After you've read each chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Discuss Europe's changing place in international politics after World War I;
- Assess mass society's contribution to personal and cultural values;
- Explain how and why priorities changed in Russia's communist regime;
- Analyze why Italy turned to fascism;
- Assess the problems facing democratic developments in East and Central Europe, particularly in Germany;
- Compare and contrast the ideologies and expressions of Fascism and Communism;
- Analyze the impact of social, political, and economic change upon the art
and literature of the 1920s.