AP European History
Syllabus
Course Objective
The objective of this course is to increase students’ understanding and
appreciation of European history and the evolution of European societies while
helping each student succeed on the AP exam. The course is divided into two
semesters including the Later Middle Ages through the French Revolution and
the Industrial Revolution to the present. Areas of concentration include
historical, political, and economic history, as well as cultural elements.
As a result of participating in this course, students will have an opportunity to
strengthen the following skills:
 Analyze, synthesize and evaluate both primary and secondary texts
 Comprehend and contextualize extensive amounts of information
 Apply various concepts and theories with attention to relevant details
 Apply inductive and deductive reasoning
 Interpret and apply historical data from a variety of sources beyond the
primary text including graphs, maps, artwork, political cartoons, etc. in
order to support an idea, argument or position
 Communicate effectively in written and oral formats
Course Purpose
Advanced Placement coursework such as AP European History provides high
school students opportunities to ready themselves for the rigor associated with a
college curriculum. It introduces, reinforces, and strengthens a variety of higher
order skills and provides exposure to critical knowledge and concepts. Students’
performance on an AP exam may also result in college credit and cost
savings. This particular course emphasizes a variety of historical matters related,
but not limited to the political, cultural, geographical and social components
specific to Europe.
Course Description and Course Themes
The 2010 College Board AP Course Description Guide states, “The study of
European history since 1450 introduces students to cultural, economic, political,
and social developments that played a fundamental role in shaping the world in
which they live.” The goals of AP European History are for students to develop
(a) an understanding of some of the principal themes in modern European
history, (b) an ability to analyze historical evidence and historical interpretation,
and (c) an ability to express historical understanding in writing. Moreover,
broader course themes include:
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Intellectual and Cultural
Political and Diplomatic
Social and Economic
Troka
Course Format
AP European History is a year-long course that meets five days per week. Each
class is limited to 45 minute sessions. Students will be required to read
extensively and complete assignments outside of the traditional classroom
format in order to effectively engage and participate in discussions, lectures and
activities. Students are expected to be prepared and play an active role in the
classroom. Summer and winter break readings and related exercises will be
required. Moreover, students will be required to acquire, maintain and/or
strengthen writing skills in order to effectively participate in DBQ and FRQ
activities.
Testing
Students will be administered exams that directly reflect the learning targets
associated with this course including information included in the primary
textbook, supplementary resources, lectures and discussions, and other related
assignments. The format of the exams will be consistent with the design of AP
assessments including multiple-choice and essay questions. Students will write
multiple DBQs and FRQs. A cumulative project will also be assigned during the
fourth quarter.
Grading
Students will be administered quarterly exams that build upon each other in both
content and skill level. Together, this sequence of assessments will represent all
of the components associated with a standard AP European History
exam. Additional formative and summative assessments will be provided
including test items that contain DBQs and thematic essays.
Primary Textbook and Supplementary Resources
 McKay, John, Bennet D. Hill, and John Buckler. A History of Western
Society Since 1300. 11th ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2011.
 Caldwell, Amy, Beeler, John, and Clark Charles. Sources of Western Society
Since 1300. 2 ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2011.
 Additional supplementary resources associated with the text and other
publishers will be utilized.
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Reading and Discussion Schedule
The following schedule illustrates the topics and associated reading assignments. The pace of the
class requires independent efforts outside of the school day. All dates are tentative and subject to
change. Students should be aware that they will be required to independently review and
study content not directly addressed in classroom activities or lectures.
The following reading assignments reflect chapters and passages in the
McKay text unless otherwise noted.
Unit 1
Chapter 11: The Crisis of the Latter Middle Ages, 1300 to 1450
 8/15 to 8/24 (summer)
 Reading, note taking and analytical skills
 Read pgs. 322-355
 Prelude to Disaster
 The Black Death
 The Hundred Years’ War
 Challenges to the Church
 Social Unrest in a Changing Society
 Readings
 The Plague Hits Florence - Giovanni Boccaccio (1350)
 The Sack of Limoges: On Warfare Without Chivalry - Jean Froissart (ca. 1400)
 Letter to Gregory XI- Catherine of Siena (1372)
 Letter to the English- Joan of Arc (1431)
 Images
 Berlinghiero. “Madonna and Child.” early 12th century
 Giotto. “Noli me tangere.” 1305
 Reims Cathedral. 1220
 Chartres Cathedral. 1145
 “The Unicorn in Captivity.” 1500
 Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map. The Hundred Years’ War, 1337-1453
 Map. The Great Schism, 1378-1417
 Map. Fourteenth Century Revolts, 14th century
Unit 2
Chapter 12: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350 to 1550
 8/25 to 9/5
 Read pgs. 356-389
 Wealth and Power in Renaissance Italy
 Readings
 The Plague Hits Florence - Giovanni Boccaccio (1350)
 The Sack of Limoges: On Warfare Without Chivalry - Jean Froissart (ca.
1400)
 Letter to Gregory XI- Catherine of Siena (1372)
 Letter to the English- Joan of Arc (1431)
 Images
 Berlinghiero. “Madonna and Child.” early 12th century
 Giotto. “Noli me tangere.” 1305
 Reims Cathedral. 1220
 Chartres Cathedral. 1145
 “The Unicorn in Captivity.” 1500
 Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map. The Hundred Years’ War, 1337-1453
 Map. The Great Schism, 1378-1417
 Map. Fourteenth Century Revolts, 14th century
Chapter 12: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350 to 1550 (cont’d)
 Intellectual Change
 Art and the Artist
 Social Hierarchies
 Politics and the State in Western Europe, ca. 1450-1521
 Writing
 Introduction of writing skills necessary for DBQs and FRQs
 Point of view and sourcing documents
 Reading
 The Book of the Courtier - Baldassare Castiglione (1528)
 The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan (1404)
 Oration on the Dignity of Man -Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola (1486)
 The Praise of Folly - Desiderius Erasmus (1516)
 The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (1513)
 Utopia - Sir Thomas More (1516)
 Images
 Sandro Botticelli. “The Birth of Venus.” 1482
 Leonardo da Vinci. “The Last Supper.” 1495
 Albrecht Durer. “Saint Jerome.” 1514
 Michelangelo. “The Pieta.” 1500.
 Jan Van Eyck. “Arnolfini Wedding.” 1434
 Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map. The Growth of Printing in Europe, 1448-1551
 Map. The Expansion of France, 1475-1500
 Map. The Unification of Spain and the Expulsion of the Jews, 15th century
 Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & introduction paragraph (thesis
statement
and plan of attack) for DBQ
Unit 3
Chapter 13: Reformation and Religious Wars, 1500 to 1600
 9/8 to 9/23
 Read pgs. 390-425
 Early Reformation
 Reformation & German Politics
 The Spread of Protestant Ideas
 The Catholic Reformation
 Religious Violence
 Writing Skills
 Introduction paragraph & outline body paragraphs
 Readings
 Ninety-five Theses on the Power of Indulgences - Martin Luther (1517)
 Rules for Right Thinking - Ignatius de Loyola (1548)
 The Short Chronicle: Defending the Convent - Jeanne de Jussie (1530)
 The Imperial Edict of Worms (1521)
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Images
 “Religious Violence in Urban Life.” 1590
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Lucas Cranach the Elder. “The Ten Commandments.” 1516
Lucas Cranach the Elder. “Martin Luther and Katharina von
Bora.” 1525
 Lucas Cranach the Younger. “The Holy Communion by the
Protestants and the Ride to Hell of the Catholics.” Year Unknown.
 “Concordia.”
 “Allegory of the Tudor Dynasty.” 1570s.
 “The Church of the Gesu.” 1584. Rome, Italy.
 Hans Holbein the Younger. “Luther as the German Hercules.” 1519
 El Greco. “The Crucifixion.” 1596-1600.
Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map. The Global Empire of Charles V, 1556.
 Map. Religious Divisions in Europe, 1555.
Exam Review
Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ (introduction paragraph &
outline
body paragraphs)
Unit 4
Chapter 14: European Exploration and Conquest, 1450 to 1650
 9/24 to 10/7
 Read pgs. 426-461
 World Contacts before Columbus
 The European Voyages of Discovery
 Impact of Conquest
 Europe and the World after Columbus
 Changing Attitudes & Beliefs
 Writing Skills
 Continuation of body paragraph work (emphasis on evidence to
support argument)
 Readings
 The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans - Historia Turcobyzantia Ducas,
ca. 1465
 Two Letter to Charles V: On the Conquest of the Aztecs - Herando Cortes,
1521
 Of Cannibals. Michel de Montaigne, 1580.
 Account of His First Voyage - Amerigo Vespucci, 1497.
 Images
 Unknown. “Cognoscenti in a Room hung with Pictures” (1620)
 Unknown Dutch. “Banten, Java, Indonesia.” 17th century.
 Unknown. “The Taking of Constantinople by the Turks, April 22,
1453.”
 Ptolemy. “Geography.” 1486
 Diego Munoz Camargo. “Dona Marina Translating for Hernando
Cortes During His Meeting with
Montezuma.” 1519
 Titian. “Philip II.” ca. 1533
 Additional Documents
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Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
Map. The Fifteenth-Century Afro-Eurasian Trading World
Map. Overseas Exploration and Conquest in the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries
 Map. Seaborne Trading Empires in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Exam Review
Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ (emphasis on introduction
paragraph & outline with evidence)
Unit 5
Chapter 15: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, 1589 to 1725
 10/8 to 10/22
 Read pgs. 462-501
 Seventeenth Century Crisis & Rebuilding
 Absolutism in France & Spain
 Absolutism in Austria & Prussia
 Development of Russian and the Ottoman Empire
 Alternatives to Absolutism in England and the Dutch Republic
 Baroque Art & Music
 Writing skills
 Readings
 Edict of Nantes - Henry IV (1598)
 Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture - Jacques-Benigne
Bossuet (1679)
 Memoir on Finances - Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1670)
 Edicts and Decrees: Imposing Western Styles on the Russians - Peter the Great
(1699-1723)
 Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes (1651)
 Second Treatise of Civil Government - John Locke (1690)
 Images
 Hyacinthe Riguad. “Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre” (1701)
 Van Dyck. “Charles I at the Hunt” (ca. 1635)
 Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. “Second Set of Russian Etchings” (1765)
 Grigory Musikiysky. “Peter the Great” (1723)
 Jan Steen. “The Merry Family” (1668)
 Pieter Bruegel the Elder. “Netherlandish Proverbs” (1559)
 Pieter Bruegel the Elder. “Triumph of Death” (1562)
 Pieter Bruegel the Elder. “The Peasant Dance” (1568)
 Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Europe After the Peace of Utrecht (1715)
 Exam Review
 Quarter Exam will reflect Units 1-5
 Multiple choice exam will be administered on 10/22
 FRQ/DBQ Exam will be administered on 10/23
 Mastery Manager will be utilized for scoring and data analysis
 Scores for the Q1 and Q2 exams will be used to generate
a 1st semester common final exam grade
Unit 6
Chapter 16: Toward a New Worldview, 1540 to 1789
 10/23 to 11/5
 Read pgs. 502-539
 The Scientific Revolution
 The Enlightenment
 Enlightened Absolutism
 Writing Skills
 Readings
 On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres - Nicolaus Copernicus (1542)
 On Superstition and the Virtue of Science - Francis Bacon (1620)
 Essay on the Forms of Government - Frederick the Great (ca. 1740)
 The Spirit of Laws: On the Separation of Governmental Powers - Charles De
Secondat, Baron De Montesquieu (1748)
 The Social Contract: On Popular Sovereignty and the General Will - JeanJacques Rousseau (1762)
 Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind - Marie Jean
Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet (1793-1794)
 Images
 Maria Sibylla Merian. “Metamorphoses of the Caterpillar and Moth”
 Andreas Vesalius. “Frontispiece to De Humani Corporis Fabrica”
(1543)
 Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 The Partition of Poland, 1772-1795
 The War of Austrian Succession, 1740-1748
 The Pale of Settlement, 1791
 Exam Review
 Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Unit 7
Chapter 17: The Expansion of Europe, 1650 to 1800
 11/6 to 11/19
 Read pgs. 540-573
 Working the Land
 The Beginning of the Population Explosion
 The Growth of Rural Industry
 The Debate over Urban Guilds
 Building the Global Economy
 Writing Skills
 Readings
 Political Essays Concerning the Present State of the British Empire - Arthur
Young (1772)
 The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith (1776)
 On the Slave Trade in Guinea - Captain Willem Bosman (ca. 1700)
 Speech in the House of Commons on India - Robert, First Baron Clive (1772)
 Images
 Hendrick Sorgh. “The Vegetable Market” (1662)
 Decker Cornelis Gerritz. “The Weaver’s Repose”
 Jose de Alcibar. “De Espanol y Negra, Mulato” (ca. 1760-1770)
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Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map: Industry and Population in Eighteenth-Century Europe
 Map: The Atlantic Economy 1701
 Graph: Exports of English Manufactured Goods, 1700-1774
 Map: European Claims in North America Before and After the Seven Years’
War, 1755-1763
Exam Review
Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Unit 8
Chapter 18: Life in the Era of Expansion, 1650 to 1800
 11/20 to 12/5
 Read pgs. 574-609
 Marriage & Family
 Children & Education
 Popular Culture & Consumerism
 Religious Authority & Beliefs
 Medical Practice
 Writing Skills
 Readings
 Births and Deaths in an English Gentry Family - Edmond Williamson (17091720)
 Some Thoughts Concerning Education - John Locke (1693)
 The Ground Rules for Methodism - John Wesley (1749)
 A Treatise on Toleration - Voltaire (1763)
 On Smallpox Inoculations - Mary Wortley Montagu (ca. 1717)
 Images
 Jean-Francois Janinet. “Mademoiselle Bertin” (1780)
 Francois Boucher. “The Fashion Merchant” ( 1746)
 James Gillray. “The Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation!” (1802)
 Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map: Literacy in France, ca. 1789
 Exam Review
 Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Unit 9
Chapter 20: The Revolution in Energy and Industry, 1780 to 1850
 12/8-12/19
Read pgs: 654-683
 The Industrial Revolution in Britain
 Industrialization in Continental Europe
 Relations Between Capital and Labor
 Writing Skills
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Readings
 “On the Principle of Population” - Thomas Malthus (1798)
 “Conservative Repression” - Jeremy Bentham (1851)
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“The First Chartist Petition: Demands for Change in England” - 1848
“Women Miners in the English Coal Pits” - From Great Britain, Parliamentary
Papers, 1842
 “Conditions in Nottingham in 1840” - General Sir Charles Napier
Images
 Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization –
o http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrevtabs1.asp
 An Animated Model of the Rocket (From the BBC) –
o http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/hst329_p3.html
 1830:Wages of Factory Workers in Leeds - statistical chart
 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRwages.htm
 “Child Labor in the Mines”
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/child
ren_in_coal_mines/
 “L’avenue de l’Opera, Paris” - Camille Pissaro - 1898
 “View of Rouen” - Camille Pissaro - 1898
 “Manchester from Kersal Moor” - William Wylde (1857).
Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
Exam Review
Quarter Exam will reflect Units 6-10
 Multiple choice exam will be administered on 01/14
 FRQ/DBQ Exam will be administered on 01/14
 Mastery Manager will be utilized for scoring and data analysis
 Scores for the Q1 and Q2 exams will be used to generate
a 1st semester common final exam grade
Unit 10
Chapter 19: The Revolution in Politics, 1775 to 1815
 12/20-1/15
 The following reading assignments are required
during winter break:
 Read pgs. 610 – 647
 Background to Revolution
 Politics and the People
 World War & Republican France
 The Napoleonic Era
 Writing Skills
 Readings
 “What is the Third Estate” - Abbe Sieyes (1789)
 “The Declaration of the Rights of Man” (1789)
 “Declaration of the Rights of Woman” - Olympe de Gourges (1792)
 “The Terror Justified” - Maximilien Robespierre (1794)
 “Reflections on the Revolution in France” - Edmund Burke (1790)
 “Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte” - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1798)
 “Proclamation to the French Troops” - Napoleon Bonaparte (1796)
 Images
 “Gargantua.” - Honore Daumier - 1831
 “Napoleons Russia Campaign of 1812” - Charles Joseph Minard (1869)
 “The Third of May,1808” - Francisco de Goya (1814)
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Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
Exam Review
Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Unit 11
Chapter 21: Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815 to 1850
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01/20 to 01/30
 Read pgs: 682-712
 The Aftermath of the Napoleonic War
 The Spread of Radical Ideas
 The Romantic Movement
 Reforms and Revolutions Before 1848
 The Revolutions of 1848
 Readings
 “Carlsbad Decrees” - (1819)
 “On Liberty” - J.S. Mill (1859)
 “What Is Property” - Pierre Proudhon (1840)
 “The Communist Manifesto” - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848)
 Images
 “Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway” - J.M.W. Turner
 “The Death of Sardanapalus” - Eugene Delacroix
 “Liberty Leading the People” - Eugene Delacroix
 “Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi” - Eugene Delacroix
 “The Wanderer” - Caspar Friedrich
 “Napoleon” - Jacques-Louis David
 “Marat” - Jacques-Louis David
 Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials [C3
 Writing Skills
 Exam Review
 Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Unit 12
Chapter 22: Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840 to 1900
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01/30 to 02/06
 Read pgs. 716-746
 Taming the City
 Rich and Poor and Those in Between
 The Changing Family
 Science and Thought
 Writing Skills
 Readings
 “London Labour and London Poor” - Henry Mayhew (1860)
 “Inquiry into the Condition of the Poor” - Sir Edwin Chadwick (1842)
 “The Descent of Man” - Charles Darwin (1871)
 “The Interpretation of Dreams” - Sigmund Freud - (1899)
 “The Experimental Novel” - Emile Zola - 1880
 “Hard Times” - Charles Dickens - 1854
 “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” - George Bernard Shaw (1893)
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“The Subjection of Women” - John Stuart Mill (1869)
“Father and Son” - Sir Edmund Gosse (1907)
Images
 “Over London By Rail” - Gustave Dore (1870)
 “The Laundress” - Honoré Daumier (1863)
Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
Exam Review
Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Unit 13
Chapter 23: The Age of Nationalism, 1850 to 1914
 02/07 to 02/20
 Read pgs. 752-787
 Napoleon III in France
 Nation Building in Italy and Germany
 Nation Building in the United States
 The Modernization of Russia and the Ottoman Empire
 The Responsive National State, 1871-1914
 Marxism and the Socialist Movement
 Writing Skills
 Readings
 Otto Von Bismarck - Speech before the Reichstag; On the Law of Worker’s
Compensation, 1884
 John Leighton - Paris Under the Commune, 1871
 Emile Zola - “J’Accuse” the french army, 1898
 Leo Pinsker, Auto-Emancipation: A Russian Zionist Makes the Case for a
Jewish Homeland, 1882
 Images
 Postcard - “The Expulsion of the Jews from Russia”1899
 Cafe Tortoni - Guerand, 1856
 Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel meet, Pietro Aldi, 1886
 Photo of wooden nesting dolls, 1895
 Photo of Russian family, 1875
 Postcard - ‘Votes for Women’, 1908
 Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map - Unification of Italy 1859-1870
 Map - Unification of Germany 1866-1871
 Map - The Crimean War 1853-1856
 Map - The Russian Revolution of 1905
 Exam Review
 Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Unit 14
Chapter 24: The West & The World, 1815 to 1914
 02/21 to 02/28
 Read pgs: 788-821
 Industrialization and the World Economy
 The Great Migration
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Western Imperialism
Responding to Western Imperialism
Writing Skills
Readings
 Commissioner Lin, Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839
 Jules Ferry, Speech before the French Chamber of Deputies, 1884
 Sir Henry Morton Stanley, European Imperialism in Africa, 1909
 Mark Twain, King Leopold's Soliloquy, 1905
 The Boxers Declare Death to “Foreign Devils,”1900
 J.A. Hobson, Imperialism, 1902
Images
 Italian poster advertising sailings to USA, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina,
1906
 Photo - Cramped steerage passengers, 1902
 French newspaper - Demonizing the Boxer Rebellion
Additional Documents
 Map - European Investment to 1914
 Map - The Partition of Africa
 Map - Asia in 1914
 Map - The Suez Canal, 1869
 Map The struggle for South Africa, 1878
 Map - The Great Rebellion, 1857-1858
 Graph - The increase in European and World Populations, 1750-1940
 Graph - Emigration from Europe by decades, 1851-1940
 Graph - Origins and Destinations of European Emigrants, 1851-1960
 http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modmusic.asp#Nationalism
and Imperialism for music
 The "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves", Va Pensiero, from Verdi's opera
Nabucco, 1842, and The "Triumphal March" from Verdi's opera, Aïda, 1871
 British Imperialistic Anthems
 Rule Britannia, Land of Hope and Glory, God Save the Queen, The
British Grenadiers, Jerusalem, and I Vow to Thee My Country
Exam Review
Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Unit 15
Chapter 25: War and Revolution, 1914 to 1919
 03/03 to 03/12
 Read pgs. 822-861
 The Road to War
 Waging Total War
 The Home Front
 The Russian Revolution
 The Peace Settlement
 Writing Skills
 Readings
 Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, Telegram to the German Ambassador at
Vienna,
 July 6, 1914
 Wilfred Owen, Poems: “ Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Disabled”, 1917
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 Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, 1933
 Helen Swanwick, The War in its Effect Upon Women, 1916
 Vladimir Lenin, What is to be Done?, 1902
Images
 Paul Nash, The Mule Track, 1918
 Paul Nash,Life in World War 1, 1918
 Photo, Nationalist Opposition in the Balkans, 1914
 Postcard, French victory over the Germans, 1914
Additional Documents
 Music taken from the following site:
 http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modmusic.asp#Nationalism
and Imperialism
 Di Shvue (The Vow)
 The song of the Bund, the dominant party among East European Jews.
 IWW Songs
 The Internationale
 The Red Flag
 The anthem of the British Labour Party
 Pack Up Your Troubles, British war song
 Documents taken from
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook39.asp
 Tsar Nicholas II, Abdication, March 15, 1917
 The First Provisional Government, Izvestiia, 3 March 1917
 Resolutions adopted by the First All-Russian Congress of Soviest, June
1917
 Vladmir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): On His April Theses
 Vladmir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Call to Power, Oct 24, 1917
 Declaration of the Rights of the Toilng and Exploited Peoples, 1917(?)
 Vladmir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): On the Organization of and
Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter Revolution, Letter to
Dzerzhinskii, December 19, 1917
 The origins of the Cheka, NKVD, and KGB.
 Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky: Leo Trotsky, from Revolutionary
Silhouttes [At Marxists.org]
 John Reed: 10 Days that Shook the World
 Images ( Photos, propaganda posters, postcards and documents taken
from WW1 collection at Imperial War Museum at
http://www.iwm.org.uk
Exam Review
Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Unit 16
Chapter 26: The Age of Anxiety, 1900 to 1940
 03/13 to 03/20
 Read Pgs. 862-895
 Uncertainty in Modern Thought
 Modernism in Architecture, Art and Music
 An Emerging Consumer Society
 The Search for Peace and Political Stability
 The Great Depression, 1929-1939
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Writing Skills
Readings
 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: God Is Dead, the Victim of Science,
1882
 Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900
 John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace: An
Analysis
of the Versailles Treaty, 1920
 British Beauty, 1926
Images
 George Grosz, Inside and Outside,1926
 Swedish Cartoon, Unlocking the power of the Atom, 1927
 Picasso, Guernica, 1937
 Berthe Morisot, In the Dining Room,
 Monet, Sunrise, 1872
 Anti- French poster, “Hands off the Ruhr”, 1923
 Josephine Baker in Paris,1925
 Photo, Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother,1936
 Photo, Soup Kitchen, 1931
 Weimar Movie poster, ‘Metropolis’,1927
 Issac Soyer, Employment Agency
Additional Documents
 A selection of Poetry from different nations taken from
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook40.asp
 Sigmund Freud: Civilization & Die Weltanschauung, 1918
 Oswald Spengler: The Decline of The West, 1922
 Paul Valéry: On European Civilization and the European Mind, c.
1919, 1922
 T.S. Eliot: Gerontion
 T.S. Eliot: Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
 T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land, 1922
 T.S. Eliot: The Hollow Men, 1925
 Franz Kafka (1883-1924): The Trial,
 Franz Kafka (1883-1924): Metamorphosis,
 James Joyce: Finnegan's Wake,
 D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover, full text [At Bibliomania]
 Bertrand Russell: Icarus, or, the Future of Science, 1924 [At
Marxists.org]
 Bertrand Russell: On Modern Uncertainty, 1932
 Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963): Brave New World, 1932,
 W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : The Unknown Citizen, March 1939, part of
Poems
 Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936): Poems,
Exam Review
Quarter Exam will reflect Units 11-16
 FRQ/DBQ Exam will be administered on 03/19
 Multiple choice exam will be administered on 03/20
 Mastery Manager will be utilized for scoring and data analysis
 Scores for the Q3 exam and Q4 cumulative project will be used to
generate a 2nd semester common final exam grade. The cumulative
project will include a writing portion, as well as a presentation
portion that incorporates the use of quality visuals.
Unit 17
Chapter 27: Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919 to 1945
 03/30 to 04/08
 Read Pg: 896-933
 Authoritarian States
 Stalin’s Soviet Union
 Mussolini and Fascism in Italy
 Hitler and Nazism in Germany
 The Second World War
 Writing Skills
 Readings
 Joseph Stalin, An Interview with H.G. Wells: Marxism & Liberalism, July 23, 1934
 Joseph Stalin, No Slowdown in Tempo, February 4, 1931
 Vladimir Tchernavin, I Speak for the Silent: Stalinist Interrogation Techniques
Revealed, 1930
 Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf: The Art of Propaganda, 1924
 Winston Churchill, Speech before the House of Commons, June 18, 1940
 Traian Popovici, Mein Bekenntnis: The Ghettoization of the Jews, 1941
 Images
 Soviet Propaganda Posters: Soldiers Go Forward Under the Banner of Lenin, 1941
 Soviet Propaganda Posters: Napoleon’s 1812 Defeat at Russian Hands, 1945
 Nazi Propaganda Posters: Volkswagen Advertisement, 1938
 Nazi Propaganda Posters: All Germany Listens to the Fuhrer on the People’s Radio,
1934
 Photo: Eugenics in Nazi Germany, 1933
 Photo: Fascist Youth on Parade, 1939
 Photo: Nuclear Wasteland at Hiroshima, 1945
 Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map. The Italian Campaign, 1935-36
 Map. The Growth of Nazi Germany, 1933-39
 Map. World War II in Europe and Africa, 1939-1945
 Map. Vichy France, 1940
 Map. The Holocaust, 1941-1945
 Map. World War II in the Pacific, 1942-1945
 Exam Review
 Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Unit 18*
 Chapter 28: Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945 to 1965
 04/09 to 04/22
 Read Pgs. 935-969
 Post War Europe and the Origins of the Cold War
 The Western Renaissance
 Soviet Eastern Europe
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Postwar Social Transformations
Writing Skills
Readings
 George C. Marshall, An American Plan to Rebuild a Shattered Europe, June 5,
1947
 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: The
Stalinist Gulag, 1962
 Generals Leslie R. Groves and Thomas F. Farrell, Witnesses to the Birth of
the Atomic Age, July 18, 1945
 Frantz Fanon, The Wretched Earth, 1961
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex: Existential Feminism, 1949
Images
 Photo of Sculpture: Life in Eastern Europe, 1952
 Soviet Propaganda Posters: “We are a peaceful people but our armored train
stands in ready reserve”, 1950’s
 Photo: Displaced Persons in the Ruins of Berlin, 1945
 Photo: The Big Three, 1945
 Photo: The Berlin Airlift, 1949
 Photo: Rebellion in East Germany, 1953
 Photo: May Day Parade in Nowa Huta, 1951
 Photo: Gandhi Arrives in New Delhi, 1939
 Photo: French Checkpoint in Algeria, 1962
 Photo: British Teddy Boys, 1953
Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map. The Aftermath of World War II in Europe, ca. 1945-50
 Map. Cold War Europe in the 1950’s, 1950-59
 Map. Decolonization in Africa and Asia, 1947 to the Present
 Map. Israel, 1948
 Map. The Suez Crisis, 1956
Unit 19*
Chapter 29: Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960 to 1991
 04/09 to 04/22
 Read Pgs. 970-1005
 Reform & Protest in the 1960s
 Changing Consensus in Western Europe
 The Decline of “Really Existing Socialism”
 The Revolutions of 1989
 Writing Skills
 Readings
 Solidarity Union, Twenty One Demands: A Call for Workers’ Rights and Freedoms in a
Socialist State, 1980
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex: a Feminist Critique of Marriage, 1949
 Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World,
1987
 Jeff Widener, Tank Man, Tiananmen Square, 1989
 Alex Harvey, “Give My Compliments to the Chief”, 1975
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Vaclav Havel, New Year’s Address to the Nation, 1980
Images
 Photo: A West German Leader Apologizes for the Holocaust, 1970
 Photo: Braniff Airways Hostesses, ca. 1968
 Photo: Swinging London, 1967
 Photo: Student Rebellion in Paris, 1968
 Photo: The Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968
 Photo: The Social Consequences of Thatcherism, 1984
 Photo: Italian Feminists, 1977
 Photo: Green Party Representatives Enter Parliament, 1983
 Photo: Crossing the Border between East and West Berlin, 1965
 Photo: Lech Walesa and Solidarity, 1980
 Photo: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989
 Photo: Demonstrators During the Velvet Revolution, 1989
 Resists a Coup by Russian Communist Hardliners, 1991
Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map. Pollution in Europe, ca. 1990
 Map. The Soviet War in Afghanistan, 1979-89
 Map. Democratic Movements in Eastern Europe, 1989
 Map. Reunification of Germany, 1990
Exam Review* –Units 18 and 19 will be combined
Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
From April 23, 2015 through May 8, 2015, there will be in school reviews of
all chapters up to the day before the test, May 7, 2015. The final chapter of
the text, which is not incorporated on the exam, will be covered after the test
is over.
2014 Advanced Placement European History Exam
 Wednesday, May 8th at 12 p.m.
 General AP Exam Testing Window (05/04 to 05/15)
Unit 20
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Chapter 30: Europe in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to Present
05/11 to 05/20
Read Pgs. 1006
 Rebuilding Russia and Eastern Europe
 The New Global System
 Toward a Multicultural Continent
 Confronting Twenty-First Century Challenges
Writing Skills
Readings
 Kofi Annan, The Fall of Srebrenica: An Assessment, 1999
 Amartya Sen, A World Not Neatly Divided, November 23, 2001
 Tariq Ramadan, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, 2004
 Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, 1992
Images
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Photo: Life in an Age of Globalization, 2009
Photo: Rich and Poor in Today’s Russia, 2005
Photo: Vladimir Putin on Vacation in 2009, 2009
Photo: Protesting Globalization, 2001
Photo: Financial Meltdown in Iceland, 2010
Photo: The Changing Face of London’s Arsenal Football Club, 1950 & 2010
Photo: National Front Campaign Poster, 2009
Photo: Terrorist Attack in Madrid, 2004
Photo: Dutch Troops in Afghanistan, 2010
Photo: Demonstrating for Peace, 2006
Additional Documents
 Appropriate maps, graphs, charts and statistical materials
 Map. Russia and the Successor States, 1991-2010
 Map. The Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1991-2006
 Map. The European Union, 2010
 Map. Iraq, ca. 2010
 Map. Primary Oil and Gas Pipelines to Europe, ca. 2005
Exam Review
Exam: Cumulative multiple choice & DBQ/FRQ
Cumulative Project
 Scores for the Q3 exam and Q4 cumulative project
will be used to generate a 2nd semester common
final exam grade. The cumulative project will include a
writing portion, as well as a presentation portion that
incorporates the use of quality visuals.
 Seniors will present early