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Spielvogel Chapter 11:
The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century
Identifications (IDs) and Essays
Identifications (Quiz will be on Wednesday 8/25)
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
A Time of Troubles: Black Death and Social Crisis
“little ice age”
the Black Death
peasant revolts
anti-Semitism
War and Political Stability
the Hundred Years’ War
scutage
House of Lords
Germany
knights
Edward III
House of Commons
Italy
Joan of Arc
parliament
The Estates-General
the papacy of Avignon
Council of Constance
the Great Schism
mysticism
The Decline of the Church
Boniface VIII
conciliarism
Thomas Aquinas vs. Occam
The Cultural World of the Fourteenth Century
Dante
Petrarch
Chaucer
de Pizan
Death fascination
Clock
Gunpowder
Society in an Age of Anxiety
Prostitution
sex roles
Boccaccio
Giotto
Eyeglasses
schools
Essays:
Write paragraph responses to each of the following questions. Answer the questions
completely, using specific examples to support your claims. (For typed responses please
use 12 pt font and double spacing).
1) What impact did the Black Death have on the society and economy of Europe?
2) What major problems did European states face in the fourteenth century?
3) How and why did the authority and prestige of the papacy decline in the fourteenth
century?
4) How did the adversities of the fourteenth century affect urban life and medical
practices at the time?
Chapter 12:
Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
Identifications (IDs) and Essays
Identifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
Meaning and Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance
Renaissance
Leon Battista Alberti
The Making of Renaissance Society
House of Medici
three estates—details of each
Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier
The Italian States in the Renaissance
condottiere
Cosimo d’Medici
The 5 Italian States
Federigo of Urbino
Isabella d’Este (identify similarities to de Pizan)
Peace of Lodi
1527 French-Spanish wars
Sack of Rome
Role ofambassadors
Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince Cesare Borgia
Erasmus Education of a Christian Prince
Girolama Savonarola (not in Spielvogel for some reason, but he’s pretty big!)
The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy
Humanism
Francesco Petrarch
Lorenzo Valla
Leonardo Bruni and Cicero
Pico de Mirandola
Francesco Guicciardini
Johannes Gutenberg
Printing Press
Vittorini da Feltre + “Liberal Studies”
The Artistic Renaissance
Masaccio
Filippo Brunelleschi
Raphael
Jan van Eyck
David
Sandro Bottecelli
the High Renaissance
Michelangelo
Albrecht Durer
Primavera
civic humanism
Neoplatonism
Humanist education
Donato Donatello
Leonardo Da Vinci
the Northern Renaissance
Guillaume Dufay
Major art works we study
The European State in the Renaissance
“new monarchies”
taille
the War of the Roses
Henry VII
the Inquisition
the Habsburgs
Constantinople—1453
King Louis XI
Isabella and Ferdinand
Ottoman Turks
The Church in the Renaissance
John Wyclif
John Hus
The Renaissance Papacy
Pope Pius II
You will write an in class essay on one of the following prompts (prepare for all 4):
Be prepared to write a Long Essay for each of the following questions (I'll choose which one for
each of my classes). Answer the question completely, using specific examples/evidence and
analyis to support your claims.
1) Explain the ways in which Italian Renaissance humanism transformed ideas about two of the
following: philosophy, education and politics. (Focus on the role of education (liberal arts), civic
humanism and the dignity of the individual--think Pico della Mirandola. Also, consider
Castiglione). (Target Historical Thinking Skill--Significance)
2) In what ways can the Renaissance be considered a turning point in European history. (Target
Historical Thinking Skill--Periodization)
3) Compare the secular political ideas and practices of the Italian Renaissance with the political
ideas and practices of the Middle Ages. (Target Historical Thinking Skill--Compare and Contrast)
4). What roles did women play during the Renaissance? How was were their roles similar and
different from the Middle Ages? (Target Historical Thinking Skill: Continuity and Change over
Time)
Chapter 13:
The Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century
Identifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
Prelude to Reformation
Christian (northern) Humanists
Thomas More
Desiderius Erasmus
Utopia
Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany
Martin Luther
Confession
Indulgences
the 95 Theses
the Peasant War/Revolt
the Peace of Augsburg
Transubstantiation
Consubstantiation
The Spread of the Protestant Reformation
Ulrich Zwingli
the Lord’s Supper
Anabaptists
King Henry VIII
Queen Mary
John Calvin/Calvinism
The Praise of Folly
Pluralism
Justification
the Edict of Worms
Charles V
Munster
Act of Supremacy
predestination
The Social Impact of the Protestant Reformation
For this section, briefly outline the roles of: women, marriage, education and popular
culture during the Reformation period.
The Catholic Reformation
Jesuits
St. Ignatius
the Council of Trent
Politics and the Wars of Religion in the Sixteenth Century
Huguenots
ultra-Catholics
French Wars of Religion
Edict of Nantes
Philip II
Union of Utrecht
Queen Elizabeth
Puritans
the Spanish Armada
Essays:
Choose one of the following questions to write a formal essay outline including: a thesis
statement, topic sentences, supporting evidence, and concluding statement.
1) Compare the Lutheran Reformation and the Catholic (counter) Reformation of the
16th century regarding reform of religious doctrine and practices.
2) Compare and contrast the ideas of Lutheranism and Calvinism and explain why
Calvinism became the major international form of Protestantism.
3) What were the contributions of the papacy, Council of Trent, and the Jesuits to the
revival of Catholicism?
4) What role did politics, economic and social conditions, and religion play in the
European wars of the sixteenth century?
Chapter 14:
Europe and the World: New Encounters (1500-1800)
Identifications (IDs) and Essays
Honors World History—Jackson Spielvogel text
Identifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
On the Brink of a New World
Hernan Cortes*
Portolani
“God, glory, and gold”
Ptolemy
Lateen sails
New Horizons: The Portuguese and Spanish Empires
Prince Henry the Navigator* Bartholomeu Diaz
Alfonso de Albuquerque
Reasons for Potuguese success
Pedro Cabral
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
conquistadors
the Aztec
Tenochtitlan
the Inca
Francisco Pizzaro
viceroy
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Vasco de Balboa
the Maya
Moctezuma
encomienda
New Rivals on the World Stage
The Dutch East India Company
the Middle Passage
Ming and Qing Dynasties
West Indies
triangular trade
British East India Company
British North America
the slave trade
the Mughal Empire
Tokugawas
French North America
The Impact of European Expansion
Latin America
mestizo/mulatto
Columbian Exchange
Gerardus Mercator
Toward a World Economy
price revolution
joint-stock company
missionaries
mercantilism
Essays:
Write paragraph/outline responses to three of following questions. Lucky you!
1) What factors contributed to the successes of the West in the age of discovery and
encounter?
2) What were the political, social, and economic reasons for European expansion. Which
motive was the strongest?
3) Describe the impact of European expansion on two of the colonized/conquered
regions.
4) Evaluate the winners and losers of the Columbian Exchange.
5) Explain which factors led to the growth of commercial capitalism.
Chapter 15: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth
Century
Key Terms
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other
words,
The Practice of Absolutism: Western
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
Europe
Bishop Jacques Bossuet
Social Crisis, War, and Rebellion
Absolutism
Witchcraft Trials
Divine right monarchy
The Thirty Years
Cardinal Richelieu
War the Peace of Westphalia
Cardinal Mazarin
Standing armies
King Louis XIV
Gustavus Adolphus
Versailles
Intendants
Absolutism in Central, Eastern, and Northern
Fronde
Europe
Louis XIV’s wars
Frederick William
Edict of Fontainebleau
the Great Elector
Colbert
the Hohenzollerns
Peace of Utrecht
Treaty of Karlwitz
the Romanovs
Russian Serfdom
Orthodox Church
Peter the Great
Saint Petersburg
Great Northern War
Vienna and the Ottoman Empire
Sejm
The Flourishing European Culture
House of Orange
Mannerism
Amsterdam
El Greco
Baroque
Limited Monarchy and Republics
Bernini
the Stuarts
French Classicism
James I
Dutch Realism
Puritans
Rembrandt
English Civil War
Van Rijn
Charles I
Leyster
Oliver Cromwell
Moliere
Levellers
Restoration
Test Act
James II
the Glorious Revolution
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
the Bill of Rights
Essays:
Again, you will write an in-class essay response to one of the following prompts. You
don't know which one, so be sure to master them all
1) Analyze various ways in which the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) represented a
turning point in European history. (Periodization)
2) What were the main issues in the struggle between the king and Parliament in
seventeenth-century England, and how were they resolved (the resolution has to
include a discussion of the Glorious Revolution and the English Bill of Rights)?
(Causation)
3) Compare the ideas of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Which one had a better
grasp of human nature and the idea of government. (This is very fun and
opinionated. You can cite evidence from history, as well as the present. However,
make sure to address terms from this unit) (Comparison) (Continuity and Change
over Time)
4) To what degree were the monarchies of Europe “absolute?”
Chapter 16:
Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the
Emergence of Modern Science
Identifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
Background to the Scientific Revolution
Briefly explain the views on and accomplishments in math and science in the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance.
Toward a New Heaven: A Revolution in Astronomy
Ptolemaic universe (geometric conception)
Copernicus (heliocentric conception)
Brahe
Kepler
Galileo
the Roman Inquisition
Newton
Know the books of each figure
Advances in Medicine and Chemistry
Galen
Paracelsus
William Harvey
Chemistry
Women in the Origins of Modern Science
Margaret Cavendish
Maria Merian
querelles des femmes
Vesalius
Maria Winkelman
Toward a New Earth: Descartes, Rationalism, and a New View of Humankind
Descartes (continued in next section)
Cartesian dualism
rationalism
The Scientific Method and the Spread of Scientific Knowledge
The scientific method
Francis Bacon
Spinoza
Pascal
Essays:
Be prepared to write a one-page response in class on the day of the quiz to each of the
following questions (I’ll choose which one):
1) What impact did the Scientific Revolution have on society and religion?
(Significance)
2) Did scientific advances help or hurt women’s rights? (Comparison)
3) Assess the impact of the Scientific Revolution on religion and philosophy in the
period 1550 to 1750. (Continuity and Change Over time)
Chapter 17:
The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment
Identifications (IDs) and Essays
Indentifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
The Enlightenment
Reason, natural law, hope, progress Fontenelle
The Plurality of Worlds
Skepticism
Peter Bayle
The Historical and Critical Dictionary
James Cooks’ Travels
“noble savage”
John Locke (again, because
he’s that important)
Legacy of Locke and Newton
Philsophes
Montesquieu
Voltaire
deism
Diderot
Physiocrats
Francois Quesnay
laissez-faire
Adam Smith
Rousseau
General Will
Rousseau’s idea of the social contract
Mary Astell
Mary Wollstonecraft
salons
Geoffrin
Culture and Society in the Enlightenment
Rococo
Antonie Watteau
Neoclassicism
Jacques-Louis David
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frederick Handel
Franz Joseph Haydn
History in the Enlightenment Edward Gibbon
high culture
popular culture
carnival
taverns
Religion and the Churches
Joseph II’s Toleration
pogroms
Balthasar Neumann
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cesare Beccaria
Patent
Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews
John Wesley/Methodism
Essays:
Prepare an outline for each of the following questions. You will have an in class essay on
one of them.
1) What new ideas did the philosophes contribute in the areas of: politics,
economics, education, religion, and economics (choose three of these topics to
discuss in your essay)
2) What role did women play in the development of the Enlightenment?
3) What is popular culture and how was it expressed during the eighteenth century?
4) Compare and contrast the ideas of Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Diderot with those
of Hobbes and Machiavelli.
Chapter 18:
The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change
Key Terms and Essays
Western Civilization—Jackson Spielvogel text
Key Terms
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
The European States
Enlightened absolutism
British Parliament
Frederick II the Great
Catherine the Great
Louis XV
Frederick William I
Maria Theresa
Wars and Diplomacy
Balance of Power
The Seven Years’ War
Standing army
reason of state
the War of Austrian Succession
the French and Indian War
natural rights
Prussian militarism
Joseph II
Economic Expansion and Social Change
foundling homes
nuclear family
enclosure acts
the Bank of England (credit)
textiles
cottage industry
mercantilist theory
global economy
Jethro Tull
water frame
The Social Order of the Eighteenth Century
peasants
serfs
tithes
nobility
the Georgian country house
“the grand tour”
poverty
Essays:
Write a paragraph response to two of the following questions. Post your responses on
turnitin.com before turning them in to me.
1) To what degree did eighteenth-century Prussia, Austria, and Russia exhibit the
characteristics of enlightened absolutism?
2) Examine the causes of the economic expansion in the 18th century.
3) Given the numerous social and economic changes of the eighteenth century, those
at the bottom of society often found themselves worse off than in earlier centuries.
Explain why this is true.
4) How did the concepts of “balance of power” and “reason of state” influence
international relations in the eighteenth century?
Chapter 19:
A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
Key Terms and Essays
Western Civilization—Jackson Spielvogel text
Key Yerms
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
The Beginnings of the Revolutionary Era: The American Revolution
The Treaty of Paris (1783)
The United States Constitution
The Bill of Rights
George Washington
marquis de Lafayette
Background to the French Revolution
the First Estate
the Second Estate
the Third Estate
bourgeoisie
(outline the causes of the French Revolution)
The French Revolution
the Estates-General
the National Assembly
the Tennis Court Oath
Louis XVI
agrarian revolts
the Great Fear
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Jacobins
sans-culottes
The Girondins
the Mountain
Committee of Public Safety
Maximilien Robespierre
de-Christianization
Toussaint L’Ouverture
The Age of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte
the Code Napoleon (Civil Code)
the Continental System
Waterloo
the Concordat (1801)
prefects
nationalism
cahiers de doleances
the Bastille
the March on Versailles
the Constitution of 1791
the National Convention
the Reign of Terror
the Directory
the Third Coalition
the Great Retreat
Essays: (Potential topics)
1) Identify the major social groups in France on the eve of the 1789 Revolution. Assess
the extent to which their aspirations were achieved in the period from the meeting of the
Estates General in May of 1789 to the declaration of the republic in September of 1792.
2) In what ways did Napoleon’s policies repudiate the accomplishments of the French
Revolution and it what was did they strengthen them?
Chapter 20:
The Industrial Revolution and its Impact on European Society
Western Civilization—Jackson Spielvogel text
Identifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
agricultural revolution
the cotton industry
Iron industry
coal
Stephenson’s Rocket
Richard Trevithick
Factory system
evangelical values
the steam engine
railroads
Great Exhibition of 1851
The Spread of Industrialization
tariffs
joint-stock investment banks
the American system
The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
the Great Famine
the Poor Law Commission
the industrial middle class
working class
Poor Laws
trade unions
Luddites
Chartism
cholera
child labor (+laws)
Robert Owen
Factory Acts
Essays:
Answer the following questions in paragraph form.
1) What factors made Great Britain the first state to experience an industrial
revolution?
2) Discuss the impact of the early Industrial Revolution upon the family, the role of
women, and the lives of industrial workers.
3) How successful were the workers at ameliorating the harsh working conditions of
the early Industrial Revolution?
4) Between 1815 and 1848 the condition of the laboring classes and the problem of
political stability were critical issues in England. Describe and analyze the
reforms that social critics and politicians of this period proposed to resolve these
problems.
Resources:
The “Broad Street Pump” and the combating of cholera (it’s actually really, really
interesting, and done by one of the best history youtube channels)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLpzHHbFrHY
Crash Course on the Industrial Revolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c
Chapter 21:
Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism (1815-1850)
Identifications (IDs) and Essays
Western Civilization—Jackson Spielvogel text
Indentifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
The Conservative Order (1815-1830)
The Congress of Vienna
Klemens von Metternich
the principle of legitimacy
balance of power
conservatism
Concert of Europe
the Quadruple Alliance
the principle of intervention
Latin American revolutions
Tories and Whigs
Louis XVIII
Ferdinand VII
the Austrian Empire
Nicholas I
The Ideologies of Change
liberalism
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Malthus
nationalism
Revolution and Reform
the July Revolution
the Revolutions of 1848
the Frankfurt Assembly
the Reform Act of 1832
France’s Second Republic
Young Italy
David Ricardo
utopian socialism
The Emergence of an Ordered Society
police/police systems
prison reform
Culture in the Age of Reaction and Revolution: The Mood of Romanticism
Romanticism
Mary Shelley
William Wordsworth
Beethoven
Berlioz
Essays:
We will begin a new type of essay writing this semester, in addition to the DBQ and LEQ
format. This new format is known as the short essay question (SEQ). You will be writing
a SEQ response for one of the following questions. We will hold seminar discussion on
these questions soon!
1) What were the chief ideas associated with the ideology of conservatism and how were
these put into practice from 1815-1830? Cite specific examples.
2) What were causes of the 1848 Revolutions? How successful were the Revolutionaries?
Cites the reasons for their success and failure.
3) Compare the process of reform in England with that on the continent.
Unit 6: Nationalism, Mass Society, Anxiety, and Imperialism
Chapter 22
Identifications
The France of Napoleon III
Napoleon III
Emperor Maximilian
the Dardenelles
Florence Nightingale
the Crimean War
National Unification: Italy and Germany
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Otto von Bismarck
North German Confederation
Second German Empire
Realpolitik
Franco-Prussian War
Nation Building and Reform
Austria-Hungary
Alexander II
zemstvos
populism
Queen Victoria
Reform Bill 1867
Dominion of Canada
emancipation proclamation (Russian)
People’s Will
William Gladstone
Industrialization and the Marxist Response
The Communist Manifesto bourgeoisie v. proletariat
Science and Culture in an Age of Realism
materialism
Louis Pasteur
medical schools
Elizabeth Blackwell
Charles Dickens
Gustave Courbet
Richard Wagner
First International
Joseph Lister
Realism
Franz Liszt
Essays: In SAQ Form:
1) Assess the accomplishments and failures of Louis Napoleon’s regime in terms of the impact
his policies had on France.
1 pt accomplishments, 1 pt failures, 1 pt successfully analyzing impacts of those.
2) What were the causes and effects of the Crimean War? Who were the winners and losers?
1 pt causes. 1 pt effects 1 pt. winners/lowers.
3) What role did war and diplomacy play in the unification movement of Germany and/or Italy?
Italy: Part A: leaders B. war C. diplomacy
Germany Part A: leaders B. war C. diplomacy
4) What efforts of reform occurred in the Austrian Empire? How effective were they?
Part A: 2 examples of reform Part B: Discussion of effectiveness (1 pt)
5) What efforts of reform occurred in Russia (2 pts)? How effective were they (1 pt)?
6) What efforts of reform occurred in Great Britain (2 pts)? How effective were they (1 pt)?
7) What were the chief ideas of Marxism (two chief ideas--2 pts)? Address to what degree did
Marxism appeal to Europeans in the late 1800s (1 pt.).
Chapter 23:
Mass Society in an Age of Progress (1871-1894)
Key Terms
The Growth of Industrial Prosperity
The Second Industrial Revolution
steel
Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan
Alexander Graham Bell
Gulielmo Marconi
internal combustion engine (and all the inventions that went with it!)
white collar jobs (women’s)
European economic zones
the “shrieking sisters”
Social Democratic Party
revisionist socialism (evolutionary socialism)
anarchism
The Emergence of a Mass Society
The Public Health Act of 1875
plutocrats
universal elementary education
mass tourism
The National State
Gladstone
Mass politics
Irish Land League
Bismarck
Alexander III
V.A. Huber
garden cities
Boy Scouts
“yellow press” mass leisure
team sports
Reform Act
home rule
the Paris Commune
William II
Russification
Redistribution Act
Parnell
The French Third Republic
Social Democrats
Essays:
1) Discuss the reasons for the development of socialist parties in Europe between
1871-end of the century. Address the degree to which these parties met the needs
of working classes.
2) Compare the ideas of Karl Marx, Michael Bakunin and Eduard Bernstein.
3) How did the roles of women change during the second half of the nineteenth
century? Evaluate the degree to which change occured.
4) Compare the political reforms made Great Britain, Germany and France in the
late 19th century. Which one was the most democratic?
5) Explain the reasons for and effect of public education in the age of Mass Society.
Evaluate the degree to which this public education was based on the ideals of the
time period (a mix of conservatism, liberalism, etc.).
Chapter 24:
An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism (1894-1914)
Identifications (IDs) and Essays
Honors World History—Jackson Spielvogel text
Identifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
Toward the Modern Consciousness: Intellectual and Cultural Developments
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Nietzsche
Henri Bergson
Georges Sorel
Sigmund Freud
social Darwinism
“Life of Jesus”
Pope Pius IX
Pope Leo XIII
Naturalism
Symbolism
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Cubism
abstract painting
Claude Debussy
Politics: New Directions and New Uncertainties
The Pankhursts
anti-Semitism
David Lloyd George
Alfred Dreyfus
“Bloody Sunday”
The New Imperialism
“the white man’s burden:
Boxer Rebellion
Cecil Rhodes
Indian National Congress
Zionism
Pan-German League
King Leopold II
Gandhi
International Rivalry and the Coming of War (save this for the next unit, but they emerge
in this chapter)
The Balkans
the Congress of Berlin
The Triple Alliance
The Triple Entente
Essays:
Answer the following questions in essay or outline form. Be sure to have a clear thesis
that addresses the question. You must respond to all 3, though I’ll grade only 2 of them.
1) What developments in science, intellectual affairs, and the arts of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries “opened the way to a modern
consciousness,” and how did the consciousness differ from earlier worldviews?
2) What gains did women make in their movement toward equal rights?
3) What were the causes of the new imperialism that took place after 1880, and what
effects did European imperialism have on Africa and Asia?
Chapter 25:
The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis, War and Revolution
Identifications (IDs) and Essays
AP European History—Jackson Spielvogel text
Key Terms
Explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
First: Be sure to read the last section of the previous chapter (24) and know the ID terms.
The Road to War
militarism
the Schlieffen Plan
the Black Hand
the “blank check”
The War
the First Battle of the Marne
trench warfare
the Battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes
Verdun and the Somme
new military technology
the Central Powers the Allies
unrestricted submarine warfare
total war (there are three pages on this, be thorough.)
Georges Clemenceau (also in the last section “The Peace Settlement”)
Defence of the Realm Act
Lloyd George (also in the last section “The Peace Settlement”)
War and Revolution
Tsar Nicholas II
soviets
V.I. Lenin
Alexander Kerensky
Russian Civil War
German Communist Party
The Peace Settlement
Wilson’s “Fourteen Points”
the League of Nations
reparations
Rasputin
Bolsheviks
“April Theses”
Leon Trotsky
war communism
the March Revolution
Mensheviks
“Peace, land, bread”
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
the Cheka
Paris Peace Conference
The Treaty of Versailles
mandates
self-determination
war-guilt clause
Essays:
Be prepared to write a one-page response for each of the following in class on the day of
the chapter quiz:
1) Discuss the causes of World War I: What were the major long-term causes of
the war? How important were the decisions made in the summer of 1914 in
causing the war? (Causation)
2) Compare the effect that war had on the home front in Germany with the effect
that it had on the home front in Great Britain. Explain government policies for
mobilizing the war effort and maintaining public support. (comparison)
3) What caused the Russian Revolution? How did the Bolsheviks secure their
power? How important was WWI to the Russian Revolution (Causation).
4) Compare the Treaty of Versailles with the Congress of Vienna. (Comparison)
Chapter 26:
The Futile Search for Stability in Europe: Europe Between the Wars (1919-1939)
Key Terms
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
An Uncertain Peace
lost generation
inflation
the Kellogg-Biand pact
The Democratic States
John Maynard Keynes
Success of Scandinavia
Ghandi
the Little Entente
the Dawes Plan
the Great Depression
the Popular Front
the New Deal
Ruhr Valley
the Locarno pact
Social Democratic governments
Ataturk
The Authoritarian and Totalitarian States (brace yourselves!!!)
totalitarianism
mass propaganda
Benito Mussolini
squadristi (Black-Shirts)
Fascists
Lateran Accords
the Weimar Republic
Paul von Hindenburg
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazi)
the SA
Beer Hall Putsch
Lebensraum
Fuhrerprinzip (the leadership principle)
the Third Reich
the SS
Heinrich Himmler
the Hitler Youth
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
New Economic Policy
USSR (Soviet Union)
Politburo
Joseph Stalin
five-year plans
collectivization
authoritarian state
Francisco Franco
the Spanish Civil War
The Expansion of Mass Culture and Mass Leisure
radio and movies
Dopolavoro (Afterwork) and Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy)
Triumph of the Will
Cultural and Intellectual Trends in the Interwar Years
Dadaism
Surrealism-Dali
Bauhaus
Carl Jung
functionalism
Essays (In class—one essay for 35 minutes) :
Answer two of the following questions in essay/outline form:
1) What are the characteristics of totalitarian states, and to what degree were these
characteristics present in Fascist Italy, Nazi German and the Soviet Union?
2)Compare the rise to power of fascism in Germany and Italy.
3) Spielvogel claims that the Stalinist era inaugurated an “economic, social, and political
revolution that was more sweeping in its results than the revolutions of 1917.” Explain.
4). What role did mass leisure play in the totalitarian states during the interwar years?
5) Was the decline of the Weimar Republic inevitable?
Chapter 27:
The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II
Key Terms and Essays
AP European History—Jackson Spielvogel text
Key Terms
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
Prelude to War
Slavs
appeasement
Blitzkrieg
Sudetenland
Manchuria
“diplomatic revolution” (German)
Rome-Berlin Axis
Neville Chamberlain
Munich Conference
Nanjing
rearmament
Anti-Comintern Pact
annexation of Austria
invasion of Poland
The Course of World War II
panzer division
Maginot Line
Luftwaffe
Vichy France
Winston Churchill
the Battle of Britain
invasion of the Soviet Union
Pearl Harbor
Axis powers
the Allies
unconditional surrender
Edwin Rommel
Stalingrad
Battle of Midway
Normandy
Battle of Kursk
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (continued in Home Front section)
The New Order
the Nazi New Order
Heinrich Himmler
Tito
Claus von Stauffenberg
the Final Solution/Wannsee the Holocaust
the “other Holocaust”
Charles DeGaulle
Madagascar Plan
Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Home Front
“Dig for Victory”
the Manhattan Project
Dresden
“battle of machines”
the code of bushido
“Night Witches”
kamikaze pilots
Aftermath of the War
the Big Three
the Potsdam Conference
the Tehran Conference
the Yalta Conference
Essays:
Answer two of the following questions in essay/outline form:
1) Account for the responses of the European democracies to the military aggression
by Italy and Germany in the 1930s.
2) Compare the home fronts of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States
and Germany. Did organization of the home front play a role in the outcome of
the war? Explain.
3) How did the attempt at arriving at a peace settlement at the end of World War II
lead to the beginning of the new conflict known as the Cold War?
Chapter 28:
The Cold War and a New Western World (1945-1965)
Identifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
Development of the Cold War
the superpowers
the Truman Doctrine
“containment”
the Berlin blockade
NATO
the Warsaw Pact
Geneva Conference (1954) massive retaliation
ICBM
Sputnik I
Khrushschev (continues in Recovery section)
the Berlin Wall
the Cuban Missile Crisis
Know all the events on the Cold War time line
Europe and the World: Decolonization
the Kenyan African National Union uhuru
African National Congress
Palestine
the PLO
the Six-Day War
the partition of India
Chiang Kai-shek
Recovery and Renewal in Europe
de-Stalinization
Nagy
Charles DeGaulle
Adenauer
Great Britain’s welfare state
the Marshall Plan
mutual deterrence
the Korean War
CENTO and SEATO
National Liberation Front
Nasser
Mao Zedong
Tito
Gomulka
Christian Democrats
Algerian Crisis
French Fifth Republic
West Germany
the EEC
The United States and Canada: A New Era
the Red Scare
the New Deal and the Great Society
Postwar Society and Culture in the Western World
consumer society
the welfare state
abstract expressionism
pop art
existentialism
Americanization
art brut
“The Theater of the Absurd”
Essays:
You will write an in class essay for at least one of these, maybe more.
1) What were the causes the cold war and what were the major events in its
development through 1970? (Causation)
2) What were the major political developments in the history of the Soviet Union
from 1945-1970? (Periodization)
3) Discuss the major social changes affecting the status, expectations, and ambitions
of women in Western society from 1945-1970. (CCoT)
4) Compare and contrast the political and economic effects of the Cold War on
Western Europe with the effects on Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1961 (Compare
and Contrast)
Protest and Stagnation: The Western World (1965-1985)
Identifications (IDs) and Essays
Honors World History—Jackson Spielvogel text
Identifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
A Culture of Protest
the permissive society
feminism (the women’s liberation movement)
Betty Friedan—Feminine Mystique antiwar protests (know them all)
A Divided Western World
Leonid Brezhnev
Lech Walesa
Janos Kadar
“Prague Spring”
Berlin Wall
Willy Brandt
Margaret Thatcher
Francois Metterrand
The European Community (EC) –continued in chapter 30 on page 947
OPEC
The Reagan Revolution
The Cold War: The Move to Détente
Vietcong
Lyndon Johnson
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Red Guards
Nixon
Antiballistic Missile Treaty
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
the “evil empire”
Strategic Defense Initiative
Society and Culture in the Western World
computers
Small is Beautiful
deconstruction
punk, rap, and hip-hop
Postmodernism
mass sports
Essays:
Answer the following questions in paragraph form— three are due on Friday.
1) Evaluate the causes of the youth protests in the 1960s and 70s? Did they achieve
their desired effects?
2) Compare and contrast the goals and achievements of the feminist movement in the
period circa 1850–1920 with those of the feminist movement in the period 1945 to
the present. (You must review previous material for this. Think of it as a wonderful
opportunity to begin reviewing for the final.)
3) What was the role of science and technology in the post-war Western world?
4) Evaluate the effectiveness of Leonid Brezhnev in maintaining the political and
economic condition of the Soviet Union and its satellite states (eg, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary,etc.)
Chapter 30: After the Fall:
Identifications (IDs) and Essays
AP European History—Jackson Spielvogel text
Identifications
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
Toward a New Western Order (Ch 30)
Mikhail Gorbachev
perestroika
glasnost
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Chechnya problem
End of Communism in each of the Eastern European countries (be sure to know the
names of key figures and groups: e.g. Walesa and Solidarity in Poland, Vaclav Havel.
Nicolae Ceausescu and more
the reunification of Germany Yugoslavia’s demise
Serbian nationalism
the War in Bosnia
The War in Kosovo
Tony Blair
Jacques Chirac
From the EC to the EU
Treaty of on European Union (Maastricht Treaty)
Euro
Stats on Women
Guest workers
Growth of Islam
John Paul II
Snoop Dogg (JK)
Nokia
Read about globalization and such but don’t worry too much about it.
Essays:
Answer each of the following:
1) What were the causes of the Soviet failures in the 1970s and 80s?
2) When, how and why did the Soviet Union collapse?
3) How and why did the Cold War end?