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The whole AP World History course on one page, plus one page per unit, reviewed every year. Made and checked by the Fiveable Content Team.
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AP World History, unit by unit
What each unit's one-page cheatsheet covers. Open a unit to read the start of its sheet.
Unit 5: Revolutions, 1750-1900
Enlightenment Ideas & Political Theory · Nationalism: Definition & Expression · Continuity & Change: Synthesis · Revolutionary Documents & Ideologies · Social Classes & Gender in Industrial Society · Labor Movements & Reform Responses · Industrialization: Origins & Spread · Industrial Technology & Communication · Economic Systems & Capitalism
Unit 7: Global Conflict, 1900-Present
Empires Collapse & New States Rise (7.1) · Interwar Economic Responses (7.4) · Technology & Causation (7.9) · WWI Causes & Total War (7.2, 7.3) · Imperial Tensions Between Wars (7.5) · Common Test Traps & Distinctions · WWII Causes & Totalitarian Mobilization (7.6, 7.7) · Mass Atrocities & Genocide (7.8) · Continuity vs. Change Across Unit
Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization, 1900-Present
Cold War Origins & Ideological Divide · Communist Revolution in China · Newly Independent States: Boundaries & Conflict · Cold War Military & Nuclear Structures · Resistance to Established Order: Nonviolence vs. Violence · End of Cold War & Soviet Collapse · Land & Resource Redistribution Movements · Decolonization: Paths to Independence · Post-Colonial Migration & Continuity
