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10.What were the Great Purge & the Five Year Plans?

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10.What were the Great Purge & the Five Year Plans?

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During the Great Purge, Russians had lost the majority of their basic rights. Throughout the years 1936 to 1938 millions have died under the rule of Stalin, an estimated 8 to 13 millions have lost their lives. The Five Year Plans was a method for economic growth. The first and second plans were the heavy development of industry and agriculture. The third plan emphasized the production of armaments. The fourth stressed on heavy military and industry. The last enforced rapid industrial development.

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6.What is Nazism? How & where does Hitler outline his views and plans for Nazism?

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6.What is Nazism? How & where does Hitler outline his views and plans for Nazism?

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Nazism is the German brand of Fascism, which was under the control of Adolf Hitler. While  arrested, Hitler wrote a book called Mein Kampf  in which he describes all of ideas and and plans. The book describes how he believes that Germans are superior to all other people, the Treaty of Versailles treated Germans unfairly, and that Germany needed more lebensraum and promised that he would conquer lands for Germany.

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8. What do fascism and communism have in common?

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8. What do fascism and communism have in common?

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Fascism is a political system in which peoples lives are completely controlled by the state and no political opposition is allowed. Similar characteristics that fascism and communism have are: one party rule, the state controls everything, secret police terror, and censorship.

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9.What factors led to the downfall of the Wiemar Republic? 

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9.What factors led to the downfall of the Wiemar Republic? 

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The Wiemar Republic was the new democrat government of Germany after WWI (1919).
It was weak from the start because 1-no real experience with democracy 2-several competing political parties 3-German people blamed new government for harsh & humiliating conditions ending WWI. These three reason were the main factors for the downfall of the democracy. They had no real plan or promises to make. The fall led to many more downfalls such as Nazism

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7. What factors contributed to Hitler’s rise to power?  How did he come to power within the German government? 

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7. What factors contributed to Hitler’s rise to power?  How did he come to power within the German government? 

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After the inflation, people were hopeless and all they wanted was a strong leader. Hitler was appointed Chancellor and later became the leader of Germany. He was a dictator. He made promises to rebuild the economy and bring back jobs. This is what the people wanted. Hitler was a Fascist. He believed that there was such thing as a "perfect" race and in order to be part of the race you had to have blonde hair and blue eyes, even though he had neither. He had a plan to eliminate Jews, homosexuals, the elderly, the disabled, and gypsies. In order to do this, he sent them to concentration camps where most people were tortured and killed.

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5.Define and describe Fascism.  Make sure you can give examples as well. 

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5.Define and describe Fascism.  Make sure you can give examples as well. 

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Fascism is a political movement that emphasizes loyalty to the state and obedience to the leader. Every aspect of people's lives were controlled by the state, such as economy, education, family, religion, and culture. Some fascist leaders were Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), and Hitler (Germany).

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3.How did the Great Depression lead to instability in the world following WWI? 

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3.How did the Great Depression lead to instability in the world following WWI? 

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The collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929 was a direct cause of the Great Depression. Factories and businesses had to let go of  workers and production decreased. People had no jobs and in Germany, they were in search for a new leader. Hitler was appointed Chancellor and later became a dictator and controlled Germany with Nazism. Great Depression: Severe economic downturn that followed the collapse of U.S. stock market in 1929.
High unemployment rates in U.S. and decreased industrial production resulted in a domino effect around the world.

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4.Define and describe Totalitarianism. What were some of its methods?

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4.Define and describe Totalitarianism. What were some of its methods?

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Totalitarianism is a type  of government that takes total control of every aspect of public and private life.  Methods of totalitarianism include; ideology, state control of individuals, methods of enforcement, modern technology, state control of society, dictatorship and one party rule, and dynamic leader.

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1.Describe the term “Lost Generation”  What was the impact on art & culture?

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1.Describe the term “Lost Generation”  What was the impact on art & culture?

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The Lost Generation was a term used to describe the many artist, musicians, and writers that were emotionally affected by WWI. They experienced disillusionment which is a feeling of disappointment when someone realizes something is not how they imagined it to be. Much of the Lost Generation had lost hope due to the terrors of WWI. They tried to find a new meaning to life after the war.

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Throughout the years 1800 and 1850 there was a movement of art that was expressed and inspired by emotions and nature called realism. Throughout the years of 1830 and 1900 there was another movement of art which emphasized the importance of showing people who they really are and what their lives are like.
Disillusionment:  realizing that something which someone thought was true or good is not really true or good
Existentialism: philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions
Surrealism: art movement that sought to link the world of dreams with real life, inspired by Sigmund Freud
Cubism: Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form