Title: During the civil war in the Soviet Union, hunger and starvation haunted the countryside.
1- During the civil war in the Soviet Union, hunger
and starvation haunted the countryside.
2Lenin as heroic revolutionary
- Anxiety over the spread of the Bolshevik
revolution was a fundamental factor of European
politics during the 1920s and 1930s. Images like
this Soviet portrait of Lenin as a heroic
revolutionary conjured fears among people in the
rest of Europe of a political force determined to
overturn their social, political, and economic
institutions.
3- Britains David Lloyd George, Frances Georges
Clemenceau, and Americas Woodrow Wilson (l. to
r.) were the dominant figures at the Paris Peace
Conference in 1919.
VS. The Comintern (Communist International)
4The Successor States
Created as a buffer zone between
communist-controlled USSR and the western
democracies, these new countries had no tradition
of ruling themselves, they were subject to the
whims of the US, Great Britain and France, they
were broke and they suffered from internal
nationalist independence movements. As a result,
they all turn to some form of authoritarian
regime to maintain stability.
5 Germanys Western Frontier
- The French-Belgian-German border area between
the two world wars was sensitive. Despite efforts
to restrain tensions, there were persistent
difficulties related to the Ruhr, Rhineland,
Saar, and Eupen-Malmédy regions that
necessitated strong defenses.
6"N'Oublions Jamais" This 1915 French poster with
its passionate headline--Never Forget!--dramatizes
Germany's brutal invasion of Belgium in 1914.
Neutral Belgium is personified as a traumatized
mother, assaulted and ravished by savage outlaws.
The "rape of Belgium" featured prominently, and
effectively, in anti-German propaganda.
7British Colonialism post-WWI
8Gandhi with spinning wheel Mohandas "Mahatma"
Gandhi (1869-1948) believed that foreign cotton
mills had impoverished the Indian people. He made
a bonfire of imported factory-made cloth, decided
to wear only handmade cloth, and began spending
half an hour every day spinning yarn on a simple
spinning wheel, which became the symbol of his
movement.
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10Roots of the Great Depression
- In the US
- Massive consumerism
- Defaulting on credit
- High tariffs on trade
- In Europe
- High tariffs on trade
- War debts to US
- Loss of labor, factories, farmland
- In Germany
- War reparations payments
- Loss labor, factories, farmland
- Versailles restrictions
- High tariffs on trade
- In rest of the world
- High tariffs on trade
- Dependency status
- Boom bust economies