LOS AMIGOS HIGH SCHOOL

AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

 

Unit XVII:  20TH  CENTURY  EUROPEAN  SOCIETY  (1914-1991)

 

U2:  "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

Ireland:  The Struggle for Home Rule

         Dil ireann,   Irish Republican Army (IRA)

 

GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:  Kagan (756-758 & 895)

- What two pieces of legislation were passed during the first Gladstone ministry to address the

  Irish question?  What did each of the two acts accomplish?

 

- How did Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish movement for land reform and home

  rule, agitate British politics to bring attention to his cause?  What, in December 1885, led

  Gladstone to formally announce his support for Irish home rule?  Why was the first

  Irish Home Rule Bill (1886) defeated in Parliament?

 

- When the third Irish Home Rule Bill (1914) finally became law that summer, why was its

  implementation delayed?  In general terms, how had the Irish question affected British

  politics in the decades leading up to the First World War?

 

- What brought about the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916, and how did it radicalize Irish

  nationalism - leading many to join the extremist Sinn Fin republican nationalist movement?

 

- Why, in 1918, did the newly elected representatives of the Sinn Fin Party refuse to take their

  seats in the British Parliament at Westminster?  What did they do instead?  What became of

  British-Irish relations as a result?

 

- In what manner did the 1921 treaty which ended the guerrilla war between the

  Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the British army (1919-1921) divide Ireland?

 

- Why did civil war break out in Ireland in 1922?  When was the Irish Free State finally able

  to become the wholly independent Republic of ire.

 

         PEOPLE:

                                                 

         Charles Stewart Parnell            Eamon De Valera                    Michael Collins

        

 

         IMAGES:

        

 

Ireland:  The Troubles in Ulster

       Ulster,   Bloody Sunday,   the Troubles

 

       PEOPLE:

        

         Ivan Cooper

 

The European Union

GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:  Kagan (1048-1050)

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Post-War European Politics, Society, Knowledge, and Culture

         Council of Europe,   Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC),

         European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC),   Treay of Rome (1957),

European Economic Community (EEC),   European Free Trade Area (EFTA),

Treaty of Maastricht (1992),   European Union (EU),   Americanization,  Consumer Society

Eurocommunism,   French May,   Existentialism,   Green Party,   Chernobyl Accident,  

Neo-Orthodoxy

 

LITERATURE  (* Not in Flash-Cards)

Animal Farm by George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell

*Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

*Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

*Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

*The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

*A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans by Karl Barth

 

GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:  Kagan (1026-1040 & 1042-1048)

- In general terms, describe the economic and political situation of the nation-states of Western

  Europe during the decades spanning the Cold War.  Which two Western European nation-

  states, until the mid-1970s, were the exception to this?  Why?

 

- In the post-WWII era, what did European leaders come to realize was necessary in order to

  support democracy and stave off the kind of turmoil that had brought on tyranny and war,

  and that could lead to communism?

 

- Describe the general character of the Christian Democratic political parties which came to

  dominate many post-war Western European governments.  What role would communist

  parties play in European politics during the Cold War?

 

- What was the "economic miracle" of West Germany?

 

- As the first woman prime minister of Great Britain, what where the chief economic concerns

  of the Tory ministry of Margaret Thatcher?

 

- Under what circumstances did Charles de Gaulle come to lead France's Fourth Republic in

  1958?  How did de Gaulle change French government?  What is meant by Kagan when he

  says that for ten years, de Gaulle led France "according to his own priorities?"

 

- How did de Gaulle crush the student uprisings and workers' strikes which broke-out in France

  in 1968 - the same year as the Prague Spring?  What did these disturbances reveal about the

  Fifth Republic, and also about post-war French society?

 

- Why, in the decades immediately following the Second World War, did Europe experience the

  largest population expansion in its history?  What factors have contributed to declining

  birthrates throughout Europe since the mid-1960s?

 

- What impact would decolonization have on the European population?

 

- What factors led to significant internal migration throughout the European continent in the

  aftermath of the Second World War?  How did the onset of the Cold War impact migration

  within the continent?

 

- What was the major motivation for internal European migration from the late 1950s onward? 

  Describe the basic directional pattern of such "guest worker" migration.  How did migration

  patterns shift following the fall of communism in the late 1980s?

 

- What factors contributed to the emergence of the modern European welfare state during the

  second half of the 20th century?  Which country led the way in promoting welfare legislation?

  In what ways was the spread of welfare legislation closely related to the Cold War?

 

- How did work patterns for Western European women change during the second half of the

  20th century?  How did the experiences of Eastern European differ, both during and after

  communism?

 

- How has the modern system of university education altered European societal norms?

 

- What factors led to the student rebellion of the 1960s in both Europe and America?  What

  role has rock music played in developing the self-critical nature of modern society?

 

- Following the Second World War, why were the churches in Germany able to exercise

  considerable social and political influence?

 

- What were the major "liberal " changes brought about within the Roman Catholic Church by

  the Twenty-First Ecumenical Council - also known as Vatican II?  In spite of the relatively

  liberal nature of Vatican II, what "conservative" viewpoints have been upheld by the Church?

 

- What was the three-pronged policy of Pope John Paul II?

 

         PEOPLE:

                                            

         Margaret Thatcher                   John Major                             Tony Blair

 

                                     

Charles de Gaulle                    Valry Giscard d'Estaing          Franois Mitterand

 

              

Helmut Kohl                           Jean Marie LePen

 

                                        

         Enrico Berlinguer                    Friedrich Nietzsche                  Sren Kierkegaard

 

                                        

         Jean-Paul Sartre                      Simon de Beauvoir                  Pope John XXIII

 

        

Pope John Paul II