It is clear that if the Western Powers were against Hitler, war could have been avoided, it encouraged Hitler, Hitler could never be appeased, and that it prompted the Nazi-Soviet Pact. However due to its failure the policy of appeasement, to some extent was responsible for the collapse of International Pease by 1939, but not mainly responsible. There were superseded by other factors: Treaty of Versailles, the Great Depression, role of Hitler and the failure of League of Nations. Appeasement means giving into a nations demand in order to avoid further conflict or war. World War 1 caused the death of nearly nine million people and cost huge sums of money.
Farming around the thirty year period of 1870 to 1900 was not a fair or successful one. One demographic that suffered immensely was the black population. Fresh out of the civil war, African Americans tried to acquire land, but had a difficult time paying off loans, which had high interest rates and took property as collateral. Black land owners were then forced to take out more loans, which thrust them into a spiraling debt (Document B). As seen in “The Farmers’ Grievances”, a skillful farmer, compared to his physicist or tailor counterparts would never terminate his financial troubles; and in contrast to other professions, advancements and pioneering in the farming field only dug the financial pit deeper (Document A).
Due to this debt the government then resulted in printing money and this resulted in inflation. Inflation destroyed savings of the middle class and especially effected land owners as they relied on rent. State employees and factory workers purchasing power fell by 25% because of the value of the Iire. The state also spent 148 billion lire on the war effort and inflation increased with the price index quadrupling, and rising from 100 in 1914 to 413 in 1918. Conscription soaked up rural unemployment and some peasants grew prosperous.
Was Churchill justified in using the strategic bom • Russia had been pushing for a seconf front in Europe which would involve an amphibious landing. Churchill had had several disasters with amphibious landings (Gallipoli/ Narvick) and knowing it was an area of weakness leant towards the bombing campaign • Churchill understood that an amphbious landing could potentially result in the loss of thousands of British lives (lack of resources and weak army) and using the bombing campaign instead would "deal" with Germany quickly without the loss of as many British lives. • In the context of the time, Btisain has been bombed by Germany and many had suffered. Many people in the general public probably fely Germany deserved to be bombed after the destruction of towns like Conventry and areas of London. • Was a way of loweing morale and hindering German progression in the war, targeting their resources and factories.
This was known as the infamous “war guilt clause.” · Germany had to pay £6.6 bn in reparations to the countries they fought against in the war. (£6.6 bn is a lot but nothing compared to the £20 bn Clemenceau wanted originally). · A league of nations was set up to keep world peace. · Germany was forbidden to reunite with Austria to for one superstate, in an attempt to keep Germany’s economic potentional to a minimum. · Alsace-Lorraine was taken from Germany and given to France.
The League of Nations, were an organization to create global peace after the World War 1 which caused continental scale destruction in Europe from 28th January 1914 till 11th November 1918. It was a war where total 37 million people were wounded or dead. After this deadly war, The League was set up to settle international conflicts and prevents war through the collective security. Although the League was set up to settle conflicts around the world in a fair and peaceful solution, it soon failed its job due to the greed of the member states. The League of Nations was an organization thought of by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of United States.
Furthermore during this time Americans had a surplus of goods and services from which to choose, and the money with which to purchase them. However,the economic boom brought high inflation, which kept poorer citizens from saving any money, the lowest-paid workers in the country were the farm workers, with sales clerks and unskilled labourers .Happy, a sales clerk, Biff an aspiring farmworker , and Willy Loman a man with a dwindling sales career reflect the mental state of the American People of the time that battled to achieve Capitalist success i.e. acquiring material possessions as the basis of social approval. Willy loman in particular was effected by the Capitalist ideal , he believed that being "well liked" and a great salesman would make him a man worth remembering . But at the age of sixty- three and nearing retirement, Willy is seen as a man who gave all of his life to a business, "I'm tired to death" only to be thrown in the scrap-heap and as a house holder whose pattern of life was interwoven with instalment plans with which he could hardly catch up.
How successful were Stalin’s economic policies? In 1928 Stalin main objective was to convert USSR into a modern economic power. Although the NEP had brought some economic development Russia was still far behind any other state in Europe. Stalin him self stated that the Soviet Union would be fifty to one hundred years behind the advanced countries and that they would have to make good this disadvantage in ten years or get crushed by those other countries. Stalin therefore abolished the NEP and introduced a new series of economic policies.
(a) Why was there a revolution in Russia in 1905? The origins of the revolution in 1905 could be divided in long-term and short-term causes. Since the end of 19th century, Russian economy had been backward compared to other European countries, which had already gone through the industrial revolution, while Russian population were constantly growing, and the majority of that was peasantry. In 1892, Witte was appointed by Alexander III as the minister of finance and embarked on a program of industrial expansion trying to improve the economic situation. This industrialization was too rapid to succeed, since the foundation of economy, the agriculture of the country, had not been modernized yet.
The League of Nations was founded in 1919, right after the end of WWI, and was one of Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points. Its four aims were to: discourage aggression from any nation; encourage countries to co-operate; encourage nations to disarm and improve the living and working conditions of people in all parts of the world. On the one hand, the League of Nations failed because it was doomed from the start and they were unable to deal with militarism and rearmament in the 1930s. On the other hand, in the 1920s the League of Nations enjoyed some success. I believe that even though the League of Nations had some successes, in the end the League of Nations was a failure as it could not prevent World War Two from starting in 1939.