HOTA Assignments 10/10-10/24

Friday 10/10, Tuesday 10/14
Primary sources continue in class.

Due Wednesday 10/15
Chapter Eleven
Read pgs. 154-160 and answer the following questions in your notes:
1. Who was at the Paris Peace Conference and who was not?
2. List all of the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles (this should be pretty long).
3. How did imperialism impact the Paris Peace Conference?
4. What happened with minorities in various countries? What specifically happened in Yugoslavia?

Due Thursday 10/16
Read pgs. 160-166 (through Eastern Europe) and answer the following questions in your notes:
5. Describe one of the greatest problems European governments faced after the war?
6. What was the problem with inflation?
7. What changes occurred in relation to class distinction and the general power of the masses?
8. How were women impacted by the end of the war?
9. What is Dadaism? How did literature evolve after the war?
10. Where did monarchies collapse?
11. Explain why Mussolini was able to rise to power.
12. What problems were the Weimar Republic facing?
13. Describe Hitler and the Nazis rise to power.
14. What trends were occurring in Eastern Europe?

Due Friday 10/17
Read pgs. 166-171 and answer the following questions in your notes:
15. What was going on with the Irish in Great Britain after the “Great War?”
16. What problems existed in France?
17. What actions did France take to insure its security?
18. What were the Locarno treaties?
19. Why was international stability illusory?

Monday 10/20
Test on World War I. Items to study for the test will be provided in Friday’s class.

Due Tuesday 10/21
Chapter Nine
Read pgs. 122-130 and answer the following questions in your notes:
1. List the deadly weapons that “progress” created.
2. How did consumer goods impact daily life (list examples of some of the goods)?
3. How did radio and film change society?
4. What was the downside of the mass media?
5. How did inflation become a problem (describe)?
6. Why was there high unemployment and how did it impact society?
7. What was the immediate cause of the Great Depression?
8. How did the Depression impact Germany?
9. Politically, what did the Depression allow to happen (dictators, Marxist goals)?

Due Wednesday 10/22 (Period 3) – Thursday 10/23 (Period 4)
Read pgs. 131-137 and answer the following questions in your notes:
10. Describe the rise of anti-colonialism/decline of imperialism.
11. What were the goals of the League of Nations? How successful was it?
12. Extreme nationalism led to military buildups again. Where was this occurring?
13. How did secularism impact society?
14. Describe the changes in music.
15. What were the Roaring Twenties like (should be a long list/outline/paragraph)?
16. What was Gandhi doing in India?
17. How did western influences effect China?

Due Friday 10/24
Chapter 12
Read pgs. 173-177 and be prepared to discuss in class.