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Chapter 15 Study Guide
Years of Crisis, 1919-1939
Directions: Read Chapter 15 and answer thee questions below on notebook paper. When finished, staple this
sheet to your answers and turn in the assignment.
Chapter 15 Section 1- Postwar Uncertainty (pgs. 463-469)
(1) What are the principles/main ideas of the philosophy of existentialism?
(2) What works of literature did the following people write: Franz Kafka, James Joyce, F. Scott
Fitzgerald?
(3) What effect did World War I have on the literature of the 1920s?
(4) Who was Sigmund Freud? What were his ideas? How did they weaken faith in reason?
(5) What impact did radio have after the war?
Chapter 15 Section 2- A Worldwide Depression (pgs. 470-475)
(6) Why was the Weimar Republic so weak?
(7) Why did Germans turn against the leaders of the Weimar Republic?
(8) What was the New Deal? Who was the President who implemented it? How did it attempt to stimulate
the American economy?
(9) What event “marked the beginning” of the Great Depression?
(10) List at least 3 New Deal programs & how they attempted to fight the Great Depression?
Chapter 15 Section 3- Fascism Rises in Europe (pgs. 476-480)
(11) Who was Benito Mussolini? How did he rise to power in Italy?
(12) What book did Hitler write while in prison? What were the main ideas of the book?
(13) How are Fascism/Nazism and communism similar?
(14) How did Hitler attempt to achieve “lebensraum” for the German people?
(15) Why did Hitler blame the Jewish population for all of Germany’s troubles?
Chapter 15 Section 4- Aggressors Invade Nations (pgs. 481-485)
(16) What three countries made up the Axis Powers right before World War II?
(17) Define non-aggression pact. What two countries signed one prior to World War II? What were the
provisions of the pact? What were the effects of the pact?
(18) What is the policy of appeasement?
(19) What nations (and leaders) agreed to meet at the Munich Conference? What were the results of the
meeting?
(20) What was the goal of the US isolationists after World War I?