HIST 1082 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Total War, Buffer Zone, Arab Nationalism
Document Summary
Wilson"s fourteen points: document leading up to treaty of versaille. War legacy germany was the most realistic place in europe for a revolution to occur. Armistice 11. 11. 18: end of the war, guns fell silent immediate end to fighting. Environmental catastrophe: lots of land was effectively out of production. billion spent (2005= trillion: many countries in debt. Those who do survive the war and return to their homes suffer from severe. Taxation, rationing, direct payments: paying for the war expanded to the public, paying people after the war for injuries, compensation, etc, government becomes more involved in the running of people"s everyday lives. Anti-radical sentiment rises: russian revolution created global phenomenon called the red scare, you didn"t know who was a communist messed with people"s minds, everyone was suspicious. Fear of russian revolution: who are the russians influencing and who will be next, many reasons to be apprehensive. Weimar republic experiment of moderate socialists.
