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Mr. Thorsen				March of the Dictators		      Modern World History 

Autocratic Rule to Revolution
-worksheet on Czarist Russia pgs. 349-353
     -reasons the masses upset with the Czar
-role of Rasputin
-Kerenski’s democratic government
-role of Vladimir Lenin
-October Revolution and Civil War
	-bolsheviks
	-mensheviks
-Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
-Allied support of Mensheviks
-Treaty of Versailles
	-Russian humiliation

 Rise of the Soviet Union
-Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin  
-game pgs. 479-483
-Stalin pgs. 542-549
	-his paranoia and the purges
	-K.G.B.
	-Siberia and the gulag camps

“Ah Great! the Depression”
-why was the prosperity a superficial one?
-the warning signs
-the relationship between production & buying power
-stocks and buying on margin
	-how did this affect the growing problem?
-how did the Fed Reserve lowering the interest rate add to 
  the problem?
-Black Thursday and Tuesday
      -how did creditors cause the economy to hemorrhage?
-overproduction, drop in sales, lack of consumer spending, cut backs, lay offs—how do these relate to
        each other?
-how did Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act make matters worse?
-Hoover’s response to the crisis
	-volunteerism and why did it fail?
	-how did Hoover basically model what FDR will do?
-Hoover’s popularity declines
	-reasons people turn on Hoover
	-Bonus Army
	-run on banks 

The Rise of Fascism
	-definition of fascism
	-which countries became fascist and which was first?
	-economic and social conditions that gave rise to
	 fascism in Italy and Germany 
	-manner in which fascists dealt with dissent
  
  -Italy
	-worksheet pgs. 536-538

    -Germany
	-Weimar Republic and Reichstag
	-social and economic conditions after WWI
	-National Socialist German Workers Party
		-their goals and offers
	-1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch
		-Mein Kampf
	-1930’s Reichstag elections and Great Depression
	-President Paul Von Hindenburg
	-policy of anarchy
	-merging of two offices
	-Reichstag fire 1934
		-martial law

    -Japan
	-commentary pgs. 512-515

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