Last minute items for AP World test takers

Just a couple of things to help you along on your test:
- Forest View Educational Center is located at 2121 S. Goebbert Rd. in Arlington Heights
-Usually there is plenty of parking in the north lot if the front lot is full.
-Check-in starts at 7:30am and AP test will start at 8:00am.  Please leave enough time to get to Forest View as drive times can be unpredictable.
-Bring pens and pencils with you to the test.
-If you can help it, leave your phone at home.  Phones brought to the testing site will be collected before testing and returned after completion.
-Get plenty of sleep tonight!
-Good luck!  You all have the knowledge and ambition to do well on this exam!

AP World Extra Credit....

FRQ Rubrics

Just remember......

We have our final exam tomorrow in class.  Please bring a pencil.  You will have the period to complete the test.

AP Expert Assignment

Reminder that AP Expert submissions are due on Sunday by 12:00 noon.  Please email as a docx. or share as a Google Doc (Do not cut and paste to an email).  It is my hope to have a complete electronic packet to all students by Tuesday of this coming week. Remember that late submissions will receive a 0/35 points.

Make-up Tests and Essays............

If you have any remaining tests and/or essays to be made up, please do so by Monday, May 13th.  The testing center file will be emptied after this date and all tests/essays not made up will receive a score of "0".  Please plan accordingly.

Chapter 34 Power-point Notes

Chapter 34 GSPRITE Review

Geography

What happened to Korea during the Cold War Era?

Social

Reforms introduced to Japan during occupation?

In what ways was Vietnam similar to other 3^rd World Nations?

Political

Douglas MacArthur

Liberal Democratic Party of Japan- Problems?

Kim IL-Sung  and Syngman Rhee

What type of leadership guided South Korea during the 1960’s-1980’s?

What leader established the autocratic government of Taiwan?

What did the U.S. do in regards to Taiwan in 1978?

How does Mao lose his power as state chairman?

“The Gang of Four”

Vietminh

Dien Bien Phu

Intellectual/ Technology

Differences between Chinese Communism and Russian Communism?

The Great Leap Forward

Cultural Revolution

One Child Policy of China

Economy

Factors of economic success in post-war Japan?

Japan and South Korea have become economic powerhouses in Pacific Rim

Hyundai- What country does it help out?

Chapter 33 GSPRITE Notes

Geography

Why so much ethnic conflict in Africa?

Social

“Population Bomb”

Factors that contribute to high birth rate

Political

Military regimes common across Africa

Ghana- Kwame Nkrumah-What happened to his programs?  What did he do about criticism?

Uganda-Idi Amin

Egypt- Gamal Abdul Nasser

Anwar Sadat (Egypt)- Ended war with Israel

Jawaharlal Nehru- First elected leader of free India

Iran-Ayatollah Khomeini

Iran has war with Iraq in early 1980’s

South Africa- dominated by Nationalist Party until 1994

Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk

Intellectual/ Technology

Aswan Dam project- Modernize Egypt

India is most successful at preserving civil rights

Iranian Revolution is fundamentalist regime (like the Taliban or Mahdi)

What are“homelands” (South Africa)

Economy

Some countries have started to export oil to boost economy

Chapter 33 Power-point Notes

BGHS Literacy Survey......

Please take a few moments to complete this short survey located at the following address......

https://sites.google.com/a/d214.org/calendar/

click on "student literacy survey" in the upper left hand corner of the page.

Please submit your survey by Friday evening.

Thanks for your help,

McCabe

Chapter 32 GSPRITE Notes

Social           

Guatemalan reforms of Jose Arevelo

Castro’s reforms for Cuba

Military Officers in Latin American (how do they see themselves)

Latin American population- since 1950 it has doubled

Problems faced by Latin America

Political

Political institutions remain unchanged (dictatorships)

CIA in Guatemala

Fidel Castro

26^th of July Movement

Ernesto Che Guevara

New Cuban Government-Type of Gov’t?  Received support from who?

Tactics used by military governments in Latin America

Invasion of Panama

Religious

Dominate religion is Roman Catholic

Intellectual/ Technology

1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd World

Where can we find communism today?

“Banana Republics”

“Good Neighbor Policy”

Containment of Communism-How does it affect Latin America?

Economy

United Fruit Company

Percentage of imports Cuba received from U.S. before embargo=3/4

Chapter 32 Power-point......

Just a reminder of the tutoring schedule for this week......
I will be around before and after school on Wednesday and after school on Thursday of this week.  I will not be in the building on Friday so their will be no review the morning of the test.

C&C Essay Topic for April 16th.......

We will be completing a full Compare and Contrast essay in class on Tuesday, April 16th.  Here is the prompt you will address......

Compare and contrast how the First World War and its outcomes affected Two of the following regions in the period from the war through the 1930's
-East Asia
-Middle East
-South Asia (Indian Subcontinent)

Chapter 31 GSPRITE Notes

Geography

-Countries of the Eastern Block

-Division of German territory

-Countries that had communist governments separate from Soviet Union- Albania, Greece and Yugoslavia

Political

-Colonies that breakaway from European control (Egypt, Vietnam and India)

-Solidarity

-Nikita Khrushchev- How did he change Soviet government after Stalin?

-Mikhail Gorbachev

-NATO-Why was it established?  What did it do?

Economic

-Marshall Plan

-Western European countries received aid to fight communism

-Military spending was #1 in US during Cold War

-Welfare state-What services were being offered?

-Technocrat

-European Economic Community (EU)

-European economy post WWII?- All time high,  low unemployment

Chapter 31 Notes

CCOT Essay Prompts for Friday....

Here are the three locations/ dates for the CCOT essay prompts we will be completing this Friday.  These particular essays will have you select one of the locations listed for each question.  Remember that there will be specific GSPRITE topics you will need to attached to these topics to complete a thesis.  You will only be responsible for writing a thesis statement for each prompt.

#1- Time Period: 1750-1914 C.E.
       Locations: Latin America/Caribbean, Russia and Sub-Saharan Africa

#2- Time Period: 1450-1750 C.E.
       The Americas, China, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa

#3- Time Period: 600-1750 C.E.
       Trans-Saharan, Silk Road, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea

Chapter 30 GSPRITE Review

Social

Groups that were targeted during Adolf Hitler’s regime

Estimate on total number of people killed during Nazi regime=12 million

Political

Japanese government during the late 1930’s

Promises made to the German People by Adolf Hitler

Factors that contributed to the fall of France

Battle of the Bulge-Hitler’s last attempt to break through

Battle of Midway-Turning point in Pacific war-Japanese fleet out

How did India respond to British war effort in WWII?

What happens to India after Independence?

Jewish Homeland in Palestine

Japanese surrender

The Atlantic Charter

Religious

Hindus vs. Muslims in Indian Independence

Intellectual/Technology

Tripartite Pact

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Appeasement- When was this idea abandoned?

Blitzkrieg

Invasion of Soviet Union-Why a mistake

United Nations

Zionism

Apartheid

Economic

None for this exam!

Chapter 30 Notes