Includes index.

"For 2020 & 2021 exams."--Cover.

"Comprehensive content review."--Cover.

Introduction -- Using This Book -- Review Section: Time Periods -- Time Period One: c. 1450 to c. 1648 -- Renaissance and exploration -- The Renaissance and age of exploration -- Age of reformation -- Protestant reformation, Catholic and counter-reformations, Wars of religion (1517-1648) -- Time period two: c. 1649 to c. 1815 -- Absolutism and constitutionalism -- Scientific, philosophical, and political development (1648-1789) -- Conflict, crisis, and reaction in the late-18th century -- The French revolution, Napoleon, and the congress of Vienna -- Time period three: c. 1815 to c. 1914 -- Industrialization and its effects -- Industrialization reshapes Europe -- The growth and suppression of democracy : from the age of Metternich to the First World War (1815-1914) -- 19th-century perspectives and political development -- The ideologies of the 19th century: liberalism, conservatism, nationalism , and culture -- Imperialism and the causes of the first World War (1870-1914) -- Time period four: 1914 to present -- 20th-century global conflicts -- The First World War, Russian revolution, and U.S.S.R. until 1939 -- Democracy, depression, dictatorship, World War and its aftermath (1919-1945) -- Cold War and contemporary Europe -- Recovery, Cold War, and contemporary Europe (1945 to present) -- Practice exams.