AP European History



AP European History

Unit 9: The Lost Peace, Totalitarianism and the Second World War

 

Text Readings:

McKay, et al. A History of Western Society. Chapter 28, pp. 921-951 and Chapter 29,

pp. 953-987.

 

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Daily Assignments: (Bold-printed dates are class meetings); There may be additional assignments not listed on this handout.

|Fri. 2/28 |Unit 8 Test; HW: Read McKay pp. 921-930 & complete Ch. 28.1 Notes (Uncertainty in Modern Thought); |

|Mon. 3/3 |Read McKay pp. 930-937 & complete Ch. 28.2 Notes (Modern Art and Music/Movies and Radio); |

|Tues. 3/4 |Ch. 28.1 & Ch. 28.2 Notes Due; Quizzes 28.1 & 28.2; FRQ Outline 28.1; HW: Art Project (Surrealism & |

| |Dadaism) Research |

|Wed. 3/5 |Read McKay, pp. 937-942 & complete Ch. 28.3 Notes (The Search for Peace and Stability) |

|Thurs. 3/6 |Ch. 28.3 Notes Due; Quiz 28.3; Assignment: Art Project (With partner) HW: French Search for Security |

|Fri. 3/7 |Read McKay, pp. 942-948 & complete Ch. 28.4 Notes (The Great Depression) |

|Mon 3/10 |Ch. 28 Notes and Art Project Due; Assignment TBA HW: Ch. 28 Review |

|Tues. 3/11 |Read McKay, pp. 953-963 and complete Ch. 29.1 Notes (Authoritarian States and Stalin’s Soviet Union) |

|Wed. 3/12 |Ch. 28 Review & Ch. 29.1 Notes Due; Quiz 29.1; Assignment TBA; HW: Read McKay, pp. 964-971 and complete |

| |Ch. 29.2 Notes (Mussolini and Fascism/Hitler and Nazism in Germany); |

|Thurs. 3/13 |Assignment: State of Nations, Part A |

|Fri. 3/14 |Ch. 29.2 Notes Dues; Quiz 29.1; State of Nations, Part B; HW: Read McKay, pp. 971-980 and complete Ch. 29.3|

| |Notes (Nazi Expansion and the Second World War – stop at “Grand Alliance”) |

|Mon. 3/17 |Read McKay, pp. 980-984 and complete Ch. 29.4 Notes (“Grand Alliance to end of chapter) |

|Tues. 3/18 |CAHSEE; HW: FRQ 29.1 Outline |

|Wed. 3/19 |CAHSEE; Ch. 29 Review |

|Thurs. 3/20 |Unit 9 Test and FRQ |

Key Questions and Terms

Ch. 28.1 Notes: Uncertainty in Modern Thought; pp. 921-930

Contrast the postwar view of European intellectuals with the prewar view that dated from the Enlightenment using the ideas and contributions of the thinkers of the 19th century who challenged the widely held belief in progress and human rationality, the revival and revision of Christianity in postwar Europe, the contributions and developments in physics and its contribution to the view of an uncertain universe, and the basic tenets of Freudian psychology and its contribution to the belief in the irrationality of human behavior. (Make sure to include the ideas of Valery, Nietzsche, Bergson, Sorel, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, Barth, Marcel, Curie, Planck, Einstein, Heisenberg, and Freud, as well as logical empiricism and existentialism)

Identify and describe the significant contributions in literature of the postwar period and their reflection of the mood of the period. (Include the work of Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Kafka, and Orwell)

Ch. 28.2 Notes: Modern Art and Music/Movies and Radio; pp. 930-937

Identify and describe the significant contributions in architecture of the postwar period. (Include discussions of functionalism and Bauhaus)

Describe the developments and contributions to the modern school in painting from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. (Include discussions of impressionism, expressionism, cubism, Dadaism and surrealism, and the prominent artists from each school)

Describe the developments and contributions to 20th century music. (Include Stravinsky and Schonberg)

Describe the emergence of the new electronic media of movies and radio and the significant contributions to their development.

Ch. 28.3 Notes: The Search for Peace and Stability; pp. 937-942

Discuss the postwar developments in German, British, and French relations and the developments in foreign affairs, 1924-1929, that brought optimism in foreign affairs. (Include discussions of the German reaction to the Treaty of Versailles, Keynes, the Little Entente, the Ruhr Crisis, Stresemann, the Dawes Plan, the Locarno Pact, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact)

Describe the developments in domestic government in Germany, Britain, and France demonstrating hope in democracy. (Include discussions of the Beer Hall Putsch, Mein Kampf, the Labour Party, MacDonald, and Baldwin)

Ch. 28.4 Notes: The Great Depression; pp. 942-948, 950-951

Describe the economic crisis that brought the Great Depression of the 1930’s and the resulting mass unemployment of the Great Depression. (Include discussion of the Stock Market Crash)

Discuss the policies of the New Deal in the United States, Scandinavian nations, and Britain and France in response to the Great Depression and their effects on the people and the economy. (Refer to pp. 944-948; Include discussion of Hoover, Roosevelt, Works Progress Administration, Social Democrats, Blum and the Popular Front)

Ch. 29.1 Notes: Authoritarian States and Stalin’s Soviet Union; pp. 953-963

Discuss the various views of the developing authoritarian forms of totalitarianism: fascism and communism. (Include discussion of Halevy’s work)

Describe the early policies of Lenin in bringing about the recovery of the Russian economy and discuss the emergence of Joseph Stalin as Lenin’s dictatorial successor. (Include discussion of the NEP, Trotsky, and “socialism in one country”)

Describe the transformation of the Soviet Union and the successes and failures under Stalin’s five-year plans. (Include discussions of collectivization and kulaks)

Describe the transformation of Russian life and culture under the pre-World War II regime of Joseph Stalin and the solidification of Stalinist rule through terror and the Great Purges. (Include discussions of the changes in lives or workers and women)

Ch. 29.2 Notes: Mussolini and Fascism/Hitler and Nazism in Germany; pp. 964-971

Describe the rise and seizure of power in Italy by Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Party, the establishment of Fascist rule in Italy, and the practices of Mussolini’s government in power. (Include discussions of the March on Rome, King Victor Emmanuel III, and the Lateran Agreement)

Discuss the roots of the Nazi philosophy and the incidents that influenced Adolf Hitler in his early days, the incidents and influences on Hitler’s road to power in Germany, and the establishment of the Nazi State in Germany. (Include discussions of the ideas in Mein Kampf, Reichstag, Hindenburg, the Enabling Act, the SA, the SS, Himmler the Nuremberg Laws, and Kristallnacht)

Discuss the reasons for Hitler’s popularity in the Germany of the 1930s.

Ch. 29.3 Notes: Nazi Expansion and the Second World War; pp. 971-980

Describe the aggression of the 1930s by Germany and the other Axis Powers that led to the Second World War. (Include discussions of appeasement, the Anglo-German naval agreement, Remilitarization of the Rhineland, Rome-Berlin Axis, Spanish Civil War, Chamberlain, Sudetenland, Munich Conference, and the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact)

Describe the conquest of Europe by the armies of Nazi Germany, 1939-1942. (Include discussions of Vichy France, Pétain, Churchill, the Battle of Britain, and Pearl Harbor)

Describe the racial policies of Hitler’s Nazi government, the imposition of those policies in the captured territories, and the influence of the policies on the war. (Include discussions of the New Order and the Final Solution)

Ch. 29.4 Notes: 980-984; “Grand Alliance” to end of chapter

Discuss the formation of the Grand Alliance against the Axis including the strengths and weaknesses of the alliance. (Include discussions of Europe first, the “arsenal of democracy”, the “Great Patriotic War of the Fatherland”, the Free French, and de Gaulle)

Describe the course of the Second World War bringing the defeat of the Axis Powers. (Include discussions of the Battles of Stalingrad, the Coral Sea, Midway, and El Alamein, Eisenhower, the Normandy invasion (“D-Day”), and the Atomic bomb)

FRQ Outlines

28.1 Analyze the ways in which the theories of both Darwin and Freud challenged

traditional European ways of thinking about religion, morality, and human behavior in the period circa 1850–1950.

29.1 Considering the period 1933 to 1945, analyze the economic, diplomatic, and military reasons for Germany’s defeat in the Second World War.

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