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Traditions and Encounters Book Cover
Traditions and Encounters, 2/e
Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawai'i
Herbert F. Ziegler, University of Hawai'i
AN AGE OF ANXIETY

Essay Quiz



1

Explain how new discoveries in physics and psychology undermined earlier ideas about reality and knowledge. Why were these new ideas so unsettling? How were these ideas represented in western art between the wars?
2

Compare the experience of the Great Depression between the industrial nations and the primary producing nations. What parts of the world were most affected and what parts were least affected? What would be the economic explanation for this difference?
3

Compare the economic strategies embedded in Lenin's war communism, his New Economic Policy, and Stalin's Five-Year Plan. What were the aims of each program? Which was most effective?








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