Download AP European History TERMS LIST

AP European History
Terms List
Directions: Below is a cumulative list of important key terms and people. It is
broken down based on chronological topics of study. Keep this list in your
binder under the section labeled “Key Terms/People”. We will be referring to it
during the beginning and end of each unit of study. You are responsible to be
completing these terms; they will be checked by the end of each unit.
The Italian and Northern Renaissance 1450-1550
Renaissance
City-states
Medici Family
Humanism* know difference between Northern Humanist and Italian
Secularism* has been on many AP Tests as a FRE question
Individualism
Boccaccio
Petrarch
Leonardo da Vinci
Niccolo Machiavelli
Desiderius Erasmus
Baldassare Castiglione
Johann Gutenberg* know importance of Printing Press
Albrecht Durer
Protestant Reformation, Catholic and Counter-Reformation, Wars of
Religion 1517-1648
Reformation
Pope Leo X
Indulgences
Thomas More
Martin Luther
Diet of Worms
Peasants War* has been on many AP tests as MC or DBQ (2008)
Pope Paul III
John Calvin
Jesuits
Ignatius Loyola
Predestination
St. Bartholowmew’s Day Massacre* On many AP tests as MC
The Thirty Years War* focus on long term consequences for Germany and France
Index of Prohibited Books
Henry VIII
Elizabethan Age
Anabaptists* has been on many AP tests as MC
Age of Exploration
Pizzaro
Cortes
Christopher Columbus
Diaz
Columbian Exchange* on many past AP tests in MC and essay form
Mercantilism* on many past AP tests in MC form
Middle Passage
Joint Stock Company
The Growth of European Nation-States in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Absolutism
Constitutionalism
Peter the Great* on many past AP tests in MC and free-response format
Frederick William
Frederick II “The Great”
Catherine de Medici
Henry IV
Edict of Nantes* Know the terms
Louis XIV
The Fronde *On many AP exams in MC format
Divine right of theory to rule
The Stuart Kings
The Glorious Revolution
War of the Roses
Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day
John Locke
Hobbes
The 18th Century: Expansion of Europe and the Enlightenment and
Scientific Revolution
Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
Discourse on Method
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler
Deism
Philosophes
Voltaire * On many AP exams in MC format
John Locke (review)
Jean Jacques Rousseau * On many AP exams in MC format
Denis Diderot
Baron de Montesquieu
Mary Wollstonecraft
Enlightened despotism* on many past AP tests in MC and free-response format
Adam Smith
Madame Geoffrin
Witchcraft *Rise and fall of witch trials in Europe *On many AP exams as free
response essay, MC, and DBQs
The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna
The Old Regime/Three Estates
National Assembly
Louis XVI
Tennis Court Oath
Declaration of Rights of Man
Robespierre
Marat
Danton
Bastille
Jacobins* on many past AP tests in MC format
Girondins* on many past AP tests in MC format
National Convention
The Thermidorian Reaction
Napoleonic Code
Nepotism
Bourbons
Continental System
Waterloo
Rise of Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Enclosure Movement * On many AP exams in MC format
Mercantilism *review
Commercial Revolution
Capitalism
Industrial Revolution
Luddites
Sadler Commission
Thomas Malthus
Utilitarianism
Karl Marx and Marxism * On many AP exams in MC and free response essay
format
Utopian Socialists
Social Darwinism
The Corn Laws
Age of “ISMS” – Romanticism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Socialism, and
Communism 1815-1914
Congress of Vienna
Reform Bill of 1832
Chartist Movement
Conservatism
Realpolitik
Age of Metternich
Revolutions of 1848* focus on causes and consequences
Romanticism* on many past AP tests in MC and free-response format (compare to
Enlightenment)
Liberalism
Socialism
Marxism* be able to quote Marx and Engels
Frankfurt Assembly
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Realism
Impressionism * Know artists and importance of Impressionism
Crimean War
Mazzini
Camillo di Cavour
Austro-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War
Otto von Bismarck
Imperialism and World War I 1870-1914
Imperialism
White Man’s Burden
Social Darwinism (review)
Colonialism
Berlin Conference
New Imperialism
Russo-Japanese War
Romanovs- Czar Nicholas II
No Man’s Land
Triple Entente
Balkan Wars/Crisis
Schlieffen Plan
Treaty of Versailles- effects on nations
The Fourteen Points
Russian Revolution
Vladimir Lenin *On many AP exams in MC format- know his key ideas
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Democracy, Depression, Dictatorship, and Aggression 1919-1939
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sigmund Freud
Surrealism
Cubism
Great Depression
Totalitarianism
Weimar Republic
Nazis-National Socialist German Workers Party
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Kristallnacht
Fascism
World War II 1939-1945
Blitzkrieg * On many AP exams in MC format
Axis Powers
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact * On many AP exams in MC format
Holocaust
D-Day
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
The Cold War Era and Modern Europe 1946-present day
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Iron Curtain
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Airlift/blockade
European Economic Community * On many AP exams in MC format
Common Market
Sputnik
Cuban Missile Crisis
Brezhnev Doctrine
Nikita Khrushchev * On many AP exams in MC format- de-Stalinization
Arab-Israeli War of 1973
European Union and the Maastricht Treaty * On many AP exams in MC format
Glasnost
Perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev