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American poet who wrote evocative postwar disillusion "The Wast Land"
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T. S. Eliot 1888-1965
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Swiss theologian who emphasized that human sinfulness seperated humanity from God.
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Karl Barth 1886-1968
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German writer who believed Jesus was fictional and was made up from a collection of fragments from myth and folk tales.
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Rudolf Bultmann 1884-1976
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Whos form of Christianity was called 'existentialism'
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Rudolf Bultmann
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The human condition is one of anxiety, alienation and nausea.
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existentialism
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Philosopher and athiest who taught individuals must rise above mere existence and be genuine and authentic.
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Martin Heidegger 1889-1976
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Pessimistic beliefs that human existence was condemened in a universe devoid of meaning. Resisted Nazis during French Resistance after WWII.
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Jean Paul Sartre 1905-1980
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War veteran and Expressionist painter. Flander- 1934 painting of soldiers rotting in trenches.
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Otto Dix 1897-1969
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Established in Berlin 1919 for architects, craftsmen.
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Bauhaus School
Walter Gropius 1883-1969 |
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British poet
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W.H. Auden 1907-1973
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Painting where landscaped is shaped by WWI soldiers bodies.
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Flanders 1934-35
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Swiss architect and modernist of mechanical faith. Quoted "A house is a machine for living in." Built Villa Savoye
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Le Corbusier 1887-1965
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First person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Charles Lindbergh 1902-1974
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British scientist, headed research laboratorie who dismissed possibilites of unlocking atoms as Moonshine
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Ernest Rutherford 1871-1937
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Who won the civil war in 1922 and what occured after
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The Bolshevliks
Established reign over old tsarist empires. Reestablished tsarist regime: violent authoritarian rule highly centralized state bureaucratic elite living peasant economy |
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Who were the Bolsheviks (Reds) opponets in the civil war and why?
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The whites, supported by foreign troops who feared the spread of communism included US, Britain, France and Japan.
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Policy adopted by the Bolsheviks of stealing food and seed stored from the peasants.
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War Communism
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Peasants response to War Communism
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reacted in violent revolt and reduced amount of food planted.
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What were the reasons for the high death toll in Russias Civil War?
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Food shortages and hardships increased vulnerability to epedimic diseases such as starvation and typhus surpassing the number dead in WWI.
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Lenins secret police force during Bolshevik Rule that executed over 200,000 people.
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The Cheka-
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Bolshavik leader argued that only the elite and politically aware would vanguard revolution in Russia.
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Vladimir Lenin
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What did Lenin have to do to reshape the Russian economic sphere due to famine and peasant unrest?
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Created the NEP in 1921.
New Economic Policy allowing peasants to sell their own produce which encouraged small private businesses and farms. |
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WWI hero who seized power in his Polish military coupe and told parliament they acted like children.
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Marshal Joesf Pilsudski 1867-1935
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A democratically elected parliamentary government in Germany is known as
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The weimar republic
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Right wing politician who fought to overthrow the Weimar regime known as the 'Kapp Pusch'
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Wolfgang Kapp 1858-1922
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Germans felt that the socialists did this to them by imposing the Versailles Treaty
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Stab in the back theory
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The Weimar govt. forced allies to reconsider by halting payments and demanded a new economic settlement sending the 'mark' ($) to a zero value.
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known as reparations
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What occured when Germany halted their payments to the allies under the Versailles Treaty?
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French soldiers were sent into the Ruhr Valley to seize coal as a form of reparation. Germans retaliated by going on strike.
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Germany and the Allies came together and renegotiated the treaty which is known as
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The Dawes Plan, 1924
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Where did Hitler and Erich Von Ludendorff gather to demonstrate and overthrow the Weiser Govt.
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A Munich beer hall known as The Beer Hall Putsch.
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These are known as Radical Right Ideologies
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Facism and Nazism
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Who created Facism
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Benito Mussolini 1883-1945
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WWI hero who seized power in his Polish military coupe and told parliament they acted like children.
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Marshal Joesf Pilsudski 1867-1935
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A democratically elected parliamentary government in Germany is known as
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The weimar republic
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Right wing politician who fought to overthrow the Weimar regime known as the 'Kapp Pusch'
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Wolfgang Kapp 1858-1922
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Germans felt that the socialists did this to them by imposing the Versailles Treaty
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Stab in the back theory
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The Weimar govt. forced allies to reconsider by halting payments and demanded a new economic settlement sending the 'mark' ($) to a zero value.
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known as reparations
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What occured when Germany halted their payments to the allies under the Versailles Treaty?
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French soldiers were sent into the Ruhr Valley to seize coal as a form of reparation. Germans retaliated by going on strike.
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Germany and the Allies came together and renegotiated the treaty which is known as
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The Dawes Plan, 1924
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Where did Hitler and Erich Von Ludendorff gather to demonstrate and overthrow the Weiser Govt.
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A Munich beer hall known as The Beer Hall Putsch.
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These are known as Radical Right Ideologies
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Facism and Nazism
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Who created Facism
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Benito Mussolini 1883-1945
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How did Mussolini and his followers declare themselves as facists in The Facist Movement in Milan?
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They wore black shirts and their war medals and their slogan was "Me ne frego"
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What did the facists do to the socialist parties?
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They would disrupt meetings, vandalize offices, break up strikes...ect.
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Who appointed Mussolini as prime minister of Italy in 1922?
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King Victor Emmanuel III
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During Mussolinis empowerment, what did he accomplish?
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He eliminated his political rivals, independent press and the trade union movement.
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What are the reasons Facism grew in the late 20's?
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Political and social disarays that accompanied the Great Depression made Fascist promises look solid and apprear to have national strength
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What did Mussonlin call himself?
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The cult of the duce (leader)
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What were the reasons for the stock market crash in the US?
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European countries looked to the US for loans to recover from WWI. The allies based their nut off Germany paying back the reparations. Germany borrowed from the US to pay their debts and in return those countries had to pay back the US for their loans. It was a self feeding machine.
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What was Collectivization in the Soviet Union?
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The replacement of private and village farms with large cooperative enterprises run by communist managers
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What does NAZI stand for?
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National Socialist German Workers Party... but they actually appossed Socialism, class conflict and workers rights.
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What are aryans
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White northern europeans
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