Causes and Effects
Lessons in History
What can we learn from History?
How does it instruct and what are
the lessons to be learned?
Wilsonian Internationalism
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Making the World Safe for Democracy
US Declaration of War and Entrance
No Victors and No Vanquished
The Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Defeat and Victory
What were the Cause of the War?
Versaille Revisited
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Germany and an Armistice
Fatherland Torn Asunder: Poland & CZ
War Guilt Clause: Article 231
Reparations: $32 Billion
Empire Dismantled and Mandate System
Emasculated Military
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/clas
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Rise of Fascism
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Post War Instability t/o Europe
Fascist Promise: Order!
Anti Democratic and Anti Communist
Dictatorship and The Strongman
Constitutional Order Dead: NO Rights
Use of Terror and Police State
Corporatist Order and Militarism
Marching to War
Italy
• Post War Conditions
• Rise of Il Duce
• Future Model
Weimar Republic
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Discord, Strife, Revolution and Poverty
Democracy founded on eggshells
Die Dicktat: The Right and The Left
Ruhr Crisis, 1923
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Strese
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• The Dawes Plan: Circuitous Payments
The U.S.
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WWI Disillusion
Washington Accords
Mexican Revolution & Imperial Interests
Caribbean and Nicaragua
Japan in Asia and Pacific
Tide of Isolationism
Dominant Power & Drift to Neutrality
Rise of Hitler
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Der Drittle Reich & Fuerher Principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrer
Bavarian Putsch and Mein Kampf
Racist Ideology: Aryans, Slavs and Jews
The Communist & The West
Lebenschraum
Struggle: Survival of Fittest
NAZI Party
Search for Order
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Democracy in Retreat
France’s Paranoia & Alliances
Locarno Treaty: Italy’s Role
Germany & Soviet Union
Kellogg Briand Peace Pact
The Great Depression
Manchurian Incident
The Soviet Union
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Bolsheviks & WWI
Civil War: Reds v. Whites
Lenin’s NEP
Rise of Stalin: RED CZAR
Isolation and Resurgence
Sliding Towards War
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Italian Adventurism in Africa
Civil War in Spain
Hitler and NAZI Seize Power, 1933
Militarization of the Rhineland
Invasion of Austria, 1937
Munich Conference & CZ
Poland and WWII, September 1939