Exam Date:
Friday, Dec. 20, 10:30 am, in CB 102 (regular classroom). The final exam is 2 hours long.
Bring blue book and pen. Exam is closed-book and closed-note.
Material to be covered: The final exam is comprehensive. Questions will cover all the readings in Discovering the Western Past, Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, The Calling of Katie Makanya, and Survival in Auschwitz, as well as all the material covered in the lectures. In other words, review your notes from the entire semester. Because this is the only exam covering the material we have studied since the 2nd midterm, you can expect the questions to give somewhat more emphasis to the material concerning Europe since the end of the First World War.
Structure of the exam: There will be two sets of essay questions and two sets of ID questions. One set of essay and ID questions will cover material from the entire course; the other will cover only material from the last third of the course (since the 2nd midterm).
Reviewing the earlier parts of the course: Use the review sheets given out before the 1st and 2nd midterms. If you have lost your copies of these review sheets, you can download them from my Web site (www.uky.edu/~popkin). You can also download copies of any of the lecture handouts you need.
Review Session: Thurs., Dec. 19, 7-9 pm, CB 212.
Special Office Hour Schedule: Because I will not be available on Wed., Dec. 11, I will hold extra office hours on Tues., Dec. 10, 2-3:30 pm. I will be out of town from Dec. 11 to Dec. 18; I should be able to respond to email.
Key Concepts, Events, Movements, People, etc. to know for the exam (Europe since World War I).
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Great Depression of 1920s-1930s |
Reparations payments and war-guilt issue |
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Mussolini and fascism |
Weaknesses of democracy between the wars |
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Why Mussolini’s victory affected other countries |
Lenin |
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‘New Economic Policy’ |
Reasons for rise of Stalin |
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5-Year Plan & collectivization of Soviet agriculture |
Stalin’s ‘Great Terror’ |
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Attitudes toward Communism in other countries |
New attitudes toward women after World War I: the ‘new woman’ |
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Main arguments of Virginia Woolf, Alexandra Kollontai, etc. |
Hitler: background, reasons for his success in Germany |
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Character of Nazi propaganda |
Circumstances of Hitler’s coming to power in 1933 |
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‘Gleichschaltung’ |
Anti-semitism |
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Hitler’s foreign policy: Munich, Nazi-Soviet Pact |
Hitler’s war strategy: blitzkrieg, defeat of France, invasion of Soviet Union |
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Attitude toward masses in Nazi propaganda |
Appeasement |
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Roles of Britain, Soviet Union, US in defeat of Hitler; Winston Churchill |
Auschwitz: purpose and methods |
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Primo Levi |
Holocaust: definition and significance |
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Emergence of Cold War; differences between eastern and western Europe |
Satellite states |
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Berlin blockade |
Hungarian Revolution |
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Marshall Plan |
European economic recovery: causes and importance |
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Welfare state: programs and justifications |
Nationalizations of major industries |
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Sputnik |
Consumer society |
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Protests against consumer society; May 1968 in France; role of students |
‘Prague Spring’ (1968) |
Détente
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Decolonization |
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Significance of British policy in India after World War II |
French colonial wars (Vietnam and Algeria) |
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Origins of independence movements in non-European world |
Origins of movement for European unity: Iron and Steel Community, Common Market, European Union |
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Solidarity movement |
Dissidence in Soviet bloc |
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Mikhail Gorbachev |
Perestroika and glasnost |
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Fall of Berlin Wall |
Collapse of Soviet Union and aftermath |
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Recent immigration to western Europe |
Reactions to immigration |
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