Lecture 7: The System Collapses

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Lecture 7 The System Collapses

• April 12, 2010

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End of Weimar Rise of the Nazis
1924 1928 1930 1933
Nazi vote share 3.0 2.6 18.3 43.9
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Principles of Nazism

• Racial superiority
• Living space (Lebensraum)
• Unswerving loyalty to the leader (fuhrerprincip)

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Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

• a union of neighboring states, sharing to a
  greater or lesser degree common racial and
  cultural origins and geographic propinquity,
  founded by their voluntary agreement for the
  purpose of assuring their common safety and
  promoting their common happiness and prosperity

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Appeal to Asian Solidarity

• We will obliterate the former European and
  British superiority complex and American and
  British worldview. Europe and America dont want
  Asia to awaken. Therefore they prevent Asia from
  remembering a common culture and ideology. But
  now the dark night enveloping Asia has begun to
  break and the light of hope has shown from the
  East. Now Asia is on the verge of overturning
  European control everywhere.

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Relative Share of World Wealth ()
1920 1930 1940
UK 16 11 11
Germany 14 14 17
France 5 9 4
USSR 1 6 13
Italy 1 1 2
US 62 54 49
Japan 2 4 6
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Military Potential, 1937
National Income ( billions) Percentage on defense
US 68 1.5
UK 22 5.7
France 10 9.1
Germany 17 23.5
Italy 6 14.5
USSR 19 26.4
Japan 4 28.2
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