Material Needed for Success
-A large notebook is required.
-A three ring binder or folder is required for handouts.
-A pencil and a pen must be brought to class daily.
-1 pack of colored pencils is suggested.
Assessment
-Tests (will be announced at least one week in advance)
-Quizzes
-Homework (will be given frequently)
-Class work (given everyday and will be graded)
-Projects
-Research Paper
Grades
Grades will be based on a point system. Every assignment will be weighted according to difficulty, tests and projects weighing the most.
Positive Attitude Required
This class will be interactive and fun. Student participation is required! The focus will be on European history and its impact on global affairs. 1450 to present. The topics we cover are still very relevant to our national character and identity. As a class we will look at how history affects us on a daily basis.
Main topics Covered
Content
1450-1600
- 14th Century disasters that provoked the Renaissance
- European Renaissance and Reformation
- Age of Exploration
- Early Monarchies
1600-1715
- Wars of Religion
- Thirty Years War
- Rise of Absolute Monarchies
- Rise of the Dutch Republic
- English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution
- Establishment of Prussia, Austria and Russia as major European powers
1715-1789
- Wars of Religion
- Thirty Years War
- Rise of Absolute Monarchies
- Rise of the Dutch Republic
- English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution
- Establishment of Prussia, Austria and Russia as major European powers
1763-1815
- The Great War of the Mid-Eighteenth Century: The Peace of Paris, 1763
- The British Reform Movement and the American Revolution
- French Revolution
- Napoleon’s France
1815-1850
- Reaction versus progress and the “dike and the flood” national and international.
- The industrial revolution
- The advent of the “isms”
- The breakthrough of liberalism
- The revolutions of 1832
- The revolutions of 1848
1850-1900
- Consolidation of large nation states
- Bismarck and the founding of the German Empire
- Dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary
- The Third French Republic
- Socialism and Labor Unions
- Imperialism: nature, causes, consequences
1900-1945
- Consolidation of large nation states
- Bismarck and the founding of the German Empire
- Dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary
- The Third French Republic
- Socialism and Labor Unions
- Imperialism: nature, causes, consequences
1945-Pres.
- Political, social and economic changes after WWII
- European response to the atomic bomb
- Causes, major developments and effects of the Cold War
- Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika and glasnöst
- The fall of the Soviet Union
- The fall of the Berlin Wall and the liberation of Eastern Europe
- The formation of European Union and prospects for the future
Prospects for the nation state and human progress