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Revision note: First World War, Russian Revolution and the Inter-War Years

  • MAIN causes; Triple Alliance 1882 vs Triple Entente 1907; Sarajevo 28 June 1914 (Gavrilo Princip)
  • USA entered April 1917 (U-boats, Zimmermann); Brest-Litovsk March 1918; armistice 11 Nov 1918
  • Versailles 28 June 1919: Art 231 war guilt, reparations, Alsace-Lorraine, 100,000 army; League 1920 Geneva (USA never joined)
  • Russia: Feb 1917 Tsar abdicates; Oct/Nov 1917 Bolsheviks (Lenin, Trotsky), "Peace, Land, Bread"; NEP 1921; USSR 1922; Stalin's Five-Year Plans 1928
  • Wall Street Crash Oct 1929; New Deal 1933; Mussolini March on Rome 1922; Hitler Chancellor Jan 1933; Anschluss 1938; Munich Sept 1938
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