Advanced Placement (AP) World History: Modern (also known as AP World History, AP World, APWH, or WHAP (/ˈwæp/)) is a college-level course and examination offered to high school students in the United States through the College Board's Advanced Placement program. AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different human societies. The course advances understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. Most states require a world history class to graduate.

Students formerly studied all of prehistory and history, reviewing material from 8000 B.C.E. to the present day. In June 2015, the exam was changed to AP World History: Modern. The new exam only includes material from 1200 C.E. onwards. Students first took the new course in the 2019–20 school year. The College Board announced the development of AP World History: Ancient, which focuses exclusively on earlier periods, including prehistory. Students in the United States usually take the course in their sophomore year of high school, although they are not generally required to do so, as some take it in senior and freshman year.

The course is organized around four eras and nine units:

Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange

Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections

Unit 5: Revolutions
Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization

Unit 7: Global Conflict
Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
Unit 9: Globalization

The first section of the AP World History exam consists of 55 multiple choice questions with a 55-minute time limit. Questions in the multiple choice section are unevenly distributed between the nine units.