Diplomacy Review

AP Lang and Comp testing wiped out a scheduled review of diplomatic history, although Jack was undaunted and started a brainstorming review document organized by century.  Students interested in big picture review might add the most salient alliances, treaties, wars, and themes to the document.  Diplomatic as a historical category refers to relationships between sovereigns and/or states, often taking the aforementioned forms.  This history, obviously, affects and was affected by the development of nation-states over the past 500 years of European History.  So, skimming through highlights of diplomatic history will also bring some political developments to the surface. Check out the key maps in the presentation below; the interposed images are of change agents.  See if you can make the connections between the images and the maps.

 

Other than discussions of imperialism, diplomatically themed FRQ are less popular than the other five subcategories of AP European History (i.e. political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural).  Here's an example where diplomatic content was probably the difference between scores of 4 and 6:

Considering the period 1933 to 1945, analyze the diplomatic, economic, and military reasons for Germany's defeat in the Second World War.

What would diplomatic content look like in a quality response to this prompt?