1929-1949• Great Depression• Populism• Japanese Empire & Chinese Civil
War• Soviet economic model• World War II: Total War &
Genocide• Gender: Feminism Stalled in the
West• Colonialism
The Roaring 20s for the Victors
• Post-WWI: Loosening the Hold on Tradition• Consumerism• Women• Mass Media
The Great Depression: Failure of Capitalism?
The Great Depression: Exploitation & Vulnerability
Democratic Government Reactions
• Increased tariffs & failure of League of Nations
• Populism & Growth of Governments• New Deal• Fascism & Authoritarianism
The New Deal: United States
Growing Militarism: Japan
Growing Imperialism: Japan
Soviet Economic Model
3 Groups:
• Describe the POV of the source in one or two sentences.
• Use SOAPSTone to explain how these documents help us understand Stalinism.
World War II: Two fronts
Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
aka “Asia for Asians!”
WWII Atrocities: Holocaust
“Nobody remembers…” – Hitler
WWII Atrocities: Holocaust
WWII Atrocities: The Rape of Nanking & Comfort Women
WWII Atrocities: Rape of Nanking & Comfort Women
WWII Atrocities: Civil Liberties
End of WWII: World is scarred, both literally and in its psyche
“The First [World War] teaches us never to rush into a fight, the Second never to back down from a bully.”
-- Adam GopnikAmerican writer