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Chapter 29: The World between the Wars:
Revolutions, Depression and Authoritarian Response
The Roaring Twenties
1. What was the cubist movement?
2. What changes did middle class women experience?
3. How did Europe fare overall after WWI? What countries had taken over western
Europe’s export markets? What political ideologies gained ground in western
Europe?
4. How did the U.S. fare economically throughout the 1920s? Who created the
assembly line system? What popular cultural exports were popular?
5. How did Japan’s continuing industrialization efforts fare between the wars?
6. Who formed the Italian fascist government? What was its main platform?
7. What type of government formed in east central Europe? What was the main
reason?
Revolution: The First Waves
8. How did WWI impact Latin America economically? What were the main factors that
caused the Mexican Revolution? Did the new government alleviate these problems?
9. What were Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera trying to portray?
10. In what year was Russia’s revolution, and what were its main causes? Who and
which party gained control by the end of the year?
11. What two key measures did Russia’s new government implement to stabilize its
regime? What name did this nation adopt?
12. What goals did the new educational system emphasize?
13. Who succeeded Lenin? What programs and ruling approach defined his term?
14. Which group was best-positioned to hold power after the fall of the Qing? What
neighboring society posed a threat to China throughout this era?
15. What type of government did Sun Yatsen establish?
16. Who were the supporters of the May Fourth movement, and what initially was their
overall main goal? Why did some of them eventually decide communism made
more sense for China
17. What elements of China’s version of communism aligned with its traditional roots?
Who became China’s communist leader?
The Great Global Depression
18. How was agricultural production a contributing factor to the start of the Great
Depression? Were Western governments typically very involved in their national
economies before the Depression? When did the Depression begin, and what event
is considered its formal beginning?
19. What societies were hardest hit by the Great Depression? Why? Why were most
regions impacted at some level by this depression?
20. Why did tariffs and spending cuts exacerbate the economic situation?
21. What general political responses did the Depression trigger?
22. What was the purpose of FDR’s New Deal policies, and by what measures was this
approach successful?
The Authoritarian Response
23. What type of government emerged in Germany? What were their main goals? What
name did this regime adopt, and who was its leader?
24. Why didn’t the League of Nations or Western powers initially take action against
Italian and German attacks on other nations? What type of government emerged in
Spain as a result of their civil war?
25. Why had Latin America been so negatively impacted by the Great Depression?
26. What two types of political responses were typical in Latin America between the
wars?
27. What type of government did Japan adopt? What happened to the civilian branch of
the government? What societies did the attack and occupy?
28. How badly was Japan affected by the Depression? Why?
29. What happened to Japan’s industrialization programs in this era, and how did
Japan’s economy fare as a result? What programs encouraged worker productivity?
30. Why wasn’t the Soviet Union very affected by the Depression? What was their
approach toward industrialization in these decades?
31. What was collectivization? Describe its mixed success.
32. What were the five-year plans, and were they effective? What types of industry were
prioritized, and what types of industry of lowest priority?
33. What intellectual movement was promoted in the Soviet Union, and how did it
differ from artistic styles popular at that time in the West?
34. What happened to potential opponents of Stalin?