EURO-UA 511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Marshall Plan, Axis Powers, Tehran Conference
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Created external threat to rally citizens to homeland"s defense a. i. 2. Nazis marched to for today it"s germany that"s ours, and tomorrow the whole wide world a. ii. 1. c. Totalitarians didn"t like liberal democracy b/c of its humanitarianism, commercialism, and belief in coexistence a. iv. Ends justified the means: churchill argued that lack of decisive action would lead to inevitable renewal of conflict b. i. Western countries (democracy) were resisting action because of fears from wwi b. ii. Allied intervention in russia showed west didn"t have will/resources to control bolsheviks b. iii. French occupation of ruhr showed germany could not be coerced b. iii. 1. Military leaders: needs to be full-scale war or nothing: fear that germany and russia would ally together c. i. Signed economic treaty that outraged allies (1922: 1921: washington conference d. i. British and us gain most, then japan, then frnace, then. Italy: 1923: gondra treaty of 1923 e. i.