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Lecture 16 & 17
World Civ II Final Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did the Western World see a huge increase in political participation? | Due to giving women the franchise |
| What were political parties forced to represent? | A mulititude of views and property no longer determined political affliation |
| Great Depression 1930s | Many thought capitalism had failed, communist parties appeared across the West. |
| Totalitarianism | Imposing total control over public life and serious intervention into provate lives of a society |
| Fascism | State control of economy, no free market, govt owns majority of stock in major companies |
| 5 Facets | 1. Hybrid of Socialism 2. Ultra-nationalism 3. Cult of the national leader 4. Expansion 5. Racism |
| The new Germany govt was forced to accept what? | Treaty of Vversailles: the people never forgave them for this |
| Weimar Republic | Created by 1919 liberal constitution, people never saw it as legitimate |
| War Repartions | Most hated part of the treaty, G forced to bear full responsibiliity for WWI |
| Adolf Hitler | AU, Born in 1889, only child |
| Mein Kampf 5 main ideas | 1. Hatred of Jews 2. Rejection of Versailles Treaty 3. Lessening war profiteering 4. Protecting middle classes 5. Land redistribution |
| What did Nazism depend on? | Depended on hatred of the Jews and Versailles Treaty and a strong G nationalism to succeed |
| 1942-1945 | 4th stage of Holocaust: Final Solution (extermination of the Jews in death camps) 6 million put to death |
| Communism | Fuller expression of socialism where there is no private property or capitlism, totalitarian, the community owns everything collectively, no classes or parties: the entire community is "equal" |
| 5 Problems of Communism | 1. Someone has to be in charge 2. No ind rights 3. No innovation or creation of wealth 4. Massive bureaucracy required to control everything 5. Existence of any non-Com nation prevented the nation from achieving utopia |
| R Marxists us what to overthrow govt and install USSR | Problems caused by WWI |
| Vladimir Linin | Beginning of com threat to the West, total war destablized R impearial govt |
| Bolsheviks | Played on the R people's war weariness |
| Soviets | Councils of workers in each area of R, helping lead the govt |
| October Rev, 1917 | Bolsheviks seized control of the govt, peasents seized lands from nobles and the chruch Dec- govt took control of major business & all areas of economy |
| New Economic Policy | State control of all major companies, private control of small businesses. |
| Political Parties banned | In 1992 |
| Josef Stalin | Became dicator of the entire Soviet Union in 1932. |
| First Five Year Plan | Began agricultural collectivization and rapid industrailzation. Goal: Govt control of ag, inclusion of all peasantry into the Communist Party. |
| Overview of SU | Good: Mass edu, no starvation, jobs for men & women Bad: No political freedoms, no jury trials, religious persection, low standard of living |
| New China Movement | Reform movent, said Confucius would've encouraged change, adaption |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Ended civil war in 1926, restored order to China, decided to eliminate Ch communism |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader, grew support by emphasizing social justice, lower interest rates, fair distribuion of land. Depended on peasant army for revolution, com local govt treated people much better than the democratic KMT |
| October 1949 | Com in control of all of Ch, KMT sought refuge on island of Taiwan |
| Japan | Decided to modernize or face permanent subjegation |
| Meiji Restoration | 1867, J leaders overthrew the shogun govt & resotred the empereor to power; began systematiclly reforming all areas of J culture based on West |
| Shinto Faith | Which revered the Emperor as a god |
| J Military Infulence | Grew during the 1920-30s. 1931: J military invaded & captured Manchuria 1940: Tripartite Pact, alliance with G, I |
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