1. "The Race for Empire" in the late nineteenth century
What role did the race for Empire play in ensuring that the WWI in Europe would necessarily be a WORLD War?
2. Friedrich Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith
How is this document clearly informed by Enlightenment ideas and principles?
3. Social Darwinism
What role does this theory or idea play in justifying Europeans' quest for Empire in the late 19th century?
3. Separate Sphere Ideology
How did the ideology of "separate spheres" reflect the effects of industrialization on Europeans?
4. Suffrage
Why did suffrage movements occur in England and the United States - two countries with representative governments - in the late 19th century?
5. The Dreyfus Affair
What did this affair reveal about the problem of anti-Semitism in Europe?
6. Union Sacrée and Burgfriede
How do these movements reflect the importance of nationalism in World War I?
7. Joseph Stalin
In what ways was Stalin's leadership in the USSR "totalitarian"? (Note you need to define "totalitarian" to answer this.)
8. Enabling Act of 1933
How was the passing of this act effectively the end of representative government in Germany?
9. Mussolini's The Doctrine of Fascism
In what says was Mussolini's fascist doctrine "totalitarian"? (Note you need to define "totalitarian" to answer this.)
10. Nuremburg Laws
How do these laws signify Hitler's ultimate goal of eliminating Jews in Germany?
11. Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
How is their ideology of communism dependent upon the industrial revolution?
12. Gestapo and SS
What role did these organizations play in ensuring a totalitarian German state?
13. Marshall Plan
What role did this plan play reducing the appeal of Communism in Western Europe?
14. Soviet Satellite States
What role did the Soviet Satellite States play in strengthening the power of the Soviet Union?
15. Existentialism
How was this philosophy informed by the horrors of the Nazi Regime?
16. The three estates in France before the revolution
How did these three estates exemplify the problem of hierarchical social structure in pre-revolutionary France?
17. Atlantic Trade System
How was this system integral in ensuring European dominance of the global market?
18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract
According to Rousseau, who was the "sovereign" in a nation?
19. "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen"
How does this document clearly reflect the goals of the Enlightenment?
20. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen"
Why did the author feel it necessary to write such a document?
21. Concentration camps vs. Extermination camps
Why did Hitler establish these two different kinds of camps during the war?
22. Vladimir Lenin
Why did he think that the revolution in Russia could be successful, even if the population was made up of mostly peasants rather than proletariats?
23. Proletariat
Why did Marx and Engels think that this class would be the ones to lead the Communist revolution?
24. The Treaty of Versailles
What role did this treaty play in the rise of Hitler in Germany?
25. Nazi-Soviet Pact
Why would the Nazis and Soviets make a pact, given the fact that they were each other's greatest enemy?