Unit XVII:
Chapter 29: Postindustrial Society and the End of the Cold War Order, 1965–1989
Chapter 30: The New Globalism: Opportunities and Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present.
AP FRQ Essays:
- Describe and analyze economic policies in Eastern and Western Europe after 1945. (2006 B)
- Analyze the factors working for and against European unity from 1945 to 2001. (2004 A)
- Analyze three reasons for the end of Soviet domination over Eastern Europe. (2003 A)
- Many historians have suggested that since 1945, nationalism has been on the decline in Europe. Using both political and economic examples from the period 1945 to 2000, evaluate the validity of this interpretation.(2002 A)
- Compare and contrast the political and economic effects of the Cold War (1945-1991) on Western Europe with the effects on Eastern Europe. (2001)
- Compare and contrast the political and economic policies of Joseph Stalin in the period before the Second World War and those of Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991). (2000)
Other Potential Essays:
- Trace the break up of the Balkans. Start with the end of World War I and finish at the present.
- Discuss the evolution of the Common Market.
- Identify four specific changes in science and technology, and explain their effects on Western European family and private life between 1918 and 1970.
- Compare and contrast the women's suffrage movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the European feminist movements of the 1960's and 1970's.
- Analyze the ways in which technology was an issue in European social activism between 1945 and 1970. Be sure to include three of the following: environmentalism, peace movements, student protests, women's movements, workers' movements.
- Describe and analyze the resistance to Soviet authority in the Eastern bloc from the end of WWII through 1989. Be sure to include examples from at least two Soviet satellite nations.
Using specific examples from Eastern and Western Europe, discuss economic development during the period 1945 to the present, focusing on ONE of the following:
a) Economic recovery and integration
b) Development of the welfare state and its subsequent decline
- Compare and contrast the political and economic effects of the Cold War (1945-1991) on Western Europe with the effects on Eastern Europe.
- To what extent and in what ways has 20th-century physics challenged the Newtonian view of the universe and society?
