AP European Syllabus – Mr Lahey
Syllabus
Course Overview
This course covers European history from 1450 to the present. Its main theme is
the development of modern political, social, economic and cultural institutions after the
breakup of the medieval synthesis. It is designed with the aim both of preparing students
for the AP Exam and helping them understand the historical forces that shape
contemporary society. It aims at developing an historical consciousness in the student
with which he or she may better understand why society is as it is, how it came to be, and
how it can be changed. As such, in addition to familiarizing the students with the basic
narrative of European history (and the narrative of Europe’s history in relation to its
interaction with the rest of the world), it aims to give students the ability to analyze
historical evidence, recognize different points of view, and write intelligently about their
own interpretations of history.
In addition to the text book, students will be asked to read a variety of primary
sources, charts, graphs, maps, and scholarly secondary sources. Emphasis will be placed
on higher-order thinking skills.
Materials
McKay, John P., Bennett D. Hill and John Buckler, A History of Western Society: Since
1300, 7th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. ISBN 0-618-27074-4
Perry, Marvin, Joseph R. Peden, and Theodore H. Von Laue, eds. Sources of the Western
Tradition. 2 vols, 5th ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. ISBN 0-618-16228-3
Sherman, Dennis, ed. Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations,
Renaissance to the Present. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004
Goldman, Richard M., ed. The Social Dimension of Western Civilization. 2 vols, 4th ed,
Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 1999. ISBN 0-312-18253-8
Lualdi, Katherine J., ed. The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, vol. 2, 3rd ed.,
Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2009. ISBN-13:978-0-312-46518-6
Heilbroner, Robert L. The Worldly Philosophers. 3rd ed., New York: Simon and Schuster,
1969. ISBN 671-20151-4
Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Fordham)
Chapter 13 The Renaissance
Day 1
Political, Economic and Social Causes of the Italian Renaissance
- Evolution of the Italian Renaissance
- Balance of Power Among Italian City-States
Readings: McKay, pp. 415-421
Map of Northern Italy
Day 2
Intellectual Hallmarks of the Renaissance
- Individualism
- Humanism
- Secular Spirit
Readings:
McKay, pp. 421-423
On the Misery of the Human Condition, Innocent III
Oration on the Dignity of Man, Pico
Shakespeare, soliloquy, Hamlet Act II, scene ii, “What a thing is man….”
Day 3 and Day 4
- Art and Power
- Status of the Artist
Renaissance Art
Power Point Presentation, Revival of Classical models in Architecture,
Sculpture and Painting
Readings:
McKay, pp. 424-429
Alberti, On Painting (Perry)
Petrarch, the Father of Humanism (Perry)
Leonardo Bruni, Love for Greek Literature (Perry)
Day 5
Social and Political Change
- Education and Political Thought
- Printed Word
- Clocks
- Women and Work
- Culture and Sexuality
- Slavery and Ethnicity
Readings:
McKay, pp. 430-440
Day 6
Northern Renaissance
- Influence of Christian Humanism (Lay piety)
Readings:
McKay, pp. 440-443
Images: Van Eyck, Rogier, Master of Flemalle, Durer
Day 7
Politics and the State in the Renaissance
- France
- England
- Spain
Readings:
McKay, pp. 443-449
Machiavelli, The Prince (Perry)
Day 8
Chapter Test
Chapter 14
Reformation and Renewal
Day 1
Theological and Social Roots of the Reformation
Readings:
Teacher Handout (Causes of Reformation)
Precursors: Wycliffe, Hus (excerpts from Fordham website)
Day 2
The Condition of the Church
- Signs of Disorder
- Signs of Vitality
Readings:
McKay, pp. 455-458
Thomas a Kempis: Imitation of Christ (Perry)
Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (Perry)
Day 3
Martin Luther and the Birth of Protestantism
- Luther’s Early Years
- The Ninety-Five Theses
- Protestant Thought
- The Social Impact of Luther’s Beliefs
Readings:
McKay, pp. 459-466
Luther, The Ninety-Five Theses (excerpts)
Freedom of the Christian (excerpts)
Day 4
Germany and the Protestant Reformation
- the Rise of the Habsburg Dynasty
- the Political Impact of Luther’s Beliefs
Readings:
McKay, pp. 466-470
Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (excerpts)
Papal Bull, Condemning the Errors of Martin Luther(excerpts)
Map of Habsburg Empire
Day 5
The Peasants Revolt
Readings:
Steve Ozment, “Turning the World Upside Down”, from Protestantism:
The Birth Of A Revolution
Twelve Articles (Fordham)
Day 6-7
The Growth of the Protestant Reformation
- Calvinism
- The Anabaptists
- The English Reformation
- The Establishment of the Church of Scotland
- Protestantism in Ireland
- Lutheranism in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Readings:
McKay, pp.470-477
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
The Suppression of Glastonbury Abbey (from Fordham)
Religious Map of Europe
Day 8-9 The Catholic Reformation and the Counter-Reformation
- Slowness of Institutional Reform
- Council of Trent
- New Religious Orders
- The Congregation of the Holy Office
- Reformation: Revolution or Continuity
Readings:
McKay, pp. 477-484
Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (Perry)
Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (Perry)
Image: Bernini’s St. Theresa
Day 9-10
- Class work on DBQ topic: Reformation
- Review for Test
Day 11
- Test on Chapter 14 The Reformation
Chapter 15 Religious Wars and Expansion
Week One: Age of Expansion
Week Two: Witch Craze/ Witch Craze DBQ
Day 1-2
The Age of Religious Wars and European Expansion
- Politics, Religion and War
- The Origins of Difficulties in France
- Religious Riots and Civil War in France
- The Netherlands under Charles V
- Revolt of the Netherlands
- Philip II and the Spanish Armada
- The Thirty Years War
- Germany After the War
Readings:
McKay, pp. 489-502
Queen Elizabeth, “Against the Spanish Armada”
Edict of Nantes
De Thou, Histoire des choses arrivees de son temps (Massacre of St.
Bartholemew’s Day)
Day 3-4
Discovery, Reconnaissance and Expansion
- Overseas Exploration and Conquest
- Technology and Expansion
- Motives of the Explorers
- Columbus
Readings:
McKay, pp. 502-512
Age of Conquest and Exploration (Perry)
Castillo: The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico (Perry)
- Later Explorers
- The Economic Effects of Spain’s Discoveries in the New World
- Colonial Administration
Day 5
Review of Chapter 15, part 1
Day 6
Chapter test Chapter 15 part 1
Chapter 15, Week Two
Readings from Perry on Witch Craze:
Introduction to the Witch Craze
Sprenger and Kramer, The Hammer of Witches
N. Malebranche, The Search After Truth
J. Junius, Confession of Witchcraft
Do associated questions.
Day 1-3
Changing Attitudes
- The Status of Women
- The Great European Witch-hunt
- European Slavery and the Origins of American Racism
Readings:
McKay, pp. 512-519
In Class review and assign DBQ on The Witch Craze
Days 4-5
Literature and Art
- The Essay: Montaigne
- Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature
- Baroque Art and Music
Readings:
McKay, pp. 519-524
Day 6
PowerPoint Presentation on Baroque Music and Architecture
Day 7
DBQ due
In class review
Chapter 16
Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe
Day 1-2
Absolutism
- The Foundations of French Absolutism
- The Absolute Monarchy of Louis XIV
- Financial And Economic Management Under Louis XIV
- Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
- French Classicism
- Louis XIV’s Wars
- The Decline of Absolutist Spain
Readings:
McKay, pp. 531-548
Duc de St. Simon: An Assessment of Louis XIV
The Political Testament, Cardinal Richelieu
(Excerpt, Imperial Overreach?)
King James 1610 Address to Parliament
Leviathan (excerpts from Fordham)
Images of civic chaos in France, England, continent
Day 3-5
Constitutionalism
- The Decline of Royal Absolutism in England
- Religious Issues
- Puritan Absolutism in England: Cromwell and the Protectorate
- The Restoration
- Triumph of Parliament: Constitutional Government and Cabinet Government
- The Dutch Republic in the 1600’s
Readings:
McKay, pp. 548-560
Declaration of Right
Petition of Right
Locke – Treatise on Government
Levellers – Agreement Among the People
Putney Debates
Wistanley, Levellers’ Standard
Statement of the Levellers
Day 6
Test Chapter 16
DBQ on English Revolutions (Puritan and Glorious)
Chapter 17
Absolutism in Eastern Europe to 1740
Day 1
Lords and Peasants in Eastern Europe
- The Medieval Background
- The Consolidation of Serfdom
Readings:
McKay, pp. 565-569
Day 2-3
The Rise of Austria and Prussia
- Austria and the Ottomon Turks
- Prussia in the Seventeenth Century
- Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism
Readings:
McKay, pp. 569-576
Day 4-6
The Development of Russia
- The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow
- Tsar and People to 1689
- The Reforms of Peter the Great
Readings:
McKay, pp. 576-585
Day 7-8
Absolutism and Baroque Architecture
- Palaces and Power
- Royal Cities
- Growth of St. Petersburg
Readings:
McKay, pp. 585-589
Listening to the Past: A Foreign Traveler in Russia (McKay, pp. 590-591)
Powerpoint on Baroque Architecture
Day 8
Test, Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Toward a New World-view
Day 1-3
The Scientific Revolution
- Scientific Though in 1500
- The Copernican Hypothesis
- From Brahe to Galileo
- Newton’s Synthesis
- Causes of the Scientific Revolution
- Some Consequences of the Scientific Revolution
Readings:
McKay, pp. 595-605
Images of geocentric and heliocentric models of universe (Aristotelian and
Ptolemaic models)
From Perry:
Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Galileo – Letter to the Grand Duchesse Christina
Bellarmine – Attack on the Copernican Theory
Galileo – The Starry Messenger
Francis Bacon – Preface to Novum Organum; Refutation of Philosophies
Descartes – Discourse on Method
Newton – Principia Mathematica
Secondary Sources: From Sherman
M Postan, Why Was Science Backward in the Middle Ages?
G. Clark, Early Modern Europe: Motives for Scientific Revolution
J. Ben-David, The Scientific Role: A Sociocultural Interpretation
of the Scientific Revolution
B. Anderson, J. Zinnser, No Scientific Revolution for Women
Day 4-6
The Enlightenment
- The Emergence of the Enlightenment
- The Philosophes and the Public
- The Later Enlightenment
- Urban Culture and Public Opinion
Readings:
McKay, pp. 605-614
Teacher Handout: Public Opinion and the Public Sphere
From Perry:
Kant, What is Enlightenment?
Voltaire, A Plea for Tolerance and Reason
Condorcet, On the Progress of the Human Mind
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (From Sherman)
Listening to the Past: Voltaire on Religion
Day -7
The Enlightenment and Absolutism
- Frederick the Great of Prussia
- Catherine the Great of Russia
- The Austrian Habsburgs
- Absolutism in France
- The Overall Influence of the Enlightenment
Readings:
McKay, pp. 615-624
DBQ on Enlightenment due.
Chapter 19
The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century
Day 1-2
Agriculture and the Land
- The Open-Field System and Medieval agriculture
- The Agricultural Revolution
- England and the Low Countries
- The Cost of Enclosure
Readings:
McKay, pp. 630-636
Assignment: Heilbroner, Worldly Philosophers, Chapter III (Adam Smith) (read for
Two page summary due at end of unit)
Day 3
The Beginning of the Population Explosion
- Limitations on Population Growth
- New Patterns of the Eighteenth Century
The Grown of the Cottage Industry
- The Putting-Out System
- The Textile Industry
Readings:
McKay, pp. 637-645
From Perry:
Smith, Wealth of Nations
Malthus, On the Principle of Population
Day 4-5
Building the Atlantic Economy
- Mercantilism and the Colonial Wars
- Land and Labor in British America
- Growth of Foreign Trade
- The Atlantic Slave Trade
- Revival in Colonial Latin America
Readings:
McKay, pp. 645-655
Individuals in Society – Olaudah Equiano
NEED CHARTS, MAPS, ETC.
Day 6
Adam Smith and Economic Liberalism
- Capitalism and the Free Market
- Review of Heilbroner
TEST, DBQ?
Chapter 20
The Changing Life of the People
Day 1-2
Family Life in the Eighteenth Century
- Extended and Nuclear Families
- Work Away from Home
- Pre-marital sex and Community Controls
- New Patterns of Marriage and Illegitimacy
Readings:
McKay, pp. 661-666
MORE
Children and Education
- Foundlings and Infanticide
- Attitudes Towards Children
- Schools and Popular Literature
Readings
McKay, pp. 667-671
Individuals in Society: Excerpt from Emile
Day 3-4
Food and Medical Practice
- Diets and Nutrition
- Impact of Diet on Health
- Medical Practitioners
- Hospitals and Medical Experience
Readings:
McKay, pp. 671-679
J. McManners, Death’s Arbitrary Empire (from Golden)
Day 5
Religion and Popular Culture
- Institutional Church
- Protestant Revival
- Catholic Piety
- Leisure and Recreation
Readings:
McKay, pp. 679-685
Day 6
Test
DBQ?
Chapter 21
The Revolution in Politics 1775-1815
Day 1
Overview of “world-historical” significance of the Revolution.
Assign French Revolution DBQ
Read: Lynn Hunt, The French Revolution and Human Rights, introductory chapter
Assign one-two page ORQ re this reading(due on day 6)
“The French Revolution”, Sherman, pp. 85-87
Teacher Handout: Websites devoted to FR
Day 2
Origins of the French Revolution
- the American Revolution
- Collapse of the Old Regime
Read: Excerpts from, “A Bourgeois Puts His World In Order: The City as Text”, from
Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre
Day 3
Liberal, Moderate Phase of Revolution, 1789-1791
Read: From Perry
Sieyes, What is the Third Estate
Grievances of the Third Estate (Cahiers de Doleances)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens
Civil Constitution of the Clergy (Fordham)
Decree Abolishing Feudalism (Fordham)
Image: Tennis Court Oath, David
Day 4
Radical Revolution and Terror, 1792-1794
Read: From Perry:
The Levy in Mass
M. Robespierre, Republic of Virtue
Babeuf, Conspiracy of Equals
St. Just, Republican Institutes (Fordham)
Olympes de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women
Images: David, Death of Marat
Depictions of the French Revolutionary Crowd (from Imaging the French
Revolution (on the net)
Charts and maps, Internal Disturbances and the Reign of Terror (from Sherman)
Day 5
Thermidorean Reaction and Napoleonic Coup d’Etat
Read: McKay, pp. 712-720
Napoleon’s Proclamation to His Troops in Italy (Fordham)
19 Brumaire Declaration (Justification for Coup d’Etat)
Napoleon’s Account of the Internal Situation in France (Fordham)
Day 6
Napoleon and Empire
Map of Empire
- Napoleon’s Rule of France
- Napoleon’s Wars and Foreign Policy
- Peninsula Wars
Images: David, Coronation of Napoleon
David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Goya, 3rd of May
Goya, Disasters of War (WebGallery of Art website)
Day 7
Napoleon’s Defeat and Legacy
- Abdication
- Hundred Days and Waterloo
Reading:
Individuals and Society: Jacob Walter, German Draftee with Napoleon
From Sherman:
L. Bergeron, France Under Napoleon: Napoleon as Enlightened Despot
G. Rude, Napoleon as Preserver of the Revolution
B. Smith, Women and the Napoleonic Code
Day 8- Review of DBQ
Day 9 – Chapter test on F.R. and Napoleon
Chapter 22
The Revolution in Energy and Industry
Day 1 –Assign E.P. Thompson, “Time, Work Discipline and Industrial Capitalism”, from
Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
Industrial Revolution in Britain
Lecture: Agricultural and Commercial origins of England’s “Take-Off”
Readings:
McKay, pp. 728-734
From Perry:
Adam Smith, The Division of Labor
Malthus, On Population
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help and Thrift
Factory Rules
Sadler Commision, Report on Child Labor
Maps: Population Density in England, 1801
Population Density in England, 1851
Concentration of Industry in England, 1851
Day 2
Spread of Industrialization to Europe
Readings:
McKay, pp. 734-740
- Uneven Industrial Development on Continent
Maps and Charts:
Per Capital Levels of Industrialization, 1750-1913 (Sherman)
Continental Industrialization, ca 1850 (Sherman)
Spread of Railways in the nineteenth century (Fordham)
Day 3-4
Social Effects of Industrialization
Capital and Labor
- The Industrial Bourgoisie
- Workers
- Working Conditions
- The Sexual Division of Labor
Readings:
McKay, pp. 740-748
Leeds Woolen Worker’s Petition
Leeds Cloth Merchants’ Letter
Engels, Industrial Manchester
Andrew Ure, Philosophy of Manufactures
Day 5 – Chartism
Day 6 Test on Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Ideologies and Upheavals
Assign DBQ – Labor Protest in 19th Century Europe
Day 1
Conservatism and the Congress of Vienna
- Great Power participants
- Repression
- Map of Post-Congress Europe
Readings:
McKay, pp.755-761
Carlsbad Decrees (Perry)
Metternich, The Odious Ideas and their Philosophies (Perry)
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Day 2-3
Radical Ideas
- Liberalism (Political and Economic)
- Socialism (Utopian and Marxist)
- Nationalism (Liberal and Democratic)
Socialism (Utopian and “Scientific”)
- French Utopian Socialists
- Marx, the Communist Manifesto
Readings:
McKay, pp. 761-766
Mill, On Liberty (On Liberty)
Fourier, Theory of Social Organization (Fordham)
Blanc, The Organization of Labor (Fordham)
Marx, Communist Manifesto (excerpts)
Day 4-5
Romanticism
- PowerPoint presentation on Romantic Painters
o French, German, English Romantic painters
- Literary Romanticism (Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron)
- Political Romanticism (Mazzini)
- Beethoven
Readings:
McKay, pp. 766-770
Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey (excerpts)
Romantic Poets from www.poetseers.org/the_romantics
Mazzini, Young Italy (Perry)
Day 6-7
Reform and Revolution
- Greek Nationalism
- Reform in Britain (Peterloo, 1832 Reform Bill, Failure of Chartism)
Readings:
McKay, pp. 770-776
Images: Delacroix, Greece On The Ruins of Missolonghi, Massacre at
Chios
From Fordham:
Accounts of Peterloo Massacre
Macaulay, Speech on 1832 Reform Bill
The People’s Petition (Chartism)
Revolutions of 1830-1848
- 1830 and 1848 in France
- 1848 in Europe
Readings:
McKay, pp. 778-782
Tocqueville: the June Days (Perry)
Schurz: Revolution Spreads to the German States (Perry)
Listening to the Past: Faith in Democratic Nationalism(McKay)
Day 8
Test on chapter 23
Chapter 24
Life in the Emerging Urban Society
Day 1-2
Industry and Urbanization
- Urbanization
- Map of European Cities of 100,000 plus from 1800-1900
- Living Conditions
- Public Health
- Urban Planning (Haussmann and Paris)
PowerPoint on Paris before and after Haussmann
Readings:
McKay, pp. 787-795
Richard Evans, The Challenge of Cholera in Hamburg (from Golden)
Day 3 Discussion of Evans article
Day 4-5
Social Class Structures in Urban Society
- Social Structure
o Chart on Income Distribution 1913
- Middle Classes and Culture
- Working Classes and Culture
Readings:
McKay, pp. 796-804
Images in Society: Class and Gender Boundaries in Women’s Fashion
Sara S. Ellis, The Cult of Domesticity: A System of Middle-Class Values
and Social Duties
Day 5 -6
Family and Gender
- Premarital Sex and Marriage
- Gender Roles
- Child Rearing
Readings:
McKay, pp. 805-812
Packet from Perry on Prostitution.
Day 7-8
Science and Thought
- Positivism
- Darwinism
- Social Darwinism
- Realist Literature
Readings:
McKay, pp. 812-817
From Perry:
Belinsky, the Poetry of Reality
Zola, The Experimental Novel
Darwin, Natural Selection
Pius X, Syllabus Condemning the Errors of the Modernists
Spenser, Survival of the Fittest Applied to Human Kind
Day 9
Chapter Test
Chapter 25
The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914
Day1
Napoleon III and France
- 1848 and the Second Republic
- Second Empire and Modern Dictatorship
Readings:
McKay, pp. 823-825
Marx, 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (excerpt
Day 2 and 3
German and Italian Unification
- Italy to 1850
- Map, Unification of Italy, 1859-1870
- Competing Visions: Cavour and Garibaldi
- Germany Before Bismark
- Revolution From Above- Bismark
- Austro-Prussian War and Franco Prussian War
- Map: The Unification of Germany, 1866-1871
Readings:
McKay, 826-833
From Sherman:
B. Shafer, Nationalism: Myth and Reality
R. Grew, A Sterner Plan for Italian Unity
H. Holborn, German Unification
Day 4-5
Russian Modernization and Reform
- Reasons for Russian Backwardness
- Abolition of Serfdom and Other Reforms
- Sergei Witte and Russian Industrialization
- Russo-Japanese War and Revolution of 1905
- Duma, October Manifesto
Readings:
McKay, pp. 835-838
S. Witte, On the tasks for economic policy (Fordham)
German Social Reform, Republican France, Liberal England
- Kulturkampf
- German Social Insurance
- French 3rd Republic (Education and Anti-Clericalism)
- England: 1867 and 1884 Political Reform
- Liberal Party Reforms and Home Rule
Readings:
McKay, 838-844
Day 6
Modern Anti-Semitism
- Jewish Emancipation and rise of anti-semitism
- Dreyfus Affair
Readings:
McKay, pp. 845-846
From Perry:
Drumont: Jewish France
The Kishinev Progrom
Herzl: The Jewish State
Day 7-8
Marxism, Evolutionary Socialism, and Unions
- Socialist International
- Unions and Revisionism
Readings:
McKay, pp.846-850
From Fordham:
Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism
Millerand, Reformist Socialism
The Gotha Program
The Erfurt Manifesto
French Socialist Program
Day 9
Test Chapter 25
Chapter 26
The West and the World
Day 1
Assign DBQ on Imperialism
Industrialization and the World Economy
- Global Inequality
- The World Market
Readings:
McKay, pp. 855-860
Chart: Growth of Income per Person worldwide
Map: European Investment to 1914
Core and Periphery, Wallerstein (excerpt from Fordham)
Day 2
European Penetration of Asia and Egypt
- Opening of China and Japan
- Western Penetration of Egypt
Readings:
McKay, pp. 860-863
From Sherman:
E. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire
C. Hayes, Imperialism as a Nationalistic Phenomenon
D. Landes, The Effects of Imperialism
Day 3
The Great Migration
- The Pressure of Population
- European Migrants
- Asian Migrants
- Chart – Origin and Destination of European Migrants 1851-1960
- Xenophobia
Readings:
McKay, pp. 863-868
Day 4-6
Imperialism
- The Scramble for Africa and the Berlin Conference
Readings:
McKay, pp.868-877
Map. The Partition of Africa
Exent of European Colonialism in Statistical Terms (from Fordham)
Nell Painter, The White Man’s Burden (excerpts)
From Perry:
C. Rhodes, Confession of Faith
J. Chamberlain, the British Empire, etc.
K. Pearson: Social Darwinism
F. Fabri, Does Germany Need Colonies
Kipling, The White Man’s Burden
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Imperialism in Asia
o British India
o China, Opium Wars, and Concessions
o Imperialism’s Critics
Readings:
E. Morel, The Black Man’s Burden(from Perry)
Hobson, An early critique of Capitalism(from Perry)
Lenin, Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism (excerpts)
Excerpts from Mark Twain and William Jennings Bryan
Day 7
Chapter Test Chapter 26
DBQ Due
Chapter 27
World War I
Day 1 - Overview
Main Causes of World War I
- Alliance System
- Imperialism
- Nationalism
- The Fischer Thesis
Reading:
From Web, The Origins of World War I
(www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~zeppelin/originsww1.htm)
Day 2 -3
Prelude to War
- Bismark’s system of Alliances
- The Rival Blocs
- The Outbreak of War
Readings:
McKay, pp. 887-895
Chart: The Alliance system after 1871 (McKay)
Map: the Balkans before 1914
Reading Packet: From Perry:
Von Treitschke, The Greatness of War
Von Bernhardi:, Germany and the Next War
The Black Hand
Von Giesl, Austrian Response to the Assassination
S. Zweig, Vienna: the Rushing Feeling of Fraternity
Russell: London: Average Men and Women Were Delighted at the
Prospect of War
Day 4
The War
- The First Battle of the Marne
- Stalemate and Slaughter
- The Widening War
Readings:
McKay, pp. 895-900
Alistair Horne, The Price of Glory, Verdun 1916 (from Gordon)
W. Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
Day 5
Film: Paths of Glory
Day 6-7
Russian Revolution
- Fall of Imperial Russia
- The Provisional Government
- Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution
o Tactical Brilliance of Lenin
- Trotsky and the Seizure of Power
- Dictatorship and Civil War
- NEP
Readings:
McKay, pp. 904-910
Images: Soviet Realist Art
From Sherman:
Minutes of the Tsar’s Council of Ministers, 1915
Lenin, April Theses
Lenin, Speech to the Petrograd Soviet: the Bolsheviks in Power
M. Florinsky, The February Revolution in Russia
R. Daniels, Red October: The Bolshevik Revolution on 1917
Day 8
Versailles
- The End of the War
- Revolution in Germany
- Terms and Conditions of the Treaty
- Map: Shattered Empires and Territorial Changes After World War I
- Problems Created by Versailles
Readings:
McKay, pp. 911-916
Wilson, The Idealistic View (Perry)
German Delegation to Paris Peace Conference: A Peace of Might (Perry)
Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (excerpts, Fordham)
Day 9
Chapter Test Chapter 27
Chapter 28
The Age of Anxiety
Day 1
Uncertainty in Modern Thought
- Decline in western faith in reason and progress in aftermath of WWI
- Nietzsche, Sorel, Freud
- Related Developments in the physical sciences (Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principal)
- Joyce, Wolfe, Spengler
Readings:
McKay, pp.921-930
Day 2
Primary source excerpts in class - ORQ
Perry – Modern Consciousness (Nietzsche: Will to Power; Freud: Civilization and its
Discontents; Sorel: Reflections on Violence)
Day 3
Art, Architecture and Music
Power Point Presentation
- Functionalism (Le Corbusier, Lloyd Wright)
- Bauhaus
- Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism
In Class music selections: Stravinsky, Berg, Schonberg
Readings:
McKay, pp. 930-937
Images in Society: Pablo Picasso and Modern Art (McKay)
Day 4 -Peace and Stability in the Post-War World
- Weimar Republic and Reparations
- Inflation
- Dawes Plan
- Locarno and the Kellog-Briand Pact
Readings:
McKay, pp. 937-942
A. de Jonge, Inflation in Weimar Germany (Golden)
Day 5
The Great Depression
- The Depression in the United States, Britain and Europe
- Unemployment
- The New Deal
- European Responses
Readings:
McKay, pp. 942-948
Day 6
Chapter 28 Test
One page ORQ due on de Jonge article
Chapter 29
The Interwar Years and World War II
Day 1 – Assign DBQ on Totalitarianism and Fascism
Authoritarian States – Liberal Democratic Model Challenged
- Conservative Authoritarianism
- Radical Totalitarian Dictatorships
Readings:
McKay, pp. 953-957
Day 2
Stalin’s Soviet Union
- Five Year Plans
- Collectivization
- Life and Culture in the Soviet State
- The Status of Women
- Stalinist Terror and the Great Purges
Readings:
McKay, pp. 957-964
From Fordham:
Dizzy With Success: Concerning Questions of the Collective Farm
Movement
Collective Farms of the Union 1929-1940
Memorandum on the Grain Problem
Organizational Chart of Soviet Union
Day 3
Mussolini and Fascism
- Seizure of Power
- Fascist State Policies
Readings:
McKay, pp. 964-966
Mussolini, What is Fascism? (Fordham)
Day 4
Nazi Rise to Power
- Origins of the Nazi Movement
- Economic dislocation and the appeal to the middle class
Readings:
McKay, pp. 966-969
From Fordham:
The 25 Points
Hitler 1921 Speech
Mein Kampf
Weimer Elections Table (1919-1933)
From Golden:
Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet
Day 5
The Nazi State
- Enabling Act
- Control over Civil Society
- Nuremberg Laws
Readings:
From Fordham:
The Nuremberg Laws: Introduction
 Law of Protection of the German Race: Hereditary Health
 Law of Protection of the German Race: Citizenship
 Law of Protection of the German Race: German Blood and Honor
Day 6
The Road to War – Aggression and Appeasement
- Map: The Growth of Nazi Germany, 193-1939 (McKay)
- Chart: Events Leading to World War II (McKay)
- The Concept of Lebensraum
- Anschluss
- Czechoslovakia
- Molotov-Von Ribbontrop Pact
Readings:
McKay, pp. 971-975
From Perry:
H. Rumbold: Pacifism Is the Deadliest of Sins
S. Zweig: The World of Yesterday
N. Chamberlain, In Defense of Appeasement
W. Churchill, A Disaster of the First Magnitude
Day 7
World War II
- Poland and Blitzkrieg
- Phony War
- The Fall of Western Europe
DBQ due
Nazi Occupation of Europe
- Vichy Collaboration
Holocaust
- Wansee Conference and the Final Solution
Readings:
H. Friedlander, The Nazi Camps (Golden)
Day 8
The Grand Alliance
- War Aims of Allies
- Yalta, Potsdam
- Military Campaigns
- The Atom Bomb
Day 9
Test Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Cold War Conflicts and Social Transformations, 1945-1985
Day 1
Post –War Settlement and Division of Europe
- Origins of the Cold War
o Yalta
o Potsdam
Readings:
McKay, pp. 989-992
Day 2
West Versus East
- Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
- The Marshall Plan
- Berlin Airlift
- Containment
o NATO
o Warsaw Pact
Readings:
McKay, pp. 992-993
W. Churchill, Iron Curtain Speech (Perry)
G. Kennan, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”
Day 3
Western Renaissance, 1945-1968
- Map. The Results of World War II in Europe: Refugees and Migration
- Map. European Alliance Systems, 1949-1989
- The Council of Europe
- The Common Market
- Decolonization
- Civil Rights
Readings:
McKay, pp. 993-1001
F. Fanon, The Evils of Colonialism
Day 4-5
The Soviet Bloc
- Stalinist Repression
- Kruschchev
o De-Stalinization and Reform
o Hungary 1956
o Berlin Wall
o Cuban Missile Crisis
- Brezhnev
o Czechoslovaia
o Brezhnev Doctrine
Readings:
McKay, pp. 1001-1006
Krushchev, Report to the Twentieth Party Congress
A. Heller: The Hungarian Revolution
Day 6
Post-War Society
- Scientific Advances
- Emergence of Consumer Culture and Consumerism
- Changes in Women’s Roles
- The Counter-culture
Readings:
McKay, pp. 1006-1013
PowerPoint on PopArt
Day 7
Conflict and Challenge in the Late Cold War, 1968-1985
- Vietnam
- Détente
- Feminism
- End of “les trentes miraculeuses”
Readings:
McKay, pp. 1013-1021
S. de Beauvoir, Listening to the Past: A Feminist Critique of Marriage
(McKay)
Day 8
Test Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Revolution, Rebuilding, 1985 to Present
Day 1
The Decline of Communism in Europe
- Helsinki Accords
- Solidarity in Poland
Readings:
McKay, pp. 1027-1032
T. Sowula, The Helsinki Process and the Death of Communism
(OpenDemocracy website)
Day 2
Mikhail Gorbachev
- Perestroika
- Glasnost
Readings:
McKay, pp. 1032-1033
N. Adreyeva, Polemics: I Cannot Waive Principles
Pravda Editorial: Principles of Perestroika: The Revolutionary Nature of
Thinking and Acting
Day 3-4
The Revolutions of 1989 – The Re-emergence of Civil Society
- Fall of Berlin Wall
- Velvet Revolution
- Rumania
- Yugoslavia
- Map. Democratic Movements in Eastern Europe, 1989
Readings:
McKay, pp. 1034-1037
V. Havel, The Failure of Communism (Perry)
Day 5
Disintegration of the Soviet Union
- Nationalism in Soviet Republics
- Yeltsin and Parliament
- Map: Russia and the Successor States
- Putin
Readings:
McKay, pp. 1038-1040
E. Hobsbawn, The Perils of the New Nationalism (Lualdi)
Day 6
Problems of Contemporary Europe
- Whither the European Union?
- The Balkans, Again!
Readings:
McKay, pp. 1041-1060
J. Lukaks, The Short Century – It’s Over.
Habermas, Derrida: After the War, the Rebirth of Europe (excerpts)