HIST 2200Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Popular Front, Engelbert Dollfuss, First Austrian Republic

• School: Trent University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2200Y
• Professor: Antonio Cazorla- Sánchez

Document Summary

First army where blacks and whites fight together. Britain and france had their own interest they wanted to keep their empires. Before the destruction of poland two democracies had been destroyed (spanish. Republic) and britain and france had done nothing about it. The soviet union was going through civil problem (revolution), completed isolated from war problem. The us public demanded isolation in the 1920s and 1930s. Germany is isolated, has economic problems because of inflation. Japan and italy were stable and powerful, they were apart of the allies during. With the help of the league of nations france and britain were conductors in maintaining their power. The war economy collapsed in 1929, encouraged political isolation. As the economy got worse they had to cut money for the military, this was popular with the voters because then they didn"t have to pay as many taxes. Cutting back on the military made things more unstable.