Question | Answer |
Peace of Paris | 1919
series of treaties
-Treaty of Versailles
-Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points
-League of Nations |
Treaty of Versailles | -weaken Germany
-13% of their territory was given to France and Poland
-Large war reperation
-reduction of army, navy, and air force
-loss of overseas colonies
-Article 231 " German Aggression responsible for war |
League of Nations | -14th Point
-International Organization for collective security
-Arbitrate disputes between nations
-Moniter World Labor Conditions
-US refused to join
-Excluded Germany and Russia |
Fourteen Points- National Self Determination | How Europe should look after war, Every nation should be independent |
Creation of Independent States in Eastern Europe (Poland) | reconstitution of independent state |
Creation of Independent States in Eastern Europe (Czechoslovakia) | United Czechs and Slovaks |
Creation of Independent States in Eastern Europe (Yugoslavia) | United Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, Slovienes, Macedonians |
Creation of Independent States in Eastern Europe (Albania, Romania, Bulgaria) | Independence Restored |
Creation of Independent States in Eastern Europe (Hungary) | Given independence, but greatly reduced in size |
Great Depression | US stockmarket crash of 1929 led to global economic catastrophe
-Soaring unemployement
-Bankruptcy of farms
-Soaring Inflation
-Population Decline
-Scapegoating of Minorities
_Government step into ease crisis |
Fascism in Italy | 1922 thru 1944 (Benito Mussolini: Prime Minister)
-Black Shirts overturned parliment and violently suppress opposition
-Promised efficient Utopia
-Used Propoganda to build support |
Stalinism in the Soviet Union | 1928 thru 1953( Joseph Stalin)
-Rapid, Forced Industrialization
-Large cooperative farms controlled by government
-Social Welfare
-Terror
-Propoganda |
Fascism in Germany | Nazism (Adolf Hitler)
-National Socialist German Workers Party |
Rise of Nazism | Slowly build up support based on anti-semitism and promises to undo Versailles
-Stimulated economy with public works
-Shut down representative government, eliminated opposition
"Brown Shirts"
-Propaganda |
The Nazis in Power | Anti-Semetic Policies
-1933: Jews excluded from education, business, government
-1935: Jews banned from all proffessions
-Aim was to create a racially pure Aryan nation (pure blood Germans) |
Nuremberg Laws | Jews denied citizenship |
Kristallnacht | 1938: thousands of Jews attacked and sent to concentration camps |
Lebensrawm | (living space)Hitlers desire to expand Germany |
Gestapo | Secret Police of Nazi Germany |
Munich Agreement | Sept 1938
-Hitler took Sedetanland |
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | -Agreed not to attack each other
-Secret protocol divided Poland between them |