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A History of the Modern World, 9/e

R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Democracy and Dictatorship

Learning Objectives

Chapter 20 teaches students about:

The Great Depression and the increasing demands for security that it triggered.

The advance of the welfare state and social democracy in many countries, and the rise of dictatorship and totalitarianism in others.

FDR's New Deal, which despite its critics, met the challenge of the economic crisis and reaffirmed American democracy.

British responses to the crisis, which included the rise of the Labour party, a partial settlement of the Irish question, and the definition of dominion status.

France's troubles with fascist tendencies, the formation of the Popular Front, and the perseverance of democracy in spite of internal divisions.

The fascist movement in Italy, its supporters, and the introduction of the corporative state under Mussolini.

Hitler's rise to power.

German susceptibility to Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism.

The policies of the Nazi state.

The origins and characteristics of totalitarianism.

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