AP European History (Period 4) Assignments

Instructor
Dr. Mike Castillo '00
Term
2014-2015 School Year
Department
Social Science
Description

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.

Files


Assignment Calendar

Upcoming Assignments RSS Feed

No upcoming assignments.

Past Assignments

Due:

Assignment

  • 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?

Due:

Assignment

Unit 10 - IDs 4
  • Vichy
  • Charles de Gaulle
  • Atlantic Charter
  • Tehran Conference
  • Yalta
  • Potsdam

Due:

Assignment

Unit 10 - IDs 3
  • Winston Churchill
  • Luftwaffe
  • Bitzkrieg
  • Battle of Stalingrad
  • Battle of the Bulge
  • Josef Goebbels

Due:

Assignment

  1. How was Hitler able to defeat France so easily in 1940?  Why did the air war against Britain fail? Why did Hitler invade Russia?
  2. 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?
  3. 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?
  4. What was Hitler's "final solution" to the Jewish question?  Why did he want to eliminate Slavs as well?

Due:

Assignment

Unit 10 - IDs 2
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Mein Kampf
  • Kristallnacht
  • Lebensraum
  • Neville Chamberlain
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

Due:

Assignment

Unit 10 - IDs 1
  • Weimar Republic
  • War Communism
  • Comitern
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Collectivization
  • Great Purges

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading: 
p. 685 - 702

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading: 
p. 663 - 685

Due:

Assignment

Unit 9: IDs 4
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Fourteen Points
  • Social Democratic Party
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • David Lloyd George
  • Georges Clemenceau

Due:

Assignment

Why was the European Alliance System created?
Why did this alliance system fail?

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading: 
p. 640 - 657

Due:

Assignment

Unit 9: IDs 3
  • William II
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Schlieffen Plan
  • Trench Warfare
  • Lusitania
  • Nicholas II

Due:

Assignment

Unit 9: IDs 2
  • Apartheid
  • Afrikaaner
  • Pasteur Institute
  • Submarine Cables
  • Royal Botanical Garden in Kew
 

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading: 
p. 614 - 640

Due:

Assignment

Unit 9: IDs 1
  • Opium Wars
  • Mughal Empire
  • maharajahs
  • Anglo-French Entente
  • Leopold II
  • Berlin Conference

Due:

Assignment

Unit 8: IDs 4
  • natural selection
  • papal infallibility
  • Postimpressionism
  • Social Darwinism
  • Zionist

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading: 
p. 580-612

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading: 
p. 564-579

Due:

Assignment

Unit 8: IDs 3
  • cubism
  • ego
  • id
  • superego
  • Kulturkampf

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading: 
p. 541-564

Due:

Assignment

Unit 8: IDs 2
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Bolsheviks
  • Mensheviks
  • petite bourgeoisie
  • pogroms
  • suffragettes

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading: 
p. 510-539

Due:

Assignment

Unit 8: IDs 1
  • Guiseppe Mazzini
  • Guiseppe Garibaldi
  • Count Camillo Cavour
  • William I 
  • Otto von Bismarck
  • Franco-Prussian War

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading:
p. 481-497

Due:

Assignment

Unit 7: IDs 4
  1. Utopian Socialism
  2. Anarchism
  3. Marxism
  4. Communist
  5. Capitalist
  6. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading:
p. 456-481

Due:

Assignment

Unit 7: IDs 3
  1. Capital Industries
  2. Proletarianization
  3. Chartism
  4. English Factory ACt
  5. Utilitarianism
  6. Corn Laws

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading:
p. 447-456

Due:

Assignment

Unit 7: IDs 2
  1. Simon Bolivar
  2. Decembrist Revolt
  3. Nicholas I
  4. Charles X
  5. July Monarchy
  6. The Convention of 1839

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading:
p. 439-447

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading:
p. 428-439

Due:

Assignment

Unit 7: IDs 1
  1. Magyars
  2. Klemens von Metternich
  3. Peterloo Massacre
  4. Louis XVIII
  5. Concert of Europe

Due:

Assignment

Unit 6 - IDs 4
  • Battle of Trafalgar
  • Congress of Vienna
  • Waterloo
  • The Hundred Days
  • Quadruple Alliance

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading
Kagan - pages 414-427

Due:

Assignment

Unit 6 - IDs 3
  • Thermidorian Reaction
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Admiral Horatio Nelson
  • Third Coalition
  • Napoleonic Code

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading
Kagan - pages 398-414

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading
Kagan - pages 385-398

Due:

Assignment

Unit 6 - IDs 2
  • Girondists
  • Reign of Terror
  • Committee of Public Safety
  • Maximilien Robespierre
  • Cult of Supreme Being

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading
Kagan - pages 373-385

Due:

Assignment

Unit 6 - IDs 1
  • Louis XVI
  • Third Estate
  • Tennis Court Oath
  • Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
  • Jacobins

Due:

Assignment

Textbook Reading
Kagan - pages 353-373

Due:

Assignment

Unit 5: IDs 4
  1. Enlightened Absolutism
  2. Frederick the Great
  3. Joseph II of Austria
  4. Catherine the Great

Due:

Assignment

Unit 5: IDs 3
  1. Mary Wollstonecraft
  2. Rococo
  3. Neoclassicism
  4. Jean-Louis David

Due:

Assignment

Unit 5: IDs 2
  1. Laissez-Faire
  2. Adam Smith
  3. Denis Diderot
  4. Jean Jacques Rosseau

Due:

Assignment

Unit 5: IDs 1
  1. Voltaire
  2. Deism
  3. David Hume
  4. Edward Gibbon

Due:

Assignment

Group 4A/4B Identifications:
  1. Charles VI
  2. Fredrick William I
  3. Peter the Great
  4. Streltsy
  5. Boyars

Due:

Assignment

Group 3A/3B Identifications:
  1. Glorious Revolution
  2. Louis XIV
  3. Triple Alliance
  4. Jansenism
  5. War of Spanish Succession

Due:

Assignment

Group 2A/2B Identifications:
  1. James I 
  2. Puritans
  3. Charles I
  4. Oliver Cromwell
  5. Test Act

Due:

Assignment

How did royal dynastic concerns shape the Reformation in England?

Due:

Assignment

  1. Why did the French invade Italy in 1494? How did this event trigger Italy’s political decline?
  2. How were the powerful monarchies of northern Europe different from their predecessors?
  3. 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

Due:

Assignment

  1. What is the message conveyed by Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man?
  2. What is the message conveyed by Vasari’s description of Leonardo da Vinci?
  3. How do each of these historical documents embody the principles of Humanism?