EURO 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Alexandra Kollontai, Georges Clemenceau

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: European Studies
• Course: EURO 3300
• Professor: Roberta Cauchi- Santoro

Document Summary

Europe after the first world war politics, society and culture: European culture in the post-war decade 1918-1929: a decade of unparalleled innovation, the hope for peace (league of nations formed) but also the legacy of destruction; treaty of. Post wwi: a europe transformed: from a europe of nationalities to a europe of national states: joseph roth"s the emperor"s. President wilson and the principle of ethnic self- determination; wilson"s principle was mostly ignored; new countries were created: Czechoslovakia out of the former austro-hungarian empire, yugoslavia created by uniting. Ruhr district (1923-1925); ruhr occupation fostered the growth of the national socialist. German workers" party the nazis; hyperinflation occurs as a result of the german crisis; Dawes plan (1924) sets the german reparation payments at a more realistic level. In russia, the bolsheviks gain power and overthrow the aristocracy; widespread fear of. Bolshevism; czechoslovakia and yugoslavia have been created to act as buffers from.