UGC 112 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Current Lecture I After effects of the Great War a Main Points b Relevance for Today II World War I a Consequences III Mass Mobilization IV Stem Timeline Current Lecture After Effects of the Great War Destroyed European claims to civilized superiority and showed how much states truly depended on their people The war stretched to all corners of the globe and led to colonized people and Europeans revolting Habsburg and Ottoman Empires fragmented into smaller states as the Prussian Empire turned into a republic The Versailles Peace Conference put the blame for the war on Germany and called for heavy reparations US President Woodrow Wilson hoped to create a world order that would bring about peace and self determination for everyone Women now wanted more jobs outside the home and in the political and social realm For many people the Great War crushed their dream of having technological progress free markets and government by the educated few o Socialism began to spread at the same time as revolution threatening colonial empires o Others lost faith in liberalism and sought authoritarian solutions MAIN POINTS Earlier points These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Defeat in war revolution Conflict human rights democracy etc Costs of war vs benefits Relevance for today Consequences of civil war External factors domestic conflict Similar or unique causes Greeting Su Prahbhaat Pronounced Soo PRAB hat Gujarati India World War I The causes of this war were mainly rivalries and balance of power shifts The trigger of this war was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria Spanned from Europe to Turkey to Africa Forced liberal regimes to reconsider mass society and discover remedies to economic issues Organization and technology joined WWI destroyed empires Fractious new nation states created Poland Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia American becomes a world power Consequences Soviet communism rise of Hitler WWII and the Holocaust In 1917 the Bolsheviks began immediately shoring their power up to defend themselves form White Russian enemies and multinational groups After Lenin came Stalin and with him socialism he saw it as anticapitalism Giant collective farms were organized and peasants were not pleased and thus protested Terror wound up being the norm across all levels of Soviet society The Nazis combined anti Semitism and anticapitalism along with disavowal of the Versailles Agreement Hitler was placed in jail wrote Mein Kampf and the Nazis eventually brought him into power as chancellor He asserted the ideas of a pure race in Germany with the goal of ridding the country of Jews Mass Mobilization Authoritarian Regimes shared common features They rejected parliamentary rule and they promoted state involvement in controlling the economy Mass organizations were employed and rallied the youth Women were put into traditional roles outside of the public realm Terror was rampant among foreigners subjects and citizens 13 million German troops 15 million Russian troops Russia and France had treaty Standstill Collapse of Germany No German territory was taken over in the West Map Post war responses Changes in India Turkey dismembered Revolution from above Stirrings in Africa People were becoming disillusioned with European colonialism and harbored notions of self determination and freedom Millions of colonial subjects were drafted from India and Africa by Britain and France Impact in Latin America States employed elements from both democracy and authoritarianism to solve their problems The Depression called for states to intervene within Latin American economies Elites and mass organizations united to help maintain elite positions by building support through popular policies and paternal concern for the masses Stem Timeline 1924 Mustafa Kemal leads Turkey to nationhood 1928 Muslim Brotherhood established 1929 1935 Collectivization in Russia 1930 Gandhi s March to the Sea 1933 Hitler becomes dictator of Germany 1933 1941 American New Deal 1936 1938 Great Purge in the Soviet Union 1936 1939 Popular Front rules France