Pre-AP World History II

Unit 9: Turmoil Between the Wars & World War II

1. Why was democracy facing collapse in the wake of the Great War? (​838​)

2. What is the difference between the Bolshevik policies of War Communism

and the New Economic Policy? (​838-842​)

3. Although the Stalinist revolution was intent on modernizing Russia, what

was the effect on society?? (​842-849​)

4. Who were the victims of the Great Terror and what was the effect on Russia?
(​848-849​)

5. Mussolini’s Fascist party offered an alternative to Italian voters disappointed

with their government in the aftermath of WWI. What was Fascism and how did
Mussolini come to power? (​849-851)

6. What role did the economy play in the collapse of the Weimar Republic?
(​853-855)

7. Hitler came to power legally in 1933 through the German electoral system.
What did he stand for, and why did so many Germans support his cause? (​854-856)

8. How important was Anti-Semitism to Adolf Hitler’s political career? What do

events like Kristallnacht tell us about the depth of German Anti-Semitism?
(​857-860)
9. What caused the Great Depression and how did it end? (​861-863)

10.​ ​In what ways did intellectuals, artists, and scientists challenge previous ways of
defining the world? (​863-865)

11. How was “mass culture” different from older forms of popular culture and
what factors contributed to its rise? (​865​)