HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Socalled, Polish Corridor, Russian Empire
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The paris peace conference, and versailles (jarausch ch. Major causes for wwii: treaty of versailles starts the decline within europe, anti-communism, appeasement, militarism, nationalism, economic depression, rise of hitler & fascism in italy, japanese expansion. Wwi (1914-1918: settlement after the war which was alright until 1929. Us economic depression which creates many problems and then stalin and hitler rise to combat these problems. United states declared war on germany april 2, 1917. Soviet russia exits the war via brest litovks treaty march 3, 1918. Is comes with a president who has a vision of a future: by comparison: british empire had 9 million, france had 8 mil. , russia had 11 mil. , usa had almost 5 mil. Germany"s last gasp: the ludendorff (spring) offensive march 21, 1918. Though territorial gains realized, the german army, people and state were all exhausted. The future looked bleak with thousands more american troops arriving daily. Wilson states his 14 points on jan. 8, 1914.
