Ap Euro: Mchapter 26 Outline
Chelsea Kim
Mr. Brewer
AP European History, Period 5
4-2-13
Chapter 26 Outline * An Uncertain Peace * The Decline of the West by German writer Oswald Spengler (1880-1936): reflected the idea that something was drastically wrong with Western values when he emphasized the decadence of Western civilization and posited its collapse * The Impact of World War I * As over 10 million people died in the war, an immediate response to these deaths was ceremonies to honor the dead as well as memorial parks, large monuments, and massive cemeteries (with ossuaries or vaults where the bones of thousands of unidentified bones were interred) * Created a lost generation of war veterans who became accustomed to violence * After the war, the veterans became pacifists * For others, violence of war became a starting point for violence in political movements in 1920s-1930s * Extremely nationalistic and eager to restore the national interests from the war * The Search for Security * The peace treaties attempted to fulfill the 19th century nationalism by reestablishing boundaries and creating new states but failed to work * President Wilson saw the problems that arose with the treaty and placed hopes in the League of Nations * League of Nations not very ineffective due to no participation from U.S. * Sole weapon for halting aggression was economic sanctions * France was left alone and embittered * Due to the weak League of Nations and the failure of Britain and U.S. to form defensive military alliance * Needed a way to protect France from Germany * France built a network of alliances in eastern Europe with Poland and the members if the so-called Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia) * The French Policy of Coercion (1919-1924) * April 1921: the Allied
Mr. Brewer
AP European History, Period 5
4-2-13
Chapter 26 Outline * An Uncertain Peace * The Decline of the West by German writer Oswald Spengler (1880-1936): reflected the idea that something was drastically wrong with Western values when he emphasized the decadence of Western civilization and posited its collapse * The Impact of World War I * As over 10 million people died in the war, an immediate response to these deaths was ceremonies to honor the dead as well as memorial parks, large monuments, and massive cemeteries (with ossuaries or vaults where the bones of thousands of unidentified bones were interred) * Created a lost generation of war veterans who became accustomed to violence * After the war, the veterans became pacifists * For others, violence of war became a starting point for violence in political movements in 1920s-1930s * Extremely nationalistic and eager to restore the national interests from the war * The Search for Security * The peace treaties attempted to fulfill the 19th century nationalism by reestablishing boundaries and creating new states but failed to work * President Wilson saw the problems that arose with the treaty and placed hopes in the League of Nations * League of Nations not very ineffective due to no participation from U.S. * Sole weapon for halting aggression was economic sanctions * France was left alone and embittered * Due to the weak League of Nations and the failure of Britain and U.S. to form defensive military alliance * Needed a way to protect France from Germany * France built a network of alliances in eastern Europe with Poland and the members if the so-called Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia) * The French Policy of Coercion (1919-1924) * April 1921: the Allied