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.