HST 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Stakhanovite Movement, Maximilien Robespierre, Proletariat
Document Summary
The breaking of armies, peace, and the treaty of versailles (1917-1919) Total war precipitated a political, economic, social, and cultural crisis throughout europe. Treaty fo versailles exacerbated this crisis, and liberal democracy and capitalism failed to find solutions, setting the stage for the rise of communism (bolshevism), fascism, and national. A second thirty years" war: continuities of wwi wwii. Role of germany: treaty of versailles, liberal capitalism totalitarianism, wwii, holocaust. Total war: trench warfare and industrial killing, the home front . The problem of labor: children, women, subjects. Russian revolution(s: february 1917: liberal revolution, october revolution: Usa entry, april 1917: sinking of lusitania 1915, unrestricted submarine warfare (dec 1916) End of the great war: last german offensive: spring 1918, collapse of the central powers: summer 1918, german revolutions (october 1918) German republic/weimar republic (november 9, 1918: armistice: november 11, 1918. Paris peach conference and the treaty of versailles. French vengeance vs. wilsonian idealism: punishing germany:
