Capitalism, Communism and the Domino Theory
Capitalism is a political ideology where the buisnesses and newspapers are owned by induvidual who make their own profit andn income. Capitalist countries are usually under a democratic government for example the USA.
Communism is a political ideology were all buisnesses, newspapers etc are owned by the state and everyone is treated equally. Communist countries include the USSR.
The domino theory was the belief the USA held that if one asian country fell the rest would fall to commuinism. Basically the USA did not want to risk communism spreading. The reason for this was that the main superpower of Russia was already takin in by communism under the famous dictator Josef Stalin. Therefore Russia suplied the vietcong with weapons.
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Nazi-Soviet Pact the Main Reason?
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Some have said that the Nazi-Soviet Pact was the single most important reason for the start of the Second World War. Would you agree with this judgement? Explain your answer.
The Nazi-Soviet Pact was made in 1939. It involved the nations of Germany and Russia. It was a pact which agreed upon both of the nations not being able to attack each other and could divide up Poland between them. This also meant that the two most powerful nations in the world had joined together and that it would be an even greater difficulty to stop them. But although this was quite a big part in the cause of the second world war, there was also another reason for the cause - stated later.
Britain was asking Russia to protect Poland from Germany's invasion. Nobody trusted anybody. Chamberlain didn't trust Stalin over his communist beliefs, and Stalin didn't trust Chamberlain over his appeasement beliefs. Stalin believed that because Neville was being kind to Hitler too much and letting him off with basically anything, he'd leave Russia to fight Germany alone. Poland didn't trust Russia. They thought that if they came into the country to protect them, they'd never leave, and might eventually take over. This wasn't a good idea to them.
Britain had taken it's time to do anything about Stalin having to sign to their agreement. Neville Chamberlain could have actually trusted Stalin more on not about his communist beliefs but about what they were having to do. So instead of Britain getting what they wanted, they let it badly slip into the hands of Germany. And so the Nazi-Soviet Pact was created, where Russia and Germany had agreed not to fight each other, split Poland between them and protect themselves.
This was not the only reason, as the League of Nations had a part in it. After the first world war, the Abyssinian and Manchurian Crises had taken place. Mussolini had invaded Abyssinia and the leader came to the League for help - nothing was done. A railway near Manchuria was blown up and no one had a clue who it was - again the League did nothing. This showed they were weak, and Hitler thought that he would be able to get away with doing anything - invading countries, taking over, and planning a war.
So in conclusion there are two sides to whether the Nazi-Soviet Pact was the main reason. It could have been, because nobody trusted anybody except Stalin and Hitler. And it could have also been because of Hitler's need to expand his country. His want for lebensraum* meant that he would invade countries and inevitably something would happen in the end.
*lebensraum - living space |
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Neville Chamberlain accused of causing the Second World War!
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Neville Chamberlain has been accused of being directly responsible for the Second World War. Would you agree that he is guilty of this?
I could both agree and disagree with this statement. There are a few reasons that lead to the fact that he did have something to do with beginning the Second World War, but there are also some reasons that show how the war was caused by other factors, and not Neville Chamberlain directly.
One reason that suggests Neville Chamberlain was responsible is that he appeased Hitler too much. With this, Hitler believed that he could get away with anything at all. This made Hitler be able to get away with things like invading different countries. Even after he did, Britain didn't do anything about it. This gave Chamberlain a very bad reputation, suggesting that he was weak, and couldn't handle it. Neville also believed that the League of Nations were too harsh on Hitler, giving him very large reparations to pay, and basically destroying their country. He thought that this would make Hitler want revenge back on them, and so would be calmer if a better attitude was given to him, which gave the impression he was letting him off with anything.
There was a reason which Neville had nothing to do with. This was the League's choices. After the Manchurian and Abyssinian crises, the League had done nothing really to help these countries get back on top or to stop them being invaded. This showed that the most powerful countries in the world were actually weak, and weren't doing anything to protect the people they should have been protecting. This gave Hitler the idea again that he would be able to get away with anything he wanted, and so ignored Neville when he said they'd go to war if Hitler invaded Poland |
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The rise of Hitler
Thousands of Germans were thrown out of work. In the election of 1932 the Nazi Party made a very attractive set of promises based on what Hitler had written in Mein Kampf. Hitler promised to provide jobs, sort out the economy and make Germany proud and strong again. In July 1932 the Nazi party was the biggest in the Reichstag, the German Parliament building. Yet in November 1932, the Nazi vote dropped back again.
Hitler cleverly blamed the Communists, who were feared by many Germans. Most historians think that Hitler organised the entire event to make people more afraid of the Communists and thus vote for the Nazis.
People in Germany were tired of their poor quality of life. Hitler promised to make Germany proud again - it was exactly what people wanted to hear. Hitler pledged something for every part of Germany society
and also because of these beliefs
Rearm Germany and retake what was lost at Versailles.
The German Race (blonde, blue eyed Aryans) were a superior race. Anyone else was racially impure and should be removed from Germany. Hitler called the Germans the 'master race'.
The 'master race' needed more living space - known (in German) as Lebensraum'.
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USA as keystone
http://voicethread.com/#q.b338747.i0.k0 http://voicethread.com/#q.b338747.i0.k0
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League of nations useful resources
This is the useful resources for further reading about the league of nations
http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/wilson
Biography of Woodrow Wilson
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwilsonP.htm
Woodrow Wilson's 'Fourteen Points'
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Summary of the organization of the League of Nations
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/leagueofnations.htm
Successes of the League of Nations
http://web.archive.org/web/20061214153219/http://www.ousedale.org.uk/cw/ousedaleschool2/League+of+Nations7.htm
Failures of the League of Nations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/usa/walldepressionrev1.shtml
The Wall Street Crash
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/manchuriarev1.shtml
The Manchurian and Abyssinian crises
http://web.archive.org/web/20030402235255/http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/roadwar/roadwfla.htm
Effect of Hitler's actions on the League of Nations
http://historylearningsite.co.uk/1939.htm
The League of Nations' position by 1939
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Treaty of Vesailles problems (Diamond 9)
1 . The big 3 all wanted completely different things from the Paris Peace Confrence so it was completely impossible for them to all agree on something
2. The reperations paid by Germany were unreasonable at 6.6 billion
3. The league of nations that was set up to prevent this happening again was weak and unreliable.
4. The big 3 could not comprmise beacause of the huge pressures from their homeland.
5. The secret treaty between Italy and the allies was not upheld so italy left.
6. Britain soon reliased that creating the treaty was a misteake.
7. Britain pursusaded the allies to believe in selfd determoination.
8. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that ended Russia's involvement in WWI meant huge areas of land were given to Germany
9. The end of the Austro-Hungarian empire led to nationalist uprisings calling for independence across Eastern Europe 
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