History 242 Final Review (in progress)

History 242 with Andersen at University of Tennessee - Knoxville

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Manifesto of the Communist Party

Not So Quiet...: Stepdaughters of War (Women & Peace)

The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier

The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Vol. 2: Since 1500
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The origins of WWI

Secret Alliances

Arms Race

National rivalries and empire

The rise of Germany and Weltpolotik

Decline of the Ottoman Empire

Nationalism in the Balkans

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

WWI

1914-1918

Central Powers (Austria, Hungary and Germany)

Allies (France, Great Britain, and Russia) Emerged from Entente Cordiale between France and Grt Brit.

Italy joined allies in 1915.

Trench warfare.

Armistice signed November 11, 1918 by Germany.

The Russian Revolution

1917. Bolshevik Revolution or October Revolution.

Provisional government overthrown by the Bolsheviks.

Banks were nationalized.

Control of factories given to workers.

Land seized (without compensation) from nobles and the church.

Secret diplomatic documents published.

The 14 Points and the Paris Peace Conference

Woodrow Wilson

#1 Transparency

#4 Reduction of arms

#8 Return of Alsace and Lorraine to France

#14 Creation of the League of Nations

#6 & #13 National self-determination

Diplomacy in the 1920s and 1930s

Appeasement

Weimar Republic

February 1919

A parliamentary republic.

Relied on street violence and paramilitary groups rather that parliaments to solve political problems.

Fascism in Italy

Benito Mussolini

March on Rome (1922)

The Black Shirts

The Nazis and the 3rd Reich

Adolf Hitler

National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis)

The Storm Troops - Formed by Roehm

Promoted Arian superiority

Hitler youth

Hitler becomes chancellor in 1933 and withdraws from League of Nations

The Spanish Civil War

1936-1939

Fight to determine Spain as a democracy or an authoritarian state.

General Francosco Franco

WWII

1939-1945 Germany attacked Poland

Allies: Grt Brit, US, France and USSR

Axis: Germany, Japan and Italy

Holocaust

US entered war in 1941 after attack by japan

The Holocaust

Hitler's Final solution