HIST 102 Final, Spring 2008

History 102 Not To Be Taken Out Final Exam Reserve Reading FoOM Sections 2 & 3 Instructions: Answer fully any three of the following questions. 1. How did the Russian Social Revolutionary and the Menshevik parties differ in attitudes and programs from the Russian Social Democratic Labour party? 2. Explain the objectives and accomplishments of Stolypin and the reasons why both leftists and rightists were opposed to his reforms. 3. Explain the background, nature and results of the New Economic Policy. 4. What was the nature and significance of the “spirit of Locarno”; did the “spirit” and the treaties signed within its framework succeed in resolving fundamental issues in international affairs? 5. What were the structural and immediate causes of the Great Depression of 1929; and how did it affect the international and national economies? 6. What elements of dissatisfaction and unrest appeared in Italy after the First World War and how did Mussolini and the Fascists take advantage of the post-war problems? 7. Explain the problems with which the Weimar Republic had to contend while it lasted; and discuss how Hitler exploited German dissatisfaction with many post-war realities to seize power? 8. How did the Great Depression affect the chief European countries and why were its effect felt most strongly in Germany?