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Political Science/AP European History


Course Materials:

Course syllabus
AP History Toolkit
APPARTS Model for examining primary sources

Chapter Overviews

Political Science Related Sites:

Party Standings in the House of Commons

Graphic Organizers
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Events Graphic Organizer
Template - Chapter 2
Template - Chapter 2
Template - Chapter 2
Template - Chapter 2
Template - Chapter 3
Template - Chapter 3


Online textbook resources

Chapter 1:

Geography-related materials:

European geography - key points
Questions - Geography of Europe
Theories of Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift
Geological Time
Landforms
Continental and Oceanic Plates
Satellite Images
Shuttle Images
Thematic Maps
Timescale
Tsunami

1. Greeks and Romans
2. Byz,Arab,Charlemagne
3. Towns-Feudalism
4. Monarchs, Church
5. Medieval Universities

Chapter 2:

1. The Plague
2. The Italian Renaissance
3. Renaissance Continued
4. Renaissance, yes more...
5. Northern Renaissance
6. The New Monarchies
7. Reformation
8. Calvinism
9. Catholic Counter-Reformation
10. Counter-Reformation continued

Chapter 3:

1.The Thiry Years War - Document
2. The Thiry Years War - PowerPoint
3. Opening of the Atlantic
4. Commercial Revolution
5. Mercantilism
6. Wars of Catholic Spain
7. Siglo de Oro and The Netherlands vs. Spain
8. Disintegration and Reconstruction of France
9. France (and Huguenots)
10. The Thirty Years War: The Wars of Religion
11. The Thirty Years War continued

Chapter 4:

1.Chapter 4 Notes Document
2.Louis XVI and Absolutism in France Document
3.Chapter 4 PowerPoint
4.Chapter 4 - Absolutism PowerPoint

Chapter 5:

The Declining Empires (Austria, Poland, Ottoman) and the Rising Stars (Prussia and Russia) - power-point

Chapter 7:

The Seven Years War  power-point

Chapters 8 and 9

1. The American Revolution
2. The French Revolution

Chapters 14, 15, and 16

Notes in point form:

France:
1. The Third Republic
2. The Dreyfus Affair

Britain:
1. Constitutional Monarchy and Victoria
2. The Irish Question
3. Industrial Revolution (Why England?)

Germany:
1. Bismarck vs. Kaiser
2. Hegel and Marx - Two Dialectics

Social Changes:
1. Feminism
2. Darwinism and Social Darwinism
3. Freud
4. Einstein
5. Nietzsche
6. Art

The Americas:
1. US vs. Mexico
2. The Monroe Doctrine
3. American Imperialism and Spanish-American War

Turkey:
The Sick Man of Europe

Egypt and Norh Africa:
The Suez Canal

Africa:
The Partition of the Continent
The Anglo-Boer War

India:
British Rule and the Sepoy Mutiny

China:

The Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion

Japan:
The Sino-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War

Chapter 17 (World War I):

1. The Balkan Crisis
2. Stalemate and the Key Players
3. Russia and the US in 1917
4. Austrian and German Empires
5. Negotiating Peace
6. Effects of WWI
7. Effects of WWI continued

Chapter 17 (World War I - student response presentations):

1. Militarism and Arms Race - Will and Cody
1. (a)
2. Moroccan and Balkan Crises - Lindsay and Hannah
2.(a) notes
3. Stalemate on Western Front - Caleb and Andrew
3. (a)
3. (b)
3. (c)
4. Russia's Withdrawl - Josh, Kristen, and Megan
4. (a)
5. US Entry into War - James and Kaitlyn
5. (a)
6. Collapse of Austria and Germany - Alech and Trevor
6. (a)
6. (c)
7. Societal Changes - Meghan and Alex
7. (a)
8. Peace Conference - Versailles - Kayla and Ryan
8. (a)
8. (b)

Indian Independance Movement

World War II

The Rise of Fascism
The Rise of Nazism and the Failure of the Democracies
World War II simulation

The Cold War

The Cold War Power-Point

Other Presentations:

Music History Presentation by Ms. C. Dowling