Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
FROM A HARSH POST-WAR PERIOD TO THE ROARING TWENTIES - Coggle Diagram
FROM A HARSH POST-WAR PERIOD TO THE ROARING TWENTIES
THE IDEOLOGIES OF THE POST-WAR PERIOD
ideologies
Nationalism
support in Wilson’s Fourteen Points
right to self-determination
allowed new states to emerge
Communism
Second International
dissolved as the socialist parties
did not share the same opinion about the Great War
socialist movement split
widely accepted by
revolutionary socialists
some anarchists
Spartacist Revolt
inspired the revolutionary workers
October Revolution
birth of the Soviet Union
Also seen in
short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic
Berlin (1919)
began a campaign of agitation
German communist members and sympathisers
revolutionaries were crushed
their leaders assassinated
Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht
A DIFFICULT RECOVERY AFTER THE GREAT WAR
first years in post-war Europe (1918–1925)
marked by a major economic crisis
lot of destruction and financial disorder
led to
low production rates
currency devaluation
unemployment
social problems
1923
Germany could not pay war reparations
France occupied the Ruhr Valley
Germany’s main mining and industrial region
worsened the German economic crisis
German government circulate a lot of paper money
not backed by equivalent deposits of gold or silver
inflation
general increase in the prices of goods and services
rose to 1 billion percent
led to the economic and moral ruin
managed to get out of hyperinflation
help from the United States
EUROPE BETWEEN 1918 AND 1925
THE ROARING TWENTIES
League of Nations
promote peaceful, open and balanced diplomacy
United States never joined
Germany and the Soviet Union later admitted
international relations were very tense
shown by the French occupation of the Ruhr Valley
prosperity of the United States
due to
development of industry
increased exports
he repayment of credit given to Europe
to credit granted to Europe
to rebuild the continent
financial operations on the stock market
people had access to consumer goods
‘the American way of life’
did not spread to Europe until after World War II
