History ( WW I, Russian Revolution and the rise of fascism in Germany)
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WorldWarIEra2spring2022.pptxI. A Modern War
Use of machine guns, airplanes, tanks, submarines, zeppelins
Bigger, more accurate cannons
Barbed-wire, phosphorous shells, mustard gas
Targeting of civilian populations
10 million soldiers die; 7 million civilians
20 million wounded
58% casualty rate
Massive influenza epidemic kills 50 million more worldwide (3% of global population)
II. Domestic Impacts of The Great War
Greater Power for Executives
Boon to Certain Industries and Corporations
Further Decline for Landed Aristocracy
Gains For Labor Unions
Great Migration in United States
Debt, Inflations, Taxes
Women in Workforce; in Political Causes of the War
Propaganda
Committee on Public Information
April 1917 Woodrow Wilson creates Committee on Public Information (CPI), headed by George Creel
75 million pamphlets distributed
Ads, Posters, Movies
Four-Minute Men
Represented U.S. as beacon of freedom, juxtaposed with tyranny of Germany
Targeted war protestors, represented Germans as animals
Function of unpopularity of war and possibilities of the new mass media and technology
III.Paris Peace Conference (1919)
Immediate Impacts:
*Germany Humiliated, Punished, Forced to Accept Blame
*Loses its Colonies
*Self-Determination in Europe: Create New States (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary)
*League of Nations Created But Weak
* Mandates Established in Middle East
*Japan shut out of negotiations
*Ho Chi Minh Ignored
Versailles Treaty: A Shameful End to a Shameful War
Europe After World War I
Middle East after World War I
Question of Russia…
Not present at Paris Peace Conference
Viewed as threat to global order
Communist
Anti-imperialist
Refused to honor Russian treaties or debts
The World War I Era
Causes
Course of the War
Domestic Impacts
Impacts Geopolitically
“A World Safe for Democracy”
The Lost Utopia….
