Study Guide for WWI - Present Flashcards
Political and Economic Factors after Versailles
Experimental Regimes in Italy, Czechoslovakia, Russia, and Ireland
Countries Discontent with Versailles
Germany and France= Not Harsh Enough
Britain and USA=Too Harsh
Factors which pulled Europe into the Great Depression
Financial collapse, Stock market crash, Lack of production and distribution, unemployment, no economic leadership.
French Occupation of the Ruhr
January 1923, Germany’s Lack of paying reparation, passive resistance, hyperinflation, unemployment
Lausanne Conference
ended era of reparation payments
british&French response to the great depression
Britain- New Labor Party, New prime minister, “national Government”
France-Popular Front, Economic and Social Reforms
Irish Independance
Initiated by Easter Rising in 1916, led by “Ourselves Alone”, Michael Collins, IRA, the War 1919-1921, recognized Independence 1949
Significance of USSR in post-WWI Europe
Single Most Important development after WWI
Causes & Effects of War Communism
Causes- Russian Civil War, Bolsheviks
Effects-Not after the Civil War, because of it.
The NEP
New Economic Policy, Vladimir Lenin, Private Enterprise, Big Industry
Facts about the Third International
Comintern, model for socialism, 21 Conditions, led to internal division
Facts about the struggle between Trotsky and Stalin
Trotsky=Pure Communist, No NEP, Socialism everywhere
Stalin= 1 country socialism, slow industrialization
5 Year Plans
To outproduce Capitalist countries, great negative human costs, capital goods over consumer goods, new industrial cities, Stachinov
Facts about collectivization of agriculture
Stalin Replaced
Bread Farms turned into State run farms
Kulaks
Stalin’s Purges
Anyone against him was taken out, 100,000’s killed, exiled. did it out of paranoia, lust for power.
New Communist Party.
