HIST 1020 Chapter 19: HIST 1020 Chapter 19
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Liberal democratic: increased political participation, democracy + capitalism, united states. Authoritarianism: state > individual, fascist italy + nazi germany. Decline of ottoman empire + impact on rivalries. Central powers: germany + austria-hungary (ottoman empire) Triple entente (later allied powers: france, gb, russia. Immediate wwi catalyst = assassination of archduke francis ferdinand by serbian national. Not a quick war: trenches, machine guns, poison, disease, vast armies fought defensive war. Western front: trenches, eastern: russia moves to prussia and austria- Armenian genocide: ottomans thought armenians helped germany. Erosion of distinction between civilian and combatants. Romanov russia peasant revolution february = bye, bolsheviks take power legacy of bitterness, october revolution, lenin + trotsky take power. 1917 war on germany fall of central powers. Economic dislocation in the new modern economy, growing strain of farmers in 1920s, emergence of global great depression in 1929. Collapse of credit structure snowballs on global scale.
