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Europe between the Wars

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The Big Picture

After the Versailles Treaty was signed and the devastation of the Great War came to an end, Europeans were left to pick up the pieces. What ensued was a search for ways to punish the losers of the war while still searching for ways to maintain peace. The 1920s in Europe witnessed numerous diplomatic efforts to limit the factors that led to the war.

Germany was left in economic shambles. Russia, later the Soviet Union, struggled to establish a stable communist society, and the rest of Europe worked to deal with the aftermath of war. And just when things seemed to be getting better, the world plunged into the Great Depression.

As so often in human history, desperate times led to desperate solutions. Totalitarian dictatorships arose throughout Europe (but most notably in Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union) that promised an end to the Depression and a return to past glory. Those regimes would solidify their hold on power in the 1930s and would eventually drag the world into a second, more deadly war.

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Homework Assignments

Assignment 1: Maintaining the Peace

  • MindTap: Setting the Scene, The Madness of War
  • An Uncertain Peace, pages 797-802
  • AP Euro: The Interwar Period
  • AP Euro: Europe in the 1920s
  • MindTap: An Uncertain Peace

Assignment 2: Fascism in Italy

  • The Retreat from Democracy: Did Europe Have Totalitarian States?, pages 805-806
  • Fascist Italy, pages 806-809
  • AP Euro: The Rise of Totalitarian Dictatorships

Assignment 3: Nazi Germany

  • Hitler and Nazi Germany, pages 809-815

Assignment 4: Soviet Totalitarianism

  • The Soviet Union, pages 815-819​
  • AP Euro Bit by Bit: What Was Lenin's New Economic Policy?
  • AP Euro Bit by Bit: What Were Stalin's Five-Year Plans?
  • MindTap: Politics in the Interwar Period

​Assignment 5: Culture and Leisure

  • The Expansion of Mass Culture and Mass Leisure, pages 822-825
  • MindTap: The Expansion of Mass Culture and Leisure
  • Cultural and Intellectual Trends in the Interwar Years, pages 825-829
  • MindTap: Cultural and Intellectual Trends in the Interwar Years

​Assignment 6: Study for Test

  • Chapter 26 Summary, page 830
  • MindTap: The Futile Search for Stability
  • MindTap: Chapter 26 Quiz
  • MindTap: Chapter 26 AP Review Questions

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Paul Sargent Makes History

  • Home
  • My YouTube Channel
  • AP European History
    • Historical Reasoning Skills
    • Thematic Learning Objectives >
      • Interaction of Europe and the World
      • Poverty and Prosperity
      • Objective Knowledge and Subjective Visions
      • States and Other Institutions of Power
      • Individual and Society
      • National and European Identity
    • Concept Outline
    • Period 1: 1450-1648
    • Period 2: 1648-1815
    • Period 3: 1815-1914
    • Period 4: 1914-Present
    • Exam Review Resources
  • AP Government
    • Concept Outline
    • Constitutional Underpinnings
    • Political Beliefs and Behaviors
    • Linkage Institutions
    • Institutions of Government
    • Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
    • Exam Review
  • Government and Economics
    • Foundations of Government
    • The Constitution
    • Executive Branch
    • The Judicial Branch
    • Voting and Elections
  • My Blog