Chapter 28 Remaking Europe in the Shadow of the Cold War, 1945-1965

AP FRQ Essays: 

• Describe and analyze economic policies in Eastern and Western Europe after 1945. (2006 B)
• Compare and contrast the social and economic roles of the state in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe (before 1789) to the social and economic roles of the state in Europe after the Second World War.
• Compare and contrast the victorious Allied powers' treatment of Germany after the First World War with their treatment of Germany after the Second World War. Analyze the reasons for the similarities and differences. (2005 B)
• Analyze the factors responsible for decolonization since the Second World War. (2005 B)
• Between 1945 and 1970, virtually all European colonies achieved independence. Discuss the changes within Europe that contributed to this development. (2002 B)

Other Potential Essays:

• Analyze the common political and economic problems facing Western European nations in the period 1945-1960 and discuss their response to these problems.
• Analyze criticisms of European society presented by European authors in the period 1940 to 1970.  Be sure to discuss at least two works.
• Analyze the ways in which the Cold War affected the political development of European nations from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961
• Between 1945 and 1970, virtually all European colonies achieved independence.  Discuss the changes within Europe that contributed to this development
• Compare the ways in which the two works of art reproduced below express the artistic, philosophical, and cultural values of their times.  (See Michelangelo's "David" and Giacometti's "Man Pointing" at ARTCHIVE.)