AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

PERIOD 1 – 1450 TO 1648

Unit 1 – Renaissance and Rebirth

1.1 Life in the Middle Ages
1.2 Renaissance Humanism
1.3 Renaissance Art!
1.4 Rise of the New Monarchs
1.5 Scientific Revolution

Unit 2 – Reformation and Religious Wars

2.1 The Protestant Reformation
2.2 Growth of Protestantism
2.3 The Catholic Reformation
2.4 Age of Religious Wars
2.5 Witchcraft!

Unit 3 – Exploration and Economic Evolution

3.1 Age of Exploration
3.2 European Economic Evolution
3.3 Early Modern Europe Social Life
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PERIOD 2 – 1648 TO 1815

Unit 4 – Age of Absolutism

4.1 Theories of Political Power
4.2 Absolutism in Western Europe
4.3 Absolutism in Central Europe
4.4 Absolutism in Russia
4.5 Constitutionalism in England

Unit 5 – Changing Life of the Common Man

5.1 The Agricultural Revolution
5.2 Early European Urbanization
5.3 18th Century Social Changes
NOTE: NO VIDEO FOR THIS SECTION

Unit 6 – An Enlightened Europe

6.1 Core Ideas of the Enlightenment
6.2 Enlightenment Impact on Society
6.3 Enlightened Despotism
6.4 Transatlantic Economy and Warfare

Unit 7 – The French Revolutionary Era

7.1 Causes of the French Revolution
7.2 The Age of Montesquieu – Constitutional Monarchy
7.3 The Radical Revolution
7.4 Napoleonic Europe
7.5 Downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte
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PERIOD 3 – 1815 TO 1914

Unit 8 – Industrialized Europe

8.1 Roots of the Industrial Revolution
8.2 Why England?
8.3 Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
8.4 Growth of Socialism

Unit 9 – Age of the Conservative Order

9.1 The Congress of Vienna
9.2 Responses to Revolutions – THE ISMS!
9.3 Revolutions of 1830 and Liberal Reform in England
9.4 Revolutions of 1848
9.5 The Age of Romanticism

Unit 10 – European Transformation and Domination

10.1 Italian and German Unifications
10.2 Fall of the Concert of Europe
10.3 Age of Mass Politics
10.4 European Imperialism

Unit 11 – The Belle Epoque

11.1 The Second Industrial Revolution and Urbanization
11.2 Golden Age of the Bourgeoisie
11.3 Fin de Siecle and the New Consumerism
11.4 Growth of Science and Subjectivity
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PERIOD 4 – 1914 TO 2008

Unit 12 – War, Revolution, and Anxiety

12.1 Causes of World War I
12.2 World War I – The “Total War”
12.3 The Treaty of Versailles
12.4 The Russian Revolution
12.5 The Age of Anxiety

Unit 13 – Totalitarianism and World War II

13.1 Western European Democracies
13.2 Totalitarianism
13.3 Soviet Communism under Stalin
13.4 Nazi Fascism under Hitler
13.5 World War II

Unit 14 – Modern Europe

14.1 Origins of the Cold War
14.2 Heart of the Cold War
14.3 The Cold War, Part II (1964 to 1991)
14.4 Decolonization, Immigration, and Economic Transformation
14.5 Patterns of European Unity
14.6 Social Changes of the 20th Century