Chapter

AP* Sixth Edition

World Civilizations The Global Experience

The World Between the Wars, WWII, and Post WWII Developments Corresponds to Ch 29-30

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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....