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A History of the Modern World
A History of the Modern World, 9/e
R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

The Apparent Victory of Democracy

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LXXXXVII. The Advance of Democracy after 1919

    1. [Image Maimed German veteran]
    2. [Primary Source Paul Valery, On European Civilization and the European Mind, 1922]
  1. Gains of Democracy and Social Democracy
    1. [Secondary Discussion Representation of the People Act]
    2. [Primary Source 19th amendment to U.S. constitution, 1920]
    3. [Image German women voting for first time, 1919]
    4. [Image Fight for the eight-hour working day, 1927]
    5. [Image German Trade Union Federation badge, c. 1930]
    6. [Image Benito Mussolini]
    7. [Primary Source Benito Mussolini, What is Fascism, 1932]
  1. The New States of Central and East-Central Europe
    1. [Map Map of Europe, 1919]
    2. [Map German-speaking population of Czechoslovakia]
    3. [Primary Source Ivan Derer, The Autonomist Movement in Slovakia, 1938]
    4. [Map Post-war Yugoslavia]
    5. [Secondary Discussion Founding Yugoslavia, 1919]
    6. [Secondary Discussion Frustrated Nationalism in Yugoslavia]
    7. [Image Bela Kun]
    8. [Image Admiral Horthy]
    9. [Primary Source Miklos Horthy becomes regent of Hungary]
  1. Economic Problems of Eastern Europe; Land Reform
    1. [Image Distribution of bread to poor of Vienna, 1922]

LXXXXVIII. The German Republic and the Spirit of Locarno

    1. [Image Karl Liebknecht]
    2. [Image Rosa Luxemburg]
    3. [Primary Source Rosa Luxemburg, The Socialisation of Society, December 1918]
    4. [Primary Source Karl Liebknecht, Proclamation of the Free Socialist Republic, 1918]
    5. [Image Spartacist poster, 1919]
    6. [Image Spartacist uprising, 1919]
    7. [Image Provisional Government troops attacking Spartacists, 1919]
    8. [Image Elections for National Constituent Assembly 1919]
    9. [Image Opening session, German National assembly, 1919]
    10. [Primary Source Weimar Constitution, 1919]
    11. [Secondary Discussion Weimar Republic]
    12. [Image Wolfgang Kapp]
    13. [Image Kapp putsch]
    14. [Image Violence by Nazis, 1930]
    15. [Image Adolf Hitler, 1923]
    16. [Primary Source The 25 Points: Nazi Program, 1920]
    17. [Image Nazi revolt in Munich, 1923]
  1. The German Democracy and Versailles
    1. [Map Germany in 1920]
    2. [Image Weimar GermanyÑthe lost territory]
    3. [Image League of Nations Covenant]
    4. [Primary Source Franco-Polish Agreement, 1921]
    5. [Primary Source/Secondary Discussion Treaty of Rapallo in 1922]
  1. Reparations, the Great Inflation of 1923, Recovery
    1. [Image French occupy Essen, Ruhr valley, 1923]
    2. [Image German view of French occupation of the Ruhr, 1923]
    3. [Primary Source Reich Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno on Occupation of the Ruhr by French and Belgian Troops, 1923]
    4. [Image German children with stacks of worthless German currency]
    5. [Primary Source Dawes Plan, 1924]
    6. [Image Ruhr factory, c. 1930]
  1. The Spirit of Locarno
    1. [Image Gustav Stresemann at League of Nations, 1926]
    2. [Image Edouard Herriot]
    3. [Image Aristide Briand]
    4. [Image Ramsay Macdonald]
    5. [Image League Headquarters at Geneva]
    6. [Image Locarno conference]
    7. [Primary Source Treaty of Locarno between France and Poland, 1925]
    8. [Primary Source Eduard Bene_, The Rationale for the Little Entente, 1928]
    9. [Primary Source Pact of Paris (Kellog-Briand Pact), 1928]

LXXXXIX. Anti-Imperialist Movements in Asia

  1. Resentments of Asia
    1. [Secondary Discussion/Images] Tirailleurs Senegalais]
    2. [Image European club in Dutch East Indies]
    3. [Image Indonesians pushing Europeans on railway handcar]
    4. [Image Gandhi as a lawyer]
    5. [Image Gandhi broadcasting: using western culture to undermine imperialism]
    6. [Primary Source Japanese attack on Russians at Port Arthur, 1905]
    7. [Image Persian nationalist revolution, 1905-06]
    8. [Primary Source Young Turks, Proclamation for the Ottoman Empire, 1908]
    9. [Image Sun Yat-sen]
    10. [Map Nationalist revolution in China, 1911]
  1. First World War and Russian Revolution
    1. [Map Former German concessions in Pacific]
    2. [Image Indian troops, World War I]
  1. The Turkish Revolution: Kemal Ataturk
    1. [Map Turkey, 1924]
    2. [Image Mustapha Kemal]
    3. [Image Mustapha Kemal]
    4. [Primary Source Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, 1923]
    5. [Image The fez as symbol of backwardness]
    6. [Image The hat as symbol of progress]
  1. The National Movement in India: Gandhi and Nehru
    1. [Primary Source Gandhi on the passive resistance campaign]
    2. [Image Homespun alternative to English cotton]
    3. [Image Gandhi leads campaign against salt tax]
    4. [Image Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi]
    5. [Image India Legislative Council, early 1900s]
    6. [Secondary Discussion Interwar violence in India]
    7. [Image Round Table Conference, 1930]
    8. [Image Rebellion in Dutch East Indies, 1922]
  1. The Chinese Revolution: The Three PeopleÕs Principles
    1. [Map Chinese revolution, 1911-12]
    2. [Image Sun Yat-sen]
    3. [Primary Source Sun, The Three PeopleÕs Principles]
    4. [Image Demonstrations against the Western powers May 4, 1919]
    5. [Image Lu Xun]
    6. [Image Michael Borodin]
  1. China: Nationalists and Communists
    1. [Image Chiang Kai-shek]
    2. [Map China under warlords, 1924-26]
    3. [Image Chinese Red Army]
    4. [Image Mao Zedong]
    5. [Primary Source Mao Zedong, Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society, 1926]
    6. [Primary Source Mao Zedong, Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, 1927]
    7. [Image Zhu De]
    8. [Map The Long March]
  1. Japan: Militarism and Aggression
    1. [Image Japanese Troops in Siberia]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Zaibatsu]
    3. [Image Japanese army in Manchuria, 1931]
    4. [Image Anti-Japanese demonstration in Shanghai, 1932]
    5. [Primary Source Japan-Manchukuo Protocol, 1932
    6. [Map Manchukuo]

C. The Great Depression: Collapse of the World Economy

  1. The Prosperity of the 1920s and Its Weaknesses
    1. [Image Automobile in front of grocery store, Washington, DC]
    2. [Image Tire shop]
    3. [Image Highway]
    4. [Image Truckdriver]
    5. [Image Filling-station attendant]
    6. [Image Purchase of radios in Germany, 1923-33]
    7. [Image Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel, 1930]
    8. [Image Installment buying]
    9. [Image Farm being auctioned]
    10. [Image Harvester-thresher combine]
  1. The Crash of 1929 and the Spread of Economic Crisis
    1. [Image New York Stock Exchange crash, October 1929]
    2. [Image Closed bank, Tombstone, Arizona]
    3. [Image Closed factory, Dubuque, Iowa]
    4. [Image Unemployment in America, 1920-33]
    5. [Image Unemployed worker, Berlin 1931]
    6. [Image Workers lining up at labor office, Hanover, 1930]
    7. [Primary Source Food Line in Paris]
    8. [Image German workers, 1930
    9. [Image German woman in Berlin, 1930]
    10. [Image Hitler campaign poster, 1932]
  1. Political and Economic Reactions to the Crisis
    1. [Primary Source German Chancellor Bruning justifies his policy of austerity, 1931]
    2. [Image President Herbert Hoover]
    3. [Image Rearmament: making aircraft motor casings]
    4. [Image A Hooverville, 1935]
    5. [Image Signing the Canada-US Trade agreement, 1935]
  1. Cultural Reactions to the Crisis
    1. [Image Modernist art: Wasily Kandinsky, Two Sides Red, 1928]
    2. [Primary Source T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922]
    3. [Image James Joyce Ulysses]
    4. [Image Eugene OÕNeill]
    5. [Secondary Discussion/Image Marcel Proust]
    6. [Image Virginia Woolf]
    7. [Image Ernest Hemingway, 1923]
    8. [Image Andre Gide]
    9. [Image John Steinbeck]
    10. [Secondary Discussion The Grapes of Wrath]