1. Woh2040-Review: the World since WWi
Post-War Europe,
Italy and the Rise of Fascism
Germany (Weimar Republic and Nazism)
United States/Latin America/Middle East
Japan and China
Stalin’s Russia
Road to War: Appeasement, Britain’s and France’s role
Crises in Austria and Czechoslovakia

2. Post-War Europe
Peace Treaties: Versailles, Saint Germain, Trianon, etc.
New Europe vs. Old Europe
Liberalism and alternative political/economic systems: Communism (USSR), Fascism (Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain), Authoritarianism (Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria)

3. Fate of Great Power system
Italy in the post-war era: rise of fascism (causes and consequences, )
What is fascism? Main tenets: statism, hierarchical rule (Il Duce); anti-Enlightenment.
Role of Mussolini and one-party system
Key dates: 1922, 1925, 1929, .

4. Germany Germany in the post-war era: rise of Nazism, Weimar interlude.
Define Weimar Republic and know about political, economic, social circumstances which gave rise to extremist movements.
Nazism: Ideological tenets; Great Depression and the rise of Adolf Hitler

5. Soviet Union, 1924-1939 Russia in the post- Civil War era
Main features of Stalin’s political/economic system (“Socialism in one country”)
Stalin’s foreign policy: from isolationism to intervention during SCW (Popular Front era) to non-aggression pact with Germany (August, 1939).

6. World Outside Europe United States in post-war era, 1919-1939
Prohibition ( ), “Roaring Twenties”, Economic prosperity and political isolationism.
Great Depression, 1929
F.D. Roosevelt and the “New Deal”,
“Good Neighbor” policy (Latin America)

7. Latin America Mexico – PRI (Nationalization of Mexican oil, resources)
Depression in L.A. – Chile, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador
“Fascism” in L.A. (Brazil)

8. Middle East
Imperial Interests: Sykes-Picot agreement (1916), Balfour Declaration (1917), Post-war treaties. Sèvres (1919), Lausanne (1923)
Modern Turkey – Mustafa Pasha/Kemal Ataturk.

9. Japan and China Japanese expansion, 1920s and 1930s
London Naval Conference, 1922
Manchukuo, 1932
Invasion of China“Rape of Nanking”

10. China Sun Yat-Sen’s “Three People’s Principles”
Kuomintang’s efforts to unify China
Formation of PCC, 1921
“Northern Expedition”, 1927
Response to Japanese invasion

11. Inter-war Crises: Anschluss/Czechoslovakia
Great Britain and France between the wars: crisis and resolution.
Policy of Appeasement: Non-intervention during SCW; Crises between 1938 and 1939.
Germany’s annexation of Austria (March, 1938)
Hitler’s efforts to annex Sudetenland (1938)
Fate of Czechoslovakia (Munich Agreement, 30 September )
End of “Appeasement”?

12. Count-down to War Anglo-Polish Agreement -- March, 1939
Spanish Civil War ends, -- April, 1939
Mussolini annexes Albania -- April, 1939
Pact of Steel (Italy and Germany) – May, 1939
Soviet-Nazi Non-aggression Pact – August, 1939
War breaks out – September, 1939