AP European History (Period 4)

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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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AP Euro - Exam Overview

The AP EURO exam is 3 hours and 5 minutes in length.
  • Consists of a 55-minute multiple-choice section and a 130-minute free-response section. 
  • The multiple-choice section consists of 80 questions designed to measure the student’s knowledge of European history from the High Renaissance to the present.
    • Approximately one-half of the questions deal with the period from 1450 to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era and one-half from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era to the present.
    • The questions covering the nineteenth century and the twentieth century are divided evenly (approximately 25 percent of the total number of questions for each century).
    • Approximately one-third of the questions focus on cultural and intellectual themes, one-third on political and diplomatic themes, and one-third on social and economic themes.
  • The free-response section, begins with a mandatory 15-minute reading period
    • Part A: students are required to answer a document-based essay question (DBQ) in 45 minutes
    • Parts B and C: students are asked to answer two thematic questions in 70 minutes.
      • Students choose one essay from the three essays in Part B and one essay from the three in Part C
    • Students are advised to spend 5 minutes planning and 30 minutes writing each of their thematic essays.
  • Within the free-response section, the DBQ essay is weighted 45 percent and the two thematic essays together are weighted 55 percent.
  • For the total exam score, the multiple-choice and the free-response sections are weighted equally.

AP EURO History Review Schedule:

 

  • Monday, April 27: Pre-Exam Admin. Materials, Overview of Exam
  • Tuesday, April 28: Renaissance & Reformation: 1500-1600
  • Wednesday, April 29: Age of Expansion, Rise of Monarchical States: 1415-1700
  • Thursday, April 30 : Multiple Choice Practice Test, Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment
  • Monday, May 4: French Revolution, Napoleon, European Reaction: 1789-1815
  • Tuesday, May 5: Independent Study Period (Calculus AB/BC)
  • Wednesday, May 6: Europe 1814-1945
  • Thursday, May 7: Postwar Europe
  • Friday, May 8: AP EURO EXAM

Final Free-Response Topics

1945-1991: Significant political, economic, and social developments of the Cold War (including the collapse of the Soviet Union)
 
1945-2008: Western European economic & political integration

Unit 10 Free-Response Topics

  • In order to prepare for the Unit 10 free-response question, you should review and reflect upon the following historical themes/topics:
    • Characteristics of “Totalitarianism”
    • Political, economic, and social characteristics of the USSR, fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany
    • Significant military, economic, and political events/phenomena regarding Germany’s involvement in WWII

WWI: 3/5/15

Resolved: The peace-making decisions, which marked the conclusion of WWI, were successful in renewing political, economic, and social stability in Europe.
 
  1. Affirmative Open
  2. Negative Open
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  4. Neg. Rebuttal
  5. Neg. Argument 1
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  7. Aff. Argument 2
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  9. Neg. Argument 2
  10. Aff. Rebuttal