Great depression causes War 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.
Frozen!
Frozen!
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Boost!
Black/Brown shirts Mussolini & Hitler's secret police that made dissent a fearful prospect
2 world wars, nuclear bombs, and scientific advancements that shattered accepted beliefs made everyone nervous.
Russian revolution
Spanish popular front The 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.
World war I causes 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
Russian civil war The aristocracy wasn't happy about a peasant revolution. Collaborated with western countries to fight the bolsheviks with a massive army. Communists organized the army and used nationalistic sentiment to drive the western countries out. Russia becomes the Soviet Union.
Germany, Italy, and later Japan formed an alliance and became known as the Axis Powers. Western democracies viewed this as an existential threat
Trench warfare 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 europe
Easter rebellion
February revolution Factory workers, many of whom were women, protested the cost of food like bread.
Pan-Slavism A 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
When all of the resources of a state, from the state level to the average people are leveraged to fight a war.
Treaty of versailles It stopped the fighting, but didn't address the tensions that started the war in the first place. Reparations from Germany, War guilt clause: blamed the entire war on germany. Demilitarization: Crushed Germanys national identity
April theses Vladamir Lenin published which outlined the steps to revolution. Peace, land, and bread Worker control of production All power to the soviets
Stalemate is broken
Tzar Nicholas Upset 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.
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.
Appeasement
Fascism A 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
First to use the word Fascism to characterize the system of government he claimed would solve all of italy's problems. Used modern technology to spread his propaganda to all Italians.
New military technology
Assasination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914
French popular front A coalition of left-wing parties whose main objective was preventing the rise of communism or fascism in france
Mandate system
Women's rights during war
Five year plan 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.
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.
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.
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.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Mandate system Entente 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
Stalemate is broken
Trench warfare
Benito Mussolini First to use the word Fascism to characterize the system of government he claimed would solve all of italy's problems. Used modern technology to spread his propaganda to all Italians.
Assasination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 As 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
February revolution Factory workers, many of whom were women, protested the cost of food like bread.
New military technology Machine guns, Chemical weapons, and other brutal new technologies led to trench warfare.
Women's rights during war
Five year plan 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.
Fascism grows in eastern europe
Vladamir Lenin published which outlined the steps to revolution. Peace, land, and bread Worker control of production All power to the soviets
Easter rebellion Ireland 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.
Black/Brown shirts Mussolini & Hitler's secret police that made dissent a fearful prospect
Pact of steel Germany, Italy, and later Japan formed an alliance and became known as the Axis Powers. Western democracies viewed this as an existential threat
Age of anxiety 2 world wars, nuclear bombs, and scientific advancements that shattered accepted beliefs made everyone nervous.
Fascism A 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
Pan-Slavism A 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
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
Bolshevik troops storm the winter palace They stormed the provisional government's headquarters and now the communists are now in control of Russia
War 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 revolution
Soviet union new economic policy 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.
When all of the resources of a state, from the state level to the average people are leveraged to fight a war.
Upset 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.
Treaty of versailles It stopped the fighting, but didn't address the tensions that started the war in the first place. Reparations from Germany, War guilt clause: blamed the entire war on germany. Demilitarization: Crushed Germanys national identity
Appeasement Just give Hitler what he wants and keep the peace.
French popular front A coalition of left-wing parties whose main objective was preventing the rise of communism or fascism in france
Russian civil war
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.
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