https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s Treaty of Versailles, Global Depression, and the Rise of Fascism, Totalitarianism, and Nationalism en-us 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC 2025-05-24 18:20:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9e8.png s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906516 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906516 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906518 Italy switched alliances in 1917 with the promise of new territory if/when the Allied Powers won.]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906518 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906520 Bolshevik Russia refused to pay their war debts to the Allied Powers  --> Allied Powers refuse to recognize the new Bolshevik government]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906520 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906521 - "Peace without Victory"
- Self-Determination for former Central Powers territories
- 14 Points & League of Nations

]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906521 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906522 - France experienced devastation due to being a major front of the war
- Britain wants payback too]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906522 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906523 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906523 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906524 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906524 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906526 (none of the other Cental Powers exist anymore)]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906526 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906527 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906527 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906529 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906529 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906530 China supported the Allied Powers in the war]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906530 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906531 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906531 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906533 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906533 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906535 Germany doesn't have money to pay, so they just print more]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906535 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906536 Grievances?
Saddled with full blame of war and no longer able to effectively defend themselves. A very weak government was replaced with a charismatic figure that gave both a scapegoat and would ignore the debts.
Plans?
Ignore the Treaty of Versailles and remake the economy.
Targeting?
The Jewish, communists, and socialists.
Effects?
Loss of freedom of the press. Political opponents were silenced quietly. Led to holocaust (out of scope)]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906536 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906537 Grievances?
Jobless workers, striking workers, they were not given the land they were promised, the economy was down bad.
Plans?
Bring order to the streets, stop the ineffective politics, and bring back the old social order.
Targeting?
Socialists and striking workers
Effects?
Consolidated central power to the extreme, no labor unions, and got rid of political opponents.  Invaded Ethiopia at one point.]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906537 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906538 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]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906538 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906539 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]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906539 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906540 Starting with the US, countries begin passing tariffs intending to protect their domestic economies.
How does this help create a GLOBAL depression?
Countries that were previously dependent on trade and imports and Imperial goods were left out to dry and soon collapsed on themselves.]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906540 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906541 What is it?
Relief?
Recovery?
Reform?]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906541 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906542 Areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America that were economically dependent on Imperial powers experience severe economic consequences]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906542 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906543 Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906543 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906544 Effect of Global Depression on Japan?
Exports fell, unemployment rates skyrocketed, food shortages, and the last resort of selling women into prostitution were a few examples of the circumstances. Piled together, these serious threats to Japanese life led to a doubt in democracy and its abilities to lead.
New Territories Seized?
The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaya, Burma, Indochina, Manchuria, Hong Kong, parts of eastern China.
Why did they leave the League of Nations?
After seizing power and establishing the "puppet state," of Manchukuo and, in the process, enraging foreign Western powers, Japan decided it would be best to cut off any political ties with them and left the League of Nations.]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906544 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906545 What is it?
An imperialist idea of liberating multiple Western colonies that were then seized by Japan, such as the East Indies, Burma, and many other Pacific islands from Western rule.
What are the goals?
It's "founding values" were to seize control and liberate these territories from foreign European rule, but Japan's more than anything used these acquired territories as places to gain materials for their army.]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906545 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906547 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906547 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906548 Grievances?
Peasant class exploited
Plans?
A communist revolution made up of peasants in China, based on the Russian communist revolution.
Targeting?
Nationalist party, direct competitor in ideology.
Effects?
As the nationalist party rose more, the communist party fell into the shadows.]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906548 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906549 Grievances?
The nationalist party was devoted to full independence and industrialization.
Plans?
Their plans were to free China from foreign domination and overthrow the warlords.
Targeting?
The Nationalist party led by Chiang Kaishek attacked and nearly annihilated Mao's forces.
Effects?
Chiang Kaishek's control over the Chinese Nationalist Party led to the Chinese Civil War. ]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906549 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906550 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906550 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906551 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906551 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906552 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]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906552 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906553 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906553 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906554 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906554 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906555 What were they?
5-Year Plans were plans to develop industry and agriculture. They included collectivizing agriculture, where farmlands were taken from owners and given to large collectives to manage instead.
What were the goals?
To become an industrialized power and a greater part of the global economy.
What were the outcomes?
These plans and collectivization were highly hated. Specifically, the collectivization of agriculture was a huge failure, with millions starving to death. Nevertheless, the industry in Russia grew.]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906555 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906556 Plans?
Attempted to assume control over the people of the USSR.
Targeting?
Punished political opponents, sentencing many of them to fates that ended in death.
Effects?
Stalin kept his atrocities under wraps with a tight control over the press, but as Russia continued to industrialize and come into the world further as a new power, people noticed what had happened with a mix of awe and horror. The USSR became feared and known as a threat.]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906556 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906557 Nationalists?
Insurgents, led by General Francisco Franco were the nationalists against the Popular Front .
Republicans/Loyalists?
The Republicans/Loyalist defended the newly elected 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 agree that the Spanish Civil War could have been the beginning of WWII because powerful countries joined the Loyalists and Nationalists, and this increased the likelihood of a war between these disputing countries. ]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906557 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906558 Effect of Global Depression on Brazil?
How do the steps that Vargas takes compare to those of other totalitarian rulers at the time?]]> 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906558 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906559 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906559 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906561 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906561 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906562 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906562 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906563 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906563 s1698011 https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906565 2022-02-17 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1698011/xgwolxzi4xhke35s/wish/2053906565