Unit #8 World War I



Unit #6 – 20th Century

Lesson 03 - Political Experiments of 1920s

(934-960)

I. Soviet Experiment

Communist Party –

Lenin –

Stalin –

Women in the Communist Party –

II. Italian Fascists

Anti-everything

Benito Mussolini –

Rise to power

cult of personality

political pragmatists

view on women

III. Joyless Victors

A. France

LITTLE ENTENTE

Treaty of Rapallo

1923 – Germany found in default of reparations

B. Great Britain

British economy

Liberals

Labour

Conservatives

Changed imperial position

Irish Question

Sinn Fein (ourselves alone) elected to parliament seats

ULSTER (Northern region – now Northern Ireland)

IV. Eastern Europe

A. Poland – military dictatorship

B. Czechoslovakia - democratic

C. Hungary - Authoritarian

D. Austria – democratic with elimination of some parties & use of military

E. Dictatorships

Yugoslavia

Serbs

Croats

Bosnia

Serbian king

Romania

Bulgaria

Greece

V. Weimar Republic of Germany

President

Chancellor

Reichstag / Bundesrat

civil rights

reparations

A. Invasion of Ruhr & Inflation

1914

1921

1923

B. Hitler’s early years

Vienna –Mayor Karl Lueger’s

WWI

Munich

Nationalist Socialist Workers (Nazis)

Nazis organized SA (Storm Troopers) - 1920

1923 – Hitler responded to invasion

BEER HALL PUTSCH

Mein Kampf

C. Post Inflation Years-

Chancellor Gustav Stressemann

Dawes Plan – 1924

Locarno Agreements - 1925

Young Plan – 1929

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March to Rome

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