AP Euro (Period 2)

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Terms For Renaissance passed out today (9/3) 1st lecture, primary resource Christine Pizan
-Sept 5 Notes Humanism and Primary Resource-Baldesarre Castiglione (questions)

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April Calendar

Guys.....April is going to be an incredibly BUSY month. This is it, though! Lot's of writing and assessing. Hang in there. We are ALMOST done! Review sessions will be every Saturday upon return from Break. Two Lunches a week.

Fascism V Communism Chart

This might be helpful. Remember. Communism is EXTREME left wing. Fascism is EXTREME right wing. Both hate one another. Laborers, the poor, the intellectuals would often turn to the left whereas the conservative class, industrialists, middle class, the Church would turn to the Right. They had EVERYTHING to lose by a communist victory. 
 
---Leon Blum will get elected to lead the Third Rep. He is LEFT Wing and represents the "Popular Front." (Note, anytime/everytime you see "popular front" think left wing. Anytime/everytime you see "national front" think Right wing). He promotes many reforms for the people of France. Two week paid vacation, the right to form unions AND strike. The ability to go on vacation is transformative for so many. Many workers in the interior of France had never seen their country. NOW they could go. Lot's of fun pictures/postcards of French people playing in an Ocean they would have NEVER seen before. Of course, the old conservative class will be annoyed by all of this. PAID VACATION!!!??? Right to strike? New demands for workers?!!!!!  When the Nazi's defeat France, many on the right are happy to "collaborate" with the occupying power. "Better to be ruled by Hitler than governed by Blum!" 
 
*********SPorts!!! The fascists will use sports to show the glory of the nation, the superiority of their people. Sports in countries like France will be to create a better, well rounded person. Also, as war between Germany and the West is becoming clearer, it'll serve to better prepare young men to be conditioned physically and mentally. 

Extra Credit II

The NEXT two people to respond this QUESTION will receive TWO extra credit assessment points. 
 
Contrast the Roundheads with the Cavaliers. Which side were the Puritans part of? Who will ultimately lead the Roundheads and "remove" King Charles from power? 
 
Were the Dutch Intolerant? 
 
 

Extra Credit?

The first  three students to respond will receive 2 extra credit ASSESSMENT points. 
In your own words...."Tell me the motivation of the Revolutions of 1848." YOUR words, not the internet or textbook words. 
 
--What was Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon's relationship? What effect did this relationship have in England? GO.

9th Graders! Chapter 9a Available

Prospective ninth grade AP European history students. Attached is CHAPTER 9 reading. You will be required to take a mandatory Multiple Choice test upon return from Spring Break. That date will be given to you at lunch meeting Tuesday, March 31. Part B is a separate Attachment ******IT IS YOUR responsibility to print this, annotate, READ, and be ready. Please, do NOT wait 'til the last minute. You will not pass the test if you . 

1920'sPolitics part I

The economy following WWI will be bad. Socialist movements through Europe are really going to be hampered. Remember, Social Democrats in GERMANY and French Socialists SUPPORTED the war. The Communists of course did
 
not. As the '20's go on, there becomes a great difference between the two. Socialists are about reform the political system. Supporting unions and union
 
membership while at the same time promoting SOCIAL reform. Schools, social
 
services, housing. The Communists are supporting of class revolution. Overthrowing the current system and replacing it wholly. Communism, and it's supporters, will build after the war. NOT in ENGLAND, though. The Labour Party will remain popular with the people. 
 
*************In Germany, the 1848 flag of black, red, gold is back for the Weimar Repbulic.
 
All kinds of challenges faced the Weimar rep. From both the far
 
Right(conservative, nationalistic, military-Freikorps) and far Left(communists,
 
internationalists) The economy will be terrible. Right wing groups like the
 
National Socialists(Nazi's) will gain a voice. Germany won't be able to meet it's
 
reparations payment to France. France will move to occupy Germany's Ruhr
 
Valley (it's industrial center) To pay the reparations, Germany just PRINTED
 
PAPER MONEY! Causing terrible, awful inflation. 
MORE to come. 

Know This!

For the future! the 1920's are a mess. From the end of the war until 1924 you'll have the emergence of FAR RIGHT governments(these will eventually be
 
known as Fascist govts). These nations are angry. So many young men killed. The socialists, who counted many of their members as Jewish, had created the Weimar Rep which officially ended Germany's roll in the war. This will have consequences
 
FAR LEFT govt(communist) have won in Russia. The czar abdicated. The
 
provisional govt, led by Kerensky wants to keep fighting. The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin say "land, peace, bread!" let's end this war. Brest Litovsk ends it. 
 
Lenin was so confused as to why socialists and other radicals had supported
 
war in the first place. He knew, as did all marxists, that Imperialism should be
 
the last step in a final revolution. However, socialists in Germany and France ,
 
and Russia will say "we HAVE to fight." Lenin calls them Defensists. They want
 
to "defend" their country from the enemy. Lenin counts himself as an
 
Internationalist. His theory of radical socialism in NOT NATIONALISTIC, it's
 
INTERNATIONALISTIC. ALL workers, EVERYWHERE, should revolt. this would end nations state. A dictatorship BY the communist party over the proletariat Should emerge. 
 
Key guys: Lenin, Trotsky(snowball:)) and Stalin  Fascists are ULTRA nationalists, xenophobic, racist, militarristic. They HATE COMMUNISTS more than anyone. Communists HATE THEM, too. 
 
National SOcialism(Nazism) is not "socialist" in the sense we've been speaking
 
of. It is "socialist" in the Germany sense. The pension/social security plan \
 
created by Bismarck is cool, according to them. The state should focus on building an army to
 
protect the nation. National pride, militarism, parades, uniform, all glory to the state. Parliaments stink. They are WEAK. a strong leader is needed. (Hitler, Mussolini) The weak should disappear. Social darwinism.
 
ALWAYS EMAIL IF YOU HAVE questions, comments. ANYTIME. Onward! To MAY!!

DBQ SAMPLES FROM E.C. Session

I uploaded as PDF a few of the samples from the DBQ we worked on last week. I hope that this helps! I will update website with some reading notes later. REMEMBER! The Treaty of Versailles ENDS wwi. GERMANY! defeated, PUNISHED, HUMILIATED!

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Germany, Aust/Hung, Ottoman Emp V GB, France, Russia
---Militarism HUGE
Russia defeat in Russo-Japanese war(remember, this'll lead to a revolution in 1905 in Russia) made them less threatening so GB not too worried about them.
 
they are, however, annoyed by Germany. Kruger Tel, Building navy. France and gb grow friendly."Entente Cordial'
 
 Moroccan Crisis. The kaiser supports independence for morocco FURTHER annoying France. It'll happen a again a few years later
 
Serbs are Slavic. Russians are the protector of Slavs. Lots of slav i Austrian Hung empire. Serbia is a slavic nation. Lots of Serbs in Bosnia Herzegovina. BH was located w/in Austro Hung Empire. The Russians like the idea of Pan Slavism.
They support NATIONALISTIC movements by Slavs (serbs, in this case in BH) to break away. NATIONALISTIC groups will emerge wanted a unified Serbia w BH included in it, AustriaHung GONE!. Serbian Nationalist will kill the Archduke (prince) of Austria Hung Empire. Germany, who was allied with AH essentially give AH a "blank check." Do WHATEVER you want! Russia, mobilizes it's troops to protect Serbia. Germany then mobilizes to protect AH. 
 
France mobilizes. REMEMBER! France hates Germany, they wanted Alsace
 
Lorraine Back. Plan XVII (that's the name of their plan!) called for France to take AlsaceLorraine then "off to berlin!" That easy, right?!
 
Germany, Schlieffen Plan. Attack France by invaded NEUTRAL Belgium to
 
Frances North. England said "don't do it." Germany will do it. Germans didn't think British would fight over a "Scrap of Paper" (Scrap of paper being agreement decades earlier granting Belgian neutrality. ) The British would never let the Germans THAT close. Belgium is a short boat ride across the Channel. 

War is on. Fighting on the Western Front results in a stalemate. Trenches are built. 
 
 
 
 

Max Weber, Protestant Work Ethich

Another sociologist. Perhaps after Comte, THE greatest sociologist of the late
 
19th century. Weber coins the term "protestant work ethic." He "observes" that
 
protestant nations, most notably those that adopted Calvinistic ideals, had the
 
greatest and most advanced economies in the world. Catholic nations like
 
austria, spain, italy, and even france were behind the Protestant nations. The
 
concept relates back to Calvin. It is pleasing to God to work hard. Catholics can
 
go to a priest for forgiveness. Protestant have to pray directly to God. Not
 
knowing, many will endeavor to work hard. HARD work and the attainment of
 
wealth showed that God was pleased. Many, wanting more wealth, RE-invested
 
it. It was this entrepreneurial spirit, the spirit of HARD work that drove these
 
protestant nations to economic super power status. IT was the protestant work
 
ethic that created CAPITALISM! Not the emergence of the bourgeoisie as
 
Marx's dialectic would say. Weber and Marx contrast one another
 
 
So..whereas Catholics worried (often) about economic inequality and helping poor, for Calvinists, the concept of pre destination had already determine who was going to hell or heaven; so, why bother? 
****BTW!! Marx and Lenin believed IMPERIAlISM was the final stage of capitalism. NEW MARKETS!