Chapter 20
Blog: 20th Century
Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, Austro- Hungarian Empire
Triple Entente: Russia, France, Britain
- Wanted National Security
"Thus a system of alliances, intended to keep peace that drew the Great Powers of Europe into a general war by early August of 1914"
"The outbreak od war was sort of an accident"
-started when Archuduke's assassination
-wasn't planned
-system od rigid alliance mafe Europe vulnerable to this kind of accident.
-Europe saw world as an arena of conflict and competition among rival nation states
-Great powers of Europe competed for colonies, spheres of influence and superiority.
-school's media, military had convinced million sof ordinary Europeans that their identities were meaningful.
Huge Rivalry: Germany and BRitian
-both developed "war plans"
"Hair trigger mentality"
page 739 picture: women make supplies for way men are to use it and go to war "men need to make themself useful"
"The great war shattered almost every expectation"
-Extended Battle.
"Total war" requiring the mobilization of each country's entire population
"War Socialism" German state assumed control over the economy that it's policies became known as war socialism
War changed international political life. Collapse of the tripe alliance emerfed a new map of Central Europe with independent poland. Czechoslavakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia
"National Self Determination"
- Woodrow Wilson
-ethinic minorities hated this
20th century launcged communism
Treaty of Versailles
ended war formally in 1919
Capitalism Unraveling: Great Depression
-US had booming economy before the great depression
-Germany and Austria made huge reparations but all of it was done with US loans
which were only so extensice
-US relied on these reparations to repay their loans
-AXIS POWERS: Germany, Italy, Japan
-Germany: Facism -----> Hitler
Second World War began
Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, Austro- Hungarian Empire
Triple Entente: Russia, France, Britain
- Wanted National Security
"Thus a system of alliances, intended to keep peace that drew the Great Powers of Europe into a general war by early August of 1914"
"The outbreak od war was sort of an accident"
-started when Archuduke's assassination
-wasn't planned
-system od rigid alliance mafe Europe vulnerable to this kind of accident.
-Europe saw world as an arena of conflict and competition among rival nation states
-Great powers of Europe competed for colonies, spheres of influence and superiority.
-school's media, military had convinced million sof ordinary Europeans that their identities were meaningful.
Huge Rivalry: Germany and BRitian
-both developed "war plans"
"Hair trigger mentality"
page 739 picture: women make supplies for way men are to use it and go to war "men need to make themself useful"
"The great war shattered almost every expectation"
-Extended Battle.
"Total war" requiring the mobilization of each country's entire population
"War Socialism" German state assumed control over the economy that it's policies became known as war socialism
War changed international political life. Collapse of the tripe alliance emerfed a new map of Central Europe with independent poland. Czechoslavakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia
"National Self Determination"
- Woodrow Wilson
-ethinic minorities hated this
20th century launcged communism
Treaty of Versailles
ended war formally in 1919
Capitalism Unraveling: Great Depression
-US had booming economy before the great depression
-Germany and Austria made huge reparations but all of it was done with US loans
which were only so extensice
-US relied on these reparations to repay their loans
-AXIS POWERS: Germany, Italy, Japan
-Germany: Facism -----> Hitler
Second World War began
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