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AP European History

2012. Comprehensive study guide Prepared by Steven Mercado HOW TO USE THIS study guide . This comprehensive study guide contains much of the essential information you will need to succeed on the AP exam. However, it does NOT contain everything you will need. It is not intended as the definitive source for your studying. The lecture notes you get from your teacher as well as pertinent information in your textbook are absolutely necessary for your success. If you are using the Euro notes, those will prove to be far more thorough and complete in getting you prepared. Yet, this resource will serve as a convenient day-before-the-exam study guide to use for your unit exams and will work well in preparing you for a number of multiple- choice and essay questions on the AP exam.

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1 2012. Comprehensive study guide Prepared by Steven Mercado HOW TO USE THIS study guide . This comprehensive study guide contains much of the essential information you will need to succeed on the AP exam. However, it does NOT contain everything you will need. It is not intended as the definitive source for your studying. The lecture notes you get from your teacher as well as pertinent information in your textbook are absolutely necessary for your success. If you are using the Euro notes, those will prove to be far more thorough and complete in getting you prepared. Yet, this resource will serve as a convenient day-before-the-exam study guide to use for your unit exams and will work well in preparing you for a number of multiple- choice and essay questions on the AP exam.

2 Good luck in your AP European History course and on the AP Exam in May, 2012. Sincerely, Steven Mercado AP Euro 2012 study guide -3- Table of Contents 2012 FRQ study guide 4. Periods and Dates in European History 5. Renaissance 7. Commercial Revolution 16. Reformation & Religious Wars 20. Absolutism in Western Europe 31. Constitutionalism 35. Absolutism in Eastern Europe 38. Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment 40. 18th Century Expansion 46. French Revolution and Napoleon 51. Industrialism 59. Age of Metternich (Conservatism: 1815-1848) 62. Urbanization 72. Age of Realpolitik: 1848-1871 76. Age of Mass Politics 79. Isms Charts 86. Imperialism 92. World War I 95.

3 Age of Anxiety 100. Totalitarianism 103. World War II 108. Cold War 110. Nationalism Since World War II 116. Economic Miracle and European Unity 119. Important Royal Lines and Governments 125. Social History study guide 127. Centuries study guide 131. Constitutionalism and Liberalism Chart 133. Economic Development Chart 134. Women in European History 135. Russia in Review 141. Memory Devices 153. 2011 All Rights Reserved AP Euro 2012 study guide -4- 2012 FRQ study guide . Most Often-asked Questions (by period) in the last 10 years (Form A). 20th Century: 20+ questions in last 10 years Political/Economic/Social/Western (Eastern) Europe: 1945 to Present: 10 questions in last 10.

4 Years Political/Social/Western Europe (Eastern Europe): 1900 to 1945: 13 questions in last 10 years Intellectual/Cultural/Art: 3 questions in last 10 years 19th Century: 19 questions in last 10 years Political/Economic/Social: 14 questions in last 10 years Intellectual/Cultural/Art: 5 questions in last 10 years Russia: 11 questions in last 10 years Reformation/Counter/Reformation/Wars of Religion (16th and 17th centuries): 10 questions in the last 10 years Women/Family 15th-20th Centuries: 10 questions in last 10 years (no questions in 2009, 2011). Commercial Revolution/Exploration/Colonization/ New Monarchs : (15th to 17th centuries): 9. questions in last 10 years Political/Absolutism/Constitutionalism: 8 questions in last 10 years Scientific Rev/18th Century Enlightenment/Enlightened Despotism: 8 questions in last 10 years Scientific Revolution: 3 questions in last 10 years: 2010, 2009, 2004.

5 Enlightenment: 6 questions in last 10 years: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 (2), 2003. Enlightened Despotism: 4 questions in last 10 years: 2010, 2009, 2008 (2). Comparative/Cross Century: 8 questions in last 10 years French Revolution and Napoleon: 6 questions in last 10 years Art: 5 questions in last 10 years Renaissance: 4 questions in last 10 years: 2011, 2010, 2006, 2004 (10 of last 10 years for Form B). Compare Western Europe and Eastern Europe: 3 questions in last 10 years Industrial Revolution/Agricultural Revolution: 3 questions in last 10 years (2008, 2005, 2003). 2011 All Rights Reserved AP Euro 2012 study guide -5- PERIODS & DATES IN European History . Later Middle Ages: 1300-1450.

6 Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). Fall of the Byzantine Empire (1453). Renaissance: 1300-1600 (first in Italy, then into Northern Europe). New Monarchs / rise of modern states: late 15th century, 1st half of 16th century Height of Hapsburg power: mid-16th century under Charles V. Commercial Revolution: c. 1500-c. 1700. Old Imperialism : 16th and 17th centuries (in New World). Reformation: 1517. Catholic Counter Reformation: 1545-1563 (Council of Trent). Religious Wars: Spanish Armada, 1588. French Civil Wars (1562-1594). 30 Years' War (1618-1648); Treaty of Westphalia: 1648. Scientific Revolution: 16th & 17th centuries (Copernicus to Newton). Agricultural Revolution: decades prior to 1750 (leads to population explosion).

7 Golden Age of Spain : c. 1550 Golden Age of the Netherlands : 17th century (1st half); Dutch wars w/ England lead to decline Age of Absolutism: c. 1650-1750: Louis XIV: 1643-1715; Peter the Great: 1682-1725. Frederick William Great Elector (1640-1688); Frederick William I (1713-1740). Baroque (art): 17th century Constitutionalism in England: 17th century English Civil War 1642-49. Glorious Revolution, 1688. Act of Union, 1707: Great Britain created Enlightenment: 18th century Population explosion: c. 1750. Enlightened despotism: c. (early 19th century for Napoleon). Frederick the Great (1740-1786); Catherine the Great: 1762-1796); Joseph II (1780-90). Absolutism in Eastern Europe (17th century-early 18th century): Rise of Prussia, Russia and Austria.

8 Decline of Poland, Ottoman Empire, and Holy Roman Empire Second 100 Years War between Britain and France: 1689-1815: Balance of Power War of the League of Augsburg (1689-1697). War of Spanish Succession (1702-1713), Treaty of Utrecht War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748), Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Seven Years' War (1756-1763), Treaty of Paris American Revolution (1775-1783). French Revolution & Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815), Congress of Vienna French Revolution: 1789-1799. Age of Montesquieu : National Assembly (1789-1791); Legislative Assembly (1791-92). Age of Rousseau : National Convention (1792-1795); Directory (1795-1799). Napoleonic Era ( Age of Voltaire ): 1799-1815 (Consul: 1799-1804; Empire: 1804-1815).

9 2011 All Rights Reserved AP Euro 2012 study guide -6- Congress of Vienna, 1815. Romanticism: 1780s-1850. Industrial Revolution: c. 1750- c. 1850 in England Concert of Europe: 1815-1848; Age of Metternich . Realism: 1848-late 19th century Second French Empire: 1852-1871; Third French Republic: 1871-1940. Age of Realpolitik: 1848-1871. Unification of Italy and Germany, 1871. 2 Industrial Revolution: late 19th century steel, oil, electricity, chemicals nd Age of Mass Politics: 1871-1914 and beyond New Imperialism : 1880s-1914. World War I: 1914-1918. Russian Revolution: 1917. Lenin-1917-1924. Stalin 1927-1953. Interwar Period ( Age of Anxiety ): 1919-1939 Rise of fascism and Great Depression World War II: 1939-1945.

10 Cold War: 1946-1991. de-Stalinization under Khrushchev (1955-1964). conservatism and re-Stalinization under Brezhnev (1964-1982). d tente 1972-1979. Gorbachev: glasnost and perestroika: 1985-1991. Revolutions of 1989 and fall of Soviet Union 1991. Decolonization: 1945-1970s; India, China, Egypt, Vietnam, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia European Union/Treaty of Maastricht, 1991. Counterculture and student protests: 1960s 1970s: economic stagnation 1980s: resurgence of conservatism and the Atlantic Alliance: Thatcher, Kohl, Reagan 1990s: Breakup of Yugoslavia, European Union Long 20th Century : 1871-1991. Short 20th Century : 1914-1991. 2011 All Rights Reserved AP Euro 2012 study guide -7- AP European History COMPREHENSIVE study guide .


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