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Totalitarianism

Information• Who

The Triple AllianceFrance – Britain - Russia

The Triple EntenteGermany – Italy – Austria Hungary

MexicoAfricaMiddle EastIndiaChina

Information

• What• Nationalism• Imperialism• Democracy• Totalitarianism

• When – Early 1900’s

Information

• Where

Knowledge

• Triple Entente of Great Britain, France, and Russia

• Triple Alliance, consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

How/Why - The Great War Begins

Knowledge

•How/Why An assassination in the Balkans sparked the outbreak of World War I.

Knowledge

•How/Why - Strikes and violent actions by Socialist labor movements also threatened European governments.

Knowledge

•How - Trench warfare between France and Germany turned into a stalemate and casualties mounted throughout Europe.

Knowledge

•How/Why - The United States entered the war in 1917 in response to the German use of submarines against passenger ships.

Knowledge

• How/Why - As the war dragged on, propaganda was used to bolster public opinion.

Knowledge

• How/Why - Women entered the workforce in large numbers.

Knowledge

• The Russian Revolution• Russia was unprepared for World War I and

suffered massive casualties early in the war.

Knowledge

• How/Why• Nicholas stepped down

as czar, and a provisional government was formed.

1 : any of various economic and political theories

advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means

of production and distribution of goods

2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is

no private property b : a system or condition of society

in which the means of production are owned and

controlled by the state

Socialist

Knowledge

•How/Why • The Bolsheviks

committed to violent revolution, played a crucial role under the leadership of V.I. Lenin.

Knowledge•How/Why • In October 1917, the Bolsheviks overthrew the

provisional government.• The czar and his family were held captive and

then executed by members of a local soviet.

1 : a member of the extremist wing of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917

Knowledge

•How/Why • Civil war ensued between the Bolshevik

Communist regime and anti-Communists.

1 a : a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed

Knowledge

•How/Why • Despite aid from the Allied forces, the anti-

Communists were defeated by a well-disciplined Communist Red Army.

Knowledge• How/Why • End of the War• Allied forces

finally defeated Germany at the Second Battle of the Marne but would not make peace with the German emperor.

End of the War

• Wisdom• U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sought to pave the way

for a just and lasting peace by creating the League of Nations.

an organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I.

http://www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html

Wisdom

• End of the War • The Treaty of Versailles imposed harsh penalties

on Germany.

Wisdom

• The war settlements redrew the map of Europe and imposed heavy penalties on Germany.

Wisdom

• Millions died during the war• Revolution in Russia• Totalitarian governments• Set the stage for World War II

Imperialism

• “The creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire based on domination and subordination."

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Democracy

• Democracy is a political government carried out either directly by the people (direct democracy) or by means of elected representatives of the people (representative democracy).

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Totalitarianism

• System of government and ideology in which all social, political, economic, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual activities are subordinated to the purposes of the rulers of a state.

Totalitarianism

• Those countries whose governments are usually characterized as totalitarian are Germany, under the National Socialism of Adolf Hitler; the USSR, particularly under Joseph Stalin; and the People's Republic of China, under the Communist rule of Mao Zedong. Other governments have also been called totalitarian, for example, those of Italy under Benito Mussolini, North Korea under Kim Il Sung, Syria under Hafez al-Assad, and Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

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