Exam 17: The Twentieth-Century Age of Extremes

There is a common belief that American individualism makes it impossible to build a socialist movement in the United States. In the early part of the 20ᵗʰ century this notion was challenged by

Japanese power by the late 19ᵗʰ and early 20ᵗʰ century was demonstrated by victories over

Mao Zedong's policies towards Chinese peasants was similar to Stalin's policies in the Soviet Union because by the 1930's Stalin had control over all the Communist parties around the world.

By the late 19ᵗʰ century trade policies became more protectionist except for

Describe the ways that the world revolution of 1917 occurred in the United States and discuss the causes and consequences of these events.

The socialist international that incorporated the widest mix of the political spectrum of the left was

One of the fruits of the globalization of industry at the end of the 19ᵗʰ century was

Discuss the conditions that induced the Germans to make war on two fronts in World War I.

Transnational social movements

Lenin explained imperialism by claiming that capitalists produced more products than the working class in core countries could consume. This drove capitalists to seek new markets in non-core countries.

It was the decision of the American Federation of Labor to join with the Industrial Workers of the World that created the "Big Red Scare" after World War I.

Discuss the role of the Round Table in the effort to preserve British hegemony.

The Catholic Church actively opposed the Mexican Revolution.

Cecil Rhodes organized a semi-secret elite of politicians, scholars and journalists into a group called the "Round Table." The Round Table organized media campaigns that promoted the notion of the superiority of the British way of life. Discuss how similar groups might be operating in the present period and give examples.

Discuss the functions of "social imperialism" for dealing with the contradictions of capitalist development that emerged in the 19ᵗʰ century.

Discuss how the iteration model of sociocultural evolution can be applied to what happened in the world-system during the first half of the 20ᵗʰ century.

The Communist International was always simply a tool of Soviet foreign policy.

Discuss the histories of the First, Second and Third Internationals in terms of the idea of global party formation.

By the early 20ᵗʰ century, the East Asian PMN had been incorporated into the Central PMN.

The first half of the 20ᵗʰ century is called the age of extremes because