HISB94H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Oswald Spengler, Four Year Plan, History Of Europe
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The collapse of democracy and the road to war, 1936 - 1942: president woodrow wilson (1856-1924) the president of the united states during wwi and he proposed a very optimistic view of ending the war and the future. This was based on liberalism and the importance of democratic institutions, self0determination across europe, etc. He endorsed voting as a process of self-determination: oswald spengler (1880-1936) had quite the opposite view, he believed that western civilization was crumbling. His thesis basically was that all civilization would fall and. He saw no goals, no ambitions of this changing within the western world: the end of the first world war saw the establishment of spengler"s ideas and people believed it more than wilson"s. People were looking for solutions through political movements and ideologies: at the end of wwi, new states were established on ideas of democracy, and equal rights. However twenty years later, spengler proved correct, in 1920 every european.
