Because Everyone Liked It So Much Last Time...
MOAR NOTES!!!
Now in History flavour!!
also, I think I may be missing one or two days...if anyone has 'em and wants to put 'em on here, I would have no objections :D
April 7, 2009
Fascism appealed to people traumatized by these treaty provisions
Fiercely nationalistic
Anti-individualistic
Anti-civil liberties
These things hinder national goals
Authoritarian
Militaristic
Promise/suggest order
Cult of the leader
National socialism…the first two letters in the German word for National and Socialism=NAZI
One form of fascism
They build a political program/platform based around national pride (denouncing the Versailles Treaty) and promising order (economic and social)
This would all be achieved at the expense of civil liberties, individual rights, etc.
Nazis "identified" a problem=>Jewish conspiracy
Scapegoat the Jews as responsible for all Germany's problems
The advent of the great depression in the early 30s greatly increases Nazi popularity
By 1933, the Nazis are in power-through three things, they increase their power;
1) police state/concentration camps=>Hitler eventually gets absolute power
2) controlling the economy through a state and business partnership
3) spectacle=>huge rallies, propaganda
He begins to boost national pride by repudiating the Versailles treaty
1) 1935-1936-ignores the treaty provisions regarding de- militarization, no air force, etc
2) no one does ANYTHING about it
APPEASEMENT
England, France, etc, were so traumatized by WWI that they were largely pacifist now
They had other things (social programs) to spend money on
3) a growing sense that the Germans had suffered enough and maybe the treaty had gone too far
British prime minister Chamberlain
Hitler's aggression begins 1938-1939
1938-spring Hitler annexes Austria (without a fight)
Fall-Hitler threatens Czechoslovakia (over the Sudetenland)
The Sudetenland happens to have the best arms factories in the world
Chamberlain flies to Munich to meet Hitler…and brokers a "deal"=>Hitler can take over the Sudetenland IF he promises to stop expanding Germany
1939-spring-Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia
FINALLY, appeasement is discredited
Fall-Hitler invades Poland
Because the British had (FINALLY) drawn a line in the sand and guaranteed the safety of Poland, WWII begins with this event
The situation in Russia:
1917-democratic-socialist revolution eventually followed by a communist or "revolutionary-socialist" revolution
In theory, the "dictatorship of proletariat" is instituted
Dictatorship is an important part of it!!!!(!)
1st dictator-Lenin
2nd dictator-Stalin (mid 1920s to the mid 1950s)
Similar to Nazism
A) extensive welfare system
B) lack of civil liberties (Police state, use of terror systematically to control the population)
Key difference: Nazism operated within a capitalist (largely) framework and had more survival of private ownership in the system generally
Russia became the key member in "the union (by force) of Soviet Socialist Republics"
Soviet=workers committee
(they'd been key during the revolution)
April 14
While Britain and france were pacifist in the 1920s and 30s, the US was isolationist (they felt betrayed by the Versailles treaty…they hadn't been listened to)
The US president during WWI=>Wilson…was an idealist
He did NOT want to punish germany, had an idea for a "League of Nations"=>he was not listened to
The French were confident that germany couldn't invade…
They'd built a massive, defensive wall
"the Maginot Line"
But the germans will eventually just go around it (through Belgium)
Blitzkrieg
The RAF (Royal Air Force) fought the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) with the help of RADAR…and great heroism
The Japanese decide to expand their empire to get raw materials (oil, rubber, etc) and attack the US to prevent retaliation
They attack the US on December 7, 1941
April 15, 2009
Bushido-Japanese warrior code: no surrender
September 1939-Albert Einstein fled, contacted president Eisenhower about nuclear weapons.
Now in History flavour!!
also, I think I may be missing one or two days...if anyone has 'em and wants to put 'em on here, I would have no objections :D
April 7, 2009
Fascism appealed to people traumatized by these treaty provisions
Fiercely nationalistic
Anti-individualistic
Anti-civil liberties
These things hinder national goals
Authoritarian
Militaristic
Promise/suggest order
Cult of the leader
National socialism…the first two letters in the German word for National and Socialism=NAZI
One form of fascism
They build a political program/platform based around national pride (denouncing the Versailles Treaty) and promising order (economic and social)
This would all be achieved at the expense of civil liberties, individual rights, etc.
Nazis "identified" a problem=>Jewish conspiracy
Scapegoat the Jews as responsible for all Germany's problems
The advent of the great depression in the early 30s greatly increases Nazi popularity
By 1933, the Nazis are in power-through three things, they increase their power;
1) police state/concentration camps=>Hitler eventually gets absolute power
2) controlling the economy through a state and business partnership
3) spectacle=>huge rallies, propaganda
He begins to boost national pride by repudiating the Versailles treaty
1) 1935-1936-ignores the treaty provisions regarding de- militarization, no air force, etc
2) no one does ANYTHING about it
APPEASEMENT
England, France, etc, were so traumatized by WWI that they were largely pacifist now
They had other things (social programs) to spend money on
3) a growing sense that the Germans had suffered enough and maybe the treaty had gone too far
British prime minister Chamberlain
Hitler's aggression begins 1938-1939
1938-spring Hitler annexes Austria (without a fight)
Fall-Hitler threatens Czechoslovakia (over the Sudetenland)
The Sudetenland happens to have the best arms factories in the world
Chamberlain flies to Munich to meet Hitler…and brokers a "deal"=>Hitler can take over the Sudetenland IF he promises to stop expanding Germany
1939-spring-Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia
FINALLY, appeasement is discredited
Fall-Hitler invades Poland
Because the British had (FINALLY) drawn a line in the sand and guaranteed the safety of Poland, WWII begins with this event
The situation in Russia:
1917-democratic-socialist revolution eventually followed by a communist or "revolutionary-socialist" revolution
In theory, the "dictatorship of proletariat" is instituted
Dictatorship is an important part of it!!!!(!)
1st dictator-Lenin
2nd dictator-Stalin (mid 1920s to the mid 1950s)
Similar to Nazism
A) extensive welfare system
B) lack of civil liberties (Police state, use of terror systematically to control the population)
Key difference: Nazism operated within a capitalist (largely) framework and had more survival of private ownership in the system generally
Russia became the key member in "the union (by force) of Soviet Socialist Republics"
Soviet=workers committee
(they'd been key during the revolution)
April 14
While Britain and france were pacifist in the 1920s and 30s, the US was isolationist (they felt betrayed by the Versailles treaty…they hadn't been listened to)
The US president during WWI=>Wilson…was an idealist
He did NOT want to punish germany, had an idea for a "League of Nations"=>he was not listened to
The French were confident that germany couldn't invade…
They'd built a massive, defensive wall
"the Maginot Line"
But the germans will eventually just go around it (through Belgium)
Blitzkrieg
The RAF (Royal Air Force) fought the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) with the help of RADAR…and great heroism
The Japanese decide to expand their empire to get raw materials (oil, rubber, etc) and attack the US to prevent retaliation
They attack the US on December 7, 1941
April 15, 2009
Bushido-Japanese warrior code: no surrender
September 1939-Albert Einstein fled, contacted president Eisenhower about nuclear weapons.