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Chapter 26Political Experiments of the 1920s
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Chapter 26Political Experiments of the 1920s
Chapter 26Political Experiments of the 1920s
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Map 26–1 GERMANY’S WESTERN FRONTIER The French- Belgian-German border area between the two world wars was sensitive. Despite efforts to restrain tensions, there were persistent difficulties related to the Ruhr, Rhineland, Saar, and Eupen-Malmédy regions that required strong defenses.
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Anxiety over the spread of the Bolshevik revolution was a fundamental factor ofEuropean politics during the 1920s and 1930s. Images like this Soviet portrait ofLenin as a heroic revolutionary conjured fears among people in the rest of Europeof a political force determined to overturn their social, political, and economicinstitutions.Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
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During the civil war in the Soviet Union, hunger and starvation haunted the countryside. Here a group of malnourished children posed for a photograph.Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
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Leon Trotsky led the Bolshevik Army to victory over the opponents of the Russian Revolution. He and Stalin later quarrelled over the direction of the revolution. Trotsky lostthe struggle with Stalin, who later ordered his execution.Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
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Bolshevik Visions of World Revolution The Bolshevik revolution spread fear of ongoing revolution across Western Europe and beyond. Much of this fear was a response to aggressive Soviet propagandathat the Comintern, established in 1919 to sponsor and organize communist parties outside the Soviet Union, carried out. This poster celebrates the international aims of the Bolshevik revolution and the Soviet Union.Russian propaganda poster celebrating 1st May: “You have nothing to lose but your chains, but the world will soon be yours.” Museum of the Revolution, Moscow, Russia/Bridgeman Art Library, London
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Benito Mussolini became famous for bombastic public speeches delivered in settings surrounded by his Fascist followers and military supporters.AP Wide World Photos
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The French invasion of the German Ruhr (1923) began a crisis that brought strikes and rampant inflation in Germany. Here French troops have commandeered a German locomotive during one of the strikes.UPI/CORBIS/Bettmann
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In 1932 King George V (r. 1910–1936) delivered the firstroyal Christmas address over the BBC to the Britishpeople.Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
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Marshal Josef Pilsudski governed Poland from 1926 to 1935.Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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In 1923, Germany suffered from cataclysmic inflation. Paper money became worthless and children usedpackets of it as building blocks. Bettmann/Hulton Deutsch/CORBIS/Bettmann
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During a Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg in 1927, AdolfHitler stops his motorcade to receive the applause of thesurrounding crowd. In the late 1920s, the Nazi movementwas only one of many bringing strife to the Weimar Republic.Heinrich Hoffman/Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
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Post-Settlement Political and Economic Factors
• Experimental regimes abounded– The Soviets created an authoritarian state.– In German and Austro-Hungarian territory
parliamentary democracies sprung up.
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Demands for Revision of the Paris Settlement
• Objections from Nationalist sentiments.
• The victors felt that the terms of the settlement were not adequately enforced.
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Postwar Economic Woes
• The war had damaged the economies of Europe’s old states.– The loss of so many people was also a loss of producers and
consumers.– Every country had war debts, and no way to repay it.– Losers also had to pay reparations.– Industrial infrastructure had been destroyed
• The new states had nothing to begin with.– New borders separated factories from the resources they used.– Railway systems were now split between multiple nations.
• The US ceased to be dependent on European production
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New Relationship between Government and Labor
• Unionism had gained new prominence during the war.– Wages were up from pre-war levels.– Collective bargaining and union recognition
were now permanent features of the labor market.
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The Beginning of the Soviet Project
• The Bolsheviks had consolidated power.– Party membership did not exceeded 1% of the
population– Some opposition still remained.– They viewed their revolution as internationally
significant
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War Communism
• Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) organized the Red Army to suppress both internal and foreign opposition.– White Russian opposition could not get properly organized.
• The nation was run by Lenin from the top, undemocratically.– The government ran the banks, the transport system and
heavy industry.– All opposition was repressed.
• War Communism generated opposition.– Peasants resisted the requisition of grain– Strikes in 1920 and 1921– Baltic fleet mutiny in March 1921.
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The New Economic Plan (NEP)
• Outlined by Lenin in March 1921– Private industry would be tolerated except for
in:• Banking• Heavy Industry• Transportation • International Commerce
– Peasant farming for profit was legalized.– The countryside stabilized.
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The Stalin/Trotsky Rivalry
• After Lenin’s stroke in 1922 and his subsequent death in 1924, a power vacuum was left.
• Two factions emerged– Trotsky Faction– Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), general secretary of the
party, Faction.
• Lenin had criticized both before his death, but especially Stalin.
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Trotsky’s Position
• Urged rapid industrialization financed by expropriation of farm production.
• Collectivization of agriculture
• The Soviet Union should encourage worldwide Socialist revolution
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Stalin’s Rise
• His position of general secretary allowed him to amass bureaucratic and administrative power.
• Manipulated intraparty rivalries– Backed Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938) in his battle with
Trotsky over rapid industrialization– Also opposed Trotsky’s position on worldwide
revolution
• He was thus able to eventually have Trotsky humiliated and exiled by 1929.
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The Third International
• Also called the Comintern, the Third International of the European Socialist Movement was designed by Lenin to promote the Bolshevik style of Socialism in Europe.– 1920-21 conditions were imposed on any socialist
party that wanted to join.– Every major European party was split on whether to
accept these policies.– These splits helped lead to the rise of facism.
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Facism in Italy
• Facist Governments were anti-Democratic, Anti-Marxist, anti-Parlimentary and frequently anti-Semitic.– Rejected Liberalism.– Dictatorial
• Founded in Italy Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
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The Rise of Mussolini
• Italian Fasci Di Combattimento, “Bands of Combat,” founded in 1919 in Milan.– Mostly Italian war veterans who rejected Versailles.
• Lead by Mussolini– A former socialist– Broke with socialists in 1914, in order to support
joining the war on the side of the Allies.– Nationalism replaced socialism in his personal
pantheon.
• Took advantage of postwar chaos.
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Early Fascist Organization
• Mussolini initially supported factory occupation and land seizures.
• He later came to realize that Italians were more interested in order than abstract ideas of justice.– Formed local squads of terrorists to go after socialists and other
perceived malcontents– Law enforcement ignored them.
• In 1921 Mussolini and 34 Fascists were elected to the government.
• The Black Shirt March– In October 1922, the Fascists marched on Rome.– The Cabinet resigned in protest.
• On November 23, 1922 the king and Parliament granted Mussolini dictatorial power for one year.
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The Fascists in Power
• Once in power, Mussolini moved cautiously– Changed election laws in 1924, so that the party which
received the largest popular vote would have two thirds of the seats in parliament.
– In the 1924 election, the Fascists won complete control of Parliament
– By 1926 Mussolini was able to rule by decree
• Violence and terror continued– Late 1924 Giacomo Matteotti, a socialist leader, was
murdered
• The Lateran Accord of 1929 made peace with the Vatecan
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France in the Postwar Years
• The French parliament was extremely conservative, opposing social reforms
• They initially accepted a role as the leading European power– Wanted to keep Germany weak by enforcing the treaty.– Made treaties with Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and
Poland intended to contain German, but the alliance was weak.
• Attempts to enforce reparations– In 1923 France occupied the Ruhr, as punishment for
Germany’s defaulting on reparations.– The Germans paid, but Britain was alienated.
• Prosperity continued longer than anywhere else in Europe, until 1931.
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Great Britain After the War• Economic Confusion
– The new government in 1919 was a Liberal-Conservative coalition.– The economy was depressed throughout the 1920s.– After 1922 government welfare was the normal means of income for thousands of
British families
• First Labour Government– In 1923 Labour took over. Though Socialistic in outlook, they were non-revolutionary.– This was the beginning of the end for the Liberal party.
• The General Strike of 1926– In 1924 Labour fell, and the Conservatives took power again.– In order to make their industry internationally competitive, British management
attempted to cut wages.– In 1926 coal miners went on strike, followed by sympathetic workers in other
industries.– In the end, they capitulated, but there was continued unrest.
• The Empire Crumbled– In the 1920s India gained independence.– In 1921, most of Ireland gained independence.
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Eastern Europe
• The fall of the Eastern Empire created a number of new states– The question became, could those who had
previously been powerless rule competently?
• Economic and Ethnic Pressures– All of the new states except Czechoslovakia
depended on foreign loans– All of the new states except Czechoslovakia
fell under authoritarian ethnic rule.
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Poland
• Restored after 130 years of being ruled by its neighbors, nationalism was not sufficient to overcome regional differences.
• In 1926 Marshal Josef Pilsudski (1867-1935) carried out a coup.
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Czechoslovakia
• Czechoslovakia was fortunate enough to have a gifted leader in Thomas Masaryk.– The country worked well until the 30s, when
German nationalists looked to Hitler, and he Annexed the Sudetenland while the world watched.
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Hungary
• After the war there was a short lived Communist Republic
• Following the fall of the Communists, an aristocratic government ruled
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Austria
• Throughout the 20s there was dissention in Parliament between the Social Democrats and the Christian Socialists
• By the 30s the Christian Socialists had control, until the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938.
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Weimar Germany
• The Constitution, while refreshingly Liberal, was also fundamentally flawed, as it allowed small parties to gain seats easily.– The president was permitted to rule by decree in an emergency,
permitting presidential dictatorship
• The republic also lacked broad popular support.– It was viewed as the government that had saddled Germany with
the humiliation of the Versailles treaty.– In the early 20s there were a number of violent uprisings, but
they failed– There was massive inflation, due to the reparations imposed by
the allies.– The invasion of the Ruhr caused the German people to resent
the Weimar government even more.
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Weimar Germany(cont.)
• Hitler and the Early Years of Nazism– Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) made his first major appearance on the political scene in
1923. Along with an number of his followers he attempted a putsch. Though it failed, and Hitler was imprisoned, it made him a hero to many Germans.
– Nazism was characterized by extreme nationalism, anti-Communism and anti-Semitism.
• The Stresemann Years– In order to repair inflation Chancellor Gustav Stresemann introduced a new
German currency.– He also agreed to a new system of reparation payments in 1924, which helped to
lower inflation.– In 1925, right after the French left the Ruhr, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg
became president.
• Locarno– The 1925 Locarno Agreements helped to integrate Germany back into the
European system.– However, its conciliatory outlook continued to alienate the German nationalist
public
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Conclusion
• At the close of the 1920s, Europe seemed to be finally breaking out of its postwar doldrums.
• However, the coming depression would bring its own set of challenges.