https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm Elizabeth Castrejon and Michelle Diaz en-us 2017-03-29 16:13:23 UTC 2017-03-30 16:10:40 UTC hello@padlet.com 345225 https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163472950 Nazism is the political principles of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. From 1933 until the start of the war in 1939, Hitler and his Nazi regime instituted hundreds of laws and regulations to restrict and exclude Jews in society. ]]> 2017-03-29 16:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163472950 349108 https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163473347 The "Lost Generation" was a movement after World War 1 in which many American writers, musicians, and painters left the U.S. and moved from one European country to the next looking for a meaning of life after the horrific war. These writers, musicians, an painters had lost hope due to the war. Writers would express their anxieties by making disturbing vision of the present and future. Musicians moved away from traditional style and started using irregular rhythms or sound. Painters rebelled against early realistic styles of painting. Some important people of this movement were novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Poet Gertrude Stein, and painter Pablo Picasso. ]]> 2017-03-29 16:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163473347 349108 https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163478634 After World War 1 some important art movement were were Surrealism, and Cubism. Surrealism was an art movement that sought to link the world of dreams with real life. Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali used this way of painting. Another important art movement was Cubism. Cubism was considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. In cubist artwork, object are analyzed, broken up an resembled in an abstract form instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint. Pablo Picasso and Dali also used this art movement. "The persistence of Memory' is an important artwork by Dali. ]]> 2017-03-29 16:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163478634 345225 https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163479257 With millions unemployed, the Great Depression in Germany provided a political opportunity for Hitler. Germans were ambivalent to the parliamentary republic and increasingly open to extremist options. In January 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor, the head of the German government, and many Germans believed that they had found a savior for their nation.]]> 2017-03-29 16:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163479257 349108 https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163484369 The Great Depression was a severe downturn that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929. The high unemployment rates in the U.S. and decreased industrial production. resulted in domino effect around the world. People would not be able to to pay money that they owed on margin purchases and the stocks that they had bought at very high prices became worthless. By 1932 thousand of businesses failed and banks were closed. About 9 million people lost the money they had in their savings accounts when the banks could not pay them, and many farmers lost their lands when the could not make mortgage payments. Now, world trade dropped by 65%. Germany and Austria were impacted the most. ]]> 2017-03-29 16:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163484369 345225 https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163484604 Both fascism and communism oppose the liberal democratic political framework , and both wish to overthrow it through some kind of radical, "revolutionary" act. The main difference here is that the aim of one is a more egalitarian and very possibly democratic society, while in the case of the other it's an authoritarian society without much equality. ]]> 2017-03-29 16:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163484604 345225 https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163487804 Wiemar Germany was at the mercy of so many different ideas and forces – political and economic, internal and external, structural and short-term – that it is difficult to isolate one or two as being chiefly responsible for the demise of the republic.]]> 2017-03-29 16:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163487804 349108 https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163489194 Totalitarianism describes a government that takes control, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life. The methods of control for totalitarianism were police terror, indoctrination, censorship, and persecution. Dictators of totalitarian states used terror and violence to force obedience and to crush oppositions. Totalitarian states also rely o indoctrination, which is the instructions in the governments beliefs to mold the believes of the people, control over education was essential in this case. Totalitarian states also used propaganda that had biased or incomplete information used to shape people minds making them accept beliefs of actions. Totalitarian leaders would also create enemies of the state to blame them for things that had gone wrong. The leaders would use violence such as persecution as punishment. Ex. of Totalitarian leaders are Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Kim IL Sung, Saddam Hussein. ]]> 2017-03-29 16:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163489194 345225 https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163576336 The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Russian: Большо́й терро́р) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938. The five year plan of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism in One Country.]]> 2017-03-30 00:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163576336 349108 https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163578437 Fascism was a new, militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader. Fascist shared several ideas, they preached an extreme form of nationalism, or loyalty to ones country. They believed that nations must struggle and peaceful states were doomed to be conquered. Fascism was similar to communism in some ways. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler were fascists as well. ]]> 2017-03-30 00:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/349108/hq6yxqceb1cm/wish/163578437