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AP European History Unit 8: 20th-Century Global Conflicts

The twentieth-century crisis ran from the July 1914 origins of the First World War through the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the substantial 1945 rupture in European international primacy. Eleven lessons trace the Russian Revolution, the Versailles settlement, the interwar dictatorships, the war and the Shoah, and the cumulative substantial twentieth-century cultural and political transformation.

Lessons11 of 11Complete CED coverage
Total Time~ 10 hoursRecommended pacing: 12 days
CED Topics8.1 - 8.11All 11 unit topics
AP Exam Weight10-15%Roughly 1 in 8 exam points
Lesson Sequence

The 11 lessons in order

8.1

Contextualizing 20th-Century Global Conflicts

CED Topic 8.1 · Continuity and Change. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
8.2

World War I

CED Topic 8.2 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
8.3

The Russian Revolution and Its Effects

CED Topic 8.3 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
8.4

Versailles Conference and Peace Settlement

CED Topic 8.4 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
8.5

Global Economic Crisis

CED Topic 8.5 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
8.6

Fascism and Totalitarianism

CED Topic 8.6 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
8.7

Europe During the Interwar Period

CED Topic 8.7 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
8.8

World War II

CED Topic 8.8 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
8.9

The Holocaust

CED Topic 8.9 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
8.10

20th-Century Cultural, Intellectual, and Artistic Developments

CED Topic 8.10 · Continuity and Change. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
8.11

Continuity and Changes in an Age of Global Conflict

CED Topic 8.11 · Continuity and Change. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min