AP European History flashcards
3 decks · 213 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: College Board AP European History Course and Exam Description (nine units, c. 1450–present). Updated 2026-10-10.
What's in it
Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.
Learn · 2 decks · 153 cards
Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.
Practice · 1 deck · 60 questions
Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.
Study guide
Topics covered
The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.
- Renaissance and Exploration 20
- Renaissance 12
- New Monarchies and Exploration 8
- Age of Reformation 30
- Protestant Reformation 13
- Catholic Reformation 6
- Wars of Religion 11
- Absolutism and Constitutionalism 29
- England 5
- France 8
- Commerce and Balance of Power 9
- Central and Eastern Europe 7
- Scientific and Philosophical Developments 27
- Scientific Revolution 7
- Enlightenment 11
- Society and Enlightened Absolutism 9
- Revolution and Reaction 21
- French Revolution 12
- Napoleon and Vienna 9
- Industrialization 19
- Spread of Industry 8
- Ideologies and Reform 11
- 19th-Century Perspectives 16
- Nationalism and Unification 7
- Science Culture and Imperialism 9
- Global Conflicts 28
- World War I and Revolution 10
- Interwar and Totalitarianism 12
- World War II and the Holocaust 6
- Cold War and Contemporary Europe 23
- Cold War 11
- Integration and Society 12
A study plan
- 8 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 5 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.
How to get these decks
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- In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
- Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.
Every deck is built into Willys
All 3 AP European History decks (213 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
About these cards
Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- Topic outline follows the College Board AP European History Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2026), Units 1–4; no text copied.
- OpenStax World History, Volume 1 and OpenStax World History, Volume 2, consulted as references; no text copied.
- Topic outline follows the College Board AP European History Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2026), Units 5–9; no text copied.
- OpenStax World History, Volume 2, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
- Dates, documents and figures also checked against the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity French Revolution archive (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and American Social History Project), Pius VI's Charitas (1791), the Avalon Project (Yale Law School), the BYU World War I Document Archive, the Marxists Internet Archive, the National Army Museum, the U.S. State Department's Office of the Historian, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the ICTY and IRMCT, europa.eu (CC BY 4.0), and GOV.UK and legislation.gov.uk (Open Government Licence v3.0); reference only, no text copied.
- Topic outline follows the College Board AP European History Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2026), Units 1–9; no text copied.
- Facts and quoted stimuli also checked against Project Gutenberg editions of Machiavelli's The Prince (Marriott translation), Hobbes's Leviathan, Rousseau's The Social Contract (G. D. H. Cole translation), Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and Kipling's The Five Nations; Internet Archive scans of the 1898 and 1906 reprints of the 1888 English translation of the Communist Manifesto; the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (Waterworth translation, 1848; Hanover Historical Texts); the Bill of Rights (1689) on legislation.gov.uk (Open Government Licence v3.0); the Avalon Project's text of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen; Robespierre's speech of 5 February 1794 (Internet Modern History Sourcebook); the 1801 Concordat as printed in the Bulletin des lois (1802); the First Peace of Paris (1814) on napoleon-empire.org and the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna (1815) in Hertslet's The Map of Europe by Treaty, vol. 1 (1875; Internet Archive scan); German History in Documents and Images (Bismarck's 1862 speech and the Prussian October Edict of 1807); the Library of Congress's Russia: A Country Study (1996); Richard Hellie's 'Serfdom' in the Encyclopedia of Russian History; the Musée protestant; and the European Union's official history pages (CC BY 4.0). Reference only; no text copied apart from the short quoted stimuli.
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