31 Aug two question essay (Each response should be 4-5 pages)
Each response should be 4-5 pages, double spaced, in 12 point font with standard margins.
QUESTION AND INSTRUCTIONS
Part A: Answer one of the following four questions in essay format making specific and detailed reference to the material learned in this course. (15 marks)
1. Account for the Rise of Fascism in the 1920s and 1930s. Which factors are most important in understanding the rise of this phenomenon?
2. How did the Bolsheviks under first Lenin and then Stalin address the paradox of building socialism within a “backward” country and what was the result of their policies?
3. What was the impact of the Versailles settlement on the colonized world and how did political movements in the colonized world respond?
4. Account for similarities and differences within the various cultural and artistic movements that emerged in between the World Wars. Could there be said to be a unique “interwar culture” that developed? Why or why not?
Part B: Answer one of the following two questions in essay format making specific and detailed reference to the material learned in this course. (15 marks)
1. Who or what was most to blame for the years 1914 to 1945 becoming, in the words of Eric Hobsbawm, an “age of catastrophe”?
2. What does World history from 1917 to 1945 tell us about the factors behind the success or failure of a political revolution?
3. How did the experience of “total war” transform societies in both the short and long terms? What were its lasting effects?
