• Please get in a bit of review before sitting for the exam. Considering that you were given an option NOT to sit this exam, I expect each of you to put forth his best effort. Below is a basic list of the topics that the exam covers which we may not get to before 11 May.
• DBQ – you MUST include the following to have a shot at a 5 on the AP exam: 1) thesis that addresses the prompt, 2) use ALL the docs, 3) group docs (contrasting opinions grouped too), 4) explain or analyze at least 3 Points of View

The main post-’45 subjects covered:

• NATO (HQ in Brussels) v Warsaw Pact (Ruskies and their communist stooges!)
• creation of the EU: quite boring, 3 treaties (Paris 1951, Rome 1957, Maastricht, 1992)
• why France can’t get along with anyone — one answer –> Charles de Gaulle — and the student protests (revolution?) of 1968
• Eastern Bloc and collapse of the USSR: blame economy, Afghanistan, and M.Gorbachev, drunken Boris Yeltsin as hero, along with polish Pope John Paul II, and US Pres. Ronald Reagan; major benchmarks: Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, Gdansk 1980, Lithuania 1990.