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AP European History
Lincoln Gravatt
Syllabus
The Course
The AP European History course is a college level survey of the major political,
diplomatic, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural themes in European civilization
from 1450 to the present. The course is organized chronologically beginning with a
review of the later Middle Ages and ending with a survey of present trends in Europe.
Document analysis, critical and analytical thinking skills, and understanding of cause and
effect relationships are particularly emphasized. Excerpts from primary sources are
included in every unit, on a daily basis.
Grading
Grades fall into two groups: major and minor, with major grades making up 65% of the
quarter grade and minor grades comprising 35% of the quarter grade. Major grades
include unit tests, DBQs and other thematic essays. Minor grades include FRQ’s, class
work, homework assignments, readings quizzes, article critiques, and vocabulary quizzes.
Unit tests consist of multiple-choice questions and an essay, many times an essay taken
from released AP exams. Occasionally tests may also include matching items and short
answer questions.
Textbook: Spielvogel, Jackson J. Western Civilization (6th ed.). Belmont, California:
Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006.
Merriman, John. A History of Modern Europe (3rd ed.). New York New York:
W.W. Norton & Company, 2010
Documents: Brophy, James, Joshua Cole, et al. Perspectives from the Past: Primary
Sources in Western Civilizations (3rd ed.). New York: W.W. Norton
And Company, 2005.
Carey, John, ed. Eyewitness to History. New York: Avon Books, 1987.
Riley Philip, Frank Gerome et al. The Global Experience: Readings in
World History Since 1500. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.
Von der Porter, ed. Voyages: A Primary Source Anthology. Logan, Iowa:
The Perfection Form Co., 1998.
Weber, Eugen. The Western Tradition From Renaissance to Present
(5th ed.). Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Co., 1995.
Welty, Paul T. Readings in World Cultures .Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott, 1970.
Readings Book
Martin
Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Return of
Guerre.Cambridge:Harvard University
Holman, Sheri. The Dress Lodger. New York:
Ballentine Books.
Hughes, William, ed. Annual Editions: Western Civilization (9th ed.).
Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing, 1997.
Kaplan, Robert. Balkan Ghosts. New York:
Vintage Books.
Lembright, Robert L., ed. Annual Editions: Western Civilization
(12th ed.). Guilford, Connecticut: McGraw-Hill/ Dushkin, 2003.
Lembright, Robert L., ed. Annual Editions: Western Civilization
(13th ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw-Hill/ Dushkin, 2005.
Lembright, Robert L., ed. Annual Editions: Western Civilizations
(14th ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Rawicz, Slavomir. The Long Walk. New York: The
Lyons Press.
Unit 1
The End of the Old and the Beginning of the New (2.5 weeks)
Objectives:
1. To identify the social classes and class duties under the systems of
Feudalism and Manorialism
2. To understand the extraordinary power of the medieval Church
3. To understand the causes and results of the revival of trade and towns
in the High Middle Ages
4. To be able to trace the course of intellectual activity in the 12th century
5. To understand the building of centralized monarchies 1000-1300
6. To understand the issues that led to a decline in medieval institutions in
the 14th century
7. To understand the factors that allowed Italy to “revive” first
8. To understand the characteristics of the new civilization
9. To be able to give appropriate examples of the trends in literature,
art,architecture and philosophy
10. To understand the impact of the new thinking on society, family, and the
role of women
11. To understand the changes in politics and government that the
Renaissance brings
Topics
I. The Structure of Medieval Society
a. Feudalism
b. Manorialism
c. Medieval Women
II. The Church and Religious differences
a. The Papacy
b. Monasticism
c. The Church in everyday life
d. The Crusades
e. The Avignon Papacy and the Great Schism
III. Nation Building the rise of “national governments”
a. Capetian France
b. Norman and Angevin England
c. German lands – Italian Lands
IV. New technologies – Cities – and an Agricultural Economy
a. Revival of trade
b. Growth of towns
c. Guilds, Charters, and the soon to be “Middle Class”
d. Banking Practices
V. 14th century problems
a. Black Death
b. Hundred Years War
c. Social and economic upheaval
VI. Art in the Middle ages
VII. Renaissance??
a. Was there one
b. Why Italy
c. Social structure, classes and slavery
d. Condottierri
VIII. Renaissance values
a. Humanism
b. Individualism
c. secularism
d. Rationalism
IX. High Renaissance
a. Southern v. Northern
b. politics – city state and the papacy
c. the new Monarchies
d. Pope v emperor
X. Art in the Renaissance
XI. Women and their world
PRIMARY SOURCES: Valla, Castiglione, Machiavelli’s The Prince, Petrarch, Mirandola, de Las
Casas
RENAISSANCE ART –POWER POINT PRODUCTION
Documents:
Magna Carta
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
Jacob Konigshofen, “The Cremation of the Strasbourg Jews”
Jean Froissart, Chronicle
Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctum
Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies
Unit 2
The Reformation and the Wars of Religion (2.5 weeks)
Objectives
1. To understand the problems of the Catholic Church on the eve of
Luther’s revolt
2. To understand Luther’s objections to Catholic practices, the
beliefs of Luther’s new church, and their impact on family and
gender roles
3. To be able to compare the beliefs and practices of the reformers who
followed Luther
4. To understand the impact of the Reformation on government
5. To understand the Catholic response to the protestants
Topics
I The Toots and Causes of the reformation
II The Social background for the Reformation
III Martin Luther
A. Background
B. Indulgences
C. Ninety-five Theses
D. Lutheran beliefs
E. Reformation and Society
1. Luther and the Peasants’ Rebellion
2. Luther and Government
3. Family and women
IV. Spread of the Reformation
A. Ulrich Zwingli
B. John Calvin
C. Anabaptists
D. The Church of England
E. The Peace of Augsburg
V. The Counter Reformation/ Catholic Response
A. Inquisition
B. Loyola
C. Jesuits
D. Council of Trent
VI. The Cultural Reformation
A. Baroque Style
B. Witch trials
C. Education and Literacy
D. Women and the Reformation
VII. War - Conflict
A. Religious War in France
B Holy Roman Empire
C. Catholics V. Huguenots in France
D. Catherine Medici
E. Henry of Navarre and St Bartholomew’s
F. Phillip the II
G. Elizabeth I
H. Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu
VIII The Thirty Years War
A. Origins
B. War in Bohemia
C. The Danish Period
D. The Swedish Intervention
E. Social and Economic consequences of the war
F. Treaty of Westphalia
Video: A Man For All Seasons
Articles:
“Luther: Giant of His Time and Ours”, Time (October 31, 1983). Reprinted in
Annual Editions (9th ed.).
Bouwsma, William J. “Explaining John Calvin”, The Wilson Quarterly
(1989), pp.68-75. Reprinted in Annual Editions (14th ed.).
Documents:
Martin Luther, Ninety-five Theses
Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly
The Marburg Colloquy
Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
Henry VIII, The Act of the Six Articles
Elizabeth I, The Golden Speech
Joachim Opser, Letter to the Abbot of St. Gall
Papire Masson, Historie de Charles IX
Unit 3
The Atlantic World, State Building and the search for Order (2 weeks)
Objectives:
1. To be able to discuss the impact of exploration and discovery on
Europe
2. To be able to discuss the impact of European contact on native
cultures
3. To understand the political, economic, and social aspects of the
colonial empires of Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands
4. To Identify and understand the Turkish Problem
5. To understand the causes and results of the conflict between the
Stuart kings and the Parliament
6. To understand thee form of government of the Netherlands
7. To be able to trace the major trends in art and literature in the 17th
and 18th centuries
Topics
I. Factor leading to the age of exploration
A. Economic Changes
B. Agricultural Changes
C. Price Revolution
D. Depression
II. The Spanish and the Portuguese
A. The rise of Spain
B. The Potossi discovery
III. The Dutch , English and French Interests
A. The Great Exchange
B. Products, Methods, Results
C. Imperialism, Mercantilism, Growth of Capitalism
IV. Dynastic Marriages the Habsburgs
V. The World of Phillip II
VI. The English Tudors and Elizabeth I
VII. The Turkish Question
VIII. The Changes: Cultural, religious, Economic, Social and Political Changes
A. The Decline of Spain
B. The English Stuarts and the Civil War
1. Interregnum (Cromwell)
2. The Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights
3. The Rise of Parliament and the Decline of the Monarchy
4. The Intellectual revolution oh John Locke the end of Hobbes
5. Society in 17th century England
IX. The Golden age of the Dutch Republic
A. Religious Toleration
B. Patronage of the Arts
C. The Decline of the Dutch
X. Art and Literature
A. Mannerism
B. Baroque
C. French Classicism
D. Dutch Realism
E Theater
1. Shakespeare
2. Lope de Vega
3. Racine and Moliere
PRIMARY SOURCES: Cortes, Montezuma, Sahagun, Espinosa, de Las Casas,
Sepulveda, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I, Cromwell, Acts of Parliament, Locke
Articles:
Foote, Timothy. “Where Columbus Was Coming From”, Smithsonian
(December 1991), pp.28-38.
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. “Columbus-Hero or Villain”, History
Today (May1992), pp.4-9. Reprinted in Annual Editions (9th ed.).
Rubenstein, William. “Who Was Shakespeare?” History Today
(August 2001), pp. 28-35. Reprinted in Annual Editions (12th ed.).
Mettam, Roger. “Louis XIV and the Huguenots”, History Today
(May 1985), pp. 15-21. Reprinted in Annual Editions.
Videos:
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting (Vol. III: Baroque to Romanticism)
Vatel
Documents:
Bartolome de las Casas, The Tears of the Indians
Louis XIV, Letter for his Son
John Locke, Two Treatises on Government
Jacques Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy
Scripture
Jean Boudin, The Republic
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Unit 4
The Age of Absolutism, the Rise of the Intellectual and the Scientific Revolution
(2 weeks)
Objectives:
1. To understand the causes and results of the rise of royal
absolutism
2. To understand the differences that absolutism evidenced in
France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia
3. To be able to trace the course of the Scientific Revolution
in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries
4. To be able to understand the question between the scientific
developments and the philosophy of the Enlightenment
5. To be able to see the impact of the new philosophy on the social
and political movements of the 18th century
Topics:
I. Absolutism
A. Theories of Absolutism
B. The character of absolutism
C. The Growth of the state
D. Absolutism in religion
II. Russia
A. Tsarist autocracy and the Russian Orthodox church
B. Peter The Great
C. Duchy of Muscovy
III. The Rise of Prussia
A. Fredrick
IV. The Austrian Habsburgs
V. French Absolutism
A. Louis XIV and the culture of Versailes
B. Mercantilism
C. end of toleration
VI. The Eastern European Culture
A. A look at Poland
VII. Balance of Power and the formation of the modern state
VIII. Intellectual and Scientific Revolution
A. Changing views of the Universe
B. Copernicus ad Galileo Challenge to the church (degree?)
C. Scientific Anatomy
D. Newton
E. Women in Science
1. Cavendish
2. Winklemann
3. Merian
IX. Culture of Science
A. Science and Religion
1. Pascal
2. Spinoza
X. The Social ramifications of the Scientific Revolution
PRIMARY SOURCES: Bossuet, Duke of Saint Simon, Frederick William, Colbert,
Copernicus, Galileo, Pope John Paul II,
LOUIS XIV AND THE BAROQUE --- POWER POINT PRODUCTION
Articles:
Klawans, Harold. “Newton’s Madness: Further Tales from Clinical
Neurology”, Harper Collins, 1990. Reprinted in Annual Editions
(9th ed.).
Documents:
Galileo Galilei, The Starry Messenger
Benedict de Spinoza, A Political Treatise
Videos:
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting (Vol. III: Baroque to Romanticism)
Vatel
Unit 5
The Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century (2.5 weeks)
Objectives:
1. To be able to understand the question between the scientific
developments and the philosophy of the Enlightenment
2. To be able to see the impact of the new philosophy on the social
and political movements of the 18th century
3. To be able to trace the political, economic, and philosophical
trends in the background of the French Revolution
I Economic and Social Change
A. The Social Order
B. The British Landed Elite
II Hints of the Industrial Revolution to Come
A. New Agriculture Movement
B. New Technology
C. England’s Advantage
D. Adam Smith
E. Towns and Cities
F. Plight of the Lower class
G. Controlling Society
III Enlightened Movements
A. Enlightened Ideas
a. Basic ideas
b. salons
B. Great thinkers of the Century
a. Montesquieu
b. Voltaire
c. Diderot
d. Rousseau
e. Wollstonrcraft
f. Beccaria and others
C. The Social dimensions of the Enlightenment
a. Popular culture. High Culture
D. The Cultural Enlightenment
a. Art
b. Music
c. Literature
E. Educational and religious Reform
a. Mainstream denominations
b. Diesm
c. Pietism
IV Enlightened Absolutism
A. Joseph II
B. Catherine The Great
C. Fredrick II
a. England and France the other states
b. Louis XV
c. England and the German Georges
V The Late Enlightenment
A. The Legacy of the Age
VI Colonial Expansion
A. Economic Rivals
B. The American Experience
VII Wars and Conflicts
A. Prussia v. Austria
B. Seven Years War
C. New Warfare of the 18th century
D. Political workings of Great Britain
E. Society on the eve of the French Revolution
VIII The decline of the Ottoman Empire and the partitions of Poland
PRIMARY SOURCES: Smith, Descartes, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Beccaria, Voltaire,
(Candide), Frederick the Great, Catherine the Great,
Articles:
Gottlieb, Anthony. “Think Again: What Did Descartes Really
Know?” The New Yorker(November 20, 2006).
Tomkievicz, Shirley. “The First Feminist”, Horizon (Spring 1972).
Reprinted in Annual Editions ( 13th ed.).
Documents:
Galileo Galilei, The Starry Messenger
Benedict de Spinoza, A Political Treatise
Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
Voltaire, The Ignorant Philosopher
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Catherine the Great, Instructions
Frederick William I and Frederick II, Letters
Video:
The Eighteenth Century Woman
Unit 6
French Revolution and the Napoleonic Age (2weeks)
Objectives:
1. To understand the causes of the French Revolution
2. To be able to trace the stages of the French Revolution
3 .To understand the rise of Napoleon and the changes that
he brought to France and Europe
Topics:
I A history of Revolutions
II The Old Regime
a. Financial crisis
III The First Stage of the French Revolution
b. The Estates general and the Tennis Court Oath
c. The Bastille
d. Constitutional Restraints on the Monarch
e. The Impact of War on the revolution
f. Women of the revolution
IV The Second Stage of the French Revolution
a. Execution of the King and Queen
b Robespierre and the Terror
c The meaning of the Revolution
V The Final Stage Napoleon
a. Napoleon son of the revolution or despot
b. Rise to power
c. Consolidation of power
d The French Empire
e Napoleonic Code
f Overextension and the beginning of the end
g. Temporary restoration and the return of Napoleon
h. To St. Helena and the aftermath
PRIMARY SOURCES: Abbe de Sieyes, de Gouges, Writings of the Assembly, Robespierre, Desmoulins,
Napoleonic Code, Bonaparte (diary),
THE ART OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION -- POWER POINT PRODUCTION
Articles:
Darnton, Robert. “What Was Revolutionary about the French
Revolution?” The New York Review of Books (January 19,1989),
pp. 3-4,6,10. Reprinted in Annual Editions.
Gould, Stephen Jay. “ The Passion of Antoine Lavoissier”, Natural
History (June 1989), pp.16, 18,20,22-25. Reprinted in Annual
Editions (9th ed.).
Warrall, Simon. “Admiral Nelson’s Fatal Victory”, National
Geographic (October 2005), pp. 51-65.
Covington, Richard. “Marie Antoinette”, Smithsonian (November
2006), pp. 56-65.
Documents:
Comtesse de Borgne, Memoirs
National Assembly, Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the
Female Citizen
Emmanuel Sieyes, “What is the Third Estate?”
Maximilien Robespierre, Notes, Democracy and Terror
Unit 7
The restoration, its failure and Middle Class Liberalism (2weeks)
Topics:
I. European restoration
a. The Congress of Vienna
b. Conservative Ideology
c. The Conservative Plan for Europe
d. The Bourbon restoration of France
II. The Revolution of 1830 (France)
a. the beginning of the liberal ideas taking hold
b. Nationalism emerges on the continent
III. The Unique situation in Great Britain
a. British reform bill of 1832
b. the new middle class
IV. Middle Class Culture
a. Feminist movement
b. A culture of comfort
V. Education Religion and Lesiure
VI. From reason to Emotion. The emergence of Romanticism
a. Culture: Romanticism
b Art
c Literature
d Music
e The revival of religious feeling
PRIMARY SOURCES: Hegel, Metternich, Alexander I, Byron, Shelley, Ricardo,
Darwin, J.S. Mill
THE ART OF THE ROMANTIC AGE -- POWER POINT PRODUCTION
Videos:
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting (Vol. III: Baroque to Romanticism)
Vatel
Unit 8
Nineteenth Century Revolutions (2 weeks)
Objectives:
1. To understand the reasons why Britain led the way in
Industrialization
2. To understand the impact of industrialization on the economy,
governments, and social organization of the countries of Europe
3. To understand the causes of the revolutions in Europe 1815-1848
4. To understand why these revolutions failed
5. To understand the philosophies that dominated Europe in the
period 1815-1850 (the”isms”)
Topics:
I. Industrialization background
a. Why Britain
b. The Agricultural base
c. Demographic explosion
d. New Transportation systems
e. New Business
II. Industrialism across the continent
a. the slow spread
III. The Impact of the Industrial Revolution
a. A new way of life
b. Workers, labor
c. Living conditions
d. Protests
e. Social awareness
IV The origins of European Socialism
a. Utopians to Marx
V. The Causes of Revolution (1820 -1840’s)
a. what is conservatism
The Quadruple Alliance
The Congress of Vienna
The Concert of Europe and the Holy Alliance
Intervention and its limits
b. Revolution in the German states
c. Revolution in Italian states
d. Greece
e. Decembrists of Russia
f. Poland
g. French Crisis
VI The counter-revolutionary movement
VII The second French Republic
VIII The legacy of 1848
a. why Europe did not “turn the page of history”
PRIMARY SOURCES: Smiles, Chateaubriand, Bentham, Owen,
Proudhon, Engels, Marx, Mazzini, Industrialism Packet, Blanc,
Tristan, Chadwick
Documents:
David Ricardo, “On Wages”
John Stuart Mill, “Essay on Utilitarianism”, “Essay on Liberty”
Poetry: Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth
Klemens von Metternich, Memoirs
Thomas Macaulay, Speech, March 2, 1831
Report of the Sadler Committee
Report of Lord Ashley’s Mines Commission
Charlotte Bronte, “Impressions of the Crystal Palace”
Hippolyte Taine, “ Derby Day Horse Races, May 28, 1861”
Chartist Petition, 1839
Articles:
Briggs, Asa. “Samuel Smiles: The Gospel of Self-Help”, History
Today (May 1987), pp. 37-43. Reprinted in Annual Editions
(9th ed.).
Video:
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting (Vol. IV: The Age of Revolution)
Unit 9
National Unification and Dominant Powers (2 weeks)
Objectives:
1. To understand the changes in Europe that allowed for major
political changes
2. To understand the personalities and the events involved in the
unification of Italy and Germany
3. Students will understand major political, economic, social and
intellectual trends of the last half of the 19th century.
Topics:
I. The Italian Experience
a. early efforts
b. 1830-1848
c. Cavour and Garibaldi
d. The kingdom of Italy
II. The German experience
a. early efforts
b. Zollverein
c. 1848
d. Frederick William IV
e. Bismarck and Realpolitik
i. Wars of Unification
III. The Habsburg experience
a. Dual Monarchy
IV. The Victorian Age
a. politics
b. culture
c. social change
V. The Tsars of Russia – Alexander II
a. Crimean War
b. The quest for warm water
VI France’s Second Empire
VII Science
a. Darwin
b. Comte
c. Medical Changes
VIII Realism and Impressionism
a. Art
b. literature
IX The second Industrial revolution
a. Changing populations
c. social changes
d. Mass culture – leisure
e. Response to a changing world
i. Women and minorities
PRIMARY SOURCES: O’Connell, Parnell, Garibaldi, Bismarck, Cavour,
Gladstone, Nietzsche, Freud
Pope Leo XIII, Mazzini,
AVANT GARDE AND THE NEW ART – POWER POINT PRODUCTION
Articles:
Feuchtwanger, Edgar. “Bismarck, Prussia and German Nationalism”,
History Review (March2001). Reprinted in Annual Editions
(13th ed.).
Price, Roger. “Napoleon III: Hero or ‘Grotesque Mediocrity’”,
History Review (March 2003). Reprinted in Annual Editions
(13th ed.).
Smith, Denis. “Giuseppe Garibaldi”, History Today (August 1991), pp.
20-26. Reprinted in Annual Editions (9th ed.).
Documents:
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Alexander II, Emancipation Decree
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
Otto von Bismarck, Reflections and Reminiscences
Unit 10
Mass politics, Nationalism and Imperialism (1.5 weeks)
Objectives:
1. To understand the causes of the “New Imperialism”
2. To understand the impact of the “New Imperialism” on the colonizer
and the colonized
3. To understand the causes of World War I
Topics:
I The meaning of mass politics
II From Liberalism to Nationalism
a. Universal manhood suffrage
b. Cartels
c. Social reforms
d. Women’s suffrage
e. Challenges to the nation state
III Changes and Continuities in British political life
IV Republican France
V. Tsarist Russia
a. Russo Japanese War
VI Italy and the rise of nationalism
VII Austria-Hungary
a. ethnic tensions
VIII Germany under Bismarck and William II
a. a system of alliances
IX Imperialism
a. Imperialism defined
b. Scramble for Africa
c. Asia and how to do it
d. The realities of Imperialism
e. Goals and motivations of imperialism
f. On the brink of WAR July 1914
PRIMARY SOURCES: Pankhurst, Webb, Ferry, William II, Hobson, Kipling, Lenin,
Punch.
Documents:
Rudyard Kipling, ”The White Man’s Burden”
William II, Interview, October 28, 1908
William II and Nicholas II, Telegrams, July 28-31, 1914
Unit 11
The Great War (1.5 weeks)
Objectives
1. To understand the causes of World War I
2. To be able to trace the course of World War I
3. To understand the causes of the Russian Revolution and to
trace the development of the Soviet government
4. To assess the impact of the war on the home-front
5. To understand the issues surrounding the Paris Peace
Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
Topics:
I. Visions of War
a. the alliance system
b. technology and the new view of the globe
c. Europe Divided
d. The Balkan Crisis – the beginning
II Society and Social issues leading to war
a. a family affair
III The final straw –The shot heard around the world
a. Changing nature of warfare
b. A true world war
c. The fall of the Ottoman Empire
d. The final stages
i. U.S. entry
IV Peace to end all Peace
a. peace plans
b. a world re divided
c. The impact of the war at all levels
PRIMARY SOURCES: Lenin, Wilson, Wilfred Owen, Punch, Knight-
Adkin, William II
WORLD WAR I IN ART AND POETRY -- POWER POINT PRODUCTION
Articles:
Lukacs, John. “1918”, American Heritage (November 1993),
pp. 46,48,50. Reprinted in Annual Editions (9th ed.).
Videos:
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Guns of August
Anastasia: Dead or Alive?
Documents:
Rudyard Kipling, ”The White Man’s Burden”
William II, Interview, October 28, 1908
William II and Nicholas II, Telegrams, July 28-31, 1914
Erich Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points
Georges Clemenceau, Grandeur and Misery of Victory
Unit 12
The Russian revolution and the turbulent 20’s (2 weeks)
Objectives:
1.To understand the causes of the Russian Revolution and to trace
the development of the Soviet government
2.To understand the impact of World War I on European society
3.To understand the efforts to secure a lasting peace in the 1920s
4.To understand the causes and results of the Great Depression
Topics:
I. The Long Background to revolution
a. general unrest
b. failed reforms
c. revolutionary movement
II. Lenin and the Bolsheviks
a. the 1905 revolution
b. WW I and revolution
c. The October revolution
d. The civil war – White v. Red
e. Intervention
III. The creation of the Soviet Union
a. The rise of Stalin
i. Plans
ii. Culture
iii. Purges
IV The treaty of Versailles
a. plans
b. dissent in Europe
c. idealism
d. 14 points
V settlements in Eastern Europe
a. New nation states
b. Nationalism v colonialism
c. Post war politics and the economy
VI. The rise of fascism
a. Italian
b. German
VII The changing Art of Europe
a. Disenchanted writers
b. Dadaism and Surrealism
c. Architectural functionalism
PRIMARY SOURCES: Witte, Lenin, Izvestiia, Stalin, Trotsky, Kerenski,
Rasputin Packet.
ART STYLES OF THE 20TH CENTURY -- POWERPOINT PRODUCTION
Documents:
Gregory Gapon, “An Account of Bloody Sunday
Heinrich Hauser, “With Germany’s Unemployed
Videos:
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting (Vol. V: Modernism)
Unit 13
Depression, Dictatorship and Disaster –WW II (2.5 weeks)
Objectives:
1. To understand the reasons for the rise of totalitarian states in
Italy, Germany, and Japan
2. To account for the lack of resistance by western democracies to the
rise of the dictators
3. To be able to trace the course of World War II
4. To understand the impact of World War II on the home fronts
5. To understand the results of the war on victors and vanquished
Topics:
I. The Great Depression
a. causes
b. efforts to prevent and fix
c. Keynes
II. Fascist Movements
a. Mussolini
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
Post war chaos
Security
March on rome
Lateran Accords
Mussolini in power
1. Trains on time
2. Empire building
3. Alliance with Germany
b. French Popular Front
c. Hitler Nazism
i. Early Years
ii. Nazi Party
iii. Beer Hall Putsch
iv. Chancellor
v. Reichstag fire
vi. Nuremberg Laws – Holocaust
d. The Spanish Civil War
i. Franco
III. Steps to the outbreak of WW II
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Diplomatic revolution
The Rhineland
Anschluss
Sudetenland and Munich
Poland
IV The War in Europe Begins
a. 1939 poland
b. 1940 Scandinavia
c. Fall of France
d. Battle of Britain
e. Operation Barbarossa
f. Hitler’s New European Order
g. Pearl Harbor and Global War
h. German dissent
V Turning the tide
a. Stalingrad
b. Normandy
VI. Allied Victory
a. atlantic charter
b. Casablanca
c. Teheran
d. Yalta
e. Potsdam
f. VE and VJ day
g. The meaning of the end
PRIMARY SOURCES: Nitti, Mussolini, Hitler, Nuernberg Trials, Stalin,
Linke,
Kellogg-Briand Pact, Chambeerlain, Churchill, Hawes, Goering,
Clinton, Truman
Articles:
Keegan, John. “His Finest Hour”’ U.S. News and World Report
(May 29,2000), pp. 50-57. Reprinted in Annual Editions( 13th ed.).
Wingrove, Paul. “The Mystery of Stalin”, History Today (March 2003).
Reprinted in Annual Editions (13th ed.).
Stribe, Matthew. “ Women and the Nazi State”, History Today (November
1993), pp. 35-40. Reprinted in Annual Editions (9th ed.).
Videos:
Triumph of the Will
Elie Wiesel Goes Home
Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
Documents:
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Benito Mussolini, “The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism”
Winston Churchill, Speeches
Diary of a German Soldier, Stalingrad
Frances Faviell, “The Blitz: Chelsea”
Margaret Freyer, “The Bombing of Dresden, 14 February 1945
Unit 14
The Post War World and the Modern era (2 weeks)
Objectives:
1. To understand the factors that led to the Cold War
2. To understand the causes and results of the end of communism in
Eastern Europe
3. To be able to trace the course of European Unification
4. To understand the trends in western culture 1945-2011
Topics:
I Europe at the end of the war
a. Division
b. Potsdam Settlement
c. The UN and Cold war alliances
d. Economic and Social unrest
e. Political realignment
i. Truman Doctrine
ii. Marshall Plan
iii. Containment
iv. Iron Curtain
II. Eastern Europe in Soviet hands
a. Berlin
b. Hungary
c. Poland
d. Brezhnev and Czechoslovakia
e. Yugoslavia
III. Western Europe
a. The labor party in Britain
b. The new French republic (all over again)
c. Italy a coalition of weakness
IV. Politics of the Soviet Union
V Decolonization
a. India
b. Africa
c. The Middle East
i. Creation of Israel and war
ii. Nasser and Pan-Arabism
iii. Suez
VI Economic and Social changes
VII The Cold War
a. Korea
b. Super tension
c. Vietnam
d. Cuba
e. Afghanistan
f. Sino soviet competition
g. Détente
VIII. Politics in a changing world
a. Growth of democracy
b. Decline in Religion
c. The European Community and the European Union
d. Economic Growth
e. Oil and the global economy
IX Threats to world peace and stability
a. Weapons
b. Terrorism
c. Religious and ethnic division
X The fall of communism
a. Prague Spring
b. Brezhnev Doctrine
c. Gorbachev Era
i. Glasnost
ii. Perestroika
d.
e.
f.
g.
Poland and Hungary
Fall of the Wall
The collapse of the Soviet Union
Fragmentation of Yugoslavia
XI On toward a modern world
a. Greco –turk relations
b. need for Nato
c. Into the 21st century
XII EXAM PREP AND REVIEW TIME
PRIMARY SOURCES: Beauvoir, Friedan, Truman,
Khrushchev,
Solzhenitsyn, Gorbachev, Putin, Sartre, Churchill, Walesa,
Kennedy.
Articles:
Safonov, Michael. “You Say You Want a Revolution”, History Today
(August 2003), pp. 46-51. Reprinted in Annual Editions ( 13th ed.).
“ The Nation-State is Dead, Long Live the Nation-State”’ The Economist
(December 23, 1993), pp. 15-18. Reprinted in Annual Editions
(9th ed.).
Documents:
Harry Truman, Address to Congress, March 12, 1947
Nikita Khruschev, Khruschev Remembers
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika
In addition to the above
There will be 9 full DBQ’s
Weekly FRQ’s
Textbooks: Spielvogel, Jackson J. Western Civilization (6th ed.). Belmont, California:
Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006.
Documents: Brophy, James, Joshua Cole, et al. Perspectives from the Past: Primary
Sources in Western Civilizations (3rd ed.). New York: W.W. Norton
And Company, 2005.
Carey, John, ed. Eyewitness to History. New York: Avon Books, 1987.
Riley Philip, Frank Gerome et al. The Global Experience: Readings in
World History Since 1500. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.
Von der Porter, ed. Voyages: A Primary Source Anthology. Logan, Iowa:
The Perfection Form Co., 1998.
Weber, Eugen. The Western Tradition From Renaissance to Present
(5th ed.). Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Co., 1995.
Welty, Paul T. Readings in World Cultures .Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott, 1970.
Readings Books: Hughes, William, ed. Annual Editions: Western Civilization (9th ed.).
Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing, 1997.
Lembright, Robert L., ed. Annual Editions: Western Civilization
(12th ed.). Guilford, Connecticut: McGraw-Hill/ Dushkin, 2003.
Lembright, Robert L., ed. Annual Editions: Western Civilization
(13th ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw-Hill/ Dushkin, 2005.
Lembright, Robert L., ed. Annual Editions: Western Civilizations
(14th ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw-Hill, 2007.