Test 8 Flashcards
Britain and Germany post Versailles Sentiment notes
- Germany did not want to enact to harsh of penalties on Germany for the war because Germany received much of Britain’s exports so Britain was hesitant
- great economic hardship would hurt middle class consumers
What were the three main British political parties
Labour Party, conservatives (Tories), and liberals (kinda Whigs)
Notes on Britain’s Labour Party
- rose as champion of the working class and of greater social equality
- took power briefly in 1924
- came to replace the liberal party as the main enemy of conservatives
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Stanley Baldwin and the conservatives
Ruled from 1924-1929
Bauhaus art movement
- more things became utility based
- mostly in architecture and furniture
- objective was to unite all pieces that would contribute to the new communist world
Logical Empiricism
- narrowed the field of philosophy
- rejected most concerns of traditional philosophy
- stated that philosophy is the highest form of science
Friedrich Nietzsche ideas
- God is dead
- people follow morals because that’s what rulers want them to believe
- morality suffocated self realization, that without morals one would come to some new enlightened conclusion
- Übermenschen
Lenin’s NEP
Workers could create surplus of crops and sell them in open markets
Radicals compared to forced collectivization
Lenins new direction because the Russian economy was falling apart
John Maynard Keyes
- most famous 20th century economist
- wrote the “economic consequences of peace “
- said the Treaty of Versailles would bring ruin for all who were involved
Locarno Pact
- Germany said it would settle all disputes peacefully
Gave Europeans a false sense of security
Kellogg Pact
- (1928)
- said all war was illegal except for self defense, signed by 62 nations
- Locarno was much weaker than this, but had no real enforcement mechanism
Effects of the Ruhr crisis
- hyper inflation in Germany
- Germany began to print the money and german currency dropped
Effects of hyper inflation in Germany
- german Mark dropped
- brought social revolution, many people savings were wiped out
- middle class resented the government and blamed western capitalistic government
Freudian Theory
- Id- basic desires and wanted
- Ego- mediates what a person can do, is a rationalizing conscious
- superego- what a person should do
Stalin’s rise to power
- targeted members of the Old Bolsheviks party
- dismissed of Leon Trotsky
Benefits of Soviet Union -
- quick industrialization
- WOMENS reed on’s and equality increased
- state paid health care and education
- WOMENs state paid abortions
Soviet women
Could work outside the home but still had to work inside the home
Double Burden
Black Shirts
Mussolini’s armed political supporters
- created violence in Italy in order to create a need for stability
- attacked political opponents led rallies
- used to take gov
Nazi Racial beliefs
- bottom to top Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Slavs
Notes on the Dawes Plan
United States plan to restructure Germany’s debt
US did this because it realized that Germany was in in way over its head, so they loaned them money
Lateran Agreeement of 1929
- compensation for land taken during March on Rome, Mussolini got Papal approval of his government in return
Mussolini creates a one party dictatorship by
1926
Nazi Economic Policies
Many public works projects, which gave people lots of job, public supported Nazi party because of this
Grand Alliance
- US, Britain, USSR, Canada, France, and many others
