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THE 20th CENTURY
The interwar period (1919-1939)
the German media and part of their political class exploited the legend of the stabbing in the back,
had put victory in the hands of the allies betraying the German people and their army.
late October 1929, there was a terrible financial crisis.
cause was an over-inflation of prices of stock products in Wall Street
The stock-market bubble was simply unsustainable
Many European countries who had sought loans from the United States to recover their economies in the aftermath of World War I suffered the return of American capital invested in these countries.
President Franklin managed to reverse the situation partially.
in Germany, in 1933, a party, the NSDAP, took advantage of the financial crisis and the discontent of the impoverished middle class.
Its leader was the German nationalized Austrian Adolf Hitler.
its anger against minorities, particularly the Jews
Hitler’s personal obsession was Lebensraun, the vital space, which he believed should facilitate German development, along with his pathological antisemitism.
In Central Europe, since the end of World War I, a series of traditional regimes without a democratic background had been established.
Central Europe, were rapidly moving away from liberal-democratic ideals.
Germany before the beginning of the World War II, launched a kind of Central European economic colonialism.
violation of the Polish border on September 1, 1939.
World War II and afterwards
The consequences of World War II were terrible.
total death toll is about 50 to 60 million people.
the USSR (the Soviet Union) were a way to force public opinion to take a stand against their own government and demand their leaders to cease hostilities.
United States provoked the Japanese surrender by dropping two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Western Allies launched an offensive on Germany from the west while the USSR did so from the east.
Soviet forces gained control of Berlin on May 2, 1945.
The United Nations were founded to assure that never again there would be a conflict of World War II.
two superpowers attracted most of the countries in the World to either one side or the other
US
USSR
UN’s
key institutions are the General Assembly, a Security Council and an Economic and Social Council
played a key role in the decolonization process.
Late 20th Century
1989 the Communist block began its dismantling from within, promoted by CPSU
save Communism for the Soviet Union.
ideas of Perestroika and Glasnost
was freeing the Eastern countries from their ideological influence.
It was the age of globalization,
more integrated world
economic, cultural and political interconnections.
without proper infrastructure, communications, economic or political power
left behind in this newly integrative process
9/11/2001, the terrorist attack on the New World Trade Center and other targets of interest of the so called hegemonic power
9/11/2001 meant new challenges for the US and their allies
establish this Western World hegemony
fall of the Berlin Wall
Early 20th Century and the road to World War I
1899-1900, the so called “civilised world”
A Second Industrial Revolution had been added to the first one
the car engine
There was concern for a series of problems.
several European powers had embarked on an arms race
transatlantic crossings
electrical power
medicine and science were promising a bright future
On June, 28, 1914, Gavrilo Prinzip, acting on behalf of the Black Hand, a Serbian secret society murdered the heir to the Austro-Hongarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, along with his wife Sophie.
start World War I. 1914-1918
1917, Russia retreated from the war in exchange for large territorial concessions to the favour the central powers
Soviet Revolution
Germany and the rest of the Central Powers ended up capitulating: the Peace of Versailles (1919)