Course Long Plan Edit

Brief Description of Course

The Ap European history course covers thye modern period from approximately 1450 to the modern era. It
traces themes in political, diplomatic, economic intellectual, social and cultural history.

This course is divided into 4 quarters. Each quarter is subdivided into 4 units. Each of these units is further
subdivided into chapters. Each of the units is comprised of approximately 3-4 chapters in our text book. I
use as much test material as possible from previously released AP European History Tests. These include
multiple choice questions, essays and dbq’s. An exam is given following every chapter covered. It consists of
50 multiple choice questions and an essay. Students write a DBQ for every chapter covered. Therefore, in
each quarter a student writes at least 5 DBQ’s and 4 essays. Following the AP exam students are given the
opportunity to exam some aspect of the class in greater detail. This takes the form of an oral presentation
with some sort of visual required.

COURSE OUTLINE

1. SUMMER ASSIGNMENT- CHAPTER 12- DECLINE OF THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH- HAND IN FIRST DAY ESSAY
DISCUSSING THE CAUSES FOR THE DECLINE IN PRESTIGE AND POWER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
2. INTRODUCTION- EUROPE IN TRANSITION- RELGION AND POLITCS OF THE later Middle Ages.(1 week)
3. The Renaissance- 1300-1600. The background- Northern Renaissance(2 weeks) Chapter 13.
4. The Protestant and Catholic Reformations(2 weeks) Chapter 14.
5. Religious Wars and the emergence of constitutional governments (2weeks) chapter 15.
6. Seek and Discover- exploration and colonization 1 week (18)
7. The Age of Absolutism Chapter 19 (2 weeks)
8. European Society in the Eighteenth Century – chapters 20 & 21- economics, social, intellectual order, age
of reason. (3 weeks)
9. Revolution in the Western World- French Revolution and Napoleonic Era. Chapter 22 (3 weeks)
10. Industrial Revolution Chapter 23 (2 weeks)
11. Politics and cultural responses of the 19th century Politics 1815-1871. Culture romanticism, realism,
modernism, Marx and science.(24 and 25and 26) 3 weeks
12. The Growth and Dominance of State power/ Imperialism 27 2 weeks
13. World War I and interwar period- 2 weeks 31 and 32
14. The rise of Totalitarianism in Europe and World War II 33 and 35 2 weeks
15. 1945 to the present- 2 weeks
16. Review for AP exam 2 weeks

Unit Information
Unit Name or Timeframe:
Decline of Europe in the Middle Ages(Catholic Church)

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Problems faced by the Church
Describe the Plague and its effect on Europe
Explain the Hundred Years War and its impact

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Wallbank Chapter 12
Essay- Discuss the issuses facing the Roman Catholic Church at the end of the Middle Ages.

Unit Name or Timeframe:

Renaissance
Explain the conditions in Italy that gave rise to the Renaissance.

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Explain the conditions in Italy that gave rise to the Renaissance.
Discuss Humanism and Individualism
Artistic break throughs and achievements of Ren. Artists
Influential Literary works and techniques of Ren. writers
Renaissance Northern VS Southern
Social Aspects of the Renaissance

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary Reading- Pico Della Mirandola, Lucas Dubreton(Daily Life in Florence), Thomas More (Utopia),
Erasmus(Praise of Folly), Castiglione (Courtier),Dante( Divine Comedy), machiavelli ( Prince)
Text Wallbank 13
Test 50 Multiple choice/Essay
DBQ- Compare the quote from "Oration of the Dignity of man" and Michelangangelo's Moment of Man's
Creation.

Unit Name or Timeframe:

The Reformation

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Historical figures and religious issuses that sparked the Reformation
Luthuer's role and impact
English Reformation
Other Reformers
Catholic Reformation

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary Readings- Luther,Tetzel,Calvin, Knox, More, Von Hutten.
Test- 50 multiple choice/ Essay
DBQ- Consider the Cuases of the Reformation
Text 14

Unit Name or Timeframe:

Religious Wars and Exploration

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Discuss Relgious conflicts in Germany
Discuss Dutch Revolt
Revolts in France
The Thirty Years War
Age of Discovery

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Wallbank Chapter 15 and 18
Test 50 multiple chioce Essay
DBQ- How successful were the Spanish in realizing Columbus's dreams?

Unit Name or Timeframe:

Constitutional Conflicts in Europe

Content and/or Skills Taught:

England- Puritan, Glorious, Civil War, Interregnum
France- Reign of Louis XIV
Prussia- Frederick William, Frederick the Great
Russia- Peter the Great

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Wallbank Chapter 19
Primary readings- Thomas Hobbes(Leviathan), The Elements of Law Natural and Politics by Thomas
Hobbes,On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy" - Jean Domat,Cromwell, At the Opening of Parliament
Test 50 Multiple Choice/ Essay
DBQ- Cromwell and the Civil war

Unit Name or Timeframe:

Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Scientists, discoveries, impacts, consequences
Age of Reason- Hobbes,Locke,Montesquieu,Voltaire,Rousseau, Diderot,Quesnay,Smith

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary Readings-The Essays of Francis Bacon, Kepler's "Laws of Planetary Motion",
Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" - John Locke ,The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques
Roussueau,What is Enlightenment? - Immanuel Kant,Two Treatises on Government - John Locke, The Spirit
of Laws - Charles De Secondat Montesquieu,Candide - Voltaire(Selected Passages)
Test 50 Multiple Choice/ Essay
DBQ- Medical Treatment in the 17th Century
DBQ- Influences on the Enlightenment.

Unit Name or Timeframe:

French Revolution and Enlightened Despotism

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Old Regime(Estates)
National Assembly
Moderate Stage
Radical Stage
Reign of Terror
Reactionary Stage
Napoleon
Frederick the Great
Peter the Great
Catherine
Maria Theresa
Joseph II
Leopold II

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary Reading-Of Colonies" - from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations,The Storming of the Bastille - an
eyewitness account,The Tennis Court Oath,The Civil Constitution of the Clergy,The Death of Marat - covered
by The London Times,Maximilien Robespierre - Address to the National Convention ,Justification of the Use
of Terror - Maximilien Robespierre,The Concordat of 1801,The Napoleonic Civil Code,The Treaty of Paris,
1814 (May 30)
Test 50 Multiple Choice/ Essay
DBQ- To what Extent did women benefit from the Revolution.

Unit Name or Timeframe:

Revolutions and Reactions

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Congress of Vienna, Revolts- 1820,1830,1848 and aftermath
france, Austrian Empire, Prussia, Russia,Britain

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary Reading-Essay on Population - Thomas Malthus,The Organization of Labor - Louis Blanc,Metternich's
Letter to Tsar Nicholas I informing him of his resignation,Chartism and Temperance,
Test 50 Multiple Choice/Essay
DBQ- Concerning the Revolutions of 1848, Who sought changes and what were their aims?
Text 26

Unit Name or Timeframe:

Industrialization and the ISM'S

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Society in transition, Middle Class, Liberalism,conservatism,socialism,Feminism,Romanticism
Mercantilism,capitalism, agricultural Revolution, Industrial Rev,Results of the Industrial Rev

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary reading- The Subjugation of Women - John Stuart Mill,Reasons for and against the Enfranchisement
of Women - Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon,The English Corn Laws,Robert Owen and Robert Peel - Testimony
regarding Child Labor,Sadler Commission Report on Child Labor,Charles Dickens - excerpts from Hard
Times,Communist Manifesto - Marx & Engels (Exerpts)
Wallbank- 23 and 24
Test 50 Multiple Choice/ Essay
DBQ- A Blessing or a curse for the working man. (Industrial Revolution)

Unit Name or Timeframe:

The age of nationalism
Content and/or Skills Taught:
Italian nationalists, steps to a unified Italy, Unification of Italy,
German Nationalism, Steps to a unified Germany, German Unification
Multinational empires- Austrian,Hungary Ottoman Empire

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Wallbank-27
Primary Reading-Plombières Agreement - Cavour to Napoleon III,Franco-Sardinian Alliance,J'Accuse - Emile
Zola,The Ems Telegram,Speech to the German Reichstag - Otto von Bismarck,Otto von Bismark - Memoirs
Test 50 Multiple Choice/ Essay
DBQ- Bismarck and the Unification of Germany

Unit Name or Timeframe:

Age of Imperialism

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Old Imperialism
New Imperialism
Economic reasons
Military and Political
Social Darwinism
Africa,Asia,Middle East/ Consquences

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary readings-Of Colonies" - from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations,The Black Man's Burden" - poem
by John White Chadwick,The White Man's Burden" - poem by Rudyard Kipling,The Boxer Rebellion,Why
Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882 - The Earl of Cromer, Origin of the Species
Wallbank-28
Test 50 Multiple Choice/ Essay
DBQ- Discuss the causes of New Imperialism

Unit Name or Timeframe:

WWI

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Underlying causes
Immediate Causes
Course of the War
Concluding the War
Impact of the War

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary Reading-The Entente Cordiale Between Britain and France,The Assassination of the Archduke Franz
Ferdinand,Germany's "Blank Check" to Austria,In Flanders Field" - poem by John McCrae,Zimmermann
Note,The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk,Germany's View of the Versailles Treaty - Brockdorff-Rantzau, German
Foreign Minister,Versailles Treaty
Wallbank-31
Test 50 Multiple choice/ essay
DBQ- Who and What particular forces were responsible for WWI/

Unit Name or Timeframe:

The Russian Revolutions

Content and/or Skills Taught:

The March Revolution
Lenin and the November Revolution
Stalin

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary Reading- What Is To Be Done? - Lenin,Manifesto of October 17,The October Manifesto,Marxism and
Revisionism - V. I. Lenin,The April Theses - Lenin,New Economic Policy - Lenin,On the Industrialization of
Russia" - Joseph Stalin,"The Results of the First Five-Year Plan" - Joseph Stalin
Wallbank 33
Test 30 multiple choice/essay
DBQ-Causes of the Russian Revolution

Unit Name or Timeframe:

WWII

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Rise of Totalitarianism, Hitler's rise, Mussolini's rise
Failure of appeasement
Outbreak WWII
Turning Points
Diplomacy
Victory
Impact
Holocaust

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary Reading- The Economic Consequences of the Peace" - John Maynard Keynes,"What is Fascism?" -
Benito Mussolini,Der Führer - Joseph Goebbels,Nazi Enabling Act,Krystallnacht Order - Reinhard
Heydrich,"Peace in Our Time" - Neville Chamberlain,Speech to Reichstag - Adolf Hitler,Mein Kampf - Adolph
Hitler (full text), "Their Finest Hour" speech - Winston Churchill,We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech by
Winston Churchill,The Yalta Declaration
Wallbank 33 and 35
Test 50 Multiple choice/ essay
DBQ- Principles of Fascism
DBQ- Aftermath of WWII

Unit Name or Timeframe:

Cold War

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Cold War and Communism after WWII
Brezhnev era
Political and Economic Recovery
End of Colonialism
Khrushchev era

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary Reading- "The Berlin Airlift of 1948", U. N. Charter,Churchill's "Iron Curtain",Stalin's Response to
Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech,George Marshall's speech on Marshall Plan,The N. A. T. O. Treaty, US-
USSR Diplomatic Exchange on Korea,The Warsaw Pact,Khrushchev's Indictment of Stalin,Helsinki
Accords,Helsinki Accords
Wallbank 36 and 37
Test 50 multiple choice/ essay
DBQ- US/USSR Ideologies

Unit Name or Timeframe:

Contemporary Europe

Content and/or Skills Taught:

Collapse of Communism
Ethnic Tensions
Economic and Social Change

Major Assignments and/or Assessments:

Primary Reading-Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" - Lech Walesa,Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" -
Mikhail Gorbachev,Gorbachev's Speech to the United Nations,Gorbachev's Address After the Coup,Yeltsin
Denounces the Coup, The Dayton Accords,Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's address to the nation,
Test 50 Multiple choice/ essay
DBQ- The need for a European Union

Alternate Approaches
Textbooks/Course Materials Edit
Textbooks
Author:Wallbank, T. Walter
Second Author:Taylor, Alastair M.
Title:Civilization Past and Present
Publisher:Scott Foresman & Co
Published Date:October, 1987

Other Course Materials

Material Type:Other
Description:Supplemental Text- Mildred Alpern, Longman’s Guide to the AP Examination in European
History, Longman Publishers

Websites
URL:http://www.teacheroz.com/WesternCiv.htm
Description:

Periodicals