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.