Chapter 17,18,19

First World War Germany – Place in the Sun? Remember the MAIN Triple Alliance vs Triple Entente Instability of the Balkans Russia vs A-H Balkans - Sarajevo assassination brings war

Armed Stalemate Schlieffen Plan – GR plan for a two front war Fails Creation of trenches due to the machine gun and the enormous number of deaths Naval blockade of Germany- Submarine warfare as the answer Lusitania and the United States Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest Litovsk

War and the planned economy Rationalization of production – war socialism Total War Propaganda

Peace of Paris, 1919 Fourteen points and Woodrow Wilson League of Nations War guilt clause Effects of treaty on future

Russian Revolution – Peace, Land, Bread Professional Revolutionaries Tsarist Regime – Russo Japanese War, Bloody Sunday, WWI - Ouch History of revolutionary/terrorist like intelligentsia Work of Lenin First Revolution – took down the Tsar and was NOT lead by the Bolsheviks Installed a Provisional Govt Second Revolution – performed by the Bolsheviks and Lenin – all power to the Soviets Followed by a Civil War / Red Terror

Lenin and the NEP Lenin wants to create a communist state and save the ravaged economy of Russia Institutes NEP or New Economic Policy that allows for capitalism to exist Creation of the USSR – as an answer to nationalities problem in Russia Women’s rights CHEKA Lenin’s Death and Trotsky (permanent revolution) Third International and Lenin’s 21 points Rise of Stalin

Stalin and the Five Year Plans Industrialize at any cost Collectivization of Agriculture and the destruction of Kulaks Purges / Gulag Cult of Stalin Totalitarian rule World Revolution or World War

Inter War Years Weimar Republic Spirit of Locarno Dawes Plan for GR Versailles Treaty as Diktat Hope???

Great Depression Prosperity financed by Credit in America Bubble bursts and the market crashes Effects in America and abroad Effect on Germany and Italy – two “new” democracies