Euro History · Unit 9 · Paper 2

Cold War & Contemporary Europe unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 35 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 9, Paper 2” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted

Contemporary challenges

Cold War

Hungarian Uprising

Berlin Wall

Brexit

Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Comecon (1949)

Simone de Beauvoir, *The Second Sex* (1949)

Solidarity

Existentialism

De-Stalinization

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Decolonization

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: The 1968 protests

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Revolutions of 1989

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Algerian War

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

LONG ESSAY QUESTION. Evaluate the extent to which European integration changed the continent in the period from 1945 to 2000.

In your response you should do the following: Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning. Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. Support an argument in response to the prompt using specific and relevant examples of evidence. Use historical reasoning to frame or structure an argument that addresses the prompt. Demonstrate a complex understanding of the historical development that is the focus of the prompt.