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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

Learning Objectives

Chapter 19 teaches students about:

The advance of democracy through suffrage and social legislation after WWI.

The attempts of eastern European countries to modernize themselves.

The challenges of the Versailles treaty, inflation, and the formation of a new government faced by Germany.

The signing of the Locarno treaties, which were intended to further prevent war.

The Young Turks, who founded a Turkish Republic and pressed for reform.

The promotion of independence, self-sufficiency, and tolerance by India's Gandhi and his successor, Nehru.

The tensions between the Nationalists and Communists in China.

Japan's rapid modernization and expansionist ambitions.

The causes of and reactions to the Great Depression.

Modernism and realism, the cultural developments that accompanied the prosperity of the 1920s and the harsh economic conditions of the 1930s.








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