Chapter 27 – The European Search for Stability, 1920-39
H.A.P.E.’ Reading Guide
Directions: as you read the chapter, identify the key terms, people, and events (NUMBER THESE!) Include dates where appropriate, and be specific. Answer the Discussion and Essay Questions fully, in paragraph form. For the New Geographical Locations, simply highlight or circle these on the map of Europe on the reverse of this Reading Guide. Completed Reading Guide answers are due the day of the quiz to replace the quiz score.
KEY TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS
Five-Year Plans
New Economic Program
Surrealism
Spanish Civil War
Maginot Line
Nazism
collectivization
Existentialism
Pablo Picasso’s Guernica
Weimar Republic
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Benito Mussolini
Lebensraum
Joseph Goebbels
Kristallnacht
Oswald Mosley
Francisco Franco
Locarno Treaty
Politburo
Great Depression
fascism
March on Rome
Beer Hall Putsch
SS
Hitler Youth
Leon Blum
Ramsay MacDonald
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Joseph Stalin
Comintern
Pact of Steel
Mein Kampf
Nuremberg Laws
Popular Front
kulaks
NEW GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS
Barcelona
USSR
Ruhr
Polish Corridor
Saar
Munich
Yugoslavia
Rhineland
DISCUSSION AND ESSAY QUESTIONS
1. What geographic issues emerged from the Treaty of Versailles for Europe? Consider both
political and economic difficulties. Use geographical data to support your position.
2. How did the Great Depression complete the process of destroying the Versailles settlement?
How was Europe different after the Great Depression? What does this suggest about the role
of economics versus politics in world affairs by the 1930s?
3. How and why did Stalin come to hold supreme power in the Soviet Union by 1928? In your
answer, discuss the challenges facing the U.S.S.R. after 1918, the solutions suggested by Lenin
and his colleagues, and the policies pursued by Stalin after 1928. Discuss the dynamic of
agricultural versus industrial reform as part of your answer.
4. What made fascism such an attractive political doctrine for the people of Italy and Germany?
Compare the historical development of fascism in each state in the 1920s and 1930s. What
similarities do you see? What differences?