Final Assignments and Final Exam

*periods 6 and 8: discussion of Russia reading moved to June 8 - questions will be available in class next week.

PLEASE NOTE: No prior late work accepted after Thursday, May 31st.  None.

May 31 - In class essay: The Cold War
June 4 - Graded Final Class Discussion: Course Themes
June 6 - Binders w/cover sheet and Flashcards/study lists due.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS BINDER CANNOT BE TURNED IN LATE, for more than 50% credit.  Flashcards will not be accepted late at all.
Flashcards/study lists must be unique to you to receive credit.

June 8 - in class we will discuss the final reading about the end of the Cold War and review for the final.

Final Exam is Cumulative: Key Terms and Multiple Choice; 100 questions.  Expect about 10 questions from each area: 5 key terms and 5 Stalin says Truman says type questions.

• Historiography/General Terms/Pre-War Europe
• WWI/Armenian Massacre
• Russian Revolution
• Spanish Civil War
• WWII and Holocaust
• Cold War Origins
• Korean War
• China under Mao
• China 1976-1989
• Cold War: USSR 

May 22
Finish Reading Ch 16/17 Packet:
Answer Key Terms Questions and complete charts
Come to class prepared to discuss all questions marked with * as well as charts


May 24
Communism in Crisis (Paper 1) Test
This will cover either China or the Soviet Union 1976-1989
Possible Topics (directly from the course guide)      

• the struggle for power following the death of Mao Zedong, Hua Guofeng, the re-emergence of Deng Xiaoping and the defeat of the Gang of 4
•    China under Deng Xiaoping: economic policies and the 4 Modernizations
• ·      China under Deng Xiaoping: political changes, and their limits, culminating in Tiananmen Square (1989)
• ·      domestic and foreign problems of the Brezhnev era: economic and political stagnation; Afghanistan
• ·      Gorbachev and his aims/policies (glasnost and perestroika) and consequences for the Soviet state
• ·      consequences of Gorbachev’s policies for Eastern European reform movements: Poland-the role of Solidarity; Czechoslovakia-the Velvet Revolution; fall of the Berlin Wall.

May 14, 16

May 14
Period 4 Korean War Speakers
All periods welcome in room 169 if you can be excused from your 4th period.  See me for permission slips.

May 16
Write answers to Source based questions 1-4
Also, Read Ch. 16 from reading packet on the Soviet Union
Take notes and define key terms