Notes

WW1:
- How did the nations get into war?
- How the nations backed into war, (nobody wanted)
- How an assassination of Franz Ferdinand sparked WW1.
- How Nationalism and alliances led to war. Intense nationalism.
- First World War.
- Industrial Revolution led to new advancements in weaponry.
- Aftermath of the war, treaty of versailles.
- Effect is important: Led to WW2
- Germany thought it was very unfair -> WW2
- League of Nations (ineffective)
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Interwar years:
Main question: How nations attempted to bring peace to Europe?
Isolationism was key in Europe.
Seak peaceful means to solve disputes
Nations tried to outlaw war, kellog-briand pact. Attempts to outlaw war.
Ended up being very naive.
The depression in US and Europe.
Isolationism is an outgrowth of reactions to war and imperialism + militarism
People are scared during depression, try to find scapegoats.
Hitler -> blames capitalist countries.
Rearmament solves depression.
How severe the depression was?
How the depression led into WW2.
The nations let Hitler do what he wanted to do; because of isolationism.
Before WW2 starts, takes over Austria and Czechoslovakia.
Hitler meets with British prime minister, appeasement of Munich.
Why were countries unprepared for war?
WW2:
- Germany had huge victories in beginning.
What turned the tide against Germany and Japan.
- Technology has advanced, death and destruction became greater.
- Germany was fighting a three front war; East, West, and Jews.
- What was Holocaust, what took place, aftermath.

Cold War:
- Winston Churchill goes to Missouri and says Cold War has descended upon Europe.
- Cold War comes out of WW2.
- Cold War starts during war because Soviets liberate Eastern Europe + Eastern Germany.
- Allies stay in Western Europe + Western Germany.
- Atomic diplomacy, US drops bomb on Japan twice.
- US sending soviet a signal that they should get out of eastern europe.
- Physiological and Physical effects of Atomic bomb are great.
- Diplomatic disagreements with soviets.
- Physiological war -> leads to arms race.
- leads to atomic arms race.
- Leads to more conventional bombs; spending a lot of money on arms race.
- Leads to Korean War, leads to war in Vietnam in 1965, leads to Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Almost leads to a third WW.
- 1989 Iron Curtain came down, Berlin wall came down.
- How and Why did Cold War officially end?