Twentieth Century Europe - HIST 336 Resource Guide

Study of human genetics and of methods to improve the inherited characteristics, physical and mental, of the human race. Efforts to improve the human race through bettering housing facilities and other environmental conditions are known as euthenics.

"Fascism" was the ideology of the movement that, under the leadership of Benito Mussolini, seized power in Italy in 1922 and held power until the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II. Mussolini was a socialist until 1915, and fascism is a paradoxical but potent mixture of extreme socialist, or syndicalist, notions with a Hegelian or idealist theory of the state.

An overview of history from World War I to the present from the Concise Atlas of World History

Despite the unevenness of the economic impact of the Great Depression of 1929–1939 on western Europe, it inaugurated the most intense economic, political, and social crisis that this region, the birthplace of modern capitalism, had experienced in more than 400 years. As a result of the Great Depression, millions of workers lost their jobs.

Violent upheaval in Russia in 1917 that overthrew the czarist government.

n 1918 - 1919, the worst flu in recorded history killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. The U.S. death toll was 675,000 - five times the number of U.S. soldiers killed in World War I. Where did the 1918 flu come from? Why was it so lethal? What did we learn?