1. Chapter 17,18,19

2. 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

3. 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

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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

10. 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