Chapter 26:
The Futile Search for Stability in Europe: Europe Between the Wars (1919-1939)
Key Terms
Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words,
describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)
An Uncertain Peace
lost generationthe Little EntenteRuhr Valley
inflationthe Dawes Planthe Locarno pact
the Kellogg-Biand pact the Great Depression
The Democratic States
John Maynard Keynesthe Popular FrontSocial Democratic governments
Success of Scandinaviathe New DealAtaturk
Ghandi
The Authoritarian and Totalitarian States (brace yourselves!!!)
totalitarianism mass propagandaBenito Mussolini
squadristi (Black-Shirts) Fascists Lateran Accords
the Weimar RepublicPaul von HindenburgAdolf Hitler
Mein KampfNational Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazi)
the SABeer Hall PutschLebensraum
Fuhrerprinzip (the leadership principle)the Third Reich
the SSHeinrich Himmlerthe Hitler Youth
Nuremberg LawsKristallnacht New Economic Policy
USSR (Soviet Union)PolitburoJoseph Stalin
five-year planscollectivization authoritarian state
Francisco Francothe Spanish Civil War
The Expansion of Mass Culture and Mass Leisure
radio and movies
Dopolavoro (Afterwork) and Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy)
Triumph of the Will
Cultural and Intellectual Trends in the Interwar Years
Dadaism Surrealism-Dalifunctionalism
BauhausCarl Jung
Essays (In class—one essay for 35 minutes) :
Answer two of the following questions in essay/outline form:
1) What are the characteristics of totalitarian states, and to what degree were these characteristics present in Fascist Italy, Nazi German and the Soviet Union?
2)Compare the rise to power of fascism in Germany and Italy.
3)Spielvogel claims that the Stalinist era inaugurated an “economic, social, and political revolution that was more sweeping in its results than the revolutions of 1917.” Explain.
4). What role did mass leisure play in the totalitarian states during the interwar years?
5) Was the decline of the Weimar Republic inevitable?