AP Exam Review Week

Today commences an intensive, thorough, and altogether exhilarating time of review for the AP Euro exam. We'll discuss key topics, complete practice exams, write more DBQ questions--all in all what I'd call a festival of knowledge, party of learning, or intellectual rave.

At this page you will find helpful lists of key terms, geography, people, and documents. Hank is posting his illuminating podcasts again, so be sure to stop by. It probably wouldn't hurt to read through the AP Central site on European history.

Here's a downloadable, mammoth review guide compiled by an adventurous AP Euro student, and a set of on-line quizzes you can take to test/refresh your knowledge of the course content. Finally, here's a good storehouse of information on the course itself along with tons of review items, as well as this repository of resources.

You can find more resources and study guides here, as well as here.

If you come across any other helpful study sites, please leave the URL in the comments section.

Of Russia, Rocky, and Review

If you just can't get enough of 1980s entertainment--and Cold War culture in general--here's a clip of the training scences from Rocky IV. And here's a fighting scene--conflict between the great superpowers that, pardon the pun, rings true on screen. And let's not leave the Andy Warhol interview out either. Finally, check out some more Cold War culture here.


On a more serious note, be sure to read pp. 851-54 on the collapse of Russia, and take a look at the section on Yugoslavia on pp. 858-860. Be prepard to discuss tomorrow.



Relative to tonight's reading, here's a little something on the fall of the Berlin Wall from ABC, and Ronald Reagan's famous quip to "tear down this wall."



We will begin reviewing for the AP exam very soon. To prepare, download the resources here.

[Photo credit here.]