AP World History
Chapter 34 Study Guide
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Important Terms, People, and Ideas
Absolutism
Ahimsa
Anti-Semitism
Bauhaus
Bolshevik
Collectivization
Communism
Conservatism
Eugenics
Fascism
Five-year plans
Great Purge
Guomindang
Harijans
India Act
Islam
Keynesianism
Kristallnacht
Kulaks
Lebensraum
Long March
May Fourth
Movement
New Deal
New Economic Policy
(NEP)
Nuremburg Laws
Paris Peace Accords
Planned Scarcity
Psychoanalytic
Theory
Satyagraha
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Soviets
Theory of Relativity
Uncertainty Principle
Urdu
War Communism
Weimar Republic
Study Questions
1.
What are some indications of the "postwar pessimism" of the 1920s? Why did liberal values such as progress and democracy
fall under attack at this time?
2.
What were some of the economic problems facing the world powers in the 1920s? Specifically, what factors led to the crash
of 1929 and the depression that followed?
3.
What are some examples of "economic nationalism"? How effective were these measures?
4.
What was the impact of the depression on social attitudes? On women and families?
5.
What did John Maynard Keynes recommend as a solution to the economic crisis? How did the New Deal of President
Roosevelt exemplify this solution?
6.
How did Lenin and the Bolsheviks secure their power in Russia? How did Stalin secure his power within the party and within
the Soviet Union?
AP World History
Chapter 34 Study Guide
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7.
What are the defining characteristics of fascism in both Italy and Germany? Consider the organizational structure and
symbols that each adopted. To whom did this message appeal?
8.
Compare the rise to power and consolidation of power by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
9.
What was the social vision of the Nazis? What attitudes are expressed in the passage from Mein Kampf on page 998? How
did this vision impact women, families, and minorities?
Inquiry Questions
10. Explain how new discoveries in physics and psychology undermined earlier ideas about reality and knowledge. Why were
these new ideas so unsettling? How were these ideas represented in western art between the wars?
11. Describe and analyze the experience of the Great Depression between the industrial nations and the primary producing
nations. What parts of the world were most affected and what parts were least affected? What would be the economic
explanation for this difference?
12. Compare the economic strategies embedded in Lenin's war communism, his New Economic Policy, and Stalin's Five-Year
Plan. What were the aims of each program? Which was most effective?