1. REVIEW: EUROPE AND THE WORLD Post-War Europe, 1919-1939 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, 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, 1919-1934)  What is fascism? Main tenets: statism, hierarchical rule (Il Duce); anti- Enlightenment.  Role of Mussolini and one-party system  Key dates: 1922, 1925, 1929, 1935-1936..

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.

5. World Outside Europe  United States in post-war era, 1919-1939  Prohibition (1920-1933), “Roaring Twenties”, Economic prosperity and political isolationism.  Great Depression, 1929  F.D. Roosevelt and the “New Deal”, 1932-1945  “Good Neighbor” policy (Latin America)

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

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

8. Japan and China  Japanese expansion, 1920s and 1930s  London Naval Conference, 1922  Manchukuo, 1932  Invasion of China“Rape of Nanking” -- 1937

9. 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

10. 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

11. Inter-war Crises: Anschluss/Czechoslovakia  Germany’s annexation of Austria (March, 1938)  Hitler’s efforts to annex Sudetenland (1938)  Fate of Czechoslovakia (Munich Agreement, 30 September 1938.)  End of “Appeasement”?