HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Totalitarianism, Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, National Diet
Document Summary
The crisis of the international system: fascism, military-authoritarianism, and the onset of. Global war: overview, the crisis of the 1930s and 1940s. International trade fell as a result of the great depression. The second word war further decimated the economy: europe and asia, japan") inva)ion of no(thea)t china (cid:457)manchu(ia(cid:458, britain and the international system. British hegemony: anglo-american alliance, decline of liberalism in the interwar years, communism as a challenge to liberalism in the 1930s. Constitutional practices were in decline: decline of constitutional regimes. Fascist regimes and allied states and movements: fascism: definition. Associated with expansionism of territory overseas: an aggressive foreign policy based on territorial conquest, german and italian fascism. Fascism influenced political regimes around the world. Difference between japanese fascism and european fascism: the importance of understanding the local context, south africa. Far right political movements in the 1940s. Fascism in germany: german disillusionment with weimar and the versailles treaty, adolf hitler.
