HIS242H1 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Soviet Union, Kingdom Of Italy, French Third Republic
HIS242H1
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
TIMELINE
Year
Event
Description
1917-
22
Russian Civil War
Red Army (Lenin communists) vs White Army (a bunch of
smaller groups)
1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia and Central Power treaty to end WW1
1919
Treaty of Versailles
Ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied
Powers, began Paris Peace Conference (Wilson’s 14 points)
War guilt and reparations + A bunch of other treaties
GBR 10-Year Rule
GBR will not be involved in a war for 10 years
First Comintern
Spread Bolshevism around the world → Russia cannot join
League
1920
Treaty of Tartu
Gave Finland and Estonia, successor states, independence
Aaland Islands
Supposed to be part of Sweden, but given to Finland →
demilitarized
Second Comintern
Became more exclusive, wanted a revolution and civil wars
around the world
1920-
21
Russo-Polish War
Polish became independent in 1919 → war about borders
(Curzon Line)
1921
Treaty of Riga
Poland and Russia settle borders (neither are happy)
3rd and 4th Comintern
Nothing happens. Never the right time anywhere for a
revolution
Upper Silesia
Dispute between Poland or German territory. League decides
to give land to Germany and resources to Poland
Washington Naval
Conference
US: GBR: Japan (5:3:3) disarmament and limitation of the navy
Vilna
Poland gets territory from Lithuania
New Economic Plan
Created by Lenin after the failure of War Communism which
destroyed the economy.
Return of most agriculture, trade and light industry to
private ownership and management while state still
held control of some industries (bank)
Money reintroduced in economy and peasants could
own their own land
Stabilized economy and helped recover from war and
civil war
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1922
Little Entente forms
Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia create an alliance and
France signed a treaty with each of them to protect territorial
borders and guard against GER
Treaty of Rapallo
Germany and USSR become friends
Cancel all financial claims against each other
Strengthen economic and political ties
Anglo-Soviet Pact
1923
Memeland
Memeland given to Lithuania instead of germany as
compensation for loss of Vilna
Corfu
Italy invades Corfu because Greeks assassinated an Italian
politician. Italy gives Greeks a list of crazy demands and
League support Italy
Ruhr Crisis
French invades, militarizes Rhineland, ignored LON, leads to
German hyperinflation and later to the Dawes Plan because
Germany can’t pay back their debts
Miracle of the Rentenmark
Stresemann creates a new currency that now deals with the
inflation as the German currency is re
1924
Dawes Plan
Review of reparations (same sum, different timeline) (US →
Germany → France and Britain → US), basically extended the
amount of time Germany had to pay back their debts
Geneva Protocol
League renounces aggression. Legal disputes must be
submitted, reviewed and solved by them… clearly a failure.
GBR doesn’t want to do anything
Lenin dies
Stalin takes over (“Socialism in 1 country”, death of active
foreign policy)
1925
Locarno
Germany accepts Western borders, does not accept Eastern
borders
Germany tries to repair their relations with other
European countries → Stresemann’s strategy (If you
can’t beat em, join em)
War of the Stray Dog
Bulgaria and Greece
Considered a successful intervention by the League
1926
Germany joins LON
Gives France the illusion of security as their enemy is now
playing at their level
1927
Treaty of Berlin
Germany and USSR make friends (USSR was worried about
insecure borders in East Germany)
Geneva Naval Conference
US, Britain, Japan NOTHING CHANGES
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Document Summary
Red army (lenin communists) vs white army (a bunch of smaller groups) Russia and central power treaty to end ww1. Ended the state of war between germany and the allied. Powers, began paris peace conference (wilson"s 14 points) War guilt and reparations + a bunch of other treaties. Gbr will not be involved in a war for 10 years. Spread bolshevism around the world russia cannot join. Supposed to be part of sweden, but given to finland demilitarized. Became more exclusive, wanted a revolution and civil wars around the world. Polish became independent in 1919 war about borders (curzon line) Poland and russia settle borders (neither are happy) Never the right time anywhere for a revolution. League decides to give land to germany and resources to poland. Us: gbr: japan (5:3:3) disarmament and limitation of the navy. Created by lenin after the failure of war communism which destroyed the economy.
