STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 27:

THE EUROPEAN SEARCH FOR STABILITY, 1920-1939

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?