PS-0061 Lecture : IR 2.3.docx

• School: Tufts University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS-0061
• Professor: Kelly Greenhill

Document Summary

The interwar period and the origins of wwii. Spanish flu epidemic: globally, infected 500 million people, killed 50-100 million. Misperception hangover : we don"t think we are losing , devastation of the war itself. German army limited to 100k volunteers and deprived of heavy artillery, tanks, and warplanes. German navy limited to token force, did not include submarines: reparations clause assigned germany the guilt for the war and ordered it to pay a debt the. Germans perceived as catastrophically large: austrian-hungary empire dismantled. Austria reduced to only 12% of its prewar size. Serbia joined with part of hungary to become yugoslavia. Hungary became separate country: ottoman empire also broken up, stimulating a multitude of problems in the middle east, german perspective. Worsened antagonism amongst veterans hyperinflation rise of national socialism (nazism: responsibility of the enforcement of treaty given to france (not a good idea)