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Objectives:

1. Describe the major results of the Great Depression

2. Evaluate the reasons why dictators succeeded in the 1930s

3. Outline the progress that was made towards social equality in the West during the 1930s

4. Analyze the impact that World War II had on European society.

Topic A: The Great Depression

1. Economic Disaster Strikes 1050-1051

2. Social Effects of the Depression 1051-1053

3. The Great Depression beyond the West  1053-1055

Topic B: Totalitarian Triumph

1. The Rise of Stalinism 1055-1060

2. Hitler’s Rise to Power 1060-1062

3. The Nazification of German Politics 1062-1063

4. Nazi Racism 1063-1064

Topic C: Democracies on the Defensive

1. Confronting the Economic Crisis 1065-1068

2. Cultural Visions in Hard Times 1068-1069

Topic D: The Road to Global War

1. A Surge in Global Imperialism 1070-1073

2. The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 1073-1075

3. Hitler’s Conquest of Central Europe, 1938–1939 1075-1077

Topic E: World War II, 1939–1945

1. The German Onslaught 1077-1078

2. War Expands: The Pacific and Beyond 1078-1079

3. The War against Civilians 1079-1082

4. Societies at War 1082-1085

5. From Resistance to Allied Victory 1085-1090

6. An Uneasy Postwar Settlement 1090-1091