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Chapters 23 & 24 & 25 – Age of Progress, Age of Modernity/Anxiety/Imperialism, and 20th Century Crisis: War & Revolution
Essential Questions:
Ch 23: The Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871-1894
1. What was the Second Industrial Revolution, and what effects did it have on European economic and social life?
2. What roles did socialist parties and trade unions play in improving conditions for the working classes?
3. What is a mass society, and what were its main characteristics?
4. What role were women expected to play in society and family life in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and how
closely did patterns of family life correspond to this ideal?
5. What general political trends were evident in the nations of western Europe in the last decades of the nineteenth century,
and how did these trends differ from the policies pursued in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia?
6. What was the relationship among economic, social, and political developments between 1871 and 1894?
Ch 24: An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914
1. What developments in science, intellectual affairs, and the arts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries “opened
the way to a modern consciousness
2. What difficulties did women, Jews and working classes face in the late nine=tenth centuries?
3. What political problems did Great Britain, Italy, France, Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Russia face between 1894-1914, and
how did they solve them?
4. What effects did European imperialism have on Africa and Asia?
5. What issues lay behind the international crises that Europe faced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
6. What is the connection between the “new imperialism” of the late nine-teenth century and underlying causes for World War I?
Ch 25: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution
1. What were the long-range and immediate causes of WWI?
2. What did the belligerents expect at the beginning of World War I, and why did the course of the war turn out to be so
different from their expectations?
3. How did WWI affect the belligerents’ governmental and political institutions, economic affairs, and social life?
4. What were the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and why did the Bolsheviks prevail in the civil war and gain control
of Russia?
5. What were the objectives of the chief participants at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and how closely did the final
settlement reflect these objectives?
6. What was the relationship between WWI and the Russian Revolution?
Thurs 2/1 Masses, Masses, Masses 1. Compare 1st & 2nd Read p. 701-710
or Industrial Revolutions
Fri 2/2 2. Discuss the ‘Masses’
Tues 2/6 The Nation State 1. Discuss New Nations Read p. 710-721
or
Wed 2/7
Thurs 2/8 Toward Modern Consciousness 1. Discuss Freud and Art Read p. 723-729
or
Fri 2/9
Thurs 2/22 1. How WWI was fought 1. Discuss Course of the War Read p. 764-780
or 2. Doc Analysis (poetry corner)
Fri 2/23