Download What you must know for the AP European History Exam

What you should know for the AP European History Exam
The following is a list of items that have frequently appeared on past multiple-choice sections of the
released AP Exams or are items crucial to know for the AP Exam. This does not mean that every item
on this list will appear on the AP Exam or that this is the only stuff that you need to know. Many
questions on my quizzes and tests come from past AP Exams. If you don’t remember what something is,
look it up in your Notebook or the Textbook before the big day!
The Renaissance
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Medici dynasty
Florence – birth of the Italian Renaissance
Humanism – what it is, impact on the arts, society and literature
Christian Humanism
Desidarius Erasums
Francesco Petrarch
printing press and its significance
The Prince by Machiavelli
1492 – expulsion of Jews and Moors in Spain
Ferdinand & Isabella
Holy Roman Empire – what it was, Habsburg dynasty
Columbian Exchange
The Reformations (Protestant and Catholic)
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Martin Luther and Ninety-Five Theses (1517)
John Calvin
King Henry VIII
Anabaptists
indulgences
justification by faith alone
predestination
Diet/Edict of Worms
Act of Supremacy (1534)
Peace of Augsburg (1555)
German Peasants’ Revolt (1524-25)
Council of Trent (1545-63)
The Jesuits/Society of Jesus & Ignatius Loyola
changing societal roles of women as a result of the Protestant Reformation
The Scientific Revolution
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Heliocentrism
Scientific Method
Scientific Induction
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law of gravity
empiricism
rationalism
Copernicus
Galileo
Isaac Newton
Descartes
Causes of the Witch-Hunts, why women, effects
Wars of Religion
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Politique
Huguenots
Puritans
Bourbon dynasty
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572)
Henry IV of Navarre
Edict of Nantes (1598)
Philip II
William the Silent, Prince of Orange
Elizabeth I
Gustavus Adolphus
Spanish Armada (1588)
Thirty Years’ War – causes, major events, outcome & effects
Treaty/Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Reasons for the decline of Spain and its empire
Absolutism & Constitutionalism, Rise of Nation-States
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Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
The Leviathan (1651)
Parliamentary Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Charles I
Oliver Cromwell
English Civil War – causes, major events, outcome & effects
Glorious Revolution (1688)
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIV
“divine right of kings” – Bossuet
Jansenism
Mercantilism – Colbert
War of the Spanish Succession
Treaty/Peace of Utrecht (1713)
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Golden Age of the Dutch Republic (17th century) – commerce, art, House of Orange, toleration,
decline
Parlements (France)
Estates General
Robert Walpole
The Pragmatic Sanction (1713)
Rise of Prussia
Junkers
Hohenzollern dynasty
Romanov dynasty
Modernization & Westernization of Russia
Peter the Great
Boyars
Agricultural & Industrial Revolutions
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What the Agricultural Revolution was, where it began and spread to, and its effects/impact
enclosure movement
crop rotation
population changes
cottage manufacture (or the “putting-out” system)
open-field (three field) agricultural system
family economy and life in 17th & 18th centuries
What the Industrial Revolution was, where it began and spread to, effects/impact and major
inventions (spinning jenny, steam engine, iron production)
The Enlightenment
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Philosophes – what they were, what they agreed upon, major ideas (especially religion, politics)
Deism
The Encyclopedia (1772)
Tabula Rasa
Voltaire
Rousseau
Montesquieu
Mary Wollstonecraft
laissez-faire economic thought and policy
Adam Smith and his book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Enlightened Absolutism
Enlightened Monarchs: Frederick the Great, Joseph II, Catherine the Great
The French Revolution
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Conditions on the eve of the French Revolution
Causes and effects of the French Revolution
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Louis XVI
Estates General
Third Estate
National Assembly
Fall of the Bastille
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
Women’s March to Versailles (1789)
Robespierre
Jacobins
Sans-Culottes
Committee of Public Safety
Reign of Terror
De-Christianization
Age of Napoleon, Romanticism and Nationalism
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Grand Army
Continental system
Confederation of the Rhine/End of the Holy Roman Empire by Napoleon (1806)
scorched-earth policy
Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Congress of Vienna (1815)
Metternich
balance of power
Concert of Europe
Romanticism – what it was, impact on art, literature & philosophy
Greek independence (1830)
Nationalism – what it was, why it occurred, impact & effects
English Chartists
English Factory Act (1833)
Zollverein
Thomas Malthus
Utilitarianism
Socialism
Anarchists
Revolutions of 1848
Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto
Paris Commune
Age of Nation-States, Unifications of Italy & Germany, Nineteenth Century Society
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Causes, effects and impact of the unifications of Italy & Germany
Cavour
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Pope Pius IX
Garibaldi
Victor Emmanuel II
Otto von Bismarck and German Empire
Wilhelm I
Napoleon III
Alexander II
Austro-Prussian War (1866)
Franco-Prussian War (1870)
Emancipation of Russian Serfdom (1867)
Third Republic (France)
The Dreyfus Affair
Emile Zola
women’s suffrage movement
germ theory of disease
Anti-Semitism
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of the Species (1859)
natural selection
Social Darwinism
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis
Zionism
Imperialism
Liberia and Ethiopia – only two African nations not colonized
World War I and The Russian Revolution
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Kulaks
Russian Revolution of 1905
Duma
V.I. Lenin
Nicholas II
Marxism-Leninism
Bolsheviks
Provisional Government (1917)
Causes and effects of the Russian Revolution (1917-21)
Balkan nationalism and issues on the eve of World War I
Alsace-Lorraine
Causes and effects of World War I
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Surrealism
Inter War Era and World War II
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The Great Depression
Cubism and Picasso
reparations
Weimar Republic
Fascism
Nazism
totalitarianism
appeasement
Adolph Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Francisco Franco
Winston Churchill
Spanish Civil War
League of Nations
Sudetenland
Stalin’s First Five Year Plan
Great Purges
Collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union
Causes and effects of World War II
Tehran and Yalta Conferences
The Cold War and Contemporary Europe
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Causes of the Cold War
NATO
Berlin Wall
Warsaw Pact
Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone deBeavouir
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Margaret Thatcher
Pope John Paul II
Second Vatican Council
Prague Spring (1968)
EEC
Treaty of Maastricht (1991)
glasnost
perestroika
reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union
Creation of the European Union (1993)