Links to the Past: Course Sites for Dr. Christopher Lovett

updated as of 9 Feb 03

Announcements

Age of Revolutions Bibliography

Back to Iraq: The Search for Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction

Bioterrorism

Tony Blair's Dossier

Bush's Case Against Saddam

Bush's New National Security Strategy of the United States

Cloak & Dagger

Contemporary Terrorist Organizations

Coming War with Iraq?

Eisenhower Library Research Topics

Elderhostel Alumni News

Electronic News

George Kennan on Iraq

Harry and Ike Elderhostel

Holocaust News

How to Write an Essay

KSDE    Academy

Map of Islamic Terrorist Cells in the U.S.A.

Middle East

Middle East Bib  

Military Affairs

Palestinian Crisis

Pi Gamma Mu News

PowerPoint Notes

Reaction Papers

Situation in North Korea

TASK Information Updates

Terrorism Cybrary

Terrorism Filmography

Terrorism Glossary

War on Terrorism

Yahoo! Groups TASK Teachers

George Orwell's World

Big Brother Is Watching You!

Modern World Civilization

Handout Twelve

Topic: The World of George Orwell

OUTLINE:

XII. The World of George Orwell

A. Background.

B. The Wacky World of World War I.

C. The Russian Revolution.

D. Spread of the Bolshevism.

E. The Coming of Fascism.

F. Orwell’s World View.

 QUESTIONS:

1. What were the origins of World War I? How can we explain why so many people were killed for absolutely nothing?
2. Who was George Orwell? Did his background prepare him for the fame that he would obtain later in life? What was the message that he was attempting to warn people about the dangers of totalitarianism?
3. In Animal Farm, Orwell uses a child’s tale to depict the evils of Stalinism. What do you see that is similar to real events that took place during the 1920s and 1930s in Russia? Explain.
4. What did Germany lose in World War I? How did that contribute to the coming of World War II?
5. What did Stalin want to do for Russia? How did Lenin and Trotsky perceive him? How did Stalin gain power and keep it for so long? Explain.
6. How did the Communist Party seek to expand the power of the Soviet Union? What role did the COMINTERN play in that process?
7. In 1923 few people would believe that Hitler could come to power? How did he do it? Why was he so successful?
8. What were Hitler’s goals for his new Germany?
9. Why did the British adopt appeasement in the 1930s? Did appeasement avert the coming of World War II? How did the Second World War begin in Europe? Explain.

 TERMS:

 Caudillo                          NSDAP                            Falange

COMINTERN                Anschluss                            Francisco Franco

Stalin                              Sudeten Crisis                     Weimar Republic

Purges                            Munich Agreement              Fourteen Points

Collectivization              Beerhall Putsch                    Mein Kampf

CHEKA                          SS/SA                                  Sergei Kirov

V. I. Lenin                      Hoare-Leval Agreement      Trotsky