HIST 388 Lecture 2: Hist 388 02
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First world war: versailles, reparations, disarmament, moral blame, humiliation, ostracism, resentment all this gave right wing politicians populist ammunition. Italy: sacro egoism they expected more than they got e. g. the islands in the. Adriatics which led to an expansion policy, and then they attacked abyssinia. Japan: aggression against china in manchukuo in september 1931. The great depression which eventually gave an impetus to the rise of hitler the. Great depression led to a new reparations scheme, the young plan the nazis launched a referendum against the young plan gave them tremendous publicity and. Depression had influence on the voting: the nazis did well amongst protestants but not catholics since they didn"t have a designated party in areas where the catholics were the majority, the. They were scared of communism, which was doing well among the working class. After the war poland got estonia, latvia, lithuania and part of prussia, france got.
