Chapter 35
Historical Terms and Concepts to Know *Who, what, where, why, when, how, so
what?
1. Lost Generation
2. All Quiet on the Western
Front
3. Decline of the West
4. Uncertainty principle
5. Psychoanalysis
6. International style
7. Black Thursday
8. Great Depression
9. Economic nationalism
10. Autarchy
11. Smoot-Hawley Tariff
12. New Deal
13. Red Terror
14. War communism
15. New Economic Policy
16. Socialism in One
Country
17. Five-Year Plans
18. Kulaks
19. Collectivization
20. Fascism
21. Weimar Republic
22. National Socialist
German Workers’ Party
23. Anti-Semitism
24. Nuremberg Laws
65. Kristallnacht
25. Gertrude Stein
26. Ernest Hemingway
27. Oswald Spengler
28. Arnold J. Toynbee
29. Karl Barth
30. John Maynard Keynes
31. Albert Einstein
32. Werner Heisenberg
33. Sigmund Freud
34. Edgar Degas
35. Paul Gauguin
36. Pablo Picasso
37. Walter Gropius
38. John Steinbeck
39. John Maynard Keynes
40. Franklin Delano
Roosvelt
41. V. I. Lenin
42. Joseph Stalin
43. Benito Mussolini
44. Adolf Hitler
45. Paul von Hindenburg
Discussion Questions
46. Examine the causes and implications of the Great Depression. Why was the depression so
widespread and so devastating? How did different countries respond to the depression?
What would be the long-term consequences of the depression?
47. Examine the transformation of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin. What were the main
ideas and programs of the two leaders? How did they influence Russian history?
48. Examine the rise to power of Adolf Hitler. What were his main ideas and goals? How did he
transform Germany?
49. What did Gertrude Stein mean when she wrote that “You are all a lost generation”? What
had caused this profound split from earlier generations? Can you think of similar dramatic
breaks with the past in different countries and different centuries?
50. Compare and contrast the ideas and regimes of Stalin and Hitler. Despite tremendous
differences in political orientation, how similar were the German and Soviet states? In what
ways were Stalin and Hitler a product of their times?
51. Examine the political movement known as fascism. What were its main tenets? Compare
fascism to democracy and communism.
Chapter 35
Discussion Questions
52. Examine the causes and implications of the Great Depression. Why was the depression so
widespread and so devastating? How did different countries respond to the depression?
What would be the long-term consequences of the depression?
53. Examine the transformation of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin. What were the main
ideas and programs of the two leaders? How did they influence Russian history?
54. Examine the rise to power of Adolf Hitler. What were his main ideas and goals? How did he
transform Germany?
55. What did Gertrude Stein mean when she wrote that “You are all a lost generation”? What
had caused this profound split from earlier generations? Can you think of similar dramatic
breaks with the past in different countries and different centuries?
56. Compare and contrast the ideas and regimes of Stalin and Hitler. Despite tremendous
differences in political orientation, how similar were the German and Soviet states? In what
ways were Stalin and Hitler a product of their times?
57. Examine the political movement known as fascism. What were its main tenets? Compare
fascism to democracy and communism.
Historical Terms and Concepts to Know *Who, what, where, why, when, how, so
what?
58. Lost Generation
59. All Quiet on the Western
Front
60. Decline of the West
61. Uncertainty principle
62. Psychoanalysis
63. International style
64. Black Thursday
65. Great Depression
66. Economic nationalism
67. Autarchy
68. Smoot-Hawley Tariff
69. New Deal
70. Red Terror
71. War communism
72. New Economic Policy
73. Socialism in One
Country
74. Five-Year Plans
75. Kulaks
76. Collectivization
77. Fascism
78. Weimar Republic
79. National Socialist
German Workers’ Party
80. Anti-Semitism
81. Nuremberg Laws
65. Kristallnacht
82. Gertrude Stein
83. Ernest Hemingway
84. Oswald Spengler
85. Arnold J. Toynbee
86. Karl Barth
87. John Maynard Keynes
88. Albert Einstein
89. Werner Heisenberg
90. Sigmund Freud
91. Edgar Degas
92. Paul Gauguin
93. Pablo Picasso
94. Walter Gropius
95. John Steinbeck
96. John Maynard Keynes
97. Franklin Delano
Roosvelt
98. V. I. Lenin
99. Joseph Stalin
100. Benito Mussolini
101. Adolf Hitler
102. Paul von
Hindenburg