Hello. I hope you are all safe.
Make sure you review the terms and your notes from class.
If you have already studied and are satisfied with your test preparation, read ahead for a preview of what we will study after the test and on Wednesday night: The Age of Totalitarianism in the 1930s.
See you in the morning!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Review Post #2: Main ideas and specific terms
Good afternoon. I hope you all are staying safe and dry. Despite being a mile from the river, my wife and I live on high ground and are OK.
Here are some ideas to think about for the test, followed by important terms you should know:
Click on all pictures if you want to enlarge them.
What does the above image have to do specifially with fascist ideology?
What do these ideas have to do with:
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Oswald Spengler
c) the "Futurists"
d) Karl Marx -- do not allow this connection to confuse you; remember that Mussolini was initially a socialist
Click on the picture to see Adolf Hitler at a war rally in Munich in 1914.
a) Why was Hitler, an Austrian who grew up in Linz and tried to become an arist in Vienna, in Munich?
b) Why was Bavaria a special place for Hitler?
c) What was Hitler's attitude about Germany's losing the Great War? How did his views on wartime policies and the Treaty of Versailles translate into the Nazi political platform?
The picture above shows a German using inflated currency for wallpaper.
a) What was the Weimar Republic?
b) What groups did not like its center-left government, and why?
c) What was the cause of inflation in 1920s Germany?
b) How was economic trouble in Germany exacerbated by the stock market crash in the United States in 1929 and the subsequent Great Depresssion?
TERMS/CONCEPTS (can be found in the three power points (Fascism, The Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany) and homework from the last two weeks):
1. Benito Mussolini
2. Futurism
3. Fascism
4. Dalmatia (why important to Mussolini)
5. Black Shirts
6. Il Duce
7. War Guilt Clause
8. "Stabbed in the back"
9. Freikorps (Free Corps)
10. Friedrich Ebert
11. Kapp Putsch
12. reparations
13. Ruhr valley region (Germany)
14. Adolf Hitler
15. aryans
16. NSDAP (Nazi Party)
17. Der Fuehrer
18. Sturmabteilung (SA; Storm Troopers)
19. Beer Hall Putsch
20. Mein Kampf
21. "Living space" (lebensraum)
22. anti-Bolshevism
23. Marxist vs. Stalinist
24. The Dreyfus Affair (late C19 France)
25. Origins of anti-Semitism
I may post some more stuff later, but this should give you a good idea of what is on tomorrow's test.
If you have a question, e-mail me at mhmshistory@gmail.com. I will be checking it throughout the day.
Here are some ideas to think about for the test, followed by important terms you should know:
Click on all pictures if you want to enlarge them.
What does the above image have to do specifially with fascist ideology?
What do these ideas have to do with:
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Oswald Spengler
c) the "Futurists"
d) Karl Marx -- do not allow this connection to confuse you; remember that Mussolini was initially a socialist
Click on the picture to see Adolf Hitler at a war rally in Munich in 1914.
a) Why was Hitler, an Austrian who grew up in Linz and tried to become an arist in Vienna, in Munich?
b) Why was Bavaria a special place for Hitler?
c) What was Hitler's attitude about Germany's losing the Great War? How did his views on wartime policies and the Treaty of Versailles translate into the Nazi political platform?
The picture above shows a German using inflated currency for wallpaper.
a) What was the Weimar Republic?
b) What groups did not like its center-left government, and why?
c) What was the cause of inflation in 1920s Germany?
b) How was economic trouble in Germany exacerbated by the stock market crash in the United States in 1929 and the subsequent Great Depresssion?
TERMS/CONCEPTS (can be found in the three power points (Fascism, The Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany) and homework from the last two weeks):
1. Benito Mussolini
2. Futurism
3. Fascism
4. Dalmatia (why important to Mussolini)
5. Black Shirts
6. Il Duce
7. War Guilt Clause
8. "Stabbed in the back"
9. Freikorps (Free Corps)
10. Friedrich Ebert
11. Kapp Putsch
12. reparations
13. Ruhr valley region (Germany)
14. Adolf Hitler
15. aryans
16. NSDAP (Nazi Party)
17. Der Fuehrer
18. Sturmabteilung (SA; Storm Troopers)
19. Beer Hall Putsch
20. Mein Kampf
21. "Living space" (lebensraum)
22. anti-Bolshevism
23. Marxist vs. Stalinist
24. The Dreyfus Affair (late C19 France)
25. Origins of anti-Semitism
I may post some more stuff later, but this should give you a good idea of what is on tomorrow's test.
If you have a question, e-mail me at mhmshistory@gmail.com. I will be checking it throughout the day.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Review Post #1: Mussolini and Hitler
I will post a substantial review tomorrow. In the meantime, revisit the lecture on fascism on the History Guide web site (click here) and click on the different links as you read.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Post #2: The origins of fascism
Please work on the handout in the library (I have e-mailed it to Ms. Weedman for copying).
The web site is here.
Although I do not advocate the use of Wikipedia for scholarly research, it is suitable for background information as you read. I suggest you keep it open in a separate window if you would like to look up extra information as you read, or to help with your discussion.
If you do not finish the handout in class (you should) it is homework.
Please e-mail me at mhmshistory@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Post #1: Volcanic delay
Hello and welcome back from Spring Break!
I wish I could be at Merrol Hyde talking about Mussolini, but my wife and I are prevented from returning from Europe because of the Icelandic volcano!
There are worse circumstances, places, and times in history a person could be stuck in, such as:
- an Indian worker in the British East India Company
- a native Congolese during the rule of Leopold (coincidentally I will be flying home from Belgium)
- a member of the Romanov family during the Bolshevik Revolution
- a member of Rasputin's circle
- a soldier involved in trench warfare
- a conservative in 1920s America during the Jazz Age
(and now that the course review section of the introduction is over)...
- a person with beliefs in individual liberty during the time of Benito Mussolini in Italy in the 1920s (more on that in the next post).
The red arrow above shows where Heather and I are located. The small town of Sittard is in the Dutch province of Limburg, one mile from the German border and about 5 miles from Belgium (it is the narrowest part of the Netherlands).
We hope to be home soon!
I wish I could be at Merrol Hyde talking about Mussolini, but my wife and I are prevented from returning from Europe because of the Icelandic volcano!
There are worse circumstances, places, and times in history a person could be stuck in, such as:
- an Indian worker in the British East India Company
- a native Congolese during the rule of Leopold (coincidentally I will be flying home from Belgium)
- a member of the Romanov family during the Bolshevik Revolution
- a member of Rasputin's circle
- a soldier involved in trench warfare
- a conservative in 1920s America during the Jazz Age
(and now that the course review section of the introduction is over)...
- a person with beliefs in individual liberty during the time of Benito Mussolini in Italy in the 1920s (more on that in the next post).
The red arrow above shows where Heather and I are located. The small town of Sittard is in the Dutch province of Limburg, one mile from the German border and about 5 miles from Belgium (it is the narrowest part of the Netherlands).
We hope to be home soon!
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