Textbook: History of the Modern World, Palmer and Colton.
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Reading:
I. The Rise of Europe. 1. Ancient Times: Greece, Rome, and Christianity, pp. 9 - 17.Discussion Question: What is the modern world?
Identify the following:
Indo-European
Parthenon
Herodotus
Christianity
Reading:
I. The Rise of Europe. 2. The Early Middle Ages: The Formation of Europe, pp. 17-26.Discussion question: Describe the interaction of the three types of civilizations of the Early Middle Ages.
Identify the following:
Barbarians
Constantinople
Islam
Charlemagne
Reading:
I. The Rise of Europe. 3. The High Middle Ages: Secular Civilization, pp. 26-35.Discussion question: Compare characteristics of the High Middle Ages with the classical world.
Identify the following:
serfdom
feudalism
burghers
Hanse
Reading:
I. The Rise of Europe. 4. The High Middle Ages: The Church, pp. 35-45.Discussion question: Describe the roles of religion in Western (Latin) Europe during the High Middle Ages.
Identify the following:
celibacy
lay investiture
transubstantiation
scholasticism
Reading:
II. The Upheaval in Christendom, 1300-1560. 5. Disasters of the Fourteenth Century, pp. 46-53.Discussion question: Describe the effects of the disasters of the 14th century.
Identify the following:
Wat Tyler
Babylonian Captivity
John Wycliffe
indulgences
Reading:
II. The Upheaval in Christendom, 1300-1560. 6. The Renaissance in Italy, pp. 53-62.Discussion question: Explain the new conception of life that the Renaissance created.
Identify the following:
Petrarch
Lorenzo Valla
Pico della Mirandola
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Medici
Reading:
II. The Upheaval in Christendom, 1300-1560. 7. The Renaissance outside Italy, pp. 62-67.Discussion question: Compare the two Renaissances.
Identify the following:
Dr. Faust
lay religion
Gerhard Groote
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Praise of Folly
Reading:
II. The Upheaval in Christendom, 1300-1560. 8. The New Monarchies, pp. 67-75.Discussion question: Describe the causes of the consolidation of power in new monarchies.
Identify the following:
reconquista
Inquisition
Charles V
Mohacs
Reading:
II. The Upheaval in Christendom, 1300-1560. 9. The Protestant Reformation, pp. 75-87.Discussion question: Describe the three streams that contributed to the rebellion against the Roman Catholic Church.
Identify the following:
Leo X
John Calvin
Thomas More
Act of Supremacy
Reading:
II. The Upheaval in Christendom, 1300-1560. 10. Catholicism Reformed and Reorganized, pp. 87-93.Discussion question: Describe the Council of Trent and the changes it brought to the Roman Catholic Church.
Identify the following:
ex cathedra
the Vulgate
Index of Prohibited Books
the Jesuits
Reading:
III. Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion, 1560-1648. 11. The Opening of the Atlantic, pp. 106-114.Discussion question: Describe the reorientation of Europe with the opening of the Atlantic.
Identify the following:
Vasco da Gama
Frances Xavier
encomienda
Petosi
Reading:
III. Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion, 1560-1648. 12. The Commercial Revolution, pp. 114-120.Discussion question: Describe the price revolution and its causes.
Identify the following:
inflation
Johan Fugger
usury
mercantilism
Reading:
III. Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion, 1560-1648. 13. Changing Social Structures, pp. 120-126.Discussion question: Describe and compare the social classes of Early Modern Western and Eastern Europe.
Identify the following:
bourgeoisie
Junkers
robot
yeomanry
Reading:
III. Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion, 1560-1648. 14. The Crusade of Catholic Spain: The Dutch and England, pp. 126-134.Discussion question: Explain the decline of Spanish power in Europe.
Identify the following:
Philip II
siglo de oro
Don Quixote
Union of Utrecht
Reading:
III. Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion, 1560-1648. 15. The Disintegration and Reconstruction of France, pp. 134-140.Discussion question: Explain the effects of the Huguenot movement in France.
Identify the following:
politique
Edict of Nantes
St. Bartholomew's Day
Cardinal Richelieu
Reading:
III. Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion, 1560-1648. 16. The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648: The Disintegration of Germany, pp. 140-149.Discussion question: Describe the causes of the Thirty Years' War.
Identify the following:
defenestration of Prague
White Mountain
Gustavus Adolphus
Staaten system
Reading:
IV. The Establishment of West-European Leadership. 17. The Grand Monarque and the Balance of Power, pp. 160-163.Discussion question: Explain the concept of balance of power.
Identify the following:
Louis XIV
Charles II of Spain
William III
holding the balance of power
Reading:
IV. The Establishment of West-European Leadership. 18. The Dutch Republic, pp. 163-169.Discussion question: Explain the designation Dutch Golden Age for the 17th century Netherlands.
Identify the following:
Spinoza
Arminius
stadholder
Navigation Act
Reading:
IV. The Establishment of West-European Leadership. 19. Britain: The Puritan Revolution, pp. 169-176.Discussion question: Explain Oliver Cromwell's rise to power.
Identify the following:
Charles I
ship money
Long Parliament
The Rump
Reading:
IV. The Establishment of West-European Leadership. 20. Britain: The Triumph of Parliament, pp. 176-182.Discussion question: Describe the triumph of Parliament after the Restoration.
Identify the following:
The Restoration
Charles II
Toleration Act of 1689
Glorious Revolution
Reading:
IV. The Establishment of West-European Leadership. 21. The France of Louis XIV, 1643-1715: The Triumph of Absolutism, pp. 182-190.Discussion question: Compare the theory and practice of absolutism.
Identify the following:
Fronde
Bossuet
Colbert
Jansenism
Reading:
IV. The Establishment of West-European Leadership. 22. The Wars of Louis XIV, The Peace of Utrect, pp. 190-197.Discussion question: Explain the changes brought by the Peace of Utrecht.
Identify the following:
League of Augsburg
War of Spanish Succession
Grand Alliance of 1701
pistol pointed at the heart of England
asiento
Reading:
V. The transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648-1740. 23. Three Aging Empires, pp. 210-221.Discussion question: Explain the designation Republic for Poland.
Identify the following:
capitulations
Yiddish
szlachti
janissaries
power vacuum
Reading:
V. The transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648-1740. 24. The Formation of the Austrian Monarchy, pp. 221-226.Discussion question: Explain the obstacles to a Habsburg Austrian Empire.
Identify the following:
Prince Francis Rakoczy
Pragmatic Sanction
Maria Theresa
Crown of St. Stephen
Reading:
V. The Transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648-1740. 25. The Formation of Prussia, pp. 226-234.Discussion question: Describe the rise of Prussian military power and compare it to the militaries of other continental powers.
Identify the following:
militarism
Brandenburg
Junkers
Frederick William I
Reading:
V. The Transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648-1740. 26. The Westernizing of Russian, pp. 234-245.Discussion question: Describe the steps taken by Peter the Great to westernize Russia.
Identify the following:
Duma
Romanovs
Stephen Raza
St. Petersburg
Reading:
V. The Transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648-1740. 27. The Partitions of Poland, pp. 245-249.Discussion question: Describe the effects of the partitions of Poland.
Identify the following:
Catherine II
King Stanislas Poniatowski
Thaddeus Koscuisko
Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji
Reading:
VI. The Struggle for Wealth and Empire. 28. Elite and Popular Cultures, pp. 250-256.Discussion question: Compare elite and popular cultures in Europe during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Identify the following:
alchemy
carnival
the world turned upside down
folklore
necromancy
Reading:
VI. The Struggle for Wealth and Empire. 29. The Global Economy of the Eighteenth Century, pp. 257-264.Discussion question: Describe the social consequences of new wealth in Western Europe.
Identify the following:
domestic system
Five Great Farms
calico
plantation
Reading:
VI. The Struggle for Wealth and Empire. 30. Western Europe after Utrecht, pp. 264-273.Discussion question: Explain Britain's financial superiority over France.
Identify the following:
Jacobites
Bonnie Prince Charlie
John Law
Bubble Act
Robert Walpole
Reading:
VI. The Struggle for Wealth and Empire. 31. The Great War of the Mid-Eighteenth Century: The Peace of Paris, 1763, pp. 273-285.Discussion question: Explain the causes and effects of the reversal of alliances.
Identify the following:
Frederick the Great
Maria Theresa
German dualism
Count Kaunitz
Treaty of Paris
Reading:
VII. The Scientific View of the World. 32. Prophets of a Scientific Civilization: Bacon and Descartes, pp. 286-292.Discussion question: Describe the effects of the Scientific Revolution.
Identify the following:
Instauratio Magna
induction
cogito ergo sum
Discourse on Method
Reading:
VII. The Scientific View of the World. 33. The Road to Newton: The Law of Universal Gravitation, pp. 293-300.Discussion question: Describe and explain the achievement of Newton.
Identify the following:
Vesalius
Harvey
calculus
Newcomen
Reading:
VII. The Scientific View of the World. 34. New Knowledge of Man and Society, pp. 300-307.Discussion question: Explain the effect the new sense of evidence had on historical scholarship.
Identify the following:
Pierre Bayle
Jean Mabillon
John Locke
Edmund Halley
Reading:
VII. The Scientific View of the World. 35. Political Theory: The School of Natural Law, pp. 307-313.Discussion question: Describe the connection between scientific thought and political theories of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Identify the following:
Thomas Hobbes
The Prince
Hugo Grotius
century of genius
Reading:
VIII. The Age of Enlightenment. 36. The Philosophes - and Others, pp. 314-326.Discussion question: Explain the ways the eighteenth century was an age of faith as well as reason.
Identify the following:
the Encyclopedie
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Rousseau
Reading:
VIII. The Age of Enlightenment. 37. Enlightened Despotism: France, Austria, Prussia, pp. 326-336.Discussion question: Describe the ways enlightened despostism was both the same and different than the old despotism.
Identify the following:
Maupeou
Turgot
Joseph II
Frederick the Great
Reading:
VIII. The Age of Enlightenment. 38. Enlightened Despotism: Russia, pp. 336-342.Discussion question: Explain the extent to which Catherine the Great was an enlightened despot.
Identify the following:
Emelian Pugachev
Greek Project
chattel slavery
Potemkin villages
Reading:
VIII. The Age of Enlightenment. 39. New Stirrings: The British Reform Movement, pp. 342-351.Discussion question: Describe the undercurrents of discontent that contributed to the British Reform Movement.
Identify the following:
John Wilkes
Major John Cartwright
Volunteer Companies
Act of Union of 1801
Reading:
VIII. The Age of Enlightenment. 40. The American Revolution, pp. 351-360.Discussion Question: Describe the consequences of the American Revolution for Europeans.
Identify the following:
Revenue Act of 1764
Quebec Act
Common Sense
Duke de la Rochefoucauld
Reading:
IX. The French Revolution. 41. Backgrounds, pp. 361-365.Discussion Question: Describe the social order of the Old Regime.
Identify the following:
eminent property rights
feudal reaction
banalites
collective rights
Reading:
IX. The French Revolution. 42. The Revolution and the Reorganization of France, pp. 365-378.Discussion Question: Describe the financial problems of the French monarchy in 1789.
Identify the following:
Great Fear of 1789
Jacobins
refractory clergy
Girondins
Reading:
IX. The French Revolution. 43. The Revolution and Europe: The War and the Second Revolution, pp. 378-384.Discussion Question: Discuss the international implications of the Revolution.
Identify the following:
emigres
Commune of Paris
September Massacres
Marseillaise
Reading:
IX. The French Revolution. 44. The Emergency Republic, 1792-1795: The Terror, pp. 384-392.Discussion Question: Discuss the ways the Terror may have both advanced and undermined Revolutionary ideals.
Identify the following:
sans-culottes
the Mountain
enrages
the Thermidorian Reaction
Reading:
IX. The French Revolution. 45. The Constitutional Republic: The Directory, 1795-1799, pp. 393-398.Discussion Question: Explain the weaknesses of the Directory.
Identify the following:
Council of Ancients
Louis XVIII
Cisalpine Republic
Fructidorian Government
Abbe Sieyes
Reading:
IX. The French Revolution. 46. The Authoritarian Republic: The Consulate, 1799-1804, pp. 398-415.Discussion Question: Discuss the extent to which the Consulate continued in the spirit of the Revolution.
Identify the following:
plebiscite
Joseph Fouche
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
the Concordat
the Arch of Triumph
Reading:
X. Napoleonic Europe. 47. The Formation of the French Imperial System, pp. 417-425.Discussion Question: Explain the cycle Napoleon had run at his peak between 1809 and 1811.
Identify the following:
Alexander I
Trafalgar
Metternich
Marie Louise
Reading:
X. Napoleonic Europe. 48. The Grand Empire: Spread of the Revolution, pp. 425-431.Discussion Question: Describe the reforms Napoleon brought to the Grand Empire.
Identify the following:
Grand Duchy of Warsaw
Joseph Bonaparte
Madame Mere
Confederation of the Rhine
Reading:
X. Napoleonic Europe. 49. The Continental System: Britain and Europe, pp. 431-434.Discussion Question: Explain the Continental System and its ultimate failure.
Identify the following:
modern Carthage
Berlin Decree of 1806
Order in Council
War of 1812
Reading:
X. Napoleonic Europe. 50. The National Movements: Germany, pp. 435-441.Discussion Question: Explain Napoleon’s contribution to national movements.
Identify the following:
romanticism
volksgeist
J. G. Herder
J. G. Fichte
Baron Stein
Reading:
X. Napoleonic Europe. 51. The Overthrow of Napoleon: The Congress of Vienna, pp. 441-452.Discussion Question: Describe the European continent created by the Congress of Vienna.
Identify the following:
Battle of Leipzig
Fontainebleau
Lord Castlereagh
The Hundred Days
Reading:
XI. Reaction Versus Progress, 1815-1848. 52. The Industrial Revolution in Britain, pp. 453-463.Discussion Question: Describe social consequences of industrialization in Britain.
Identify the following:
enclosure acts
Richard Arkwright
James Watt
Manchester School
dismal science
Reading:
XI. Reaction Versus Progress, 1815-1848. Picture Essay: Early Industrialization and Social Classes, pp. 533-541.Discussion Question: Discuss the extent to which the Industrial Revolution agreed with the modern concept of progress.
Identify the following:
Eiffel Tower
Peterloo Massacre
Chartists
Crystal Palace
Reading:
XI. Reaction Versus Progress, 1815-1848. 53. The Advent of the Isms, pp. 463-474.Discussion Question: Compare nationalism in Western Europe with nationalism in Eastern Europe.
Identify the following:
romanticism
liberalism
socialism
humanitarianism
Reading:
XI. Reaction Versus Progress, 1815-1848. 54. The Dike and the Flood: Domestic, pp. 474-477.Discussion Question: Describe the Poland created by the Congress of Vienna and its domestic consequences.
Identify the following:
Burschenschaft
Carlsbad Decrees
Six Acts
Cato Street Conspiracy
Reading:
XI. Reaction Versus Progress, 1815-1848. 55. The Dike and the Flood: International, pp. 477-484.Discussion Question: Explain the failure of the congress system.
Identify the following:
the protocol of Troppau
Alexander Ypsilanti
Monroe Doctrine
The Decembrist Revolt
Reading:
XI. Reaction Versus Progress, 1815-1848. 56. The Breakthrough of Liberalism in the West: Revolutions of 1830-1832, pp. 484-495.Discussion Question: Describe the causes and effects of The July Revolution.
Identify the following:
Eugene Delacroix
The Reform Bill of 1832
Ten Hours Act
Daumier
Reading:
XI. Reaction Versus Progress, 1815-1848. 57. Triumph of the West-European Bourgeoisie, pp. 495-499.Discussion Question: Describe the changes in Europe brought by the bourgeois age.
Identify the following:
Louis Blanc
Charter of 1838
working class
stake in society theory
Reading:
XII. Revolution and the Reimposition of Order, 1848-1870. 58. Paris: The Specter of Social Revolution in the West, pp. 500-507.Discussion Question: Compare the 1848 revolution to the revolution of 1789.
Identify the following:
July Monarchy
February Revolution
June Days of 1848
Louis Napoleon
Reading:
XII. Revolution and the Reimposition of Order, 1848-1870. 59. Vienna: The Nationalist Revolution in Central Europe and Italy, pp. 507-514.Discussion Question: Explain the effects of nationalism in the Austrian Empire of 1848.
Identify the following:
Louis Kossuth
Pius IX
Syllabus of Errors
Count Jellachich
Reading:
XII. Revolution and the Reimposition of Order, 1848-1870. 60. Frankfurt and Berlin: The Question of a Liberal Germany, pp. 514-519.Discussion Question: Explain the obstacles in the path of German unification in 1848.
Identify the following:
German dualism
Great Germans
Little Germans
forty eighters
Reading:
XII. Revolution and the Reimposition of Order, 1848-1870. 61. The New Toughness of Mind: Realism, Positivism, Marxism, pp. 519-527.Discussion Question: Describe the origins of Marx’s ideas.
Identify the following:
Realism
Positivism
metaphysical
Realpolitik
Reading:
XII. Revolution and the Reimposition of Order, 1848-1870. 62. Bonapartism: The Second French Empire, 1852-1870, pp. 527-531.Discussion Question: Compare Napoleon III to his famous uncle.
Identify the following:
Baron Haussmann Le Chapelier Law
Credit Mobilier Saint-Simonian socialism
Reading:
XIII. The Consolidation of Large Nation States, 1859-1871. 63. Backgrounds: The Idea of the Nation State, pp. 542-546.Discussion Question: Explain the meaning of nation state, illustrating with specific examples.
Identify the following:
Crimean War
Romania
Piedmont
Florence Nightingale
Reading:
XIII. The Consolidation of Large Nation States, 1859-1871. 64. Cavour and the Italian War of 1859: The Unification of Italy, pp. 546-551.Discussion Question: Describe the obstacles that were overcome to unify the Italian peninsula.
Identify the following:
Camille di Cavour
doctrine of nationalities
Victor Emmanuel II
irredentism
Reading:
XIII. The Consolidation of Large Nation States, 1859-1871. 65. Bismarck: The Founding of a German Empire, pp. 551-559.Discussion Question: Describe the role German philosophy played in the creation of the second German Reich.
Identify the following:
Schleswig-Holstein
Seven Weeks’ War
Lassallean socialism
Ems dispatch
Reading:
XIII. The Consolidation of Large Nation States, 1859-1871. 66. The Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, pp. 559-561.Discussion Question: Describe the results of the creation of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
Identify the following:
Ausgleich
Francis Joseph
Magyars
Slavs
Reading:
XIV. European Civilization, 1871-1914. 71. The Civilized World, pp. 583-587.Discussion Question: Describe and critique the ways people understand the term civilized world.
Identify the following:
Isaac Taylor
inner zone
outer zone
Train in the Snow
Reading:
XIV. European Civilization, 1871-1914. 72. Basic Demography: The Increase of Europeans, pp. 587-595.Discussion Question: Explain the causes and effects of declining birthrate beginning in mid-nineteenth century Europe.
Identify the following:
European family pattern
smallpox
demography
protectionism
Reading:
XIV. European Civilization, 1871-1914. 73. The World Economy of the Nineteenth Century, pp. 595-605.Discussion Question: Explain the significance of foreign investment for Great Britain, France, and Germany in the late nineteenth century.
Identify the following:
new industrial revolution
balance of payments
gold standard
acceptance house
Reading:
XIV. European Civilization, 1871-1914. 74. The Advance of Democracy: Third French Republic, United Kingdom, German Empire, pp. 605-618.Discussion Question: Explain the survival of the Third French Republic despite a number of severe crises.
Identify the following:
Dreyfus Affair
Queen Victoria
Reform Bill of 1832
Ulstermen
Reading:
XIV. European Civilization, 1871-1914. 75. The Advance of Democracy: Socialism and Labor Unions, pp. 618-625.Discussion Question: Analyze the rise of the European trade union movement and socialism in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Identify the following:
new model unionism
revisionist socialism
revolutionary socialism
Mensheviks
Reading:
XIV. European Civilization, 1871-1914. 76. Science, Philosophy, the Arts, and Religion, pp. 625-637.Discussion Question: Explain the impact of darwinism.
Identify the following:
Gregor Mendel
ex cathedra
Rerum Novarum
The Interpretation of Dreams
Reading:
XIV. European Civilization, 1871-1914. 77. The Waning of Classical Liberalism, pp. 637-641.Discussion Question: Explain the decline of classical liberalism.
Identify the following:
National System of Political Economy
Reflections on Violence
new liberalism
forcible feeding
Reading:
XV. Europe’s World Supremacy. 78. Imperialism: Its Nature and Causes, pp. 642-650.Discussion Question: Analyze the economic and political differences between the new imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century and earlier phases of European imperialism.
Identify the following:
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of World Capitalism
Joseph Chamberlain
mission civilisatrice
Commonwealth of Nations
Reading:
XV. Europe’s World Supremacy. 84. The Russo-Japanese War and Its Consequences, pp. 681-682.Discussion Question: Describe the consequences of the Russo-Japanese War.
Identify the following:
Port Arthur
Mukden
Tsushima Strait
Portsmouth
Reading:
XVI. The First World War. 85. The International Anarchy, pp. 695-706.Discussion Question: Describe three of the long-term social, political or economic causes of World War I.
Identify the following:
first Balkan crisis
second Balkan crisis
South Slavs
Black Hand
Reading:
XVI. The First World War. 86. The Armed Stalemate, pp. 706-712.Discussion Question: Describe the diplomatic maneuvers both sides made during the war.
Identify the following:
Schlieffen Plan
Moltke
contraband
T. E. Lawrence
Reading:
XVI. The First World War. 87. The Collapse of Russia and the Intervention of the United States, pp. 712-717.Discussion Question: Explain the effects of the collapse of Russia in 1917.
Identify the following:
Brest-Litovsk
Zimmerman telegram
Passchendale
Caporetto
Chateau-Thierry
Reading:
XVI. The First World War. 88. The Collapse of the Austrian and German Empires, pp. 717-718.Discussion Question: Explain the Germany army’s feeling that it had been stabbed in the back.
Identify the following:
Charles I
Ludendorff
Weimar Republic
William II
Reading:
XVI. The First World War. 89. The Economic and Social Impact of the War, pp. 718-722.Discussion Question: Explain the relationship between the war and capitalism.
Identify the following:
Walter Rathenau
propaganda
rationalization
profiteers
Reading:
XVI. The First World War. 90. The Peace of Paris, 1919, pp. 722-731.Discussion Question: Describe Woodrow Wilson’s influence on the Peace of Paris in 1919.
Identify the following:
Big Four
cordon sanitaire
war guilt clause
mandates
Reading:
XVII. The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. 91. Backgrounds, pp. 732-741.Discussion Question: Compare the French Revolution of 1789 with the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Identify the following:
mirs
kulaks
populists
Leninism
Reading:
XVII. The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. 92. The Revolution of 1905, pp. 741-746.Discussion Question: Explain the effects of Stolypin’s reforms in Russia.
Identify the following:
Bloody Sunday
soviets
October Manifesto
Pravda
Reading:
XVII. The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. 93. The Revolution of 1917, pp. 746-754.Discussion Question: Explain Lenin’s plan to win over soldiers, peasants and workers.
Identify the following:
Rasputin
Alexander Kerensky
Cheka
Leon Trotsky
Reading:
XVII. The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. 94. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, pp. 754-762.Discussion Question: Explain the Soviet approach to problems posed by the many different nationalities within their union.
Identify the following:
NEP
Supreme Soviet
Politburo
Leningrad
Reading:
XVII. The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. 95. Stalin: The Five-Year Plans and the Purges, pp. 762-772.Discussion Question: Describe Engels’ metaphor for the socialist state.
Identify the following:
Gosplan
Stakhanov
Serge Kirov
1936 trials
Reading:
XVII. The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. 96. The International Impact of Communism, 1919-1939, pp. 772-776.Discussion Question: Explain the difference between revisionist Marxism and Bolshevism with regard to international communism.
Identify the following:
Zimmerwald program
Comintern
Cominform
Twenty-One Points
Reading:
XVIII. The Apparent Victory of Democracy. 97. The Advance of Democracy after 1919, pp. 777-783.Discussion Question: Describe the self-defeating effect of the balkanization of Europe after World War I.
Identify the following:
Marc Chagall
land reform
Baltic states
Admiral Horthy
Reading:
XVIII. The Apparent Victory of Democracy. 98. The German Republic and the Spirit of Locarno, pp. 783-788.Discussion Question: Explain the difficult middle position of the Social Democrats in Germany.
Identify the following:
Spartacists
Rapallo
Locarno
Dawes Plan
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Reading:
XVIII. The Apparent Victory of Democracy. 100. The Great Depression: Collapse of the World Economy, pp. 799-804.Discussion Question: Explain the agricultural problems that contributed to the Great Depression.
Identify the following:
flight from the pound
Hawley-Smoot
margin
Creditanstaldt
Reading:
XIX. Democracy and Dictatorship. 102. Trials and Adjustments of Democracy in Britain and France, pp. 805-806; 810-818.Discussion Question: Explain the rise and fall of the Popular Front in Depression-Era France.
Identify the following:
Red Letter
Sinn Fein
Raymond Poincare
Leon Blum
Reading:
XIX. Democracy and Dictatorship. 103. Italian Fascism, pp. 818-822.Discussion Question: Explain the affluent, Italian capitalist acceptance of fascism and Mussolini.
Identify the following:
fasces
squadristi
Matteotti
March on Rome
Reading:
XIX. Democracy and Dictatorship. 104. Totalitarianism: Germany’s Third Reich, pp. 822-833.Discussion Question: Describe the differences between Soviet and Nazi dictatorship.
Identify the following:
Matthias Erzberger
Mein Kampf
Nuremberg laws
Beer Hall Putsch
Reading:
XX. The Second World War. 105. The Weakness of the Democracies: Again to War, pp. 834-843.Discussion Question: Explain the international significance of the Spanish Civil War.
Identify the following:
Maginot Line
Anschluss
Munich Crisis
revisionist powers
Homework #95
Reading: XX. The Second World War. 106.The Years of Axis Triumph, pp. 843-851.
Discussion Question: Describe the geographic extent of Nazi Germany’s empire.
Identify the following:
Blitzkrieg
Vichy France
Four Freedoms
Scorched earth
Homework #96
Reading: XX. The Second World War. 107. The Western – Soviet Victory, pp. 852-860.
Discussion Question: Explain the Turning of the Tide.
Identify the following:
Stalingrad
Festung Europa
The Holocaust
Hiroshima