Title: EUROPE IN THE Roaring Twenties
1EUROPE IN THE Roaring Twenties
- Failed Politics
- Flourishing Culture
2Introduction Virginia Woolfs Orlando
- Experimental style
- Time-travel
- Crossing genders
- Deep dismay at the way things are
- Intense yearning for the way things might be
3Europes 20s
Virginia WOOLF
Britains Stanley BALDWIN
4I. THE SEARCH FOR STABILITY 1918-1924
5a. Versailles Treaty (1919)
- One of several treaties
- Versailles deals with Germany
- Punish Germany
- Disarmament
- Reparations
- War Guilt
6GERMANY LOSES SIGNIFICANT LAND, ESPECIALLY IN EAST
7Defending Versailles?
- Self-Determination
- Promotion of Democracy
- League of Nations
PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE (1919) Plenary session
in Versailles Hall of Mirrors
8b. Never-ending War (1918-1924)
- Civil War in Russia
- Russo-Polish War
- Civil War in former Habsburg states Hungary,
Yugoslavia - Greek-Turkish War
- Civil War in Germany
- 1926 General Strike in Britain
BERLIN, 1919
9A Dual Political Problem because of World War I
?
- State v. State disputes over borders
- Paris Peace Treaties created host of new borders
? violent disputes over borders - Greek-Turkish War
- Polish-Russian War
- FAILED STATES States collapse ? gunmen,
assassination, civil war - Russian Civil War
- German Civil War
10II. STABILITY AT LAST (1924-1929)
Movie Star Betty Compson
11a. EXHAUSTION
- Germany
- Civil War
- Economic collapse
- 1923 HYPER-INFLATION
12b. Winners Consolidate Power
- Russia
- Communists win Civil War
- Create their own Dictatorship
13c. Economic Recovery
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE FUELS THE ROARING
TWENTIES Cars Movies Airplanes Telephone
Electric Lights In the 20s, the earlier
technological boom transforms everyday life
14d. Remembering the Great War
15e. Britain France Boring but Stable
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
STANLEY BALDWIN
16f. Germany the Weimar Republic fragile but
alive
17g. Dramatic Social Change
FLAPPERS
18h. MODERNISM dramatic cultural experiments
FRANZ KAFKA JAMES JOYCE
VIRGINIA WOOLF
19III. OMENS Unrest in the Empire
BOTH IRISH INDIANS REBEL AGAINST BRITISH
EMPIRE VIETNAMESE, AFRICANS, REBEL AGAINST
FRENCH OTHER EUROPEAN EMPIRES
20IV. OMENS Radically new sorts of dictatorships
- COMMUNISM (the radical Left)
- FASCISM (the radical Right)
21COMMUNISM
- 1917 Bolshevik Revolution
- 1918-21 Reds v. Whites
- 1921-24 Lenin
- 1924? STALIN
- PARTY DICTATORSHIP PUSHES RADICAL CHANGE
STALIN
22FASCISM
- 1919 Benito Mussolini organizes Fascists
- 1921 Mussolini Fascists in power
- PARTY DICTATORSHIP VOWS TO DEFEND ITALIAN
NATIONAL TRADITION!
23CONCLUSION
- 1919-1924 Chaos
- 1924-1929 Stability
- Dazzling culture
- On the road to Peace Prosperity?