2008

World Studies

Unit Fourteen

Totalitarianism and World War Two

Key Concepts:

What is Totalitarianism? What are its characteristics?
What changes did the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s rule bring to the Soviet Union?
How is Anna Ahkmatova a voice of revolution?
What is Fascism?
How do writers and artists of this period try to make an impact on society?
Why did existentialism come into being?
How do writers reflect what is happening in the world around them?
How does the Spanish Civil War fit into the pattern of rising totalitarianism and fascism?
How did the Western democracies react to the problems left after World War One?
What caused the Second World War?
What were some important events in the war?
How does World War Two fit the idea of total war?

Key People

Benito Mussolini Franklin Roosevelt

Adolf Hitler Ahkmatova Lorca Lagerkvist Rivera

Francisco Franco Kawabata Sozhenitsyn Camus

Winston Churchill Brecht Szymborska Shostakovich

Key Terms

Civil Disobedience Appeasement Symbolism irony

Pacifism Fascism Acmeism

Kellogg-Briand Pact Genocide Imagism

_____14A. Topic due

_____14B. The roots of Fascism. In class.

_____14C. Rough Draft #1 for peer editing and bibliography cards

_____14D. Rough Draft #2 - You Must Bring Two Copies

_____14E. Final Draft of the Research Paper

_____14F. Read Wiesel 1232

_____14G. Read "The Guest" by Camus 1244

_____14H. Test over World War Two et al