University
of New Mexico/Fall Semester 2016
History
300, Section 012: History of Fascism
Professor E. A.
Sanabria
Final
Exam Study Guide
Examination
Notes:
The exam will take place on Tuesday, 13 December 2016 in Dane Smith Room 333, from
10:00AM to Noon. Blue book(s) are
required so purchase some today at Dane’s Deli (downstairs), the Bookstore or
the SUB’s Mercado. The exam is a
closed-book, closed-laptops, and closed notes.
Whereas the first exam (i.e the midterm)
focused primarily on the pre-WWI and interwar context primarily in Germany and
Italy, this exam focuses on the second half of our course and specifically,
fascism, fascistic, proto-fascist, or pseudo-fascist regimes and movements in
Europe and beyond not only in the interwar years but also during World War II. The exam constitutes twenty-five (25%) per
cent of your final grade. One important
thing to remember is that the best exams show a distinctive and advanced level
of sophistication and organization. You
should strive to go beyond regurgitating information from lectures and readings
to try to write cogent and convincing essays.
Examination
Format: The exam is divided
into two parts.
In
Part One (30%), you will be provided a bank of
about seven or eight key terms from the second half of the course. You are to prepare a short paragraph answer
identifying and explicating the significance of five (6) and only six of those
terms. I will only terms since the Tuesday, 18 October 2016 lecture and
later. For a list of the key words,
collect them from the course lecture outlines:
http://www.unm.edu/~sanabria/lectureoutlines.htm
In
Part Three (2 essays, 35% each for a
total of 70%), Three (3) of the following essay prompts will appear on the
exam, and you are to write a cogent, well-organized, synthetic essay for two
(2) of the prompts you choose. Make sure that you write essays that:
·
Provide
appropriate, explicitly stated theses that directly address all parts of the
question and DO NOT simply restate the question. Not having a thesis will be
terribly damaging to getting a good score on this part of the exam. One cannot understate the importance of a
good thesis statement that crystallizes your arguments and sets the essay’s
agenda.
·
While
you will not have access to your books (but you can use your notes), do,
wherever possible, allude to arguments, examples, or sources you recall from
our readings, and the presentations you delivered to each other after the
Thanksgiving Break.
·
Uses
a good network of topic sentences that organize your paragraphs and refer back
to the thesis statement.
These
are the possible essays that will appear on the exam:
1) Perhaps
one of the most amazing things that can be said about fascism is that it
succeeded in bringing various groups together for its cause in a way no other
movement could at that time. Make and defend a claim about what fascism offered
three (3) of the following groupings during the interwar years and World War II
and why your groups became “fascisized”:
Women Workers Businesses/Corporations Land Owning Elites
Military
Personnel Nationalists Christians/Catholics Youths/Students
The
Petty Bourgeoisie
Be
sure to be as specific as possible in your answers that include specific
national contexts (Czechoslovakia, Spain, Hungary, for
example) and groupings/organizations/programs (The Cross de Feu, Sección Femenina, OMNI).
2) So
you are at a party and asked to define fascism and the possibility that fascism
exists beyond 1945. Make and defend a claim in which you establish what is mean
by fascism based on the readings you have done this semester, or conversely,
make and defend a claim as to why there cannot be one definition of
fascism/why there cannot be fascism beyond 1945.
3) Make
and defend a claim about the relationship between Nazism, and specifically Nazi
anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust not strictly defined or confined to German
controlled space (Germany, German concentration and death camps, etc.).
Specifically, what explains the developments of 10 November 1941 which Jan T.
Gross discussed in his Neighbors,
given that the atrocities were perpetrated not by Nazis nor by Poles acting
upon orders from the Germans/Nazis/Einsatzgruppen
who had “liberated” the village and region from the Soviet Union.
4) Make
and defend a claim about the Franco and Salazar Dictatorships being “fascist.”
Were these Iberian dictatorships fascist at all, and if so, what were the
elements of these regimes that defined them as fascist? Conversely, if the
Iberian dictatorships were not fascist, what were they? What were the elements
in Iberia and Iberian history that prevented the flourishing of a fascism like
that we saw in either Germany or Italy?
5) Make
and defend a claim about fascism in traditional Liberal democratic nations
where it appears fascism failed—specifically Britain, France, and the United
States. What were the elements of
fascism in democratic/liberal nations?
What were the contexts in these nations that lent themselves to the rise
of fascist, proto-fascist, or pseudo-fascist movements? Conversely, what were
the elements in democratic/liberal nations that prevented the flourishing of
fascism like we see in either
6) Make
and defend a claim about fascism in Eastern Europe where there was no tradition
of Liberal democracy, and there appeared to be significant segments of the
population who were sympathetic and enthusiastic about fascism, especially
Nazism and its anti-Semitic beliefs. What were the elements of fascism in
various Eastern European nations in the interwar period? What were the contexts
in these nations that lent themselves to the rise of fascist, proto-fascist, or
pseudo-fascist movements? Conversely, what were the elements in Eastern
European nations that prevented the flourishing of fascism like we see in
either