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Balkan Peninsula
Independent States Created in Balkans -
Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire splits apart creating new countries -
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Weimar Republic
Post WWI Republic in Germany
Doomed from the start - unable to repeal parts of Treaty of Versailles
Too many people vying for control
Hyperinflation - loaf of bread - 1 mark in 1918
200 billion marks in 1923
RIse of Hitler - Fall -
Rise of Hitler
After WWI --> Munich after the war and joined a small right wing group called, the National Socialist German Workers´ Party, aka the Nazi Party
Developed party´s identity
Developed his own police force - Brown shirts
Broke up town meetings and defended the Nazis to the public
Good at getting people on his side -
Modernization of Iran
Reza Khan -
Establishment of Communism in the Soviet Union
Established by Lenin: NEP and Leninism -
Rise of Mussolini
King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini Prime Minister.
Disappointed over Treaty of Versailles
Rising inflation and unemployment -
IL DUCE
Outlawed other political parties
Secret police - Black shirts
Censorship
Women relegated to the home
*Never achieved totalitarian state because of Catholic church, Monarch* -
Mandates in Middle East
British and French -
Revolution in Turkey
Ataturk -
Beer Hall Putsch
Nazi Party tried to take over the government
Hitler sentenced to serve time in prison -
New Leader - Josef Stalin
Lenin has a stroke
Stalin manipulates and rises to power
Establishes a totalitarian type of government -
Dawes Plan
Intervening with German reparations by reducing and loaning money to Germany -
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Josef Stalin
Russian Leader -
Mein Kampf (Hitler Book)
¨My Struggle¨
Claimed Germans were the Aryan race making other races inferior
Believes in Social Darwinism and pushed for more living space -
Kellogg Briand Pact
Renounce War -
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Five Year Plan
Foundation of Industrialization -
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Collectivization of Agriculture
All the small farms are fused together to make a big farm -
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Great Depression
Overproduction
Consumerism (Credit)
Stock Market Crash
Protectionism -
Invasion of Manchuria
Japan invade China -
Hitler´s attack on German Culture
Outlawed other political parties
Controlled media
Outlawed unions
Remove Jews from government
Scapegoat theory for Germany is that all German problems are caused by Jews -
Saudi Arabia
Ibn Saud created Saudi Arabia; Aramco - oil company created and co-owned with US -
Rise of Hitler
Nazi Party had 800,000 members
Largest in Reichstag
Pressure from other leaders and the wealthy --> Paul von Hindenburg named Hitler chancellor -
Reichstag on Fire
Reichstag - Capitol
Fire blamed on communists
Used crisis to gain more power
Enabling Act
Allowed Hitler to set up a totalitarian state -
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Five Year Plan 2
Rapid Industrialization -
Night of Long Knives
¨Purges¨ Germany and takes out many competitors -
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Purge
8 million arrested
Anyone competing with Josef Stalin
- Gotten rid of using the Gulag System -
Nuremberg Laws
Jews lost citizenship, forbade intermarriage and relationships with non Jews -
Full Scale War
Full out war -
League of Nations Fail
US not a member
Japan quits Manchurian invasion
Mussolini invades Ethiopia - No action done
Falls apart -
Kristallnacht
Attacked Jews
Destroyed Synagogues, Businesses and Camps are made -
Anchluss
Austria votes to join Germany
Sudetenland - Czechoslovakia
Munich conference to talk about Hitler taking Czechoslovakia
Europe Appeases to Hitler -
Peace Pact
German and Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Invading Poland
