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Advanced Placement European History Syllabus
Wando High School
Mr. Jared Tyler/Mr. Christopher Turpin
2016-2017
The AP European History course focuses on developing students' understanding of European history
from approximately 1450 to the present. The course has students investigate the content of European
history for significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in four historical periods, and
develop and use the same thinking skills and methods (analyzing primary and secondary sources, making
historical comparisons, chronological reasoning, and argumentation) employed by historians when they
study the past. The course also provides five themes (interaction of Europe and the world; poverty and
prosperity; objective knowledge and subjective visions; states and other institutions of power; and
individual and society) that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections
among historical developments in different times and places. Emphasis is placed on analyzing historical
data, synthesizing evidence and evaluating the ideas of others as students develop the ability to express
themselves with clarity and precision when writing essays. AP students also learn to deal with strenuous
traditional academic settings and ultimately achieve at levels they never imagined possible. These skills
are transferable to all subject areas. Students who successfully complete the course stand a good
chance of making a passing grade on the Advanced Placement European History Examination, which will
be administered on May 12, 2017. All students enrolled in this course must take the Advanced
Placement Exam. On successful completion of the exam students may be awarded college credit. The
most critical keys to student success are consistency and commitment.
The EXAM
The AP European History examination is three hours and fifteen minutes long and includes both a 55
minute 55 multiple choice question section, a 50 minute 4 short-answer question section, and a 90
minute free response. Each section is divided into two parts, as shown in the table below. Student
performance on these four parts will be compiled and weighted to determine an AP Exam score.
Grading Policy
The course differs from traditional honors level courses in the following ways:
1. Individual tests will cover a significantly greater body of information than students may be
accustomed to covering.
2. Homework consists primarily of reading assignments for which the student is responsible for mastery
of the factual information.
3. Grades are based solely on the quality of the end product.
4. There are very few “simple” assignments where the student can improve his/her grade merely by
completing the work.
5. There are relatively few graded assignments each quarter, which increases the need for adequate
preparation for each assignment.
6. There is no extra credit work.
7. Late work will result in the deduction of 20 points per day. INCLUDING WEEKENDS.
8. Responsibility for mastering the content rests with the student.
The State of South Carolina has mandated a uniform grading policy. The Charleston County School
District and Wando High School, for use in regular classrooms, has approved the following basic marking
system:
A
90 –100
B
80 – 89
C
70 – 79
D
60 – 69
F
0 – 59
Nine-week grades in AP European History will be determined in the following manner:
Objective tests/Essays/Free Response Questions/Document Based Questions
Primary/Secondary Source Analyses
80%
20%
In cases of excused absences, makeup work must be completed within the first five days after a student
returns to school.
To assess your knowledge of each part of each unit in AP European History and to prepare you for the
AP Exam, you will be required to show your understanding in the following test formats: Long Essay
Question Essays, Document Based Question Essays, Short Answer Questions, Standard Content-based
Multiple Choice Questions, and Stimulus-based Multiple Choice Questions. When the syllabus says
“multiple choice,” be prepared to answer both types of multiple-choice questions; Essays will be graded
using the AP standards. DBQ essays will be graded according to the College Board Generic Core-Scoring
Guide for AP European History.
All essays will be graded 0 – 9 and then converted according to the following scale:
9 = 98 (100)
8 = 93
7 = 90
6 = 85
5 = 83
4 = 80
3 = 77
2 = 73
1 = 70
0 = 65
(This zero is different from a zero on work that is not
turned in. No credit is given when work is not turned in.)
Essays turned in late will be graded down one level on the scale for each day the essay is late.
CCSD EXAM EXEMPTION POLICY: The superintendent may exempt from final examinations only seniors
enrolled in courses earning a full Carnegie unit both first and second semesters for high school diploma
credit who have an average of 90 or above for the second semester course, effective August 19, 2016.
All underclassmen students will take final examinations. The superintendent may not exempt students
from final advanced placement examinations, state end of course examinations, or one-semester onehalf Carnegie unit course examinations.
Primary and Secondary Sources are an integral part of the instruction for this class and we will daily
utilize these at our disposal—from our textbooks, internet, sourcebooks, etc. At times, we will read
these aloud together as a group, challenging one another to delve deep into the importance of point of
view of the author and the author’s bias. The majority of the work done with primary sources will be
done with a series of analytical questions that accompany the reading. These will be done EVERY
night—you must not get behind on your source material.
Teachers and administrators will treat cheating and plagiarism as a very serious matter. Teachers will
confer with the appropriate administrator to review the evidence of any misconduct. All substantiated
infractions will result in the grade being affected. Parents will be notified. A zero will be recorded for
the assignment, and there will be no opportunity for make-up work.
Thematic Essential Questions for All Units
1. Why have Europeans sought contact and interaction with other parts of the world?
2. What political, technological, and intellectual developments enabled European contact and
interaction with other parts of the world?
3. How have encounters between Europe and the world shaped European culture, politics, and
society?
4. What impact has contact with Europe had on non-European societies?
5. How has capitalism developed as an economic system?
6. How has the organization of society changed as a result of or in response to the development
and spread of capitalism?
7. What were the causes and consequences of economic and social inequality?
8. How did individuals, groups, and the state respond to economic and social inequality?
9. What roles have traditional sources of authority (church and classical antiquity) played in the
creation and transmission of knowledge?
10. How and why did Europeans come to rely on the scientific method and reason in place of
traditional authorities?
11. How and why did Europeans come to value subjective interpretations of reality?
12. What forms have European governments taken, and how have these changed over time?
13. In what ways and why have European governments moved toward or reacted against
representative and democratic principles and practices?
14. How did civil institutions develop apart from governments, and what impact have they had upon
European states?
15. How and why did changes in warfare affect diplomacy, the European state system, and the
balance of power?
16. How did the concept of a balance of power emerge, develop, and eventually become
institutionalized?
17. What forms have family, class, and social groups taken in European history, and how have they
changed over time?
18. How and why have tensions arisen between the individual and society over the course of
European history?
19. How and why has the status of specific groups within society changed over time?
Nine Historical Thinking Skills
1. Causation--Historical thinking involves the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate multiple
cause-and-effect relationships in a historical context, distinguishing between the long-term and
proximate.
2. Patterns of Continuity and Change over Time--Historical thinking involves the ability to
recognize, analyze, and evaluate the dynamics of historical continuity and change over periods
of varying lengths, as well as relating these patterns to larger historical processes or themes.
3. Periodization--Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, analyze, evaluate, and
construct models of historical periodization that historians use to categorize events into discrete
blocks and to identify turning points, recognizing that the choice of specific dates favors one
narrative, region or group over another narrative, region or group; therefore, changing the
periodization can change a historical narrative. Moreover, the particular circumstances and
contexts in which individual historians work and write shape their interpretations and models of
past events.
4. Comparison--Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, compare, and evaluate, in
various chronological and geographical contexts, multiple historical developments within one
society and one or more development across or between different societies. Historical thinking
also involves the ability to identify, compare, and evaluate multiple perspectives on a given
historical experience.
5. Contextualization--Historical thinking involves the ability to connect historical developments to
specific circumstances in time and place, and to broader regional, national or global processes.
6. Historical Argumentation--Historical thinking involves the ability to define and frame a question
about the past and to address that question by constructing an argument. A plausible and
persuasive argument requires a clear, comprehensive and analytical thesis, supported by
relevant historical evidence — not simply evidence that supports a preferred or preconceived
position. Additionally, argumentation involves the capacity to describe, analyze, and evaluate
the arguments of others in light of available evidence.
7. Appropriate Usage of Relevant Historical Evidence—Historical thinking involves the ability to
identify, describe, and evaluate evidence about the past from diverse sources (written
documents, works of art, archaeological artifacts, oral traditions, and other primary sources),
with respect to content, authorship, purpose, format, and audience. Historical thinking involves
the ability to extract useful information, make supportable inferences, and draw appropriate
conclusions from historical evidence. Historical thinking involves the ability to understand such
evidence in its context, recognize its limitations, and assess the points of view that it reflects.
8. Interpretation--Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, analyze, evaluate, and create
diverse interpretations of the past — as revealed through primary and secondary historical
sources — by analyzing evidence, reasoning, contexts, points of view, and frames of reference.
9. Synthesis--Historical thinking involves the ability to arrive at meaningful and persuasive
understandings of the past by applying all the other historical thinking skills, by drawing
appropriately on ideas from different fields of inquiry or disciplines and by creatively fusing
disparate, relevant (and perhaps contradictory) evidence from primary sources and secondary
works. Additionally, synthesis may involve applying insights about the past to other historical
contexts or circumstances, including the present.
Course Materials
Kagan, Donald, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner. The Western Heritage: Since 1300. Tenth Edition.
NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011. (PRIMARY TEXT)
Caliguire, Augustine, Jeanne M. Kish, Roberta J. Leach, and Lawrence M. Ober. The Center for Learning
Advanced Placement European History (1,2,and 3). The Center for Learning, 2006.
Palmer, R.R., Joel Colton. A History of the Modern World. Eighth Edition. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1995.
Kishlansky, Mark A., ed. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization. Third Edition, Vol. 1. New
York: Longman, 1998.
Mitchell, Joseph R. and Helen Buss Mitchell. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in
World History (Vol. I and II). Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Palmer, R. R. and Joel Colton. A History of the Modern World. Seventh Edition. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1992.
Sherman, Dennis, ed. Western Civilization: Images and Interpretations From the Renaissance to the
Present. Third Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
Stearns, Peter, Ed. Documents in World History: Volume 2 1500 to Present.
York: Pearson-Longman, 2006.
Fourth Edition. New
Tierney, Brian, et al. Great Issues in Western Civilization. Second Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1992.
Viault, Birdsall. Modern European History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990.
Wiesner, Merry E., et al. Discovering the Western Past: A Look at the Evidence. Fourth Edition. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
Thematic Learning Objectives
Theme 1: Interaction of Europe and the World (INT)
Theme 2: Poverty and Prosperity (PP)
Theme 3: Objective Knowledge and Subjective Visions (OS)
Theme 4: States and Other Institutions of Power (SP)
Theme 5: Individual and Society (IS)
Historical Time Periods
Period 1: 1450 – 1648
Period 2: 1648 – 1815
Period 3: 1815 – 1914
Period 4: 1914 – present
Unit 1
I.
II.
Introduction to Modern Europe (1 Week)
Nature of History and Historical Source Documents
a. Primary and Secondary Sources
Prehistory through the Mediterranean World: The Definition of Civilization
a. Shaping of Western Civilization
b. Ancient Greece and Rome
III.
IV.
V.
Unit 2
I.
II.
c. Early Christianity
Dark Ages (500-1000)
a. Carolingian Empire
b. Viking Invasions
c. Rise of Catholic Power
Medieval Europe (1000-1300)
a. Feudalism
b. Building of Power in England, France, Holy Roman Empire
c. The Crusades
The Catastrophic 14th Century
a. Black Death
b. Hundred Years’ War
c. Great Schism
Renaissance Europe
(2 Weeks)
Renaissance Italy
a. Renaissance Society
i. Importance of the Family
ii. Class Differences
iii. The Experience and Quality of Life
iv. Social Trends
b. Italian Urbanization
i. Five Major City-States
ii. Birth of Power Politics and Modern Diplomacy
c. Intellectual Renaissance
i. Italian Renaissance Humanism
ii. Education
iii. Philosophy and History
d. The Artistic Renaissance
i. Techniques and Themes
ii. Early Renaissance
iii. Middle Renaissance
iv. High Renaissance
v. Architecture
e. The End of Italian Hegemony
i. Warring Italian City-States
ii. The Invasion of Europe into Italy
Northern Renaissance
a. The European State in the Renaissance
i. Growth of the French Monarchy
ii. England: Civil War and a New Monarchy
iii. The Unification of Spain
iv. The Rise of the Habsburgs
v. Eastern Europe and the rise of the Kievan Rus
vi. Suleiman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Empire
b. Northern and Christian Humanism
c. Northern Renaissance Art
Unit 3
I.
Unit 4
I.
Unit 5
The Age of Exploration (1 Week)
The Age of Exploration
a. Motives
b. The Portuguese Empire
i. Development and Patronage
ii. A Passage to India
c. The Spanish Empire
i. Background
ii. Conquest of the Aztecs
iii. Conquest of the Inca
iv. Administration and Brutality
d. The African Slave Trade
e. The Colombian Exchange
i. Economic Impact and Mercantilism
The Protestant Reformation
(1.5 Week)
Prelude to the Reformation
a. Causes
i. John Wyclif and Jan Hus
ii. Conciliar Movement
iii. Abuses of the Renaissance Papacy
b. Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany
i. Early Luther and the Problems of Faith
ii. Rise and Spread of Lutheranism
iii. Church and State
c. The Dilemmas of Charles V
i. Wars with France
ii. Threat of the Ottoman Empire
iii. Struggles with the Papacy
iv. German Religious Wars
d. The Spread of the Reformation
i. The Zwinglian Reformation
ii. The Radical Reformation and the Anabaptists
iii. John Calvin
e. The Reformation in England
i. Henry VIII
ii. The Building of the Anglican Church
f. The Catholic Counter Reformation
i. Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits
ii. Council of Trent
g. Witchcraft Craze
Age of Absolutism
(3 Weeks)
I.
II.
Unit 6
I.
The Wars of Religion
a. Philip II and the Cause of Militant Catholicism
i. Background
ii. William of Orange and the Dutch Revolt
iii. Philip II v. Elizabeth I of England
iv. The Decline of Spain
b. French Wars of Religion
i. Background and the Regency of Catherine de Medici
ii. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and War
iii. War of the Three Henries and the Victory of Henry of Navarre
iv. Reign of Henry IV
v. Regencies of Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin
c. Conflict in Central Europe
i. Background and the Holy Roman Empire
ii. The Disintegration of Germany: The 30 Years’ War
iii. Rise of Austria
Absolutism vs. Constitutionalism
a. England: Absolutism to Constitutionalism
i. Elizabeth I and the Golden Age
ii. The Rise of the Stuarts and James I
iii. Charles I and the ascendancy of Parliament
iv. English Civil War
v. Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate
vi. Charles II and the Stuart Restoration
vii. James II and the Glorious Revolution
viii. William, Mary, and the English Constitutional Monarchy
b. Louis XIV
i. Life at Versailles
ii. Domestic Policies
iii. Wars of Louis XIV
1. Piecemeal Aggrandizement
2. War of the League of Augsburg
3. War of Spanish Succession
iv. Legacy of the Sun King and the Balance of Power
c. Russia
i. Ivan the Terrible
ii. Ascendancy of the Romanovs
iii. Peter the Great
1. Westernization
2. Great Northern War
d. Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia
e. Baroque Art
The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
The Scientific Revolution
a. Astronomy
i. Copernicus
(1.5 Week)
II.
Unit 7
I.
II.
III.
ii. Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler
iii. Galileo
b. The Brilliance of Isaac Newton
i. Astronomy
ii. Mathematics
c. Mathematics and Methodology
i. Rene Descartes and the Deductive Method
ii. Francis Bacon and the Inductive Method
d. Advances in Medicine
i. Paracelsus
ii. Andreas Vesalius
iii. William Harvey
e. Philosophy
i. Jean Froissart
ii. Benedict de Spinoza
iii. Blaise Pascal
The Enlightenment
a. Background
i. Skepticism
ii. Scientific Revolution
iii. Thomas Hobbes
iv. John Locke
b. The Philosophes and their ideas
i. Common Themes
ii. Montesquieu and Political Thought
iii. Voltaire
iv. Diderot’s Encyclopedia
v. Rousseau
c. Women during the Enlightenment
i. The Woman “Question”
ii. Mary Wollstonecraft
iii. Salons
d. Baroque Music
e. Rococo Art
The Eighteenth Century: War and Social Change
(1 Week)
Western Europe
a. France under Louis XV
b. The Hanoverians and the Growth of Parliamentary Power
Central and Eastern Europe
a. The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia
i. Frederick William(s)
ii. Army and Bureaucracy
b. Austria under Maria Theresa
c. Decline of the Ottoman Empire
d. The Destruction of Poland
Enlightened Despotism
IV.
V.
a. Frederick II of Prussia
b. Catherine the Great of Russia
c. Joseph II of Austria
Wars and Diplomacy
a. War of the Austrian Succession
b. Seven Years’ War
Social Change
a. Marriage Patterns and Birth/Death Rates
b. The Widening Gap Between the Rich and Poor
c. The Emerging Middle Class
Unit 8 The French Revolution and Napoleon (2 Weeks)
I.
II.
The French Revolution
a. Causes of the French Revolution
i. The Enlightenment
ii. American Revolution
iii. The Old Regime
iv. Financial Crisis
b. Estates General to National Assembly
i. Abbe Sieyes
ii. Tennis Court Oath
c. Destruction of the Old Regime
i. Storming of the Bastille
ii. The Great Fear
iii. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
iv. Women’s March on Versailles
d. 1790-1791
i. Constitutional Changes
ii. Economic Policies
iii. Quarrel with the Catholic Church
e. War and the “Second” Revolution
i. International Impact of the Revolution
ii. The Declarations of War
iii. August 10, 1792
f. The Reign of Terror
i. The National Convention
ii. Background to the Terror
iii. Maximilien Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety
iv. The Thermidorean Reaction
g. The Directory
i. The Weaknesses of the Directory
ii. The Coup d’Etat of Bonaparte
Napoleonic Europe
a. The Consulate
i. Domestic Policies
ii. Agreement with the Church
iii. Military Campaigns
III.
b. The Formation of the French Empire
i. War of the Third Coalition
ii. The Grand Empire
iii. The Continental System
c. The Overthrown of Napoleon
i. The Disaster in Russia
ii. The War of Liberation
iii. Restoration of the Bourbons and the Hundred Days
Neoclassical Art
Unit 9 The Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions
I.
II.
III.
Agricultural Revolution
a. New Innovations
b. New Technologies
c. Enclosure Movement
The Industrial Revolution
a. The Conducive Climate of Great Britain
b. Technological Changes and new Forms of Industrial Organization
i. The Cotton Industry
ii. The Steam Engine
iii. The Iron Industry
iv. A Revolution in Transportation
v. The Factory
c. The Spread of Industrialization
i. Continental Industrial Centers
ii. Joint-Stock Investment
Social Impact
a. Urbanization
b. New Social Classes
i. Middle Class
ii. Industrial Workers
c. Conditions of the Working Class
i. Standards of Living
ii. Efforts of Reform and Governmental Intervention
Unit 10 Reaction and Revolution
I.
II.
(1 Week)
Advent of the –Isms
a. Conservatism
b. Liberalism
c. Laissez-Faire Economics
d. Radicalism
e. Socialism
f. Population Studies
g. Nationalism
The Conservative Order
a. The Congress of Vienna
(1.5 Weeks)
III.
IV.
V.
b. The Concert of Europe
i. Interventionism
ii.
Revolt of Latin America
iii.
Greek Revolt
iv.
Metternich in Austria
v.
Tory Rule in Britain
vi.
Louis XVIII in France
vii.
Nicholas I and the Decembrist Revolt
Revolutions of 1830-1832
a. France: 1824-1830
i. Charles X
ii.
July Revolution of 1830
b. Belgium
c. Nicholas I and Poland
d. Mazzini and Young Italy
e. Reform in Great Britain
Revolutions of 1848
a. Yet Another French Revolution
i. February Revolution
ii.
June Days
iii.
Emergence of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
b. Vienna: The Nationalist Revolution in Central Europe and Italy
i. Austria in 1848
ii.
The March Days
iii.
Turning of the Tide and Repression
iv.
Ausgleich
c. The Question of a Liberal Germany
i. German States and the Failure of Revolution in Prussia
ii.
Frederick William IV and the Frankfurt Assembly
Art and Thought
a. Romanticism
Unit 11 The Consolidation of the Large Nation State
I.
II.
III.
IV.
(1.5 Weeks)
A New Toughness of the Mind
a. Realism in Art and Literature
b. Marxism
c. Science
Bonapartism: The Second French Empire
a. Political Institutions of the Second Empire
b. Domestic and Economic Developments
c. The Crimean War
The Unification of Italy
a. Nationalism and Realpolitik
b. Camilo di Cavour and the Piedmont
c. Wars with Austria
d. Cavour and Garibaldi: Completion of the Unification
The Unification of Germany
V.
a. Otto von Bismarck and Prussia
b. Danish War
c. Austro-Prussian War
d. Franco-Prussian War
e. Completion of the Unification
Alexander II’s Russia
a. Impact of the Crimean War
b. Reforms of Alexander II
c. The Rise of Extremism and the Tragedy of Alexander II
d. The Brutal Reign of Alexander III
i. Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Nationality
ii. Industrialization
Unit 12 European Civilization: 1871-1914
I.
II.
III.
(1 Week)
Demographics
The Advance of Democracy
a. France: the Third Republic
i. Paris Commune
ii. Troubles in the Boulanger Crises and the Dreyfus Affair
b. Britain
i. Gladstone and Disraeli
ii. Reform Bills
iii. Irish Question
c. German Empire
i. Kulturkampf
ii. Persistence of the Old Order
Science, Philosophy, the Arts, and Religion
a. Science
i. Impact of Evolution
ii. Genetics
iii. Psychology
b. Socialism
i. Bernstein
ii. Sorel
c. Philosophy
i. Nietzsche
ii. Kierkegaard
iii. Existentialism
iv. Racism
v. Rights of Women
vi. Christianity
d. Art in the late 19th Century
Unit 13 Imperialism and the Coming of World War I
I.
Imperialism
a. Causes and Motives
(1.5 Weeks)
II.
i. Money
ii. Power
iii. Social Darwinism and Racism
iv. Religion
b. Scramble for Africa
i. The Opening of Africa
ii. Friction and Rivalry
c. Imperialism in Asia
i. British
1. India
2. China
ii. Opening of Japan
1. Commodore Perry
2. Russo-Japanese War
d. Responses to Imperialism
International Rivalry and the Coming of War
a. The Age of Bismarck
i. The Balkans: Decline of the Ottoman Empire
ii. Rival Alliances: Triple Alliance vs. Entente
b. Crises in Morocco and the Balkans
c. Militarism
d. The Sarajevo Crises and the Outbreak of War
Unit 14 The Great War and the Russian Revolution
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
(2.5 Week)
The Armed Stalemate
a. The War on Land 1914-1916
i. Trench Warfare
b. War at Sea
c. Diplomatic Maneuvers and Secret Agreements
The Collapse of Russia and the Intervention of the United States
a. The Withdrawal of Russia: Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
b. The Entry of the United States
c. The Final Phase of the War
The Collapse of the Austrian and German Empires
The Economic and Social Impact of the War
a. Effects on Capitalism: Government-Regulated Economies
b. Inflation, Industrial Changes, Control of Ideas
c. Public Order and Public Opinion
d. Social Impact of Total War
The Peace of Paris
a. The 14 Points
b. Other Peace Treaties with the Central Powers
c. Treaty of Versailles
Backgrounds
a. Communist Groups in Russia
b. Split in the Social Democrats: Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
c. Revolution
VII.
VIII.
IX.
Unit 15
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
i. Revolutionary Events
ii. Bloody Sunday and the November Revolution
iii. The Stolypin Reforms
The Revolution of 1917
a. End of the Romanov Regime: March 1917
b. The Bolshevik Revolution: November 1917
c. Lenin and the New Regime
i. Civil War
ii. New Economic Policy
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
a. Government: The Nationalities and Federalism
b. State and Party
c. Stalin v. Trotsky
The Stalinist Regime
a. Five Year Plans
b. Collectivization of Agriculture
c. Growth of Industry
d. Social Costs and Effects of the Five Year Plans
e. The Purge of the Communist Party
The Road to World War II
(2 Week)
The Democratic States
a. Great Britain
b. France
The Great Depression
The Rise of Totalitarianism
a. Fascist Italy
i. Postwar Italy
ii. Benito Mussolini and the Birth of Fascism
iii. The Italian Fascist State
b. Nazi Germany
i. Weimar Germany
ii. The Rise of the Nazi Party
iii. The Nazi Seizure of Power
iv. The Nazi State
v. Anti-Semitism
Prelude to War
a. Pacifism and Disunity in the West
b. Hitler’s Agression
c. Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War
d. The Munich Crisis
e. End of Appeasement
Cultural and Intellectual Trends in the Interwar Years
a. Art and Music
b. Mass Communication
Unit 16 The Second World War (1.5 Week)
I.
II.
III.
The Years of Axis Triumph
a. Nazi Europe, 1939-1940, Poland and the fall of France
b. The New Nazi Order
i. Nazi Empire
ii. Resistance Movements
iii. The Holocaust
c. The Battle of Britain and American Aid
d. The Nazi Invasion of Russia
e. 1942, the Year of Dismay: Russia, North Africa, the Pacific
The Western-Soviet Victory
a. Plans and Preparations
b. The Turning of the Tide, 1942-43: Stalingrad, North Africa, Sicily
c. The Allied Offensive, 1944-45: Europe and the Pacific
The Foundations of Peace
a. The Conferences at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam
b. The Atomic Era
Unit 17 The Cold War (2 Weeks)
I.
II.
III.
IV.
The Cold War: the Opening Decade, 1945-1955
a. Origins and Nature
b. Berlin Blockade and Airlift
c. NATO and the Warsaw Pact
d. Economic Reconstruction
i. Marshall Plan
ii. Economic Growth
The Communist World: the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
a. Postwar Stalinism
b. Khruschchev: The Effort of Reform
c. Eastern Europe
i. Consolidation of Communist Control
ii. Repression in East Germany, Poland, and Hungary
iii. The “Prague Spring” of the 1960s
Confrontation and Détente, 1955-1975
a. U-2 Controversy
b. Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
c. Brezhnev in the 1970s: Détente and the Helsinki Conference of 1975
The End of the Cold War
a. Gorbachev, Perestroika, Glasnost, and the Announcement of Non-Intervention
b. Eastern Europe: The Collapse of the Communist Order
i. Poland
ii. Hungary
iii. Czechoslovakia
iv. Romania
v. Bulgaria
vi. Albania
c. The Reunification of Germany
d. Boris Yeltsin and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
e. The Disintegration of Yugoslavia
i. War in Bosnia
ii. War in Kosovo
Unit 18 The Modern World
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
REVIEW
(1.5 Weeks)
The West since 1945
a. France
i. Domination of Charles DeGaulle
ii. France since DeGaulle’s fall
b. Great Britain
i. Labour and Conservative
ii. Thatcherism
c. Italy since 1945
Western Europe: The Move Toward Unity
a. Economic and Political Change
b. European Union
Decolonization
The Emergence of a New Society
a. The Structure of European Society
b. Creation of the Welfare State
c. Women in Postwar Europe
d. Education and Student Revolt
e. The Growth of Terrorism
Postwar Art and Culture
1 Week (2 Full Practice Exams)