Review Questions about Modern Culture - History of Western Civilization | HIST 100, Quizzes of Cultural History of Europe

Download Review Questions about Modern Culture - History of Western Civilization | HIST 100 and more Quizzes Cultural History of Europe in PDF only on Docsity! Western Civilization Professor Orens REVIEW QUESTIONS ABOUT MODERN CULTURE, THE WORLD WARS, TOTALITARIANISM, AND THE POST-WAR WORLD 1. What are some of the reasons for the skepticism that characterizes modern culture? 2. According to Social Darwinists what is the biological principle that insures the progress of human society? What was the principal difference between Social Darwinists such as William Graham Sumner and those such as Karl Pearson? 3. In what ways did Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity undermine the common sense view of space and time? 4. How did Werner Heisenberg challenge the conventional understanding of the universe and of how complete our grasp of truth can be? 5. According to Sigmund Freud, what is the largest part of the human mind and what desires lie within it? Why did Freud believe that civilized life would always be difficult to bear? 6. What is the significance of Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”? 7. In Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Parable of the Madman,” how did the madman tell the villagers that they ought to live without God? 8. Who assassinated Franz Ferdinand and his wife on 28 June 1914 and why? 9. Why did the Russian Provisional Government lose popular support? 10. In What Is to Be Done? who did Lenin argue must lead a socialist revolution and why? 11. How did the Bolsheviks deal with opposition parties after they came to power? 12. What were the reasons for discontent in Italy after the First World War? 13. How do the principles of fascism differ from those of socialism and communism? 14. How did Benito Mussolini become prime minister of Italy? 15. What was the principal goal of Joseph Stalin’s five-year plans? How did they affect Soviet workers and peasants? 16. Against whom did Stalin direct his purges in the 1930s? 17. In his election speech for the Supreme Soviet, how did Stalin argue that Soviet elections were more democratic than those in capitalist countries? 18. Why did many Germans dislike the Weimar Republic during the first few years of its existence? 19. How did Adolf Hitler become the chancellor of Germany in 1933? 20. In Mein Kampf, what accusations did Adolf Hitler make against Jews? In his speech to the National Socialist Women’s League, what did he say about relations between the sexes? 21. What steps did the German government take against Jews in the Nuremberg Laws and on Kristallnacht? 22. How did Hitler justify his demands that Austria and the Sudetenland be given to Germany? 23. Why did the western democracies try to appease Hitler? 24. What were the secret terms of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact? Why was Stalin prepared to strike this deal with Hitler?