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The World of 1930
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Briand, commercially, inter-war, Faisal, truce, Locarno, Grosz, Streseman, Persia, Weimar, Rivera, Army, Danzig, WWII, Mies, Rhine, Gold, Young, fascism, Syria, Civil, modern, interval, economic, Corridor, attire, optimism, Zand, broken, not, Taiwan
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a common term for the time around 1930 was the "                   period"
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we're so conscious of          coming, that we tend to look at the time of history around 1930 almost like a brief                  between wars, some historians even write of it as a            period
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the reality is that life and society during the 20s and 30s was not so linear and destined for another World War as we might think, yet it was a time in history in which the world                  and international relations were thoroughly reorganizing themselves and could have gone many way. The world of 1930 was a              world that that was being reconstructed on almost every corner. Unfortunately, with the cement not dry yet, and it was about to be buffeted by a terrific storm.
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the state of the Great Powers
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America
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very involved                         , financially in east Asia
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however, the Great Powers were generally still considered as centered in Europe with America sometimes playing a role
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Europe
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late 1920s: cautious                  since some of the differences between the major countries had been reconciled
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               Treaties (1925)
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seven agreements
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First World War Western European Allied powers and the new states of Central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement, and return normalizing relations with defeated Germany (which was, by this time, the Weimar Republic)
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led to German renewed claims to the Free City of              and Polish territories approved by the League of Nations including the Polish                 , and Upper Silesia, Pilsudski: "every honest Pole spits when he hears this word Locarno"
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Chamberlain: "Britain's defensive frontier was no longer the English Channel but the           "
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Gustav                    (1878-1929)
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1923-1929 German foreign minister in              Republic
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1926 Nobel Peace Prize with Aristide              for reconciliation between Germany and France
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nationalist, wants to hold the republic together
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his premature death is one of the tragedies of German politics of this era
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League of Nations
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up and running, creating some international organizations
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United States is        a member
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becoming increasingly important, in the 1920s the ideas promoted by the League of Nations was getting a lot of attention by universities at least
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The Spirit of Locarno
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1922: treaty to regulate size fo navies, signed, reasonably successful
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regulating armies was more difficult
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Return to          Standard
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with a lot of help from United States private firms working in cooperation with the U.S. government to provide loans to help countries that didn't have enough gold
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The            Plan (1929)
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a program for settlement of German reparations debts after World War I
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reduced further payments to 112 billion Gold Marks, US $8 billion in 1929 (US$ 107 billion in 2013) over a period of 59 years (1988)
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other countries
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many countries were becoming mixed groups with strongly differing ideas of how to run the country
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many more Eastern European states
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the Arabs have been given states
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Prince              I of Iraq (1885-1933)
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1916: with the help of T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), Faisal sided with the British army and organised the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire
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1920: King of Greater Syria
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1921-1933: King of Iraq
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member of Hashemite dynasty
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fostered unity between Sunni and Shiite to foster common loyalty and promote pan-Arabism in the goal of creating an Arab state that would include Iraq, Syria and the rest of the Fertile Crescent
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France received the mandate over           
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Britain received the mandate over Iraq, Jordan and Palestine
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found itself becoming the umpire in growing disputes
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Qajar [KAH-jar] dynasty (1785-1925)
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Iranian royal family of Turkic origin,[4][5][6][7][8] which ruled              (Iran) from 1785 to 1925
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the Qajar family took full control of Iran in 1794, deposing Lotf 'Ali Khan, the last of the          dynasty
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Pahlavi [PAH-lah-vee] dynasty (1925-1979)
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the Pahlavis came to power after Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty, proved unable to stop British and Soviet encroachment on Iranian sovereignty, and was consequently overthrown in a military coup, abdicated and ultimately exiled to France
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Indonesia
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active communist party looked toward the Soviet Union
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Turkey
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remade itself into a new nation-state
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Atatürk (1881-1938)
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1919: led the Turkish national movement in the Turkish War of Independence
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defeated the forces sent by the Allies
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1923-1938 first president
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sought to transform the former Ottoman Empire into a             , secular, and democratic nation-state
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1924: invited American educational reformer John Dewey to Ankara to advise him on how to reform Turkish education
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1925: encouraged the Turks to wear modern European             
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Italy
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through                Mussolini "got Italian trains to run on time"
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Spain
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1929: Barcelona: Primo de             's International Exhibition
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Miguel Primo de Rivera (1870-1930)
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an inept dictator who lacked clear ideas and political acumen, and who alienated his potential supporters such as the         
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served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during Spain's Restoration era
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shows off neo-classical architecture
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German Ludwig          van der Rohe, modern architecture, was torn down a year later, rebuilt in 1980s
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deeply believed that it was the politicians who had ruined Spain and that governing without them he could restore the nation
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his actions discredited the king and ruined the monarchy, while heightening social tensions that led in 1936 to a full-scale Spanish            War
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Germany
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painting: The Pillars of Society, George           , 1926
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the army with sword covered with blood
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church represented not very attractively
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businessmen crowding up to the bar
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China
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Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975)
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1919: organizes the non-communists against the communists
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till 1925: influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT), or Nationalist Party, and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen
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1925: took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died
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1949: retreated his government to             , ruled till his death in 1975
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Chicago
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corporatism
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businesses trying to heal the divide between business and laborer
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given workers better wage and better services
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1914: Schizophrenic Germany
1914: The Balkan Whirlpool
1914: From Balkan Crisis to War
1914-1916: All War Plans Fail Horribly
The 1916 Missed Opportunity for Peace
WWI Pushes Warring Countries Toward Total States
Why the Allies Won World War One
Post-WWI: Filling the Void of Collapsed Empires
Post-WWI Communism vs. Anti-Communism
Post World War I: The Age of Uncertainty
1910s/1920s: Modern Women
The World of 1930
The 1930s World Crisis
1930s: The Decade of Contingency
America's Entry into World War II
WWII: Strategies for Total War
1945: Hour Zero
Post WWII: Imagining New Countries
Conflicts in Postwar Nation Building
The Two Europes That Emerged After WWII
1947 China: Undesirable Communists vs. Flawed Nationalists
Post WWII: The Age of America
Reasons for the Korean War
How WWIII was Avoided in the Korean War
1950-1952: The Cold War Comes to Main Street
1950-1954: The H-Bomb and the Nuclear Revolution
1950s: Loosening Empires and Building Confederations
The Emergence of the Third World
1958-1962: The World at the Brink
Third World Proxy Wars of the 1950s and 1960s
Managerial States and the Transnational Disruption of 1968
1970s Obstacles to Reducing Cold War Tensions
1970s Democratic Socialism Becomes a Non-Choice
1980s Political Polarization
1980s: Global Capitalism Transformed