https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3 Treaty of Versailles, Global Depression, and the Rise of Fascism, Totalitarianism, and Nationalism en-us 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC 2025-10-28 08:20:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9e8.png s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999450 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999450 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999451 Italy switched alliances in 1917 with the promise of new territory if/when the Allied Powers won.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999451 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999452 Bolshevik Russia refused to pay their war debts to the Allied Powers  --> Allied Powers refuse to recognize the new Bolshevik government]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999452 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999453 - "Peace without Victory"
- Self-Determination for former Central Powers territories
- 14 Points & League of Nations

]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999453 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999454 - France experienced devastation due to being a major front of the war
- Britain wants payback too]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999454 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999455 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999455 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999456 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999456 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999457 (none of the other Cental Powers exist anymore)]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999457 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999459 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999459 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999462 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999462 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999463 China supported the Allied Powers in the war]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999463 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999465 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999465 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999469 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999469 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999470 Germany doesn't have money to pay, so they just print more]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999470 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999471 Grievances? Terrible economy (a lot of inflation + Great Depression), weak democratic government, humiliation after WW1
Plans? Militarize, fix the economy, establish a dictatorship, make the nation proud, prepare for war
Targeting? Jews, communists, homosexuals, disabled people, Romani
Effects? Tension between Germany and Britain + France, country quickly becomes authoritarian dictatorship, revitalized aggressive foreign policy, alliance with Fascist Italy, all leads to WW2.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999471 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999473 Grievances? Bad economy (Great Depression), very little gain after WW1, weak government (constitutional monarchy)
Plans? Revitalize the economy, create a strong government, preparing to create a "new Roman Empire."
Targeting? Communists, socialists, monarchists, racial minorities (like Slavs and Africans, but not as radical as the Nazis)
Effects? Italy becomes an authoritarian dictatorship, militarizes (but not as effective as the Nazis), allies with Germany, colonizes Ethiopia, WW2.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999473 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999475 France and Britain are counting on German reparations and Soviet debt repayments in order to pay their own debts, no money in = no money out]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999475 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999476 1. After a brief surge in the 20's people have over-invested in the stock market  --> Crash
2. Agricultural Overproduction --> low prices on goods --> farmers can't pay off debts
3. European debtors aren't paying]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999476 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999477 Starting with the US, countries begin passing tariffs intending to protect their domestic economies.
How does this help create a GLOBAL depression?
These high tariffs raised import prices to the point were imports and exports decreased drastically, eventually leading to blank failures and crippled industries.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999477 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999478 What is it? Series of financial regulations imposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Relief? Creating new jobs for those in crisis and provide welfare.
Recovery? Intended to stabilize economy through higher agriculture prices, long-term employment, and help in paying mortgages to keep homes.
Reform? A reform to the financial system to prevent and avoid another depression. These programs included social security systems, workers rights, and financial aid for farmers.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999478 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999479 Areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America that were economically dependent on Imperial powers experience severe economic consequences]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999479 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999480 Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999480 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999481 1. Effect of Global Depression on Japan?
Exports cut by half, a lot of unemployment, political crisis, and Japan isolated, Japanese currency devalued.
2. New Territories Seized?
Manchuria in Northern China, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, British Malaya, Burma, and many Pacific islands..
3. Why did they leave the League of Nations?
League of Nations condemned their actions in Manchuria and Japan got mad.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999481 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999482 What is it?
The territories that they took a.ka. the aforementioned Pacific islands.
What are the goals?
Supposedly liberated people from Western imperialism.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999482 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999484 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999484 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999485 Grievances?
The German-controlled land on the Shandong Peninsula was given to the Japanese in the Paris Peace Conference instead of China. Angry at European power because they sided with Japan. 
Plans?
Create a government based on the Marxist model of the United Soviet Socialist Republic
Targeting?
They were targeting the peasants.
Effects?
Social credit, Tiananmen square massacre, digital censorship, and many more.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999485 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999486 Grievances? Chinese Monarchy, Manchu people in power, Famine, and Poor economy.
Plans? The three principles: Nationalism, Democracy, and Society. Promoted westernization.
Targeting? Qing Dynasty, Manchu, Imperialist forces
Effects? Westernization, Reimplementation of Confucianism, Warlords filling power vacuum, and Improve taxation.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999486 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999489 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999489 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999491 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999491 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999492 Colonies of allied powers felt betrayed that their sacrifices during the war were not acknowledged, and angered that they were not afforded the opportunity for self-determination that some European peoples were given]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999492 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999493 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999493 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999494 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999494 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999495 What were they? A large, country-wide series of plans imposed by Stalin in order to modernize the largely agrarian Soviet Union
What were the goals? Industrialize the USSR rapidly, collectivize agriculture
What were the outcomes? Millions of people starve to death due to famine and disease, Soviet Union becomes industrialized over a very short amount of time]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999495 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999497 Plans? Consolidate power and rid the Soviet Union of internal enemies after the death of Lenin left a huge power vacuum.
Targeting? Capitalists, industrialists, all religious people, and any political enemies not loyal to Stalin
Effects? Soviet Union becomes a one-party dictatorship under Stalin, later leads to his brutal purges and 5-year plans, also he leads the country through WW2.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999497 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999498 Nationalists?
They started out as an uprising in Spanish Morocco led by General Francisco Franco which quickly spread to mainland Spain.
Republicans/Loyalists?
They were the defenders of the newly formed Spanish Republic.
Some Historians argue that the Spanish Civil War is the actual beginning of WWII, to what extent do you agree or disagree and why?
I disagree because the Spanish Civil War seems more like a test bed for the foreign powers who intervened rather than a start to the Second World War.

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The workers suffered greatly which compounded the frustration of the urban middle class.
How do the steps that Vargas takes compare to those of other totalitarian rulers at the time?
His government didn't praise or rely on violence to achieve and maintain control.]]> 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999499 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999501 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999501 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999503 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999503 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999505 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999505 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999508 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999508 s1669017 https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999510 2022-02-16 14:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s1669017/719av2yhc3rkcoh3/wish/2050999510