AP European History (Period 4) Assignments
- Instructor
- Dr. Mike Castillo '00
- Term
- 2014-2015 School Year
- Department
- Social Science
- Description
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A study of Western Civilization from 1450 to the present. Through lectures, discussions and readings, the student will develop critical analytical skills necessary for college level work. Success in the course depends on student interest and ability to keep pace with the required reading.
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Past Assignments
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- What was containment? In what areas of the world did the United States specifically try to "contain" Soviet power from 1945 to 1982? Why were 1956 and 1962 crucial years in the Cold War?
- How did Khruschev's policies and reforms change the Soviet state after the repression of Stalin? Why did many people consider Khruschev reckless?
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Unit 10 - IDs 4
- Vichy
- Charles de Gaulle
- Atlantic Charter
- Tehran Conference
- Yalta
- Potsdam
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Unit 10 - IDs 3
- Winston Churchill
- Luftwaffe
- Bitzkrieg
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Battle of the Bulge
- Josef Goebbels
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- How was Hitler able to defeat France so easily in 1940? Why did the air war against Britain fail? Why did Hitler invade Russia?
- Why did Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor? How important was American intervention in the war? Why did the United States drop atomic bombs on Japan?
- How did experiences on the domestic front in Britain differ from those in Germany and France? What impact did the "Great Patriotic War" have on the people of the Soviet Union?
- What was Hitler's "final solution" to the Jewish question? Why did he want to eliminate Slavs as well?
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Unit 10 - IDs 2
- Benito Mussolini
- Mein Kampf
- Kristallnacht
- Lebensraum
- Neville Chamberlain
- Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Unit 10 - IDs 1
- Weimar Republic
- War Communism
- Comitern
- Joseph Stalin
- Collectivization
- Great Purges
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Textbook Reading:
p. 685 - 702
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Textbook Reading:
p. 663 - 685
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Unit 9: IDs 4
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Fourteen Points
- Social Democratic Party
- Treaty of Versailles
- David Lloyd George
- Georges Clemenceau
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Why was the European Alliance System created?
Why did this alliance system fail?
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Textbook Reading:
p. 640 - 657
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Unit 9: IDs 3
- William II
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Schlieffen Plan
- Trench Warfare
- Lusitania
- Nicholas II
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Unit 9: IDs 2
- Apartheid
- Afrikaaner
- Pasteur Institute
- Submarine Cables
- Royal Botanical Garden in Kew
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Textbook Reading:
p. 614 - 640
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Unit 9: IDs 1
- Opium Wars
- Mughal Empire
- maharajahs
- Anglo-French Entente
- Leopold II
- Berlin Conference
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Unit 8: IDs 4
- natural selection
- papal infallibility
- Postimpressionism
- Social Darwinism
- Zionist
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Textbook Reading:
p. 580-612
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Textbook Reading:
p. 564-579
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Unit 8: IDs 3
- cubism
- ego
- id
- superego
- Kulturkampf
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Textbook Reading:
p. 541-564
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Unit 8: IDs 2
- Anti-Semitism
- Bolsheviks
- Mensheviks
- petite bourgeoisie
- pogroms
- suffragettes
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Textbook Reading:
p. 510-539
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Unit 8: IDs 1
- Guiseppe Mazzini
- Guiseppe Garibaldi
- Count Camillo Cavour
- William I
- Otto von Bismarck
- Franco-Prussian War
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Textbook Reading:
p. 481-497
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Unit 7: IDs 4
- Utopian Socialism
- Anarchism
- Marxism
- Communist
- Capitalist
- Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
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Textbook Reading:
p. 456-481
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Unit 7: IDs 3
- Capital Industries
- Proletarianization
- Chartism
- English Factory ACt
- Utilitarianism
- Corn Laws
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Textbook Reading:
p. 447-456
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Unit 7: IDs 2
- Simon Bolivar
- Decembrist Revolt
- Nicholas I
- Charles X
- July Monarchy
- The Convention of 1839
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Textbook Reading:
p. 439-447
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Textbook Reading:
p. 428-439
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Unit 7: IDs 1
- Magyars
- Klemens von Metternich
- Peterloo Massacre
- Louis XVIII
- Concert of Europe
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Unit 6 - IDs 4
- Battle of Trafalgar
- Congress of Vienna
- Waterloo
- The Hundred Days
- Quadruple Alliance
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Textbook Reading
Kagan - pages 414-427
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Unit 6 - IDs 3
- Thermidorian Reaction
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Admiral Horatio Nelson
- Third Coalition
- Napoleonic Code
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Textbook Reading
Kagan - pages 398-414
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Textbook Reading
Kagan - pages 385-398
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Unit 6 - IDs 2
- Girondists
- Reign of Terror
- Committee of Public Safety
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Cult of Supreme Being
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Textbook Reading
Kagan - pages 373-385
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Unit 6 - IDs 1
- Louis XVI
- Third Estate
- Tennis Court Oath
- Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
- Jacobins
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Textbook Reading
Kagan - pages 353-373
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Unit 5: IDs 4
- Enlightened Absolutism
- Frederick the Great
- Joseph II of Austria
- Catherine the Great
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Unit 5: IDs 3
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Rococo
- Neoclassicism
- Jean-Louis David
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Unit 5: IDs 2
- Laissez-Faire
- Adam Smith
- Denis Diderot
- Jean Jacques Rosseau
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Unit 5: IDs 1
- Voltaire
- Deism
- David Hume
- Edward Gibbon
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Group 4A/4B Identifications:
- Charles VI
- Fredrick William I
- Peter the Great
- Streltsy
- Boyars
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Group 3A/3B Identifications:
- Glorious Revolution
- Louis XIV
- Triple Alliance
- Jansenism
- War of Spanish Succession
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Group 2A/2B Identifications:
- James I
- Puritans
- Charles I
- Oliver Cromwell
- Test Act
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How did royal dynastic concerns shape the Reformation in England?
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- Why did the French invade Italy in 1494? How did this event trigger Italy’s political decline?
- How were the powerful monarchies of northern Europe different from their predecessors?
- For each of the following countries, describe and explain how and why their respective monarchies experience change and transformation.
- France
- Spain
- England
- The Holy Roman Empire
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- What is the message conveyed by Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man?
- What is the message conveyed by Vasari’s description of Leonardo da Vinci?
- How do each of these historical documents embody the principles of Humanism?