Unit 2 Comparison – the Content

What Are Your Possible Topics to Compare? (This is repeated from the Instructions Link.)

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. This comparison also includes videos you may cite.

What Are Your Possible Topics to Compare? (This is repeated from the Instructions Link.)

Requirements for each of the things—all provided in this module--that you may compare:

 

In each of these 2 choices, make sure you meet the listed requirements above:

 

  1. 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?

  1. 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 Guilt clause and the rise of fascism are connected with the Munich Agreement.

What Do You Have to Read and Use If You Select Consumerism Topic?

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?

 

Parts of This Comparison Topic

What You Read

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.

 

 

Required Preparation: Use the Snapshot in the Resources for Reading Quiz E to see consumer patterns, including an increase in leisure.

Consumerism and the Great Depression

Required Preparation: Also, look in the index for consumerism and you will find page 629.

 

You may also use and cite these videos placed at the bottom of in Unit 2:

·         In the folder “A War to End All Wars,” the video “The Great Migration” – Compared to the harder times in the South, the North offered opportunity for African American workers.

·         In the folder “Modern Times: The 1920s,” the video “The Business of America” – The person you see at the beginning is Charlie Chaplin and his showing how it felt to be a “cog in the machine.” Also, watch for the term Fordism.

·         In the folder “Modern Times: The 1920s,” the video “The Harlem Renaissance”

·         In the folder “The Great Depression,” the video “Something is radically wrong”

 

There are additional videos that may be useful to you. Ask if you need help.

What Do You Have to Read and Use If You Select the Fascism Topic?

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.

 

 

Parts of This Comparison Topic

What You Read

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."

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).

 

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).

 

 

You may also use and cite these videos placed at the bottom of in Unit 2 or in the location specified:

·         In the folder “A War to End All Wars,” the video “Over there”

·         In the folder “The Great Depression,” the video “Something is radically wrong”

·         In the folder “The Road to War,” the video “A Common Purpose” (This video is in the Comparison folder itself.)


There are additional videos that may be useful to you. Ask if you need help. Although it is painful to watch and it is about the aftermath of the war, the videos include one on the Holocaust and racism.

 

 

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