT STROKEJFK GOES TO BERLIN

JFKS FAMOUS LINE

The Cuban Missile Crisis

FIDEL CASTRO AND COMMUNIST TAKE OVER IN CUBA

BAY OF PIGS DISASTER

KENNEDY: OPTIONS OPEN TO KENNEDYCHART EXERCISEKENNEDYS QUARANTINE OF CUBA

CLASS DISCUSSIONWAS KENNEDY BRILLIANT OR RECKLESS IN HIS HANDLING OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS?

WHY HAVE SOME HISTORIANS TODAY GIVEN NIKITA KRUCHSHEV THE CREDIT FOR ENDING THE STAND OFF?EUROPE AND COLONIALISM AFTER WORLD WAR IIEurope begins to withdraw from its colonies after World War II:Nationalism on the rise in the non Western worldEurope weakened by World War IIEurope had its own internal problemsCold war struggleBRITISH WITHDRAWL FROM INDIA

GANDHI AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN INDIA

INDIA AND PAKISTAN

ANALYZE THE STATUS OF INDIA TODAY AS ONE OF THE BRICK NATIONSCLASS DISCUSSIONFRENCH WITHDRAWL FROM ALGERIA

MAP OF ALGERIA

DUTCH WITHDRAWL FROM INDONESIA

MAP OF INDONESIA

PORTUGUESE WITHDRAWL FROM ANGOLA AND MOZAMBIQUE

FRENCH WITHRDRAWL FROM INDOCHINA

THE BATTLE OF DIEN BIEN PHU

VIETNAM DIVIDED AT 17TH PARALLEL

CHINA UNDER COMMUNISM

BACKGROND ON CHINATHE MING DYNASTY AND CHINAS GREATNESSTHE CENTURY OF HUMILIATIONCHINESE RESISTANCESUN YAT SEN AND CHIANG KAI SHEKWORLD WAR IITHE CHINESE CIVIL WARMAO AND THE COMMUNIST TAKE OVERREASONS FOR THE SINO-SOVIET SPLITCLASS DISCUSSIONTHE CHINA CARDCLASS DISCUSSION:Should the United States have played the China Card and opened up relations with Communist China?RECOVERY AND RENEWAL IN EUROPETHE SOVIET UNION: FROM STALIN TO KRUSCHEVEASTERN EUROPE: BEHIND THE IRON CURTAINWESTERN EUROPE: THE REVIVAL OF DEMOCRACY AND THE ECONOMYWESTERN EUROPE: THE MOVE TOWARDS UNITYTHE SOVIET UNION: FROM STALIN TO KRUSCHEV

KRUSCHEVS SPEECH ABOUT CRIMES OF STALIN

EASTERN EUROPE: BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

ALBANIA AND YUGOSLAVIA

Map of Albania and Yugoslavia

UPHEAVAL IN EASTERN EUROPE: 1956: THE POLISH OCTOBER

THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION OF 1956

SOVIETS WAIT TO CRUSH REBELLION WHEN WORLDS ATTENTION IS ON THE SUEZ CRISIS

DISCUSSIONWHY DIDNT EISENHOWER SUPPORT THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION OF 1956?BACKGROUND ON THE FORMATION OF ISRAEL: 1948

CLASS DISCUSSIONWHY IS THE FORMATION OF ISRAEL ONE OF THE MOST INTRACTABLE QUESTIONS IN INTERNATIOANAL POLITICS?THE PRAGUE SPRING: 1968

WESTERN EUROPE: THE REVIVAL OF DEMOCRACY AND THE ECONOMYALL FACED SIMILAR PROBLEMSDEVASTATED AFTER THE WARCOMMUNISTS MAKE GAINSMODERATE POLITICAL PARTIES MAKE COME BACK SUCH AS THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATSWESTERN EUROPE RECEIVES AID: THE MARSHALL PLANBY THE 1950S DRAMATIC RECOVERY TAKES PLACEFRANCE: THE DOMINATION OF DE GAULLE

DEGAULLE CALLED BACK TO LEAD FRENCH FIFTH REPUBLIC AFTER ALGERIAN CRISIS

DE GAULLE ATTEMPTS TO MAKE FRANCE A THIRD SUPER POWERVISITS THE SOVIET UNIONCREATES INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR FORCE CALLED THE FORCE DE FRAPPETAKES ADENAUER UNDER HIS WING: COMMON COAL AND STEEL PRODUCTIONMAKES SPEECH TO THIRD WORLD IN MEXICORESISTS AMERICANIZATION OF EUROPEKICKS US AND NATO OUT OF FRANCEVETOES BRITISH MEMBERSHIP IN COMMON MARKETPULLS FRANCE OUT OF ALGERIASTUDENT PROTESTS IN 1968 LEAD TO DOWNFALL OF DE GAULLE

THE STUDENT MOVEMENTNEW ACTIVISM SPARKED STUDENT REBELLIIONSTHEIR HEROES WERE: CASTRO, CHE GUEVERA, HO CHI MINH, MAO, AND MALCOLM XTHEY ATTACKED MODERN MATERIALISM, COMFORT, ALLFUENCE, AND CONFORMITYSOME TURNED TO VIOLENCEMANY TURNED TO A COUNTER CULTURE OF DRUGS, SEXUAL PERMISSIVENESS, AND COMMUNAL LIVINGHAD A LASTING IMPACTDEGAULLE COULD NOT RELATE TO THIS MOVEMENTDIFFERENT IMAGES OF YOUTHSTUDENT PROTESTERS: 1968

Hitler Youth Poster: 1937

WEST GERMANY: A RECONCEIVED NATION

KONRAD ADENAUER: FIRST WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR

GOALS OF AMERICAN OCCUPATION FORCESDEMILITARIZATION

DENAZIFICATION

DEMOCRATIZATIONCLASS DISCUSSION: WHY WAS DENAZIFICATION THE LEAST SUCCESSFUL GOAL?

THE WEST GERMAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE

CHART EXERCISEWHAT FACTORS LED TO AN ECONOMIC MIRACLE IN WEST GERMANY?GREAT BRITAIN: THE WELFARE STATEMASSIVE ECONOMIC PROBLEMSATLEE AND THE WELFARE STATENATIONALIZATIONSOCIAL SECURITYDISMANTLING OF BRITISH EMPIRECONSERVATIVES COME BACK TO POWERBRITAIN NO LONGER A WORLD POWERITALY: WEAK COALITION GOVERNMENTPERIOD OF HEAVY RECONSTRUCTIONCHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS EMERGE AS LEADERSSTILL FAMOUS FOR THEIR INSTABILITYITALY ALSO EXPERIENCED AN ECONOMIC MIRACLE LIKE WEST GERMANYIMPROVEMENTS IN ECONOMYMARSHALL PLAN AIDWESTERN EUROPE: THE MOVE TOWARDS UNITY: THE EEC

THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA: A NEW ERA

POSTWAR SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE WESTERN WORLD

THE STRUCTURE OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY: A SOCIETY OF CONSUMERS AND MASS LEISURE

CREATION OF THE WELFARE STATE AND GENDER ISSUES

WOMEN IN THE POSTWAR WORLDWomen in the work force: Trend towards smaller families changed character of womens employment. Old patterns persist.Suffrage and the search fro Liberation: Participation of women in the two world wars helped spur on the fight for the right to vote. Womens liberation movement developed in the 1960s.

POSTWAR ART AND LITERATUREART: Abstract expressionism and Pop Art

Literature: Theater of the absurdABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM: JACKSON POLLOCK

POP ART: ANDY WARHOL

LITERATURE: THE THEATER OF THE ABSURD: SAMUEL BECKETT

THE PHILOSOPHICAL DILEMMA: EXISTENIALISMJEAN PAUL SARTRE

ALBERT CAMUSALBERT CAMUS

THE ATTEMPT TO REVIVE RELIGIONKARL BARTH: PROTESTANT THEOLOGIAN

POPE JOHN XXIII AND VATICAN IIEXPLOSION OF POPULAR CULTURE: THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE WORLD

CULTURE OF PROTEST: STUDENT PROTESTS

FEMINIST MOVEMENT: BETTY FRIEDAN

A DIVIDED WESTERN WORLDSTAGNATION IN THE USSR

THE BREZHNEV YEARS

CONFORMITY IN EASTERN EUROPE

SUPRRESSSION OF THE PRAGUE SPRING

REPRESSION IN EAST GERMANY AND ROMANIAWESTERN EUROPE AND THE WINDS OF CHANGEWEST GERMANYGREAT BRITAINFRANCEITALYEUROPEAN COMMUNITYWEST GERMANYKONRAD ADENAUER AND ECONOMIC MIRACLEWILLY BRANDT AND POLICY OF OSTPOLITIK OR OPENING TO THE EASTHELMUT SCHMIDT AND ECONOMIC REFORMHELMUT KOHLY AND REUNIFICATION OF GERMANYTHE UNIFICATION OF GERAMNY

GREAT BRITAIN AND MARGARET THATCHER: THE IRON LADY

THATCHER DEFEATS ARGENTINA IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS WAR

UNCERTAINTIES IN FRANCE: MITTERAND

CONFUSION IN ITALY: EUROCOMMUNISMEUROCOMMUNISM: AN ATTEMPT TO BROADEDN COMMUNISMS SUPPORT BY DROPPING THE MARXIST IDEOLOGY.THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

UNITED STATES: TURMOIL AND TRANQUILITYNIXON AND WATERGATE

STAGFLATION

THE REAGAN REVOLUTIONRONALD REAGAN

THE COLD WAR: THE MOVE TO DETENTETHE SECOND VIETNAM WAR

CHINA AND THE COLD WAR

DTENTE AND ITS LIMITSTHE TET OFFENSIVE IN THE VIETNAM WAR

CHINA AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION

SOCIETY AND CULTUREWORLD OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: THE COMPUTERA NEW CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSETHE ENVIRONMENT AND THE GREEN MOVEMENTSPOST MODERN THOUGHTTRENDS IN ART, LITERATURE, AND MUSICIMAGE AND GLOBALIZATIONTOWARD A NEW WESTERN ORDERTHE REVOLUTIONARY ERA IN THE SOVIET UNIONA. THE GORBACHEV ERAB. THE END OF THE SOVIET UNIONC. THE NEW RUSSIAD. THE PUTIN ERAGORBACHEV AND PERESTROIKA AND GLASNOST

REASONS FOR THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR

GORBACHEVS REFORMSMULTI NATIONAL EMPIREETHNIC UNRESTCORRUPTIONREVOLUTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPEREVOLTS IN THE BALTIC STATESFAILURE OF COMMUNISMAMERICA AND THE ARMS RACETHE SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTANFRUSTRATION OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLELACK OF CONSUMER GOODSTHE NEW RUSSIA

POWER STRUGGLE ENSUEDYELTSIN INTRODUCED FREE MARKET ECONOMYECONOMIC HARDSHIPS DEVELOPORGANIZED CRIME ON THE RISECRUSHES REVOLT BY FORCESOUGHT TO IMPLEMENT REFORMSNAGGING WAR IN THE CAUCUSUS AGAINST CHECHNYATHE PUTIN ERA

YELTSIN RESIGNSREPLACED BY PUTINFORMER KGB DIRECTORCENTRALIZES POWERCRUSHES CHECHNYAMORE ASSERTIVE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRSSILENCES CRITICSRULED WITH MEDVEDEV AND HAVE SHARED POWER

MANY ARGUE A SECOND COLD WAR IS TAKING PLACE WITH THE UNITED STATES TODAYEASTERN EUROPE AND REVOLUTIONCZECHOSLOVAKIA AND THE VELVET REVOLUTIONROMANIAN AND ONLY BLOODY REVOLUTION TO OUST CEACESCEAUHUNGARYBULGARIAPOLANDPROBLEMS AFTER THE FALLTHE VELVET REVOLUTION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

NIKOLAI CEAUCESCEAU AND ROMANIA

COMPARE AND CONTRAST REVOLUTION OF 1989 WITH REVOLUTION OF 184819891848REUNIFICATION OF GERMANY

THE DISINTEGRATION OF YUGOSLAVIA

WESTERN EUROPE AND THE SEARCH FOR UNITY: THE EUROPEAN UNION

CLASS DISCUSSIONWHAT PROBLEMS DOES THE EUROPEAN UNION FACE?THE END OF THE COLD WAR

AN AGE OF TERRORISM

REVIEW FOR THE AP EXAM

TIPS FOR STUDYINGREAD THROUGH LECTURE NOTESFOCUS ON FALL TERMREAD CHAPTER SUMMARIES IN SPIELVOGELREVIEW OLD UNIT TESTSREVIEW TERM FINAL EXAMSREVIEW UNIT PACKETSREVIEW WRITTEN WORK IN YOUR WRITERS PORTFOLIOREAD THROUGH AP REVIEW BOOK NUTS AND BOLTS OF THE AP EXAMINATION

DATE AND TIME OF EXAMFRIDAY MAY 11, 201212:15PMNEW GYMYOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO YOUR MORNING CLASSESPLEASE STUDY QUIETLY IN THE LIBRARY OR LOBBYAT TIMES YOU CAN COME TO MY CLASSROOMWHAT CAN I BRING TO THE EXAM?

SEVERAL NUMBER TWO PENCILSA DARK BLUE OR BLACK PENA WATCHYOU CANT BRING THE FOLLOWING:TEXTBOOKS, NOTEBOOKS, ETC.SCRATCH PAPERCOMPUTERCAMERACELL PHONEFORMAT OF THE EXAMAP EUROPEAN HISTORY EXAM CONSISTS OF THREE SECTIONSI. 80 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: 55 MINUTESII.BREAK FOR TEN MINUTESIII. DBQ: MANDATORY 15 MINUTE READING PERIOD FOLLOWED BY 45 MINUTE WRITING PERIOD.IV. TWO FREE RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS: 70 MINUTES TO COMPLETE BOTHBEING A GOOD TEST TAKERDONT PULL AN ALL NIGHTER THE NIGHT BEFORERELAX: ALL YOU CAN DO IS YOUR BESTTHE EXAM IS FOR YOU AND NO ONE ELSEELIMINATE AS MANY SURPRISES AS YOU CANIN THE WEEKS LEADING UP TO THE EXAMGO TO AP CENTRAL AND LOOK AT OLD EXAMSSTUDY FOR THE EXAM A LITTLE BIT EACH NIGHT AND A BIT MORE ON THE WEEKENDS LEADING UP TO THE EXAMREAD THROUGH YOUR REVIEW BOOKSREAD THROUGH YOUR CLASS NOTESREAD THROUGH THE REVIEW PACKETSREAD CHAPTER SUMMARIESREAD THROUGH THE UNIT POWER POINTSTEST DAYGET YOUR SLEEP THE NIGHT BEFOREHAVE A GOOD BREAKFASTBRING EVERYTHING YOU NEEDWEAR COMFORTABLE CLOTHINGBRING A SNACKBE ON TIME TO THE EXAMCRACKING THE MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTIONDIRECTIONS:EACH OF THE QUESTIONS OR INCOMPLETE STATEMENTS BELOW IS FOLLOWED BY FIVE SUGGESTED ANSWERS OR COMPLETIONS. SELECT THE ONE THAT IS BEST IN EACH CASE, AND THEN FILL IN THE CORRESPONDING OVAL ON THE ANSWER SHEET.BREAKDOWN BY ERA1450 TO 1815 40 QUESTIONS

1815 TO PRESENT 40 QUESTIONS

BREAKDOWN BY GENERAL SUBJECTPOLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC 24-28 QUESTIONSCULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL 24-28 QUESTIONSSOCIAL AND ECONOMIC 24-28 QUESTIONSTypes of questionsMAJORITY ARE STRAIGHT FORWARD MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS LIKE THIS3. The Dreyfus affair had political repercussions that lasted well into the 20th century because A. It helped deepen the religious and political conflicts that plagued the Third Republic B. It created consensus in French politics which eventually led to a strengthening of the Third Republic C. It reminded people of the German threat D. It ultimately helped the French army get ready for the First World War E. It led to a fundamental overhaul of the French political systemINTERPRETING ILLUSTRATIONSKEYSDONT PANICTHESE ARE ACTUALLY EASYDONT TRY TO READ BETWEEN THE LINESUSUALLY THE ANSWER IS EASYOFTEN THE ANSWER IS GIVEN TO YOU IN THE ILLUSTRATION OR CARTOONONE OR TWO QUESTIONS WILL BE CHARTSUSUALLY STRAIGHT FORWARD QUESTIONSANSWERS ARE IN THE CHART ITSELFSOME BAD NEWS: NO MILITARY HISTORYAP EXAM DOES NOT ASK ABOUT MILITARY STRATEGYQUESTIONS ABOUT WAR ARE ABOUT CAUSES OR RESULTS OR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPACT OR WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE HOME FRONTCHRONOLOGICAL ORDERQuestions organized in groups of four to sevenEach group will be presented in roughly chronological orderYou will notice a sharp break in chronologyThus, use your skill at looking for context clues when dealing with groups of questions like thisTHE BIG PICTUREThe AP European History examination will ask you about general trends, not the minutia of history. It is not about rote memorization. They are testing you on concepts in history and general themes.USE THE PROCESS OF ELIMINATIONRULE OUT ANSWERS THAT DONT FITNARROW IT DOWN TO THE TWO BEST ANSWERSPICK THE BEST ANSWERREAD THE QUESTION CAREFULLYLOOK FOR THE ROOT OF THE QUESTIONLOOK FOR KEY WORDS LIKE EXCEPT DONT RUSH TO MAKE AN ANSWER. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT THE QUESTION IS ASKING YOU BEFORE YOU ANSWER ITSKIP THE ONES THAT YOU ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY WITHDONT WAST YOUR TIME ON ONE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONSKIP ITCOME BACK TO IT AT THE END AND TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT WITH YOUR MULTIPLE CHOICE SKILLSESSAY SECTION

IGNORE EXAMPLES IN AP REVIEW BOOKSOUR MODEL WORKSAP EVALUATORS ARE INTERESTED IN A CLEAR SYSTEM OF WRITINGDONT CHANGE THE WAY YOU WRITE NOWFORMAT OF THE ESSAY SECTIONSECTION IDO ONE OFTHREE ESSAY QUESTIONS ON THE RENAISSANCE TO THE NAPOLEONIC ERASECTION IIDO ONE OF THREE ESSAYS ON NAPOLEONIC ERA TO THE 1990S70 MINUTESBUDGET YOUR TIME35 MINUTES ON EACH ESSAYUSE YOUR WATCHDONT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF SPENDING 50 MINUTES ON ONE ESSAYBEFORE YOU WRITE THE ESSAYREAD THE QUESTION CAREFULLYBRAINSTORMOUTLINETHESE ARE IMPORTANT STEPS: YOU ARE NOT WASTING TIME BUT ORGANIZING YOUR THOUGHTS INTO A COHERENT ESSAY!NEATNESS COUNTSNO CROSS OUTSNO ARROWSNO ADD INSTAKE YOUR TIMEIF THE AP EVALUATOR CANT READ YOUR WORK YOU WILL NOT GET A GOOD GRADEDEVELOP A PROPER INTRODUCTIONLEAD INSET THE STAGEDEFINE TERMSSET UP THE QUESTIONDEVELOP THESISDEVELOP CLEAR THREE POINT PLAN FOR FORECASTTHE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS A DEFINED THESIS STATEMENT AND THAT YOU ADDRESS THE QUESTION AT HAND. IF YOU ARE CONFUSED ABOUT THE QUESTION DONT DO ITHAVE AT LEAST THREE BODY PARAGRAPHSSTICK TO YOUR OUTLINESUPPORT YOUR THESISUTILIZE SMOOTH TRANSITIONSSUPPORT YOUR IDEAS WITH CONCRETE EXAMPLESUTILIZE ORIGINAL ANALYSISWRAP UP PAPER WITH A CONCLUSIONRESTATE THESIS AND FORECASTSUM UP ESSAYANSWER THE QUESTION SO WHAT?LEAVE THE READER THINKINGWHAT ARE AP EVALUATORS LOOKING FOR?ANSWER THE QUESTIONDONT JUST LIST FACTSCLEAR AND COHERENT ESSAYWRITER FOLLOWS A SET MODELWRITER SUPPORTS HIS OR HER THESISESSAY IS NEAT AND EASY TO FOLLOWESSAY IS NOT OVERLY SHORTESSAY IS WELL WRITTEN WITH FEW GRAMMATICAL ERRORSDBQLOOK AT YOUR OLD DBQSLOOK AT OUR PACKET CRACKING THE DBQLOOK AT YOUR AP REVIEW BOOK FOR TIPS ON HOW TO DO THE DBQ