Week of Jan. 17-20

Jan. 17/18

1. Conclude Animal Farm

• Alternate Assignment for Animal Farm: p. 459 Question #2 Writing About History (5 paragraph essay)

2. Lenin to Stalin (Notes on Ch. 14 Sec. 2 click on Stalin's name)

• Stalin: Most Evil Men in History

3. Totalitarian Dictatorship

Jan. 19/20
**Quiz on Ch. 14 sec 1
**Conclude Lenin to Stalin
1. Age of Uncertainty Notes
2. Person of the Decade Power Point Project

7.1. The Russian Revolution began as a result of oppressive rule, social inequalities, and ruthless treatment of peasants. Czar Nicholas II continued the czarist firm rule, but began a program to build Russian Industries.

7.2. Although there was industrial progress in Russia, working conditions and exploited workers looked toward revolutionary movements.

7.3. Between 1904 and 1917, the Czar and Russia faced a series of crises that revealed the czar’s weakness and paved the way for revolution.

7.4. After returning from exile, Lenin and the Bolsheviks gained control of Russia and began to rebuild a new nation.

7.5. After the death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin seized control and transformed the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state.

7.6. Up to WWI, society believed the Enlightenment ideals that progress should continue and reason would prevail.  The horrors of WWI changed the way people viewed the world through literature, art and intellectual life.

7.7. Also, the horrors of WWI lead to disillusionment in the arts.

7.8. WWI impacted the politics and economies of nations in Europe and in America.

7.9. The economic crisis of the Great Depression led to the loss of democracy in some countries.  In Germany, people turned to strong ruler, Adolf Hitler, to try to solve their economic problems.

7.10. Social unrest and disappointment in the Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of Mussolini and Fascism in Italy.

7.11. Dictators took control of other European countries; only in nations with strong democratic traditions (Britain, France, and the Scandinavian countries) did democracy survive.

7.12. Fascism/Nazism and Communism are two different totalitarian political systems with some common characteristics.