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After the Versailles Treaty was signed and the devastation of the Great War came to an end, Europeans were left to pick up the pieces. What ensued was a search for ways to punish the losers of the war while still searching for ways to maintain peace. The 1920s in Europe witnessed numerous diplomatic efforts to limit the factors that led to the war.
Germany was left in economic shambles. Russia, later the Soviet Union, struggled to establish a stable communist society, and the rest of Europe worked to deal with the aftermath of war. And just when things seemed to be getting better, the world plunged into the Great Depression. As so often in human history, desperate times led to desperate solutions. Totalitarian dictatorships arose throughout Europe (but most notably in Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union) that promised an end to the Depression and a return to past glory. Those regimes would solidify their hold on power in the 1930s and would eventually drag the world into a second, more deadly war. |
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Assignment 1: Maintaining the Peace
Assignment 2: Fascism in Italy
Assignment 3: Nazi Germany
Assignment 4: Soviet Totalitarianism
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