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Period 4: 1914-Present

World War I

The First World War marked a turning point in the history of Europe and the world. The technological advances of the Second Industrial Revolution had created the ability to inflict massive casualties on enemies, and the productive power of the countries involved ensured a long, drawn out conflict. For four years, the major European powers slugged it out, fighting and dying in numbers never before seen in human history.

In many ways, this period changed Europe from its traditional faith in human progress into a more skeptical, disillusioned reality. Communism appeared for the first time in Russia. Ruling families that had been in power for centuries lost their thrones. And an entire generation of young men was decimated on the battlefield.

In the end, the peace treaty, like so many before it, was an exercise in futility. The terms of the peace ensured that another conflict would occur.
AP Euro Bit by Bit videos:
Causes of World War I
​World War I
The Versailles Peace Conference
Screencast lectures:
​Beginnings of World War I
​Total War
​The Russian Revolution
​The Versailles Peace Conference
​Final Thoughts on World War I
Other videos:
Crash Course: How WWI Started
​Crash Course: Who Started World War I?
​Another Theory on the Start of WWI
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History vs. Vladimir Lenin
​The Russian Revolution
​Make Germany Pay
World War I Study Guide
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World War I Key Concepts
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Primary sources:
Letters between Russia and Germany on the eve of war
The Excitement of War - letters and memoirs
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Naomi, Loughnan, Munition Work
Woodrow Wilson, Speeches on peacemaking
Georges Clemenceau, Grandeur and Misery of Victory
Interesting articles:
The Somme: An Exercise in Futility?
The Somme: A Soldier's Illustrated Journal of the Horror of War
A global guide to the First World War


Europe between the Wars

After the Versailles Treaty was signed and the devastation of the Great War came to an end, Europeans were left to pick up the pieces. What ensued was a search for ways to punish the losers of the war while still searching for ways to maintain peace. The 1920s in Europe witnessed numerous diplomatic efforts to limit the factors that led to the war.

Germany was left in economic shambles. Russia, later the Soviet Union, struggled to establish a stable communist society, and the rest of Europe worked to deal with the aftermath of war. And just when things seemed to be getting better, the world plunged into the Great Depression.

As so often in human history, desperate times led to desperate solutions. Totalitarian dictatorships arose throughout Europe (but most notably in Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union) that promised an end to the Depression and a return to past glory. Those regimes would solidify their hold on power in the 1930s and would eventually drag the world into a second, more deadly war.
AP Euro Bit by Bit videos:
The Interwar Period
​Europe in the 1920s
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What Was Lenin's New Economic Policy?
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What Were Stalin's Five Year Plans?
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The Rise of Totalitarian Dictatorships
Between the Wars Study Guide
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Key Understandings for Interwar Europe
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World War II

AP Euro Bit by Bit videos:
What Was Hitler's Final Solution?
​Allied Conferences of World War II
Other videos:
Crash Course: World War II
World War II Study Guide
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The Cold War

AP Euro Bit by Bit videos:
What Is the European Union?
Other videos:
Crash Course: The Cold War
​The Cold War Explained
​40th Anniversary of French Social Revolution
​Tetris History of the Soviet Union
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The 1956 Hungarian Revolution
​Crash Course: Decolonization
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Crash Course: Conflict in Israel and Palestine
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Crash Course: Congo and Africa's World War
​Crash Course: Globalization I
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Crash Course: Globalization II
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Chapter 30 Study Guide
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Paul Sargent Makes History

  • Home
  • My YouTube Channel
  • AP European History
    • Historical Reasoning Skills
    • Thematic Learning Objectives >
      • Interaction of Europe and the World
      • Poverty and Prosperity
      • Objective Knowledge and Subjective Visions
      • States and Other Institutions of Power
      • Individual and Society
      • National and European Identity
    • Concept Outline
    • Period 1: 1450-1648
    • Period 2: 1648-1815
    • Period 3: 1815-1914
    • Period 4: 1914-Present
    • Exam Review Resources
  • AP Government
    • Concept Outline
    • Constitutional Underpinnings
    • Political Beliefs and Behaviors
    • Linkage Institutions
    • Institutions of Government
    • Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
    • Exam Review
  • Government and Economics
    • Foundations of Government
    • The Constitution
    • Executive Branch
    • The Judicial Branch
    • Voting and Elections
  • My Blog