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AP World History: Modern

AP World History: Modern is covered by this AP exam study plan in the US, with review and practice across the course. Topics include East Asia, the Silk Roads, the Industrial Revolution, and the Cold War, with review activities, practice exercises, and unit exams.

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Exam: The Global Tapestry

Also covered in this plan

  • Exchange in the Indian Ocean
  • Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
  • Cultural Consequences of Connectivity
  • Environmental Consequences of Connectivity
  • Comparison of Economic Exchange
  • Exam: Networks of Exchange
  • Empires Expand
  • Empires: Administration
  • Empires: Belief Systems
  • Comparison in Land-Based Empires
  • Exam: Land-Based Empires
  • Technological Innovations from 1450 to 1750
  • Exploration: Causes and Events from 1450 to 1750
  • Columbian Exchange
  • Maritime Empires Established
  • Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed
  • Internal and External Challenges to State Power from 1450 to 1750
  • Changing Social Hierarchies from 1450 to 1750
  • Continuity and Change from 1450 to 1750
  • Exam: Transoceanic Interconnections
  • The Enlightenment
  • Nationalism and Revolutions in the Period from 1750 to 1900
  • Industrial Revolution Begins
  • Industrialization Spreads in the Period from 1750 to 1900
  • Technology of the Industrial Age
  • Industrialization: Government's Role from 1750 to 1900
  • Economic Developments and Innovations in the Industrial Age
  • Reactions to the Industrial Economy from 1750 to 1900
  • Society and the Industrial Age
  • Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age
  • Exam: Revolutions
  • Rationales for Imperialism from 1750 to 1900
  • State Expansion from 1750 to 1900
  • Indigenous Responses to State Expansion from 1750 to 1900
  • Global Economic Development from 1750 to 1900
  • Economic Imperialism from 1750 to 1900
  • Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World
  • Effects of Migration
  • Causation in the Imperial Age
  • Exam: Consequences of Industrialization
  • Shifting Power After 1900
  • Causes of World War I
  • Conducting World War I
  • Economy in the Interwar Period
  • Unresolved Tensions After World War I
  • Causes of World War II
  • Conducting World War II
  • Mass Atrocities After 1900
  • Causation in Global Conflict
  • Exam: Global Conflict
  • Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization
  • The Cold War
  • Effects of the Cold War
  • Spread of Communism After 1900
  • Decolonization After 1900
  • Newly Independent States
  • Global Resistance to Established Power Structures After 1900
  • End of the Cold War
  • Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization
  • Exam: Cold War and Decolonization
  • Advances in Technology and Exchange After 1900
  • Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Disease
  • Technological Advances: Debates About the Environment After 1900
  • Economics in the Global Age
  • Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900
  • Globalized Culture After 1900
  • Resistance to Globalization After 1900
  • Institutions Developing in a Globalized World
  • Continuity and Change in a Globalized World
  • Exam: Globalization

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