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Post World War I Europe

Post World War I Europe. 1918-1929. Objective. To understand the international order after World War I To understand how Europeans adapted to life after World War I To understand new political systems that arose after World War I. The League of Nations. Wilson and the League of Nations

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Post World War I Europe

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  1. Post World War I Europe 1918-1929

  2. Objective • To understand the international order after World War I • To understand how Europeans adapted to life after World War I • To understand new political systems that arose after World War I

  3. The League of Nations • Wilson and the League of Nations • Rejection of Treaty of Versailles

  4. Refusing to Give the Lady a Seat

  5. Wilson as Schoolteacher

  6. Problems after World War I • Large numbers in casualties • France lost 1.4 million men • Russia lost 1.8 million men • Germany lost 2 million men • 10 million total • Economic • European countries in debt to the US • Germany to pay huge reparations

  7. France • Suffered the worst damage from the war • Lost greatest proportion of casualties • Needed new alliances • Demanded reparations from Germany

  8. Britain • Winning the war did not solve problems • Economic Decline • Labour Party comes to power

  9. Britain • Problems in the British Empire • “White Colonies” • India • Ireland

  10. Russia • Russian Revolution (1917) • Russia becomes the first Communist nation • Russian Civil War (1917-22)

  11. Russian Civil War

  12. Russia • Lenin takes full control • War Communism • New Economic Policy

  13. Lenin

  14. Russia • Lenin dies in 1924 • Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin compete for power

  15. Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin

  16. Germany • Weimar Republic formed in 1918 • Treaty of Versailles • Effects of Reparations

  17. German Hyperinflation, 1922

  18. Leftist Agitation in Germany

  19. “Hands Off the Ruhr”

  20. Germany • Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) • Joins National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi) in 1920

  21. Germany • Adolf Hitler • Attempted government takeover in 1923 • Arrested and put in prison • Writes Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

  22. Adolf Hitler

  23. Italy • Gained the least from the war • Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) • Fascism

  24. Benito Mussolini

  25. Fascists

  26. Postwar Europe • Postwar Europe begins to stabilize by 1925 • New system of reparations

  27. Postwar Europe • Treaty of Locarno (1925) • Kellogg-Briande Pact (1928) • Spirit of optimism returned to Europe

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