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Unit 2 Comparison – the Content What Do You
Have to Read and Use If You Select Consumerism Topic? What Do You Have to Read and Use If You Select the
Fascism Topic? Reminder: the Comparison Topics and the Instructions are in the link above this link in the folder. |
Caution: For the Unit
2 Comparison, each possible Comparison Topic has a separate introduction and a
separate chart showing what to read.
Comparison
Topic: Compare
consumerism in the first years of the 1900s with consumerism just before the Great
Depression.
Also explain how was a consumer economy vulnerable to
the Great Depression?
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Parts of This Comparison Topic |
What You Read |
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Beginnings
of Consumerism through the 1920s |
Required
Preparation: Read with care how workers’ pay was essential to
make consumerism work: ·
See Chapter 21
under the heading “Social and Cultural Change in the Wilson Years.” ·
Notice the chart
on the “Model T Ford” and the subheading ”Automobiles
for a Mass Market.” Also, look in the index for consumerism and you will find pages 517 to 518. |
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Required
Preparation: Use the Snapshot in the Resources for Reading Quiz
E to see consumer patterns, including an increase in leisure. |
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Consumerism
and the Great Depression |
Required
Preparation: Also, look in the index for consumerism and you will find page 629. |
Comparison
Topic: Compare the
German War Guilt clause at the end of World War I with the other forces that
lead to the rise of fascism in 1920s and 1930s.
Also explain how the German War Guild clause and the rise of fascism are
connected with the Munich Agreement.
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Parts of This Comparison Topic |
What You Read |
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Beginnings
of fascism with the treaty that ends World War I |
Required
Preparation: Read with care the background for the German War Guilt
clause, look in Chapter 22: ·
heading “The
Terms of the Peace” ·
heading “Wilson
and the Treaty of Versailles.” It also is on p. 665: look for the words "to
avenge the 'humiliation of Versailles." |
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The
rise of fascism and its key characteristics, including racism |
Required
Preparation: For Fascism, look in Chapter 25, heading “The
Fascist Challenge” (pages 665 to 667). |
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The
spread of fascism at the end of the 1930s |
Required
Preparation: For Fascism, look in Chapter 25, heading “Losing
Ground” (pages 674 to 675). |