Russian revolution Women's rights during war Spanish civil war Soviet union new economic policy

Appeasement Appeasement Black/Brown shirts Assasination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914

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. Women joined the military and supported the war effort, this directly led to women gaining the right to vote about 30 years later. 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. 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.

Age of anxiety Mandate system Assasination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 French 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. 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 Germany, Italy, and later Japan formed an alliance and became known as the Axis Powers. Western democracies viewed this as an existential threat 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.