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Chapter
AP* Sixth Edition
World Civilizations The Global Experience
The World Between the Wars, WWII, and Post WWII Developments Corresponds to Ch 29-30
15
Economics of WWI
USA
French Rebuilding Struggles
Germany
Britain
Soviet Union
Shrinking from World #1 -War & -Colonial Independence dominance
Growing to World #1 -European Creditor -Roaring 20s!!
$$$
Reparations$$$
Bolsheviks stop loans
WWI Loans
$$$
Reparations hinders Republic’s rebuilding process, Nazis gain…
Reparations$$$IOUs
Economics of 1929
USA
Germany & Italy
Britain
Stock Market Crash 1/3 out of work
no $$ to lend Europe
Can’t pay reparations Can’t rebuild
Rise of Fascists….new glory - extreme nationalism and racism!
Rebuilding Ends No reparations No USA Credit
World
Economy
France
Russia to Soviet Union
1924 - Lenin dies, Joseph Stal…in! 5 Year Plans - private farms taken by gov’t -Collectivization
Not Marxist - no sharing of power or profits
Gulags - camps millions died -Official numbers closer to 1 million, but many released before death...thanks!
Famine - Millions died, food to Communists/Military
Great Purge- Political rivals killed
European 30sAppeasement - French and British saying “no”
to Germany, but doing nothing to stop em.
Final Straw - Germany invades Poland who Britain and France had alliance with = WWII
Fascists Unite Germany & Italy Blitzkrieg begins
Nazi-Soviet Pact Let’s divide up E
Europe - Germany & Russia!
Hitler breaks Pact!
Japan Grows!
Like US - Roaring 20s, Depression 30s
1. Expansion Rape of Nanjing 250,000 Chinese killed.
2. Tripartite Pact Japan, Italy, and Germany
-Japanese control after WWI
Nanjing
War in Pacific
Why Pearl Harbor Japanese?
-US doesn’t recognize Japan as equal after WWI.
-Conflicts over control of China
-**US discrimination at home of Japanese-Americans**
America’s Yellow Peril….barred from buying homes, kept from unions, becoming citizens…immigration halted in 1920s!
Western Front
Battle of Britain Churchill & Radar
Normandy D Day 1944
Final Solution - killing of Nazi’s Jewish scapegoats
Hitler violates Nazi-Soviet Pact Soviet’s join Allies
20 million more die in WWII
Allies Advance - Africa----Italy----Normandy
100 yards long x 10 yards wide
-About 300 men - 16 officers and 280 enlisted men -Most men under the age of 23 years of age. -Took German fire in D-Day Invasion -Duty to support troops landing ashore on Normandy -Escorted FDR to Yalta Conference in 1945
USS Baldwin
4 WWII Outcomes1. Germany to 4 slices
France, US, Britain & USSR
2. Japan shrinks Korea split US and USSR
3. Iron Curtain Falls USSR control E Europe
4. Marshall Plan - Big Difference!
US loans to Europe for rebuilding - success
China to Post WWII
Mao Zedong’s Communism Long March- peasant workers march
Kai-shek’s Democracy Sphere of Influence supported - Fail, UNPOPULAR!?
1949 to Taiwan
US supports ouster of Japan, but cannot convince democratic principles. Communists promise land reform and gov’t roles for peasants - Zedong brings Communism
That Little Strip
1930s - Britain supports Zionists to continue in “Promised Land” -British - Want out, badly!!!
-Post WWII - United Nations (Old League of..) supports partition of Palestine into Jewish/Arab areas
Rare USSR and USA agreement!
Borders will change.....
Partition of IndiaBritain agrees to Indian independence after WWII and believes as Ghandi did that Muslims and Hindus could live under “1 roof.” That’s when it unravels. Hindu-Muslim relationships fail and Britain flips to a separation policy in ‘47
Ali Jinnah Partitioned in thirds in ’47. West and East become Islamic Pakistan/Bangladesh. Center becomes Hindu India. 500,000 killed in the process. Perpetual conflict continues....