Week of April 29

Tuesday
  • Read: Merriman 1109-1119, 1127-1129
  • Lecture: Postwar Europe
  • Workshop: exam review
  • Due: 2-3 page review of Long 19th Century
Thursday
  • Exam 8

**For the short essays on Exam 8, you may choose one of the two questions I wrote, and one of the three we wrote together in class on Tuesday. Those are listed below:


o        Explain the origins of the policy of appeasement and how it charted the course of WWII.
o        How did the conclusion of WWII divide Europe into two armed camps and lead to the Cold War?
o        How and why did the United Nations differ from the League of Nations? What shortcomings were rectified? Which persisted?
 

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Week of April 22

Remember that you should be working on AP review regularly for the next few weeks. To support that I will be checking your review on three occasions, when you should plan to submit at least 2-3 pages of review for each major section of the course. Also, we will have brief MC quizzes in class each day, which will include questions on the assigned reading as well as review topics identified as "homework" below.

Monday
  • Read: Merriman 1049-1064
  • Lecture: WWII
  • Homework: review Renaissance & Reformation
Wednesday
  • Read: Merriman 1065-1086
  • Lecture: WWII
  • Homework: review Rise of Spain & England, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment
  • Due: 2-3 page review of Early Modern Period
Friday
  • Read: Merriman 1086-1103
  • Lecture: Postwar Europe
  • Homework: review French Revolution & Napoleonic Era
**our next (and last) regular exam will be on May 1st or 3rd (depending on our progress next week)**
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Week of April 15

Welcome back from Spring Break. We will hit the ground running this week by discussing our review plans for the upcoming AP exam. Only 26 days remaining...

Tuesday
  • Read: none
  • Lecture: Rise of Fascism and Authoritarianism
  • Workshop: AP exam review planning
  • Discuss: political violence
Thursday
  • Read: Merriman 1000-1012; 1035-1042
    • *also* Joachim Fest - reading packet
  • Lecture: Interwar Germany
  • Workshop: MC questions practice & strategy session
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Week of April 1

Tuesday
  • Exam 7
Thursday
  • Read: Feitlowitz on Argentine Dirty War
  • In-class: activity on political violence
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