AP European History
Reading Plan
March 15 to 28, 2011
Key Topics: World Between Wars
Homework Reading Assignment / Pages / TopicsTuesday 3/15 / 880-886 / Test – World War I
The Soviet Experiment Begins
Ø War Communism
Ø The New Economic Policy
Ø Trotsky Urges the Use of Terror
Ø Stalin Versus Trotsky
o Trotsky’s Position
o Stalin’s Rise
Ø The Third International
Ø Women and the Family in the Soviet Union
o Family Legislation from Reform to Repression
Wednesday 3/16 / 886-891 / The Fascist Experiment in Italy
Ø The Rise of Mussolini
o Postwar Italian Turmoil
o Early Fascist Organization
o March on Rome
Ø Fascists in Power
o Repression of Opposition
o Accord with the Vatican
Ø Motherhood for the Nation of Fascist Italy
Thursday 3/17 / 891-898 / Joyless Victors
Ø France: The Search for Security
o New Alliances
o Quest for Reparations
Ø Great Britain: Economic Confusion
o The First Labour Government
o The General Strike of 1926
o Empire
o Ireland
Trials of the Successor States in Eastern Europe
Ø Economic and Ethnic Pressures
Ø Poland: Democracy to Military Rule
Ø Czechoslovakia: A Viable Democratic Experiment
Ø Hungary: Turn to Authoritarianism
Ø Austria: Political Turmoil and Nazi Occupation
Ø Southeastern Europe: Royal Dictatorships
Friday 3/18 / 898-904 / The Weimar Republic in Germany
Ø Constitutional Flaws
Ø Lack of Broad Popular Support
Ø Invasion of the Ruhr and Inflation
Ø Hitler’s Early Career
Ø Hitler Denounces the Versailles Treaty
Ø The Stresemann Years
Ø Locarno
In Perspective
AP European History
Reading Plan
March 15 to 28, 2011
(Page 2)
Key Topics: The World Between Wars
Monday 3/21 / 908-915 / Toward the Great DepressionØ The Financial Tailspin
o Reparations and War Debts
o American Investments
o The End of Reparations
Ø Problems in Agricultural Commodities
Ø Depression and Government Policy
Ø John Maynard Keynes calls for Government Investment to Create Employment
Confronting the Great Depression in the Democracies
Ø Great Britain: The National Government
Ø France: The Popular Front
o Right-Wing Violence
o Socialist-Communist Cooperation
o Blum’s Government
Tuesday 3/22 / 915-922 / Germany: The Nazi Seizure of Power
Ø Depression and Political Deadlock
Ø Hitler Comes to Power
Ø Hitler’s Consolidation of Power
o Reichstag Fire
o The Enabling Act
o International Nazi Party Purges
Ø The Police State and Anti-Semitism
o SS Organization
o Attack on Jewish Economic Life
o Racial Legislation
o Kristallnacht
o The Final Solution
Ø Racial Ideology and the Lives of Women
Wednesday 3/23 / 923-926 / Ø Nazi Economic Policy
Italy: Fascist Economics
Ø Syndicates
Ø Corporations
Thursday 3/24 / 926-934 / Stalin’s Soviet Union: Central Economic Planning, Collectivization, and Party Purges
Ø The Decision for Rapid Industrialization
Ø The Collectivization of Agriculture
Ø Stalin Calls for the Liquidation of the Kulaks as a Class
Ø Flight to the Soviet Cities
Ø Urban Consumer Shortages
Ø Foreign Reactions and the Repercussions
Ø The Purges
In Perspective
Friday 3/25 / Review
Monday 3/28 / 940-948 / Test – World Between Wars
AP European History
Key Content, Terms, Locations & VIPs
Chapter 26 – Political Experiments of the 1920s
Chapter 27 – Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s
Content:Ø Art in the Age of uncertainty
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Ø Labour Party
Ø Political difference between Czechoslovakia and the rest of Eastern Europe
Ø Great Depression
o Causes of the depression
o The Responses of various countries to the depression
Ø Keynesian economic policies
Ø Nuremberg Laws
Ø Munich Agreement
Ø Popular Front
Ø Treatment of women in Stalin’s Soviet Union
Ø Stalin’s Five Year Plan
Ø Great Purges
Ø Countries that hated Western liberalism / Ø Most popular forms of entertainment among working classes
Ø Composition of the parliamentary governments in Germany in the 1920’s
Ø French/Belgian response to Germany when it stopped reparation payments
Ø Guernica
Ø MeinKamph
Ø Triumph of the Will
Ø Dawes Plan
Ø Reichstag fire
o Causes of the fire
o Consequences
Ø Causes and consequences of the 1926 labor strike in Britain
Terms:
Ø Totalitarianism
Ø Fascism
Ø Nazism
Ø Isolationism
Ø Dictator
Ø Propaganda / Ø Social Democrats
Ø Hyperinflation
Ø Dual Entente
Ø “Little Entente”
Ø Impressionism
Locations/Significance of location to Content:
Ø Czechoslovakia
Ø Russia
Ø Poland
Ø Great Britain / Ø Germany
Ø Ruhr region
Ø France
Ø Belgium
VIPs:
Ø Stalin
Ø Hitler
Ø Mussolini
Ø Friedrich Nietzche / Ø Picasso
Ø James Joyce/Marcel Proust/William Faulkner
Ø Albert Einstein
Ø John Maynard Keynes
Using the Content/terms, locations, and VIP’s above, complete a chart similar to the example below and turn in typed on the day of the test.
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Student Name
Date, Class Period
Content/Terms/VIP’s / Meaning/Definition/SignificanceBlack Death / Refers to the bubonic plague that struck Europe in the mid-1300’s. The plague had a significant effect on Europe including a shrunken supply of labor, which resulted in higher farm wages and a decline in the power of noble landholders. When landowners tried to limit wages (England) or tax the peasantry (France), peasants revolted.