Free Response Tips

Comparison:• SIMILARITY & DIFFERENCE (another way to address cause & effect)

• Address TWO of each!• THESIS: ID & Qualify one similarity & one difference & the time period in question

• Similarity + difference + time period + location• EVIDENCE: shoot for 5 pieces of concrete evidence

Continuity & Change:• THESIS: ID & qualify one thing that changed & one thing that remained the same

during the time period in question.• Continuity + Change + time period

• EVIDENCE: shoot for SIX pieces of evidence • Continuity is as important as Change!

• WORLD HISTORIC CONTEXT: connect the continuity and or change to a broad trend in world history• Be thorough! – explain how/why colonizing Africa is a continuing part of the ever

growing European appetite for raw materials in in the 19th century.

Free Response Tips

DBQ:• THESIS: match your thesis to the DBQ prompt and be sure all parts of the question

are addressed• ADDRESS ALL the DOCS by explaining how each connects to answering your thesis

• In Other Words: place the document in context• POINT OF VIEW: what motivates the author to write/say what they have –

• minimum TWO – go for all (expanded points)• GROUPING: create themes (PERSIA) - go for THREE groups • ADDITIONAL Doc: 1 (try for 2) – explain how it would help you understand the

answer more concretely.

AP World REVIEW | Period 6 : 1900-present

State building, Expansion & Conflict – International Trends• International Organizations: United Nations, World Bank, IMF, GATT• Total wars• Ethnic Violence & Genocide• World War I & II• Global impact of Cold Wars (Proxy wars – Vietnam, Korea, Central America, Palestine)• Decolonization & National Liberation: Africa, South & East Asia• Rise of Terrorism: Black Hand, PLO, IRA, Hamas, al-Qaeda• Asymmetrical war – smart weapons vs guerrilla wars (US in Iraq/Afghanistan)• Nuclear proliferation

Humans & the Environment• Vaccinations campaign• Spanish flu pandemic (1918)• HIV/AIDS• Rapid population growth (x4 since 1900)• Ozone depletion• Climate change and global warming (Kyoto Protocol & climate change denial)• Species endangerment

AP World REVIEW | Period 6 : 1900-present

Culture Science & Technology:• Multiculturalism• Impact of global conflict on mass culture (James Bond movies, Call of Duty)• Sports are politicized & professionalized• Theoretical physics – atomic age & quantum theory• Aviation – Rocketry - Space travel• Medical advances & genetics• Computers & digital revolution

Economic Systems:• Partial or widespread industrial development of non developed or developing nations• Dominance of post industrial service economies in Western/developed world• Adopting Bretton Woods system by majority of non-communist world• Growing importance of MNCs• Rise of regional economic associations and free trade zones• Transition from GATT to WTO

AP World REVIEW | Period 5: 1750-1900

State building, Expansion & Conflict – International & Regional Trends• Increased prominence of nation-state• Global impact of racialized (white mans burden & social Darwinsim) & economic

imperialism • Nationalism and national liberation impulses (Indian revolt, Boxer rebellion,

Emiliano Aguinaldo)

Humans & the Environment• Permanent & seasonal migrations (Eurasia to the Americas; regional movement in

Indian Ocean region• Species extinction & endangerment• Regional expansion of industrial pollution

AP World REVIEW | Period 5: 1750-1900

Culture Science & Technology:• Rising literacy• Increased “westernization” of non-western people & cultures• nationalism

Social Structures• Urbanization• Expansion of cash crop monoculture & resource extraction as a form of labor• Persistence then fading of slave systems• Seasonal and permanent migrations• Anti-immigrant sentiment (tied to rise of nationalism)

Economic Systems• Widespread proto-industrialization• International impact of industrialization (state sponsored imperialism• Economic imperialism• Oceanic whaling & sealing in search for oil