HIST 1007 Chapter : October 29 The 1920s
Document Summary
The 1920s: hopes raised and disappointed, the treaty of versailles, 1919, the middle east, the mandates, the case of turkey, europe: inflation and its consequences, 1919-1923, the great depression, 1929-1933. Wrap up from the lecture on wwi: russian revolution, communism, lenin"s version of marxism, communist benefit behind madness, dictatorship so that lenin"s communists could catapult russia from stage 1 to stage 3; Soviet is the russian word for council : lenin hoped for a world revolution. This obviously never happened lenin believed workers of the world would unite and overthrow the bourgeoisie. He assumed since capitalist countries were at war with each other that capitalism was destroying itself: thus, communism became a worldwide issue, role of the us, the us got involved in wwi because of german submarine attacks. Germany right after the russian tsar was overthrown: hopes raised and disappointed, woodrow wilson was the president of the us during wwi.
