History 1265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Weimar Constitution, Wolfgang Kapp, Philipp Scheidemann
28 Sep 2016
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Blackbourn the most important transformative event in european history since the french. Revolution (most important of the last 200 years). It changed everything: death toll wasn"t the only reason (10 million dead), it brought down the russian, ottoman, hapsburg, and german empires. Communism and fascism: altered relations between europeans in the non-european world. The german lawrence of arabia, wilhelm wassmuss. Germans sent significant arms consignments to india, supporting indian nationalists like m. n. Roy (heterodox figure in the indian communist party, berliner in the 1920s many. Indian, chinese, vietnamese students and revolutionaries who liked berlin then; capital of non-imperialism. This all helped the war become more protracted, the international involvement and clash of colonies, in addition to a technological stalemate (on the western front and in italy; trench warfare and weapons to break through it, horrifyingly so. Though germany was vicious in the 1918 treaty of brest-
