HIS 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Treaty Of Versailles, Shandong Peninsula, Munich Agreement

• School: St. John's University
• Department: HIS - HISTORY
• Course: HIS 1001
• Professor: Mauricio Borrero

Document Summary

Many territorial changes in europe and middle east. Countries need to rebuild after war destruction. Parliamentary democracy and capitalism become less popular: authoritarian governments gain popularity, promote anti-western, anti-capitalism point of view. Great depressions (1929-1932: global depression, not just in the us. Example and attraction of ussr: communism. Conveyed image that workers and peasants had power and/or were given favor. Perceived as having a fairer society: internationalism. Rise of authoritarian movements: fascism italy, nazism germany, corporatism portugal, spain, military/royal dictatorship hungary, poland, bulgaria, yugoslavia, greece. Reject democracy and people"s right to vote. Hitler becomes chancellor of germany 1933: national socialist party becomes known as nazi party. International crisis: italian invasion of ethiopia, 1935, spanish civil war, 1936-39, annexation of austria, march 1938, munich crisis, september 1938, invasion of czechoslovakia, march 1939, invasion of poland, september 1, 1939. Reason for germany"s acquisitions hitler wanted all german speakers to be one nation. League of nations was ineffective due to appeasement.