1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 polution

6. AP World REVIEW | Period 5: 1750-1900
Culture Science & Technology:
Rising literacy
Increased “westernization” of non-western people & cultures
nationalism
Social Structures
Urbanizaiton
Expansion of cash crop monoculture & resource extraction as a form of labor
Persistance then fading of slave systems
Seasonal and permanent migrations
Anti-immigrant senitment (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