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Ride of the Valkyries
- composed by Richard Wagner
- Depicts the what a world would sound like if it was ruled by the strong, not the weak
- Follows Nicha's philosophy
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Ruhr River Valley
- 1923
- Germans said they would no longer pay the treaty of versailles
- French were angry, invaded this part of Germany
- Seen as bullies to international community who sided with defenseless Germany
- Adolf Hitler rose to international stage by leading a protest against the invasion in southern Germany, was arrested later
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Scientific Racism
findings and method to investigate differences among the human races to support or validate racist world-views
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Schlieffen Plan
- Strategy made by the Germans long before war took place
- Feared fighting a war from two different fronts
- plan was to take out France first, aiming to overtake capital, Paris
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Social Darwinism
- Idea that evolved from Darwin's theories after he died
- If the world struggles and only strong survive, then we’re are bringing a downfall to help each other
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Spinning Jenny
- could do 8 threads a crank, with steam engine, could do 80 threads
- invented by James Hargreaveh in 1764 in England
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Solidarity
Solidarity was the first non-communist party controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country
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Sputnik
- October 4, 1957
- US couldn’t believe Russians did something so advanced.
- Symbol of communism able to achieve things.
- Soviet union became more restrained in how they confronted the rest.
- Less targeted around military aggression
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Stab in the Back
attributing Imperial German loss of the war to the public’s failure in answering their “patriotic calling”, and to the war effort-sabotage of the Socialists
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Stalinism’s Four Components
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Forced, rapid industrialization
- Collectivization of Agriculture
- Cultural Revolution: creating a new class of communist experts.
- All of these through violence.
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Totalitarianism
the doctrine that the state need observe no limits to its power, extending from politics to social educational, and cultural matters.
No country ever announced they were like that
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Treaty of Rapallo
agreement between Germany and Soviet Russia on the renunciation of claims arising from World War I.
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Triple Alliance
- Russia, France, Britain
- Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary
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Vladimir Lenin
Loved to argue and wion people over. Created communist party. When they didn’t so what he wanted them to do, divided them into two parts. 1 was mesheviks who thought it would take a long time for revolution. Bolsheviks wanted revolution now.
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War of the First
Coalition
- (1793–1797)
- was the first major concerted effort of multiple European powers to contain Revolutionary France.
- It took shape after the French Revolutionary Wars had already begun.
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Sepoy Mutiny
- Hindu and Muslims didn't like handling sacred animals for the fat to oil British gubs
- rfevoltetd, but eventually British won
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