CGS SS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Maginot Line, Tripartite Pact, Appeasement
6 Apr 2016
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Modernization in the west: the good news and bad news. Science and reason (good) use for destructive of human life (bad) Free-market economy and industrialization (good) use for war, like bombs (bad) Popular sovereignty and the will of the people (good) governments that direct programs all claim to be acting for people (bad: world war ii and the concept of total war . Only modern governments can have total war : need to have control over population, economy, military, etc, the road to war: german expansion and the policy of appeasement. Wwii happened b/c hitler wanted it to wanted to expand germany to land deserved. Failures of treaty of versailles: stripped land away from germany. Hitler"s intentions: bring ethnic germans into german state: bring more population into german state. Crisis over the sudetenland: ethnic czechs live here and hitler thought they were being mistreated, promoted international crisis, hitler want to fight for rights of germans living there.
