Notes Talk-through
CRASH COURSE US HISTORY
Really great videos from the US History series--US-centric focus, however.
World History
Hamrick's History
The Global Impact of the Great Depression
Focus On: The Global Impact of the Great Depression from The School of Imagication on Vimeo.
Rise of Fascist Germany
Rise of Imperial Japan
Russian Bolshevik Revolution
Fascists seize power in Italy '
last Chinese emperor abdicates
Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan
Versailles Peace Conference
Obregon becomes leader of Mexico
You need to be able to:
Describe the global results of World War I
Compare the Mexican, Russian, and Chinese revolutions
Describe the effect of the Great Depression on various societies
Describe the reasons for the lack of resolve among the Western governments to intervene against authoritarianism in this era
Characterize the Roaring Twenties
Discuss evidence of political and social change for women in the West in the 1920s
Describe how the United States was so successful in its rapid economic advance after the war
Describe the factors that led to Japan’s shift from a liberal democracy to a military controlled government
Evaluate whether the Great Depression was inevitable or not. Why or why not?
Define “totalitarianism” and provide examples
Compare totalitarianism in the U.S.S.R. and Germany
Summarize the effects of the Great Depression on the politics in Latin America
Give reasons that Japan embarked on a foreign policy of conquest
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____ 1927-1928
EXTRA credit: Write in complete sentences and turn in.
1. In art, Pablo Picasso headed the ________________ movement, which rendered familiar objects as geometric shapes.
2. After World War I, the United States in the West and ________________ in Asia emerged as major economic competitors to Europe.
3. In 1922, the Italian king called on ________________ to form a new government.
4. A central European nation created at Versailles out ofAustria-Hungary and expanded from Serbia was _______________________.
5. More than Canada, the settler society __________________ strongly emphasized social legislation.
6. Through their research and development programs, U.S. corporations invented artificial fibers like rayon and ______________________.
7. The Mexican revolutionary ____________________ used the motto “Land and Liberty” to express his political goals.
8. In the Mexican Revolution, ___________________, women who sometimes took up arms, participated in the rebellion against Díaz.
9. In Russia’s revolution, a council of workers, or _________________, took over the capital city government and arrested the tsar’s ministers.
10. The greatest rival for power in China in the 1920s and 1930s was the __________________ Party, or Guomindang.