APEUROPEANHISTORY
201516
M.ALAMI
ThestudyofEuropeanHistorysince1450introducestudentstocultural,economic,
political,andsocialdevelopmentsthatplayedafundamentalroleinshapingtheworld
inwhichtheylive.Thiswillgivethemthecontextforunderstandingthedevelopment
ofcontemporaryinstitutions,theroleofcontinuityandchangeinpresentdaysociety
andpolitics,andtheevolutionofcurrentformsofartisticexpressionandintellectual
discourse.
Ourtopicoutlineswillbedefinedwithinthreemajorthemesthatwillunderlinethe
areasofstudiesforthiscourse:
IntellectualandCulturalHistory
PoliticalandDiplomaticHistory
SocialandEconomicHistory
Thecourseisdividedintofourquarters.Eachquarterconsistsoffourunits.
IuseitemsandessaypromptsfromreleasedAPExamsaswellasoriginalitemsand
prompts.IneachquarterstudentswriteoneDBQandoneQuarterPaper.
Texts
Sherman,Dennis,ed.WesternCivilization:Sources,Images,
andInterpretation,fromtheRenaissancetothePresent.
Boston:HoughtonMifflin,1995.
PrincetonReviewsAPEuropeanHistoryprepguide(Recommended)
Studentsareexpectedtocompleteallreadingassignmentscriticallyandwithanactive
mind.Ifstudentspurchaseaphotocopiedversionofthetexts,theyareencouragedto
takenotesinthemarginsastheycompletetheassignedreadings.
Grading:
EssaysandProjects15%
Tests30%
Quizzes20%
ClassWork20%
HW5%
PPRR10%
Academichonesty:
Plagiarismandcheatingareconsideredmajorviolationsofschoolrules.Studentsare
expectedtopresentworkthatistheirown,andtocitereferencesandsourceswhen
appropriate.Presentinganother'sworkmayresultindismissal.Incidentsofplagiarism
andcheatingwillbereferredtotheAssistantHeadoftheSchool.Studentswillalso
receivea0fortheassignment/quiz/testinquestion.Studentsmaynotworktogetheron
homeworkoutlinesordocumentanalyses.Onpapers,whenindoubt:CITEYOUR
SOURCE.Ofcourse,studentsmaystudyfortestsandquizzestogether.
QUARTER1
Unit1:EndofFeudalismandRenaissance
Genericattributesoffeudalism:agriculture,guilds,kingsversusnobles,
kingsversuspopes,popesversuscardinals
GenericdescriptionoftheRenaissance:socialandeconomicaspects
Compareandcontrast:RenaissanceinthesouthversusRenaissance
inthenorth.
Individualismandhumanism
WhydoesithappeninItalyfirst?
BurckhardtThesis
KellyThesis
Heavyhittersinart,architecture,literature,andscience
InwhatwayswastheRenaissancemoresecular?
Whatwasnewandwhatwas"reborn"intheRenaissance?
Unit2:ReformationandNewMonarchies
CompareandcontrasttheNewMonarchiesinEngland,FranceandSpain.
ForeignanddomesticpolicyinEngland,France,andSpain
CausesoftheReformation(religiousandpoliticalespecially)
Political,diplomatic,andsocialconsequencesofReformation
EnglishReformation
PoliticalandreligiousconsequencesofReformation
DoctrinesofLutherandCalvincomparedtotheRomanCatholicChurch
CatholicReformationandCouncilofTrent
PeaceofAugsburg
Unit3:OpeningoftheAtlantic,RiseoftheWorldEconomy,
RiseandFallofHabsburgPower,FrenchWarsofReligion
Politicalandeconomicandtechnologicalcausesforexplorationofthe
NewWorld
GoldenAgeofSpain
CommercialRevolution,bullionism,mercantilism
ReasonsforthedeclineofSpain:economic,social,andpolitical
RevoltoftheNetherlands
Causesandeffectsofthe30YearsWar:diplomatic,social,economic,and
cultural
Howimportantwasreligionasacauseofthe30YearsWar?
RichelieuandBalanceofPower
Stagesofthe30YearsWar
Politiques(Bodin)
WeberThesis
ProgressandResolutionoftheFrenchWarsofReligion:Catherinede
Medici,St.Bart'sDay,Coligny,HenryIV,EdictofNantes)
PeaceofWestphalia
Unit4:Tudor/StuartEngland:TheRiseofConstitutionalism
andtheAgeofLouisXIV:TheSuccessandFailureof
Absolutism
Political,social,andeconomicproblemsofJamesIandCharlesI
OliverCromwellandEnglishCivilWar
DomesticandforeignpolicyinStuartRestoration
GloriousRevolution
ChangesinreligioustolerationinEngland
MovementtowardsconstitutionalisminEngland
DefinitionandexamplesofabsolutismunderLouisXIV
IdeologyofAbsolutism,JamesI,andBossuet
LouisXIV'sdomesticpolicy
WarsofLouisXIV
RoleofMazarin,theFronde,andthenobles
SocialandeconomicproblemsofLouisXIV
WarofSpanishSuccession,roleofWilliamIII,andTreatyofUtrecht
QUARTER2
Unit5:EnglandandFranceinthe18thCenturyplusPrussia,
RussiaandAustria
PetertheGreat,reformsfromabove,andwesternization
PartitionsofPoland.RiseofPrussia
RiseofPrussiafromtheGreatElectortoFredericktheGreat
MultinationalcharacterofHabsburglandsandtheattendantproblems
thereof.
SpecialeconomicandsocialcharacteristicsofEasternEurope
EnglishandFrenchdomesticandforeignpolicyafterUtrecht
Bubbles
SevenYearsWarandConsequences
EvolutionoftheWorldEconomyinthe18thCentury
Unit6:ScientificRevolutionplusHobbes,LockeandRousseau
CausesofScientificRevolution
WhatwasrevolutionaryabouttheScientificRevolution?
Political,military,economicandreligiousimplicationsoftheScientific
Revolution
ImportantpeopleandideasoftheScientificRevolution
CompareandcontrastHobbes,Locke,andRousseau
Unit7:EnlightenmentandEnlightenedDespots
DefinetheEnlightenment/AgeofReason
EconomicandDemographicchangesinthe18thcentury
Philosophers:whoweretheyandwhatdidtheysay?
Newideasinpoliticalandsocialtheory
Deisim
Neweconomictheories,endofmercantilism,laissezfaire,AdamSmith
EnlightenedDespots:CatherinetheGreat,FredericktheGreat,Maria
Theresa,JosephII,LouisXVandLouisXVI.Whowas?Whowasn't?
Why?CompareandcontrastEnlightenedDespots,DespotsManqusandDespot
Wannabes.
Unit8:FrenchRevolution
Distant,IntermediateandImmediateCauses(social,economic,and
political)
BrintonTheoryofRevolutions
FrenchsocietybeforetheRevolution
Causes,ChronologyandPeriodization
Legislationineachperiod
CommitteeonPublicSafetyandReignofTerror
EnduringconsequencesoftheRevolution
RiseofNapoleon:causesandconsequences
Napoleon'sforeignanddomesticpolicy
Birthofnationalism
CongressofVienna
ENDOFSEMESTERONE
QUARTER3
Unit9:Liberalism,Nationalism,andtheIndustrialRevolution17601850
IndustrialRevolution:causesanddevelopment
Inventionsandinventors
DevelopmentofCapitalism
RiccardoandMalthus
UtopianSocialists
Liberalismandhowitchangedoverthecourseofthe19thcentury.John
StuartMillandJeremyBentham
SuffrageReform,CornLawsandChartistmovement
Laborandfactorylegislation
EffectsofIndustrialRevolution,historiographyofoptimistsand
pessimists.
Unit10:RomanticismandReactionandMarxism18151871
AgeofMetternich
Romanticartmovement
Marxism
PoliticalandsocialupheavalinFrance18151852
SocialandPoliticalRepublicans
Revolutionsof1848,especiallyinPrussiaandAustria
FrankfortAssembly
RuleofNapoleonIIIandhisdomesticandforeignpolicies
Jews:fromemancipationtoantiSemitism
Unit11:England,France,andGermany:Domesticand
Foreign(plusunificationofItalyandguestappearanceby
Russia)
Cavour,GaribaldiandtheunificationofItaly
Realpolitikanditsartmovement,Realism
BismarckandtheunificationofGermany
Bismarck'sdomesticpolicy,especiallyre:suffrage,kulturkampf,andsocialism
Bismarck'sforeignpolicybeforeandafter1871
NewformsofsocialisminEngland,France,andGermany/Relationshipof
feminismandsocialism
IncreaseinsuffrageandsocialprogramsinEngland
Culturalrelativismandotherculturalandintellectualchangesinthelate
19thcentury:science,psychology,anthropology,Freud
FrancoPrussianWar,ParisCommune,andformationoftheThirdRepublic
SocialandpoliticalchangesinRussia18481881
SocialandculturalchangesinEngland,France,andGermanyfrom
18711914:BelleEpoque,FindeSiecle,brasandbicycles
Historyoffeminism/Argumentsforwomansuffrage
Compareandcontrastthewomen'smovementsofEngland,France,and
Germany
Classdifferencesinthewomen'smovement
Unit12:ImperialismandWorldWarI
AllianceSystems
ArmsRace
ScrambleforAfricaandotherimperialistrivalries
RussoJapaneseWar
Roleofnationalisminprovokingthewar,especiallyintheBalkans
Economicsofthe"NewImperialism"andhowitwasdifferentfromthe
oldimperialism
Goalsandexpectationsofeachcombatantin1914(alsoSchlieffenPlan
andPlan17)
GoalsandexpectationsofU.S.A.,Woody'sWarWishes,self
determination,14Points
Howthewarwasfoughtandwon:homefront,socialandeconomicevents
Relativeimportanceofthedifferentcausesofthewar
VersaillesTreaty
ConsequencesoftheVersaillesTreaty(alsoevaluationofVersaillesTreaty)
WhathappenedtoRussiainthewar
Historiographyoforiginsofthewar
QUARTER4
Unit13:Russia18811939
DomesticpolicyofAlexanderIII
AgriculturalandindustrialconditionsinRussia
RussoJapaneseWarandRevolutionof1905
Stolypin'sReformsandotherresponsestoRevolutionof1905
RoleofIntelligentsia
Differentradicalgroupsandtheircompetingideologies
EventsleadinguptoFebruary(orMarch)andOctober(orNovember)
Revolutionof1917
HowLeninandtheBolshevikstakecontrol
Lenin'sdomesticandforeignpolicies,including"warCommunism"
andNEPSuccessionofStalin,andStalin'sdomesticpolicies(toward
nationalities,collectiveagriculture,kulaks,factories)
HowStalinconsolidatedhispositionasdictator,andhisfightwith
Trotsky
Thepurgesofthe1930s
Stalin'sforeignanddomesticpolicies/TheFiveYearPlans
LeninandStalin:inwhatwaysweretheygoodMarxists?Inwhatways
weretheynot?
Unit14:WorldBetweentheWarandWorldWarII
WhywereEnglandandFrancelesssusceptibletototalitarianismthan
ItalyandGermany?
HowdidGermanyrecoverfromdefeatinWorldWarI?
When,ifever,couldHitlerhavebeenstopped?
Diplomatic"CountdowntoCatastrophe"
WorldEconomyintheInterwarPeriod
RoleoftheGreatDepressioninleadinguptothewar
Holocaust
RoleoftheVersaillesTreatyinleadinguptothewar
EventsleadinguptotheoutbreakofWorldWarII.TaylorThesis
Howthewarwasfoughtandwon
CompareandcontrasttheoriginsofWorldWarIwiththeoriginsof
WorldWarII.
PeacesettlementsafterWorldWarIIcompareandcontrasttoWorld
WarI.
Unit15:PostwarInternationalandDomesticPoliticsandChangesinthe
WorldEconomy
CausesandcourseoftheColdWar:OriginsoftheColdWar,Truman
Doctrine,MarshallPlan,UnitedNations,atomicarmsrace,policyof
"containment"
MilitaryconflictsintheColdWar
CompareandContrastU.S.A.andU.S.S.R.fordomesticandforeign
issues19451991
MovestowardEuropeaneconomicunity.RiseoftheEU.
IndividualeconomicrecoveriesofEngland,France,andGermany.
CompareandcontrastEnglish,French,andGermandomesticissues.
NatureofEasternEuropeansocieties
Dtente
Frenchpoliticsinthe4thand5thRepublics,includingroleofdeGaulle
DismantlingofcolonialismbyEnglandandFrance
EffortstoopposeRussiandominationinEasternandCentralEurope
(especiallyHungary,Poland,Yugoslavia,andCzechoslovakia)
SocialandeconomicpolicyinBritain,France,andGermany
Khrushchev's"deStalinization"policy
RussiaunderBrezhnevandGorbachev
ThecollapseoftheSovietUnion/riseofnationalisminRussiaandEastern
Europe
TheunificationofGermany
Theworldeconomyfrom19452001
Unit16:20thcenturyculture,demography,andstuff
Existentialism
20thcenturyart,postmodernism
Youthmovementofthe'60s
Racism,demographicchanges,andproblemswithminoritygroups
TheGreenMovementandotherenvironmentalists
Literature,music,theatreandmovies,postmodernism,deconstructionismThe
Women'smovement,andchangesinwomen'srolesinsociety,politics,
andtheeconomy
Nationalism
END OF YEAR