Welcome to AP European History
This class is designed for the self-motivated student with above average expectations and a strong work ethic.
The Advanced Placement program is an opportunity for students to earn college credit through participation in a variety of subjects and the successful completion of a comprehensive exam at the end of the course. Due to the stringent and rigorous nature of the AP program, any AP course will have a driven curriculum in order to prepare students for the AP exam given at the end of the year. This exam is provided for the students by the AP program for a fee and will be administered at Rolla High School in May. The test is not mandatory! For further information about the AP program, please log on to http://www.collegeboard.com/parents/
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How to do the AP Euro Exam DBQ (The REALLY big one)
To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
~Lord Bolingbroke
Unit 1:
The Renaissance (Chapter 10)
The Age of Reformation (Chapter 11)
Chapter 10 Study Guide
Chapter 11 Study Guide
Unit 2:
The Age of Religious Wars (Chapter 12)
Video: A&E Biography--Elizabeth I
Chapter 12 Study Guide
Lecture Notes (part 1)
Unit 3: European State Consolidation in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Chapter 13)
Chapter 13 Study Guide
Unit 4: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries; Society and Economy under the Old Regime in the 18th Century
(Chapters 14 and 15)
Chapter 14 Study Guide
Chapter 15 Study Guide
Unit 5:
The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion; the Age of Enlightenment: 18th-Century Thought
(Chapters 16 and 17)
Chapter 16 Study Guide
Chapter 17 Study Guide
"...[w]e teachers babble, and our scholars follow our example." Rousseau
Unit 6:
The French Revolution; The Age of Napoleon (Chapters 18 and 19)
Video: The French Revolution (from The History Channel)
Video: Napoleon-- The Glory of France (A&E Biography)
1st Semester Final Exam information:
The final exam will consist of 40 multiple-choice questions and 1 FRQ. All questions will be taken from released AP exams.
Unit 7:
Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (Chapter 20)
Economic Advance and Social Unrest -- 1830-1858 (Chapter 21)
Chapter 20 Study Guide
Chapter 21 Study Guide
Unit 8:
The Age of Nation-States (Chapter 22)
The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to WWI (Chapter 23)
Powerpoint for notes Chapter 22
Powerpoint for notes Chapter 23
Unit 9:
The Birth of Modern Europe Thought (Chapter 25)
Imperialism, Alliances, and War (Chapter 26)
Chapter 25 Study Guide
Chapter 26 Study Guide
Video:
Mayerling (excerpts)
Von Richtofen (A&E Biography)
Unit 10:
Political Experiments of the 1920s (Chapter 27)
Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s (Chapter 28)
Chapter 27 Study Guide
Chapter 28 Study Guide
Unit 11:
World War II (Chapter 29)
Social Experiences of 20th-Century Europeans
Video:
Rommel: The Last Knight (A&E Biography)
Stalin: Red Terror (A&E Biography)
Anything was Possible (Dora Mittelwerk at Nordhausen)
Berlin Airlift (PBS: American Experience)
Unit 12: Toward a New Europe and the Twentieth-First Century (Chapter 31)
Bring in European current event items (newspaper articles, magazines, internet sources)--
Video: Czar Putin (CNN)
Post- AP Exam project
Mock Trials--
Pankhurst
Robespierre
Peter the Great