2nd Semester Day 2 and Day 3 - Totalitarian States

Key Word: Totalitarian States

Homework Questions for Tuesday 7/7 and Wednesday 7/8. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Thursday 7/9.

Maginot Line
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Great Depression
Disarmament
The Red Scare
Dictator
The Roaring Twenties
Flapper
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
Sigmund Freud
T.S. Eliot
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Henri Matisse
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Abstract
Surrealism
Totalitarian state
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
Black Shirts
March on Rome
Il Duce
Propaganda
Joseph Stalin
Communism
Five-Year Plans
Command economy
Collectives
Kulaks
Gulag
The Great Purge
Censorship
Russification
Atheism
Adolf Hitler
Weimar Republic
Mein Kampf
Lebensraum
Fuhrer
Third Reich
Gestapo
Nuremberg Laws
Aryans
Kristallnacht
Final Solution
Nazi youth
Nazi Party



1. What political and economic challenges did the Western World face in the 1920s and 1930s?
2. How did the United States, the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany and Japan deal with their various political and economic problems?
3. How did scientific discoveries in the 1920s change people’s views of the world?
4. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect the relationship between Britain and France?
5. What was the purpose of the Maginot Line?
6. What was the chief weakness of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
7. How was Mussolini able to rise to power?
8. How did Mussolini keep control of Italy’s government, economy and people? Provide one example of each.
9. What were the goals and results of Stalin’s Five-Year Plans?
10. What methods did Stalin use to create a totalitarian state?
11. How did Hitler and the Nazi Party establish and maintain a totalitarian government in Germany?
12. Describe the Nazi party’s ideology and Hitler’s plans for ruling Germany and where are many of those plans found?
13. What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht in Germany?
14. How did the Nazi party maintain control of Germany?
15. Why were ultranationalists in Japan demanding expansion in the 1920s? (p. 412)
16. What were the circumstances surrounding the seizure of Manchuria?
17. Compare and contrast the ideologies of fascism, communism and Nazism.