1. Years of Crisis Ch.31 Review

2. 1. What is the main idea of the philosophy existentialism? 2. How did Sigmund Freud's ideas weaken faith in reason? 3. What impact did the radio have after the war? 4. What effect did World War I have on the literature of the 1920s? 5. What were Franz Kafka, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all known for being? 6. What effect did the Dawes Plan have on the economy of postwar Germany? 7. Why did coalition governments usually prove unstable? 8. Why did millions of German's turn against the leaders of the Weimer Republic? 9. What caused German’s to start taking Adolf Hitler’s message seriously? 10. Why did Hitler target the Jews as scapegoats for all of Germany’s troubles?

3. 11. What was the policy of appeasement? 12. Why did Japan invade Manchuria? 13. What effect did the nonaggression pact between the Germans and the Soviets have on the balance of power in Europe? 14. The Munich Conference came to symbolize the dangers of what? 15. In what ways were Germany, Italy and Japan similar in the 1930s? 16. How was Japan different from its allies Germany and Italy? 17. What fear added to the appeal of fascism in Italy and Germany? 18. What beliefs does fascism stress? 19. What were the art movements of the early 20 th century? 20. What damaged the U.S. economy during the 1920s?