Review: Introduction
to World History
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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
Spanish Civil War
Road to War: Appeasement
Crises in Austria and Czechoslovakia
Review Session: Readings
• Readings you will be responsible for on the exam:
• Readings from Sources of Twentieh Century Global
History: pp. 109-165; 221-253.
• J.A.S. Grenville, A History of the World: Chapters 1527.
Post-War Europe
• Paris Peace Conference, 1919-1920: Peace Treaties:
Versailles, Trianon, etc.
• New Europe vs. Old Europe: How the map of Europe
changes (geographically and politically)
• Liberalism and alternative political/economic systems:
Communism, Fascism, Authoritarianism (examples?)
Fate of Great Power system
• Italy in the post-war era: rise of fascism (causes and
consequences, 1919-1939
• Crisis of liberalism: Fiume, Factory Occupation
movement, 1919-1920.
• What is fascism? Sources of fascist doctrine (futurism,
syndicalism, corporatism, statism…)
• Transforming Italy: Role of Mussolini?
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.
• Political parties: SPD, KPD, NSDAP.
• “Golden Age of Weimar”, 1924-1929
Germany, cont.
• NSDAP/Nazi movement: Ideology and activities.
• Elements of ideology: statism, Social Darwinism,
Racism, Anti-Marxist, Anti-Liberal.
• Role of Hitler and Nazi leaders (S.A., S.S., propaganda
methods.
• Mein kampf (1925)
Europe from 1919-1929
• What impact does U.S. economy have on Europe after
WWI?
World Outside Europe
• United States in post-war era
• Prohibition, “Roaring Twenties”, Economic prosperity
and political isolationism.
• Great Depression, 1929
• F.D. Roosevelt and the “New Deal”, 1932-1945
• “Good Neighbor” policy
Latin America
• Mexico: PRI, independence from Europe and US
• Depression in L.A., 1929• Liberalism and Fascism in L.A. (Brazil)
Middle East
• Imperial Interests: Sykes-Picot, Balfour Declaration,
Post-war treaties
• Modern Turkey – Mustafa Pasha/Kemal Ataturk
• Imperial role of European powers: France and Great
Britain.
Japan and China
• Japanese expansion, 1920s and 1930s
• Japanese imperialism in Korea and in surrounding
(Pacific) areas
• Manchukuo, 1932
• “Rape of Nanking”, 1937
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
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
Spanish Civil War
• Second Republic, 1931-1936
• Civil War, 1936-1939
• Franco and Nationalists (relations with Germany and
Italy)
• Non-Intervention and its impact
Inter-war Crises:
Anschluss/Czechoslova
kia
• Germany’s annexation of Austria, 1938
• Hitler’s efforts to annex Sudetenland, 1938
• Fate of Czechoslovakia (Munich Agreement, September,
1938)
• Invasion of Czechoslovakia, March, 1939
• End of “Appeasement”? Anglo-Polish guarantee, March,
1939.
War clouds…
• Soviet-German relations, 1938-1939
• Ribbentrop-Molotov treaty of non-aggression.
• Germany’s plans for Poland.
• Anglo-French response to German invasion of Poland.
Beginning phase of WWII
• Invasion of Poland, September, 1939
• Russo-Finnish War, Nov., 1939- March, 1940.
• Scandinavian conflict, April-May, 1940