AP World History Summer Assignment Dear Students – Welcome to your 2014-2015 sophomore AP World History course! In preparation for our busy year, you are expected to complete the following FOUR assignments over the summer! Please review the descriptions of the activities listed below and the anticipated due dates and assessments for each assignment. We will begin our course of study in the year 8,000 B.C.E. and finish the school year looking at modern day issues. The majority of your summer
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Bernhard Schlink «Der Vorleser» ( Бернхард Шлинк «Чтец» ) В 1995 году Бернхард Шлинк создает роман "Чтец", даже не предполагая, что это произведение станет бестселлером. Самая знаменитая немецкая книга, написанная за последние несколько десятков лет – вот что такое «Чтец». Впервые опубликованный в 1995 году, этот роман разошёлся по всему миру такими тиражами, каковых немецкоязычная литература не видывала со времён своих вечных героев и нобелевских лауреатов вроде Германа Гессе или Генриха
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This angered soldiers greatly, they had seen these things as a step towards a more democratic system. So even though these decions did have a positive effect on soldiers who are already loyal to the Provisional Government, they had an extremely negative effect on the majority of soldiers who were not die hard loyal to the system. Political leaders saw the consequences of soldiers rebelling against their officers. Even though on the books there weren't many Bolsheviks in the Army, the few Bolshevik
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There is a saying in history that the, “sun never sets on the British Empire”. A vast empire spanning multiple continents, Great Britain was always expanding. Up until 1922, Ireland has been one of those territories under oppressive British control. Scanning the centuries of Irish history, the Irish rebelled against British dominance repeatedly. After many failed attempts, the people banned together in 1916 on one of the highest Catholic holidays, Easter to rise against the British. For the Catholics
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In the Cold War, America wanted to contain the spread of communism and make sure that America is the strongest nation in the world. The Cold War affected the Americans more than any other war. The American domestic policies changed during the Cold War and the Americans became paranoid, also it splits America into two sides. At the beginning of the Cold War, President Truman created the Loyalty Review Board. This made sure that American civil servants were not members of Communists or Subversive
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The United States fought the Cold War at the end of the Second World War until 1991. In the 1980’s when Ronald Reagan was president the US holstered the military and invested billions in nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union was not able to keep up because they did not have the money to keep up with the United States. The USSR was losing control of their eastern countries. The USSR could not control those countries by the late 1980’s so they allowed them to withdraw without causing them any problems
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Communism DBQ World War II was nearly over with, but now the Cold War had started. The United States’ and Soviet Union’s greatest difference was communism, a belief that private property should be replaced by community ownership. The United States and the Soviet Union fought over communism and capitalism. Capitalism is a system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by a private owner for profits, rather than by the state. Containment was the idea of stopping the Soviet Union and
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So if the government diminishes the society that their in charge of securing misusing their power rebellion is inevitable, so the outcome is the same as provoking a beast and expecting no repercussions. As expressed, in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell the struggle of farm animals to gain proper care and equality to that of humans: This elaborated on the situation through the symbolism that correlated to the downfall of the Soviet Union in the Russian Revolution. Also, the novel a Tale of Two
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For nearly two years the Nazi war machine had been in a boxing match with the Soviet Union, both sides trading victories. The Nazi’s would start the summer season with a massive offensives trying to encircle Soviet armies and key cities. The Soviet’s would counter attack in the winter months utilizing their numerical advantage and winter equipment to help neutralize the germans technological advantage. Still even with these winter counterattacks, the germans looked poised to seize the Caucasus
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born in Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, USSR (Russia). He was born on March 2, 1931. He was born into a present family of a mixed Russian and Ukrainian family. His father was World War II veteran. He attended Moscow State University and graduated with a law degree in 1955. He would meet his future wife Raisa Titarenko whom he married in 1953. They had one daughter born in 1957. He joined the Communist party in 1950. Mikhail Gorbachev is still alive and is currently 83
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