Download Ch 24 and 26 Rise of Totalitariansim and WWII Study

Rise of Totalitarianism & World War II Study Guide (Chapters 24 and 26)
Objectives
1. Define totalitarianism, and explain how it is different from authoritarianism (and other terms like
authoritarianism, ex. absolutism, dictatorship, autocracy).
2. Distinguish between “totalitarianism of the left” (communism) and “totalitarianism of the right”
(fascism).
3. Explain how Stalin built a totalitarian state in the Soviet Union.
4. Explain how Mussolini obtained power in Italy, and identify the features of Fascist rule.
5. Explain the factors that enabled Hitler to come to power, and identify the features of Nazi rule.
6. Summarize the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
7. Explain the causes of and events leading to World War II (Hitler’s path of aggression and Allied policy of
appeasement. Explain how unsolved problems that lingered after WWI helped ignite another global
conflict.
8. Describe the course of World War II: identify the 2 theaters of war, significant battle strategies, and a few
important battles. [Note: Guide your response to this question based on the terms below; and any battles
mentioned in the blue book]
9. Explain how World War II came to an end.
10. Explain what the Holocaust was and the steps the Nazis took in their effort to wipe out European Jewry.
Terms and People
POSTWAR POLITICS &
ECONOMICS
John Maynard Keynes, Economic
Consequences of the Peace
Weimar Republic
Ruhr (French occupation, 1923)
hyperinflation (Germany, 1923)
Dawes Plan (1924)
Locarno Pact (1925)
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
Adolf Hitler
Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
USA Isolationism
New Deal
Social Democrats (in Scandinavia)
Popular Front
TOTALITARIANISM
authoritarianism
totalitarianism
communism
fascism
eugenics
ITALY
Benito Mussolini
Black Shirts
March on Rome (1922)
Lateran Agreement (1929)
GERMANY
Adolf Hitler
Nazis (NSDAP)
Munich Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
Mein Kampf
Lebensraum (“living space”)
Führer
Kraft durch Freude
Aryan
Joseph Goebbles
Enabling Act (1933)
Heinrich Himmler
SS
Gestapo
Nuremberg Laws (1935)
Kristallnacht (1938)
SPAIN
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Francisco Franco
SOVIET UNION
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
“socialism in one country”
USSR (1922-1991)
five-year plans
collectivization
kulak
Great Purges
WORLD WAR II
Path to War (1933-1939)
Appeasement
Mukden incident
Rome-Berlin Axis (1936)
Anschluss (1938)
Sudetenland
Munich Conference (1938)
Danzig
Pearl Harbor
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
(1939)
War (1939-1945)
2 sides: Allies vs. Axis
2 theaters: Europe & the Pacific
blitzkrieg
Vichy France (1940-1944)
Battle of Britain (1940)
Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941)
New Order
Einsatzgruppen
Europe first policy
Tehran Conference
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943)
D-Day (Normandy, June 6, 1944)
island hopping campaign
Hiroshima & Nagasaki (1945)
Post War
Munich Conference
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
MODERNISM IN
ARCHITECTURE, ART,
LITERATURE & MUSIC
modernism
Architecture
functionalism
Walter Gropius / Bauhaus
Painting
impressionism: ex. Monet, Renoir,
Degas
postimpressionism/expressionism:
ex. Van Gogh, Gauguin,
Matisse
cubism: Picasso
futurism: Marinetti
Dadaism: ex. Duchamp
surrealism: ex. Dali
Literature
stream-of-consciousness technique
Herman Hesse/ Siddhartha and
Steppenwolf
James Joyce / Ulysses
Music
Igor Stravinsky / The Rite of Spring
atonal music
HOLOCAUST
Final Solution
concentration camps
Auschwitz-Birkenau