Unit Guide
History 7
Overall Purpose:
Identify and
describe the problems and stresses that led to political polarization and the
demise of democracy in
Main Ideas:
A) Describe the basic problems facing European countries after World War I
B) Explain the factors that led to Mussolini’s rise to power in
C) Identify the basic principles of fascism. Why was it attractive to many Europeans?
D) Identify the major characteristics and supporters of the political Right and Left.
E) Explain the transfer problem as it related to World War I debts and reparations. How was this solved in the mid 1920s? Why did this system eventually collapse?
F) Explain the causes of the Great Inflation. What effect did this have on European countries?
G) Why did the Great Depression become a worldwide problem? Why didn’t the
H) Describe Stalin’s rule of the
I)
Compare the parliamentary system of
government with the system used in the
J)
Explain the political effect of the
depression in
K) Describe how Kemal Atatürk attempted to modernize
L)
Describe the system of government created
by
M) Summarize Adolf Hitler’s early life (up to 1920).
N) Describe the Nazi’s political message. Who did this appeal to? Why?
O) In what ways was the cultural conflict in
P)
Explain the five main stresses that
toppled the
Q) What factors allowed Hitler to obtain total power in
R) Explain the effect that the following periods had on the Jewish people:
1.
Roman Conquest of
2.
Conversion of the
3. The Crusades
4. The Reformation
5. The French Revolution
S) Describe at least four Anti-Semitic practices usually associated with the Nazis that actually had their antecedents in earlier European history.
T) Identify the major actions that the Nazis took against German Jews between 1933-1939.
U) Identify non-Jewish groups that were persecuted by the Nazis.
V) Explain why Hitler was immensely popular with most Germans in 1938.
Key Terms:
1. Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
2. Benito Mussolini
3. Black Shirts
4. totalitarianism
5. elites
6. Dawes Plan
7. political polarization
8. Joseph Stalin
9. Great Purges
10. Popular Front
11.
12. Anti-Semitism
13. Nazism
14. Brown Shirts
15. Beer Hall Putsch
16. Mein Kampf
17. Aryan
18.
19. Diaspora
20. pogrom
21. eugenics
22. Dreyfus Case
23.
24. Kristallnacht
25. Heinrich Himmler