AP Euro Review

The Finale of the Grand Review: 1870 to the Present

Complete your investigation of the main themes of modern European history by researching the

following data of the period of 1870 to the present.

Section I: 1870-1918

A. Age of Optimism

 1. Material Base:

 2. Nonmaterial Base:

B. Age of Omens: How each contributed to the outbreak of World War I (see notes in notebook)

 1. Alliances

 2. Imperialism

 3. Militarism

 4. Industrialization

 5. Nationalism

C. Major wars fought by Europeans from 1850 to outbreak of World War I (see chart European

and world wars)

D. Causes of New Imperialism

 1. Economic

 2. Political

 3. Social

 4. Defense

 5. Nationalism

E. Imperialism at Work

 1. China

 2. Africa

 3. Latin America

 4. Ottoman Empire

F. Terms

 1. Revisionist Marxism

 2. Social Darwinism

 3. Second Industrial Revolution and Corporate Growth

 4. Sigmund Freud

 5. Carl Jung

 6. Albert Einstein

G. Immediate Causes of World War I: (see notes)

Section II: 1918-1945

A. Russian Revolution

 1. Nature of tsarist regime

 2. Revolution of 1905

 3. Stolypin reforms

 4. February/March Revolution, 1917

 5. Major steps in establishment of Bolshevik power

B. Early Soviet Union

 1. New Economic Policy (NEP)

 2. Soviet attitude toward the Church

 3. Major steps in Stalin’s totalitarian rule of the Soviet Union

 4. Lenin’s alteration of Marxism

 5. Stalin’s modification of Leninism

C. Totalitarianism

  1. Definition of totalitarianism

  2. Definition totalitarianism of the Right and Left

D. Collapse of democracies, 1919-1939:

E. Major steps in the collapse of democracy in Germany and the rise of Nazism:

F. Comparison of Vienna, Versailles, and Yalta

G. Define these terms: (study groups are helpful)

 1. League of Nations

 2. Rapallo

 3. Locarno

 4. Dawes Plan

 5. Kellogg-Briand Pact

 6. Popular Fronts

 7. Third Reich

 8. Francisco Franco

 9. Anschluss

 10. Munich Conference

 11. Anti-Comintern Pact Nazi-Soviet Pact

 12. Atlantic Charter

 13. Pearl Harbor

 14. Stalingrad

 15. D-Day

 16. Yalta

 17. San Francisco Conference

 18. Potsdam

 19. Nuremberg Trials

Section III: 1945-Present

A. Post World War II in Europe

 1. Cold War

 2. Truman Doctrine

 3. Marshall Plan

 4. Molotov Plan

 5. Cominform

 6. North Atlantic Treaty Organization

 7. Warsaw Pact

 8. Problem of a divided Germany

B. Terms

 1. Holocaust

 2. European Common Market

 3. Vatican Council II

 4. Pope John XXIII

 5. Existentialism

 6. SALT treaties

 7. Détente

 8. Glasnost

 9. Perestroika

 10. Communist World, 1989