11th-12th+AP+European+History

1. The emergence of the individual 2. The age of science and reason 3. Nation states, nationalism, and Nation Building 4. The emerging middle class and the accompanying change in the standard of living 5. The rise of consumerism 6. The plight of workers and peasants and their revolts and revolutions 7. The changing position of women in society 8. Europe’s quest for dominance of the world || APPLIES TO ALL UNITS 1. Improve study skills–becoming both effective note takers and listeners 2. Learn to analyze and interpret primary source materials of all types–documentary material, art, cartoons, maps, tables, charts and graphs 3. Improve essay writing abilities 4. Improve analytical reasoning skills– such as seeing comparative relationships between events, determining cause and effect relationships between events, and drawing analogies 5. Improving both inductive and deductive reasoning skills 6. Improve writing skills 7. Improve test taking skills <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">8. Improve critical reading skills || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Palmer, R. R., Joel Colton, and Lloyd Kramer. A History of the Modern World, 9th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2002. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Primary Source Packet of Readings || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">FOR ALL UNITS: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">PPTs <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;"> Outlines <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;"> Study Guides <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Selections fromPrimary Sources || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">ASSESSMENT APPLIES TO ALL UNITS
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 * || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">EACH Chapter in the unit lasts 3 to 5 days so everything will receive coverage before the AP Exam in May || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">This course begins in the Late Middle Ages on the cusp of the Age of Exploration as the European world ventures out into the Atlantic and then onto the World. It continues through the transformations and upheavals that shape the early modern and modern era such as the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Age of Revolutions, Nation-States and Nation-Building, and Age of Imperialism. We will study both World Wars and the carving up of the world map by Europe and then the fall of the Iron Curtain in the Cold War. The course ends on a questioning note by asking you to consider themes such as the developing world, globalization, and human rights issues of the 21st century. We will consider the ramifications of the transformation of Europe. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">There are numerous important events and themes in European history. Some important themes that will be developed over the course of the year will be:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;"> quizzes, study guides, review projects, writing assignments --both FRQ and DBQ, note taking, tests, midterms, and practice AP exams || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">In what ways was Russia ripe for revolution? What impact does the revolution have for both their own country and for Europe at large? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">WWI and Nationalism; Varying War Aims and Plans; Stalemate in Battle; Wilson's 14 Points and the League of Nations; Ramifications of the War; The Lost Generation; Russian Revolution ( Stalin, 5 Year Plans, Paranoia, and the Purges, international impact of communism) ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 17 and 18 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">The Treaty of Versailles; WWI Poetry and Sonnets; Lenin, Call to Power; Stalin's Purges; Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;"> Development of the Cold War--Germany's division, the Iron Curtain, the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, Political Reconstruction in Western Europe, the Building of the EU, Post War Soviet Union, The People's Republic of China ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 21-22 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Winston Churchill, Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat; FDR, America the Arsenal of Democracy; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;"> Elie Wiesel Speech ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;"> Other: Racism and Minority groups, Existentialism, 20th Century art, Postmodernism; Green Movement and other Environmentalists; Literature, Music, Deconstruction; Women's Movement; Nationalism ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 25 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Postwar Progressive and Protest Songs; Voltaire, Patrie ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">1 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Why do historians argue that the roots of the modern world can be found in the Middle Ages? What effect did the events of the 14th century have on the development of Europe? How did the Renaissance change Europe and push it toward the Modern World? Why did the church respond to the Reformation with the Counter Reformation and what impact did these events have? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Classical History; Roots of the Medieval and Modern World; The Calamitous 14th Century, Renaissance, Reformation, Counter Reformation ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 1-2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Haec Sancta, Unum Sanctum, Faminie of 1315, Life of Da Vinci, Martin Luther ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">2 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">What caused the age of exploration? How did these events affect the growth of imperialism? What problems prompted the monarchs to fund these expeditions? In what ways did religion begin to drive European monarchies apart? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Discovery and Trade in the Atlantic, Phillip II, Wars of Religion, Thirty Years War, Louis XIV, The Glorious Revolution ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 3-4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">3 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Why was Russia slower to industrialize and how was its monarchy different from European monarchies? In what ways did the empires begin to interact and how did this causes a clash of cultures? What positive/negative results occurred because of this new contact? What impact would this have on the monarchies and the colonies? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Hapsburg Empire, Peter the Great and the Russian Empire, Struggle for Wealth and Empire, Clashes of Culture, Witchcraft, Religion and the Slave Trade ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 5-6 ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">4 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">What was the impact of the Scientific Revolution? Who were the major players and what problems did the face? How did these new innovations challenge traditions? What impact did the Enlightenment have on society? Why was it so important? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Scientific Revolution and the Age of Reason: Bacon, Descartes, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton; Culmination of the Scientific Revolution; Locke and Hobbes and Natural Law; Age of Enlightenment and Enlightened Despotism (Louis XVI, Maria Theresa, Joseph II, Catherine the Great) ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 7-8 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Newton, Principles of Mathematics;Kant, What is Enlightenment?; Gottsched, Description of Maria Theresa ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">5 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Why is the French Revolution such a pivotal event in European history? What ramifications did it have for greater Europe and the colonies? What sparked nationalism and is it a growing concern? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">French Revolution (Causes, theory, and society); Revolution Legislation, Committee on Public Safety, Reign of Terror; Consequences of the Revolution; Napoleon; Birth of Nationalism; Congress of Vienna ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 9-10 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Olympia de Gouge, Declaration of the Fights of Women; Madame de Remusat, Remembrances of Napoleon ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">6 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Why was industrialization central to growth during this period? What counter movements did it spark and why? What caused some European powers to become unstable and why was there such unrest? Why are there numerous rebellions in Europe at the same time? What is the root of these problems? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Industrialization (Revolution in Britain); Romanticism, liberalism, Radicalism, Socialism; Revolutions and the Bourgeoisie; Political and Social Upheaval in France; Age of Metternich; Revolutions of 1848--Germany; Marxism; Napoleon III ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 11-12 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Leeds Woolen Workers Petition; Wordsworth; Lord Byron; ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">7 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">How and why do large nation states begin to emerge? What impact does this have on the politics of Europe? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Building Large Nation States: Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, U.S.) ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 13 ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">8 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Who is Civilized, who isn't, and who determines what civilized is? Why do many small movements begin to emerge such as socialism? What impact do these "isms" have on life? Why are these ideas considered the birth of modern European thought? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Growth of Civilization; Economy of the World; Spread of Democracy; Socialism (England, France, and Germany); Darwinism; Cultural Relativism; Anti-Semitism ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 14-15 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Darwin, On the Origin of Species ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">9 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">What is imperialism? Where is it? What motivates it? What role does it play in upcoming events? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Imperialism; Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire; Division and colonization of Africa; Asian Imperialism ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 16 ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">10 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">How do European supremacy and political problems lead to WWI? What were the various countries aims and how successful were they? Why is called the Lost Generation? What are the ramifications of WWI both immediately and for the future/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">11 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Why are there numerous political experiments in the 1920s? Why are the events of this decade often considered as leading the world on an inevitable path toward war? Why do these types of totalitarian and militaristic states emerge? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Interwar period--advance of democracy; anti-imperialist movements (Ghandi and Nehru); China and Japan intensify relations; Great Depression; Responses to the Great Depression (FDR); Emergence of Fascism in Italy; Emergence of Totalitarianism in Germany; Setting the Stage for WWII ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 19 and 20 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Benito Mussolini, What is Fascism ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">12 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Why do many historians consider WWII inevitable? What are the problems that can no longer be ignored in Europe? How does WWII lead into the Cold War? Why is the emergence of Europe after the war completely connected to Cold War ideology? In what ways will this fuel ideas of decolonization? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">WWII--Appeasement, Blitzkrieg, Fighting the War, the Holocaust, The Bomb, Peace, Yalta, UN
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">13 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">How do relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. play into world politics? How is decolonization accomplished and are the results positive or negative for the parties involved? How do these events influence modern politics? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Cold War Relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; From Empires to Nations (Decline of British Empire in Asia, Decline of Dutch, Decline of France); African Revolutions; Development of tensions in the Modern Middle East; Problems in Latin America ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Ch. 23-24 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Statute of Westminster; Nelson Mandela Speech; Balfour Declaration ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">14 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Why is the collapse of the Soviet Union so significant? What are steps along the road to the collapse and how does the collapse impact modern politics? What are the current issues in the world today? How successful are globalization policies and movements of the late 20th century? In what ways does the culture reflect the anxieties of the time? What does the future hold? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">20th Century--Collapse of the U.S.S.R.; Europe after Communism and the Cold War; Globalization; Cultural Shifts and demography