AP World History: Modern flashcards
3 decks · 215 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: College Board AP World History: Modern Course and Exam Description (nine units, c. 1200–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 · 155 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.
- Global Tapestry 35
- East Asia 9
- Dar al-Islam 7
- South and Southeast Asia 8
- Americas 5
- Africa and Europe 6
- Networks of Exchange 23
- Silk Roads and Mongols 9
- Indian Ocean 8
- Trans-Saharan and Consequences 6
- Land-Based Empires 21
- Expansion 8
- Administration 10
- Belief Systems 3
- Transoceanic Interconnections 27
- Exploration and Technology 6
- Columbian Exchange 5
- Maritime Empires 10
- Resistance and Social Hierarchies 6
- Revolutions 26
- Enlightenment and Revolutions 9
- Industrialization 8
- Reactions and Reforms 9
- Consequences of Industrialization 25
- Imperialism 13
- Responses to Imperialism 9
- Migration 3
- Global Conflict 19
- World War I and Interwar 11
- World War II and Atrocities 8
- Cold War and Decolonization 22
- Cold War 13
- Decolonization 9
- Globalization 17
- Technology Disease and Environment 4
- Economy Culture and Institutions 13
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 World History: Modern decks (215 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 World History: Modern 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.
- Corrections in the 2026-10-13 fact-check were also checked against Yuan-Ling Chao, World History Connected 6.2; al-Umari's account of Mansa Musa in Levtzion and Hopkins, Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History (1981), as excerpted by Digital History (University of Houston); S. B. Aradeon, Journal des Africanistes 59 (1989); BBC Religions, Sikhism; the Encyclopaedia of Sikhism (Punjabi University, Patiala), 'Sant Tradition'; the Qingshi gao (Draft History of Qing), juan 130–131 (public domain); and the Library of Congress's China: A Country Study (U.S. government work; public domain); reference only, no text copied.
- Topic outline follows the College Board AP World History: Modern 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.
- Topic outline follows the College Board AP World History: Modern Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2026), Units 1–9; no text copied.
- Facts follow this folder's two study decks, which were checked against the references below.
- Quoted stimuli are brief excerpts from public-domain texts (the Declaration of Independence, 1776; Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776; Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1888 English translation; Rudyard Kipling, 1899); other source stimuli are described or paraphrased and marked as such.
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