AP European History Summer Assignment Due Date: August 18 th Beginning of Class

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1 AP European History Summer Assignment Due : August 18 th Beginning of Class The following pages are a series of charts and organizers that will help you learn the content for AP European History this year. There is a lot of history that we need to cover and I feel that it will be helpful for us to have a reference manual that we can turn to throughout the year. Sections to complete: European Leaders Personal Conflicts in Europe Famous Quotes in European History Events that Shaped European History Cause/Effect Economists & Their Ideas Major Texts Major Ideas & Movements Matching s and Events How to do it: Get a copy of the assignment o From Mr. Salba o Download and print a copy from Mr. Salba s OneNote or the Chattahoochee HS Summer Assignment page. Complete it o Digitally You may type the assignment, however resist the temptation to cut and paste. You need to know each item in this packet page and will learn it much better if you, at the bare minimum, read and summarize what you find on the internet o By hand Please use a pen (blue or black) and try to write legibly. You do not need to create a bibliography/source list Print it Turn it in make sure your name is on it, especially if it is typed Value: 1 Test Grade Copying each other s work is considered cheating and will result in a Zero.

2 Map of Europe Although not part of the assignment, it is recommended that you are familiar with the European map. Note Political distinctions, mountains, bodies of water, and islands.

3 European Leaders Leader Title/ Country Born/ Died Accomplishments/Failures Charles V Phillip II Elizabeth I Oliver Cromwell Gustavus Adolphus Louis XIV Peter the Great Catherine the Great Frederick II Maria Theresa Napoleon I Prince Metternich

4 Leader Title/ Country Born/ Died Accomplishments/Failures Giuseppe Garibaldi Napoleon III Queen Victoria Otto von Bismarck Vladimir Lenin Joseph Stalin Benito Mussolini Adolph Hitler Winston Churchill Josip Tito Charles de Gaulle Margaret Thatcher

5 Economists & Their Ideas Economists Response to Existing Conditions and/or Theories Ideas for Change Influence of Ideas Jean-Baptiste Colbert Adam Smith Thomas Malthus David Richardo Louis Blanc Karl Marx John Maynard Keynes

6 Characters in Conflict Personal Conflicts in Europe Time/Place Issues Impact Woodrow Wilson Georges Clemenceau Otto von Bismarck Napoleon III Joseph Stalin Leon Trotsky Galileo Galilei Pope Urban VII Frederick the Great Maria Theresa Martin Luther Charles V

7 Characters in Conflict Time/Place Issues Impact Oliver Cromwell Charles I Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Philip II Elizabeth II Adolph Hitler Neville Chamberlain Count Metternich Giuseppe Mazzini James II William and Mary

8 Major Texts Work Author Idea(s) The Courtier The Prince City of Ladies Ninety-Five Theses Institutes of Christian Religion The Leviathan On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Discourse on Method Dialongue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Principia The Two Treatises on Civil Government The Spirit of the Laws The Social Contract

9 Work Author Idea(s) The Encyclopedia The Wealth of Nations A Vindication of the Rights of Women What is the Third Estate? "The Terror Justified" Essay on the Principle of Population On Liberty On the Origin of Species by the Means of Natural Selection The Communist Manifetso "Dulce et Decorum Est" Civilization and its Discontents Mein Kampf

10 Famous Quotes in European History Identify the author, the (approximate) date, & the significance for each of the following quotes. Here I Stand. I am the state. And yet, it still moves. The Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. A prince needs only to conquer to maintain his position. The means he has used will be praised by everybody.

11 the state of nature had a law of nature to govern it, which it obliges everyone, and reason, which is the law not to harm another in life, liberty or property. to increase its wealth, a nation must increase its productivity. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs. to destroy the island of shopkeepers. Paris is well worth a Mass.

12 The life of man, [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short I built St. Petersburg as a window to let in the light of Europe. Man is born free, yet everywhere is in chains. What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been up until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it want to be? Something. A specter is haunting Europe the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies.

13 Can we doubt that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone.

14 Major Ideas & Movements Identify the major ideas and movements that came out of each of the following eras and describe the impacts they had on people in Europe and throughout the world. Renaissance Age of Discovery Commercial Revolution Scientific Revolution Enlightenment Industrial Revolution French Revolution Age of Imperialism Age of Anxiety Cold War

15 Events that Shaped European History Listed below are two events per century in Modern European history that may have seemed minor in the moment. Each event had far-reaching consequences that shaped history. Review each event and identify two causes for each event and two short and/or long term effects for each event. Fifteenth Century In 1454, Johannes Gutenberg printed the Bible. In 1488, Bartholomew Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope. Sixteenth Century In 1517, Johann Tetzel sold indulgences in Germany. In the 1510s, Nicolaus Copernicus investigated Ptolemaic astronomy.

16 Seventeenth Century In 1618, two Catholic officials representing Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand are thrown out of a window in Prague. In 1668, James II of England converted to Catholicism. Eighteenth Century In 1765, James Watt improved the steam engine, making it more efficient. In 1789, the meeting place of the Third Estate is closed for repairs in 1789.

17 Nineteenth Century In 1842, Friedrich Engels visited his father s factory. In 1848, Otto von Bismarck witnessed the humiliation of his king in the Revolutions of Twentieth Century In 1925, Adolph Hitler dreamed of unity in Europe In the 1950s, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman dreamed of unity in Europe

18 Diplomatic Review Write a sentence or two explaining the significance. Renaissance Balance of power diplomacy Hapsburg-Valois Wars Italian Wars Reformation Peace of Augsburg War of the Three Henrys Dutch Revolt Age of Exploration Treaty of Tordesillas Monarchy and State Building Thirty Years War Peace of Westphalia Peace of Utrecht

19 Pragmatic Sanction War of Austrian Succession Great Northern War Enlightenment Seven Years War Partition of Poland Revolutionary Era American Revolutionary War French Revolutionary War Napoleonic Wars 19th Century Congress of Vienna Holy Alliance

20 Italian Unification German Unification Austro-Hungarian Empire Congress of Berlin Bismarck s System of Alliances 20th Century World War I Treaty of Versailles League of Nations Little Entente Dawes Plan Lateran Agreement

21 Appeasement Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Cold War United Nations NATO Warsaw Pact Treaty of Rome (1957) Détente German Reunification Maastricht Treaty

22 / 1492 Matching s and Events Match the dates on the left with the two events that occur closest to them. 1. Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War. 2. French Revolution begins with the Tennis Court Oath. / 1517 / 1588 / 1648 / 1688 / 1740 / 1776 / Germany unifies at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussia War. 4. Columbus discovers America while trying to reach the Far East. 5. Liberal revolutions spring up in France, Prussia and Austria. 6. Berlin Wall falls, leading to the reunification of Germany. 7. England s defeat of the Spanish Armada. 8. Stock market crash in the US triggers a world-wide depression. 9. End of WWI and the redrawing of boundaries in Eastern Europe 10. Frederick the Great assumes the throne in Prussia. 11. Luther s Ninety-Five Theses begin the Reformation. 12. American Declaration of Independence signed. 13. End of WWII and the beginning of decolonization. 14. Glorious Revolution ends divine right in Britain. 15. Congress of Vienna reestablishes conservative order in Europe. / 1815 / 1848 / 1870 / 1918 / 1929 / 1945 / 1989 A. Copernicus develops the heliocentric theory. B. Adam Smith publishes the Wealth of Nations. C. The Dutch Golden Age begins as they dominate the seas. D. Italy unifies for the first time since the Roman Empire. E. Freudian psychology spreads in the Age of Anxiety. F. Catherine the Great assumes the throne in Russia. G. The Soviet Union s glasnost policy leads to its end. H. The Nazi s gain the largest number of seats in the Reichstag. I. John Locke published his Two Treatises on Civil Government. J. Marx publishes his Communist Manifesto. K. The Napoleonic Wars end with his defeat at Waterloo. L. The Cold War begins. M. Machiavelli s The Prince is published. N. Romanticism begins. O. German princes become functionally independent within the Holy Roman Empire.