AP European History Essay Assignment--Choose one of the following and write a well organized and supported essay on it. Due in class Next Tuesday You must include at least one source from beyond your textbooks in this essay. Make sure to include footnotes and a bibliography if appropriate. 1. Discuss and explain the reason that the German experiment with democracy, the Weimar Republic, failed. Why was Hitler able to get power in Germany and then turn the country into a Nazi tyranny? 2. Explain the reasons, factors and conditions in Italy that allowed Mussolini to come to power and create the first Fascist regime in Europe. 3. “For the great mass of the Russian people the years 1928 through 1938 were in reality the true revolutionary period in Russia. 1917 was the year of the Russian Revolution but in truth the period between 1928 and 1938 was when most Russians experienced actual ‘revolutionary changes." Assess the validity of this statement with regard to the history of revolutionary Change in Russia. 4. Discuss and explain the part played and relative importance of Lenin and Trotsky in the Bolshevik seizure and consolidation of power in Russia between 1917- 1921. 5, Analyze and explain the part played by the policy of appeasement in bringing on The outbreak of World War II. 6. Discuss and explain the reasons that the Great Depression happened in the United States and Europe. Evaluate how successful France, the United States and England were in devising policies to overcome the economic problems created by the Great Depression. X-credit--- 3 pts. each 1. List 5 ways that you would improve the Paris Peace Settlement of 1919. 2. List the reasons democracy failed in the successor states of eastern and central Europe.
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