World war I causesMilitarism: armies were growing quickly thanks to mass conscription
Aliances: Triple alliance and triple entente. Both sides are becoming suspisous and antagonistic of one another
Imperialism: New tension over who gets which colonies
Nationalism: Military leaders began to think that war was an acceptable way of bringing glory to their state
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Spanish civil warThe spanish army opposed the popular front. A general named Francisco Franco led a violent uprising against the popular front. Which led to a civil war. Represented a kind of testing ground for WWII, while Hitler and Mussolini supported Franco, western democracies did little to help the popular front.
AppeasementJust give Hitler what he wants and keep the peace.
February revolutionFactory workers, many of whom were women, protested the cost of food like bread.
New military technologyMachine guns, Chemical weapons, and other brutal new technologies led to trench warfare.
Mussolini & Hitler's secret police that made dissent a fearful prospect
Great depression causesWar debt: European countries had no money and were forced to borrow from the United States.
Nationalistic tariff policies
Overproduction: When the war ended, demand for military goods dropped significantly
Financial speculation
U.S stock market collapsed.
Russian civil war
Total warWhen all of the resources of a state, from the state level to the average people are leveraged to fight a war.
Women's rights during warWomen joined the military and supported the war effort, this directly led to women gaining the right to vote about 30 years later.
Assasination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914
Stalemate is brokenThe U.S enters the war and it's massive industrial capacity and the british invention of tanks tipped the balance of power against germany and the triple alliance.
Age of anxiety
Soviet union new economic policyPeasant farmers were no longer required to send their produce to the state and could sell it on the open market. Lenin permitted private ownership of small businesses. Lenin cut corners and didn't follow the original plan for the communist government.
Treaty of versailles
Easter rebellionIreland wanted to be independent from britain. Although Britian had passed a home-rule bill, they put it on pause during the war. Ireland thought they were backtracking and so on easter sunday in 1916, Irish rebels began fighting british soldiers, who eventually put the rebellion down.
Pact of steelGermany, Italy, and later Japan formed an alliance and became known as the Axis Powers. Western democracies viewed this as an existential threat
World war one spreads
Bolshevik troops storm the winter palaceThey stormed the provisional government's headquarters and now the communists are now in control of Russia
Miles of trenches were dug and fortified with barbed wire, and when one side decided to launch an offensive, they would charge out of their trenche, get mowed down by machine gun fire, and then retreat. Led to stalemates
Fascism grows in eastern europeThe treaty of Versailles established many new parliamentary democracies like Poland and yugoslavia, which struggled during the problems of the inter-war period. Fascist leaders gained power because people wanted a strong leader to solve all their problems.
Spanish popular front
Russian revolution
Five year plan
French popular frontA coalition of left-wing parties whose main objective was preventing the rise of communism or fascism in france
Pan-Slavism
FascismA system of government characterized by extreme paternalistic, militaristic nationalism in which the interests of the people are subordinated to the interests of the state and its leader. Was appealing because of all the post-war crisis
April theses
Tzar Nicholas
Benito Mussolini
Spanish popular frontThe economic and political turmoil sent spain into a tailspin. Their parliamentary democracy collapsed
and the popular front took control. Represented the interests of workers and communists.
Bolshevik troops storm the winter palace
Mussolini & Hitler's secret police that made dissent a fearful prospect
Mandate systemEntente alliance promised the middle east independence after the war. However "they thought they weren't ready for independence" and they wanted oil, so they kept running them anyway
The spanish army opposed the popular front. A general named Francisco Franco led a violent uprising against the popular front. Which led to a civil war. Represented a kind of testing ground for WWII, while Hitler and Mussolini supported Franco, western democracies did little to help the popular front.
Pan-SlavismA growing nationalistic fever in which all of the slavic nations felt they ought to be under the one leadership of Russia. Helps explain why Russia got involved when Austria declares war on Serbia
Russian revolutionIn Russia, world war I exacerbated long-term problems of political stagnation, social inequality, incomplete industrialization, and food and land distribution, which altogether had the effect of engendering widespread support for revolutionary change.
FascismA system of government characterized by extreme paternalistic, militaristic nationalism in which the interests of the people are subordinated to the interests of the state and its leader. Was appealing because of all the post-war crisis
Miles of trenches were dug and fortified with barbed wire, and when one side decided to launch an offensive, they would charge out of their trenche, get mowed down by machine gun fire, and then retreat. Led to stalemates
Frozen!
Frozen!
Easter rebellionIreland wanted to be independent from britain. Although Britian had passed a home-rule bill, they put it on pause during the war. Ireland thought they were backtracking and so on easter sunday in 1916, Irish rebels began fighting british soldiers, who eventually put the rebellion down.
Women's rights during warWomen joined the military and supported the war effort, this directly led to women gaining the right to vote about 30 years later.
After Lenin, Joseph Stalin took power. After consolidating party power under himself, he implemented a five year plan with the goal to rapidly industrialize the soviet union. Much like Lenin, Stalin skipped crucial steps, like providing housing. People would rather starve than farm for the government.
The U.S enters the war and it's massive industrial capacity and the british invention of tanks tipped the balance of power against germany and the triple alliance.
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Tzar NicholasUpset at all the chaos from the February revolution while he was busy in world war I, ordered his troops to put down the protests. Instead, his troops joined them and the tzar lost control of the Military.
Militarism: armies were growing quickly thanks to mass conscription
Aliances: Triple alliance and triple entente. Both sides are becoming suspisous and antagonistic of one another
Imperialism: New tension over who gets which colonies
Nationalism: Military leaders began to think that war was an acceptable way of bringing glory to their state
New military technologyMachine guns, Chemical weapons, and other brutal new technologies led to trench warfare.
April theses
Total warWhen all of the resources of a state, from the state level to the average people are leveraged to fight a war.
Boost!
Boost!
Benito Mussolini
Pact of steel
Russia, in defense of it's slavic ally, mobilized its forces against Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary, seeing an opportunity to weaken Bosnian influence in the Balkans decided to intervene. They called on Germany to assist them. This drags the rest of the alliance system into the conflict.
A coalition of left-wing parties whose main objective was preventing the rise of communism or fascism in france
AppeasementJust give Hitler what he wants and keep the peace.
Peasant farmers were no longer required to send their produce to the state and could sell it on the open market. Lenin permitted private ownership of small businesses. Lenin cut corners and didn't follow the original plan for the communist government.
Great depression causesWar debt: European countries had no money and were forced to borrow from the United States.
Nationalistic tariff policies
Overproduction: When the war ended, demand for military goods dropped significantly
Financial speculation
U.S stock market collapsed.
Fascism grows in eastern europe
Assasination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914As he and his wife were being paraded around Bosnia, a Serbian nationalist shot him. Austria gave the serbian government an ultimatum, which would require taking responsibility for the assassination. Since they refused to do that, austria declares war on Serbia
Factory workers, many of whom were women, protested the cost of food like bread.
Treaty of versailles
Age of anxiety2 world wars, nuclear bombs, and scientific advancements that shattered accepted beliefs made everyone nervous.