AP Euro Training Notes
Have students use this acronym in each chapter.
P - Political E - Economic R - Religious S - Social I - Intellectual A - Arts
Must Know Dates
- 1453 - Fall of Constantinople
- 1588 - Defeat of Spanish Armada
- 1688 - Glorious Revolution
- 1789 - French Revolution
- 1815 - Defeat of Napoleon
- 1918 - End of WWI
- 1945 - End of WWII
- 1989 - Fall of Berlin Wall
Point of View
- S - Subject
- O - Occasion
- A - Audience
- P - Purpose
- S - Speaker
TEaching Techniques
- Implication of advances in Science & Technology
Each Time Period/Chapter: - 1 Overwhelming theme - 2 Places - 3 Dates - 4 Events - 5 People
Key post 1990 Topics
- Maastricht Treaty and creation of EU
- Adoption of Euro
- Breakup of Yugoslavia (Bosnian Genocide)
- Russia under Putin (Chechnya shift back toward Authoritarianism, and the struggle to keep its sphere of influence)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict (within the context of tensions between the West and the Arab world)
- Muslim Riots 2005
- 9/11 Buildup of Iraq War, Afghan War (Schroder pronouncement if "Unlimited Solidarity" with th US)
Useful Juxtapositions for Writing and Analyzing:
- National and International
- Domestic and Foreign
- Philosophy and practice
- Long Term and Short Term
- Realistic and idealistic
- Cause and effect
- Elite and popular
- Eastern Europe and Western Europe
- Northern Europe and Southern Europe