Germany 1900-1939.

By Destellosdorados

  • Germany and Britain began an arms race.

    Germany built 40 battleships and cruisers.

  • Alliances were formed for security.

    1904 – Entente Cordiale (Britain and France).

  • There were two crises over Morocco.

    Moroccan crisis (1905-1906).

  • Germany and Britain began an arms race.

    Britain built the first Dreadnought.

  • Triple Entente (Russia, Britain and France).

    Germany built its own version (1907), but Britain had a new, bigger kind.

  • Austrian invasion of Bosnia.

    Many people living there were Slavs, who wanted to unite with Serbia. The Austrian invasion was resented by the Slavic peoples everywhere, including Russia. Serbia wanted to unite the Slavic peoples in the region, and resented the invasion of Bosnia.

  • The major powers made plans for war.

    Russia and Austria started to mobilize.

  • The Agadir Crisis.

    French troops sent to Fez to fight Moroccan rebels.Germany accused France of trying to take control over Morocco, and sent a warship, hoping to force France to give them the French Congo. Britain objected to the German action because they had.

  • Event that triggered the First World War.

    The Archduke was killed by a Serb student called Princip while he visited Sarajevo in June 1914. Princip was a Black Hand member. This assassination only triggered the war, it didn’t cause it.

  • The End of the Fighting and the Revolutionary Parties.

    Russia pulled out of the War in 1917. In April 1917 the USA joined the Allies. Germany had to attack before all the Americans arrived.
    The ‘February’ Revolution of 1917.Revolutionary opposition was widespread.Marxism said capitalism was wrong.Marx saw history as a process of change.The Communist ideal… and reality.

  • The War to End all Wars.

    The war to end all wars.
    Food rationing started in 1918.
    Women 30+ got the vote in 1918.
    Ending the German War.The Germans were advancing.
    A Civil War was looming.

  • The Versailles Treaty.

    Germany had to return land taken from France, Belgium, Poland and others. German colonies in Africa were shared between Fr and Brit. Germany had to pay reparations of £6600 million to compensate the Allies for the cost of the war.

  • The League of Nations.

    It solved the disputes:-Germany and Poland over Upper Silesia.-Sweden and Finland over the Aaland Islands.-When Greece invaded Bulgaria.-It also did a lot of good work to help refugees after the war.-It fought against slavery, and tried to create better working conditions for people all across the world.

  • Washington Conference.

    USA, Br & Fr reduced size of Navies.

  • Rapallo Treaty.

    Rus & Ger resumed diplomatic relations.

  • Geneva Protocol and Dawes Plan.

    Geneva Protocol 1924: Tried to make countries use the League to sort out disputes.Dawes Plan 1924: USA plan to lend money to Germany and extend payments.
    LENIN DIED.
    Lenin’s key strengths as a leader.

  • Locarno Treaties.

    Germany agreed to western borders set at Versailles.

  • Name countries that gave up democracy.

    Poland, Lithuania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact .

    65 nations agreed not to use force to settle arguments.

  • Young Plan.

    Reduced reparations by 75% gave Germany 59 years to pay.

  • Civil War in Spain and seven reasons why the League of Nations could be said to have failed.

    The political situation changed.
    Seven reasons:
    -The Manchurian crisis: weakness with Japan-Too many members didn’t keep to the rules.-Br and Fr didn’t lead strongly.-Many members didn’t want to risk a war.-Ambitious members like Hitler and Mussolini.-USA didn’t even join.-Instead of co-operation, the League allowed the old system of Alliances.

  • The results of Collectivization.

    After 1931, Collectivization began again:-Two sides to Collectivization.-State farms were an extension of collective farms.

  • The Five Year Plans.

    In 1932 a Second Five-Year Plan was started.There were serious problems with the plans.
    The famine continued.

  • The main aims of Adolf Hitler.

    He wanted to reverse the results of the Versailles Treaty, and bring all the former German peoples back under his control.

  • Mussolini invade Abyssinia and who signed the Anti-Comintern Pact.

    Abyssinia was well-positioned for Italy to add to her lands in Africa.Italy joined Japan and Germany in the Anti-Comintern Pact.

  • Germany send troops and three reasons why nobody stopped them.

    Into the Rhineland.
    Three reasons:-The League of Nations was busy with the Italian invasion of Abyssinia.-Britain protested but refused to act--France was in the middle of an election campaign.

  • The area of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted.

    Sudetenland.

  • Soviet Union make an agreement with Germany.

    The USSR never trusted the French, and couldn’t understand why nobody stood up to Hitler earlier. After Munich, Stalin decided to negotiate with Germany in order to protect the USSR.

  • Hitler invaded Poland in September.

    This was too much: BR and FR ordered him to leave. He ignored them and BR declared war on GER on 3rd September 1939.