1-2 Paragraph response for each!
1. Compare the structure of Western societies before World War I with the structure of Western societies in the 1930s. How did the war and the economic crisis of the 1920s and 1930s change the role of the state?
2. What made the rise of mass culture possible between 1910 and the 1930s? Why did mass culture often become synonymous with national culture?
3. Explore the development of authoritarian political systems during the 1920s and 1930s. What factors encouraged its rise? What did the governments that emerged in Italy, Germany, Japan, and the U.S.S.R. have in common with one another? What differences existed among them?
4. Compare the development of Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk with the development of Brazil under Getulio Vargas. What changes were made in each country, and why? To what global events were they responding?
5. Describe the evolution of anticolonial activism during the first part of the twentieth century. What distinguished anticolonial nationalism and modernism from those which developed in other parts of the world, and why? What visions did anticolonial activists have for their future?