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Walker AP World History Ch 29Reading Study Guide #1 Pg. 686-700

1. What three problems challenged the potential success of the government owned Universal Stores? Pg. 686

2. What happened to customer complaints in these state owned department stores? Pg. 686

Timeline, Pg. 688

3. When did Russia experience two revolutions?______

4. When did Mussolini take power in Italy?______

5. What is the year of the stock market crash?______

6. When did Hitler take power in Germany?______

7. When did Civil War break out in Spain?______

8. When did Hitler invade Poland?______

9. What new artistic movement became well-known after WWI? Who led it? (Pg. 689 Figure 29.2)

10. Which countries led the way in woman suffrage (right to vote)? Pg. 687

11. What 3 nations known as ‘Dominions’ play an important role in the WWI British War effort? Pg. 688

12. Describe the innovations of US auto manufacturer, Henry Ford. Pg. 689

13. Why didn’t the United States join the League of Nations? Pg. 689

14. What is isolationism? Pg. 689

15. In what ways did Japan enter a ‘new phase of industrialization’ in the 1920s? Pg. 689

16. What is Benito Mussolini’s Fascism? Pg. 90

17. How did he rise to power in 1922? How did he stay in power? Pg. 690

18. Where were other authoritarian regimes established in the 1920s? (name some) Pg. 690

19. What happened in Latin America during WWI? Pg. 693

20. What power replaced Great Britain as the dominant political player in Latin America after WWI? Pg. 693

21. What advances were made in Mexico under the Presidential Dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz? Pg. 693

22. What liberal reforms did Diaz crack down on in 1910? Pg. 693

23. Who were the two leaders of the resistance to the repressive Diaz regime? Pg. 693

24. Where did they operate? Pg. 694

25. What was Zapata’s slogan? Why do you think it resonated with the disposed peasants of Mexico? Pg. 694

26. Who tried to impose a ‘Diaz-type’ dictatorship on Mexico? Pg. 694

27. How did Obregon bring an end to the civil war/revolution and institute stability? Pg. 694

28. What is indigenism? Pg. 694

29. Name the two artists who emerged as leader of the muralist movement in Mexico. Pg. 694

30. Who were the “Cristeros”? Pg. 695

31. How/why did the US become involved in the violent struggle in Mexico in the 19-teens? Pg. 695

32. What is the PRI? How was it able to maintain power for the next several decades? Pg. 695

33. How did the Tsar fall from power in Russia? Pg. 695

34. What government took the place of the Tsarist regime? Pg. 695

35. How/when did Lenin seize power from this new government? Pg. 696

36. Which countries all sent troops to fight against Lenin’s government between 1918-1921? Pg. 696

37. Who organized the Red Army? What was it so successful in the Russian Civil War? Pg. 697

38. What is the New Economic Policy? Why did Lenin have to implement it? Pg. 697

39. What was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? What ethnic group was dominant? Pg. 697

40. How did this new Soviet government echo the Tsarist regimes of the past? Pg. 699

(Thinking Historically: A Century of Revolutions, Pg. 698)

41. Who were the two rivals for power as Lenin’s health deteriorated and in death in 1924? (Reading, 698)

42. How did Stalin intend to make Communist work?(Reading, 698)

43. What was the Comintern?Pg. 699

44. What was collectivization? Pg. 700

Soviet Hammer & Sickle (Industrial Workers and Farmers) as the new proletariat, the globe symbolized the world-wide revolutionary aims of the Third International (Comintern).

The Fasces was a governmental symbol of the AncientRomanRepublic appropriated by Mussolini’s Fascist Party. The Axe bound in birch branches by a red leather ribbon symbolized strength through unity, the axe indicating the governmental authority of various Roman officials.

The Swastika is an ancient Sanskrit/Hindu/Aryan Symbol for “Good Luck” or good fortune. It had been used around the world without stigma until appropriated by Adolph Hitler for use in his new Nazi Party Flag. He claimed common heritage of the German/Aryan people as the “Master Race” Since 1933 it has become so closely associated with Nazism so as to render it almost useless for any other purpose.

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