Review 2 nd Exam: Introduction to World History • Post-War Europe, 1919-1939 • Italy and the Rise of Fascism • Germany (Weimar Republic and Nazism) • United States/Latin America/Middle East • Japan and China • Stalin’s Russia • Spanish Civil War • Road to War: Appeasement • Crises in Austria and Czechoslovakia • From beginning of WWII to 1941.
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Review 2nd Exam: Introduction to World History
• Post-War Europe, 1919-1939
• Italy and the Rise of Fascism
• Germany (Weimar Republic and Nazism)
• United States/Latin America/Middle East
• Japan and China
• Stalin’s Russia
• Spanish Civil War
• Road to War: Appeasement
• Crises in Austria and Czechoslovakia
• From beginning of WWII to 1941.
Review Session: Readings
Readings you will be responsible for on the exam:
Readings from Sources of Twentieh Century Global History: Chapters 3-5, 7-8.
J.A. Grenville, A History of the World, Part III, Chapters 15-18; Part IV, Chapters 19-25; Part V., Chapter 26.
Post-War Europe
Peace Treaties: Versailles, etc.
New Europe vs. Old Europe (New countries)
Liberalism and alternative political/economic systems: Communism, Fascism, Authoritarianism (examples?)
Fate of Great Power system
Italy in the post-war era: rise of fascism (causes and consequences, 1919-1934)
What is fascism? Major ideological tenets: Statism, Corporatism, Anti-Enlightenment, Belief in Violence…
Role of Mussolini (Il Duce)?
Germany
Germany in the post-war era: rise of Nazism, Weimar interlude.
Communist uprising, 1919
Right-wing coup attempts, 1920,1923.
Define Weimar Republic (dates?) and know about political, economic, social circumstances which gave rise to extremist movements.
World Outside Europe
United States in post-war era: From Wilsonian idealism to
Prohibition (beginning and end), “Roaring Twenties,” Economic prosperity and political isolationism.