Terms:
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Five Year Plan
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Joseph Stalin
Kulaks
The Great Purge
Questions:
What is the difference between totalitarianism and older authoritarian governments (like absolutism)?
Why do you think fascism arose specifically in Italy and Germany?
Why did Lenin need to institute the New Economic Policy (NEP)?
Why did the Five Year Plans fail?
How did Communism in Russia affect average people (particularly women)?
In what ways did Stalin take extreme measures to maintain control of the government?
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Democracy in the Interwar Period
Chapter 28 Part II
Terms
Weimar Republic
Freikorps
Spartacists
John Maynard Keynes
"stab in the back" theory
Kapp Putsch
Ruhr Crisis
Beer Hall Putsch
Dawes Plan
Locarno Pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact
1926 General Strike
Labour Party
Questions
In what ways did the Weimar Republic experience challenges from both the left and the right? Why were both sides opposed to the new Weimar government? Why did the Treaty of Versailles contribute to the opposition of the Weimar Republic?
Describe the economic problems that the Weimar Republic faced. How did France and Britain's opinions about the treatment of Germany differ?
In what ways did Germany begin to improve its relations with Europe by the late 1920s?
How, in general, was France and England's economy fairing in the 1920s?
Weimar Republic
Freikorps
Spartacists
John Maynard Keynes
"stab in the back" theory
Kapp Putsch
Ruhr Crisis
Beer Hall Putsch
Dawes Plan
Locarno Pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact
1926 General Strike
Labour Party
Questions
In what ways did the Weimar Republic experience challenges from both the left and the right? Why were both sides opposed to the new Weimar government? Why did the Treaty of Versailles contribute to the opposition of the Weimar Republic?
Describe the economic problems that the Weimar Republic faced. How did France and Britain's opinions about the treatment of Germany differ?
In what ways did Germany begin to improve its relations with Europe by the late 1920s?
How, in general, was France and England's economy fairing in the 1920s?
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
The Great Depression
Questions:
How did the World War I economy/production eventually lead to the Great Depression?
Why didn't the Hawley-Smoot Tariff work?
What plan did the US implement to curb the effects of the Great Depression? To what extent did countries like France and Britain follow suit?
Why was Scandinavia more successful in recovering from the Depression?
How did the World War I economy/production eventually lead to the Great Depression?
Why didn't the Hawley-Smoot Tariff work?
What plan did the US implement to curb the effects of the Great Depression? To what extent did countries like France and Britain follow suit?
Why was Scandinavia more successful in recovering from the Depression?
Age of Anxiety
No Terms - YAY!
Questions:
Questions:
Describe logical empiricism and existentialism, and explain how both of these ideas contribute to the age of anxiety. Be sure to explain the specific views of some of these philosophers (i.e. Jean-Paul Sartre argued...).
How did Christian existentialists differ from atheist existentialists?
Explain how the ideas of scientists like Max Planck and Albert Einstein led to uncertainty in science.
How did the literature of the interwar period differ from that of the late 19th century? How does this reflect the uncertainty of the times?
Lastly, name a few examples of artists and musicians that reflected this anxiety in their work (do you see a common thread here)?
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