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 19 th 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: 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: 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