TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS

Weimar Republic Treaty of Rapallo Saar

Gustav Streseman Locarno Treaty Little Entente

Kellogg-Briand Pact reparations Dawes Plan

Young Plan Great Depression Joseph Stalin

New Economic Program Politburo Nikolai Bukharin

Five-Year Plans collectivization Comintern

Great Purge fascism Nazism

Benito Mussolini March on Rome Lateran Treaty

Haile Selassie Rome-Berlin Axis Pact of Steel

Adolf Hitler Beer Hall Putsch Mein Kampf

SA SS Maginot Line

Lebensraum autarky Four-Year Plan

Joseph Goebbels Hitler Youth Nuremberg Laws

Kristallnacht Leon Blum Popular Front

National Government Ramsay MacDonald Stanley Baldwin

Oswald Mosley British Union of Fascists kulaks

Francisco Franco Falange Spanish Civil War

Weimar Republic Squadristi Corporatism

Republicans asocials Lenin

Franklin D. Roosevelt Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Nationalists

KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

Barcelona Polish Corridor Yugoslavia

Ruhr Saar Rhineland

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Munich Manchuria

Libya Albania Valencia

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

1. What were the consequences of the peace settlement of 1919? Did the Treaty of Versailles establish peace in Europe or precipitate new conflicts?

2. Compare and contrast the efforts of Lenin and Stalin to establish socialism in the Soviet Union. Which leader remained most true to Marx's vision?

3. What was the appeal of fascism in postwar Europe? What forces motivated Germany and Italy, in particular, to embrace fascist ideology?

4. To what degree did weak parliamentary systems, multiparty governments, and the general insecurity of the times magnify the attraction of charismatic European leaders?

5. How did Stalin's economic and social programs compare to those of Adolf Hitler? In whose country would you have preferred to live?

6. What was the political impact of the Great Depression?