History of the Modern World, 10th Edition (Palmer)

Chapter 19: Democracy, Anti-Imperialism, and the Economic Crisis After the First World War

Primary Sources, Maps and Images

LXXXXVII. The Advance of Democracy after 1919

• [Image Maimed German veteran]
• [Primary Source Paul Valery, On European Civilization and the European Mind, 1922]

1. Gains of Democracy and Social Democracy
• [Primary Source 19th amendment to U.S. constitution, 1920]
• [Image German women voting for first time, 1919]
• [Image Fight for the eight-hour working day, 1927]
• [Image German Trade Union Federation badge, c. 1930]
• [Image Benito Mussolini]
• [Primary Source Benito Mussolini, What is Fascism, 1932]

2. The New States of Central and East-Central Europe
• [Map Map of Europe, 1919]
• [Map German-speaking population of Czechoslovakia]
• [Primary Source Ivan Derer, The Autonomist Movement in Slovakia, 1938]
• [Map Post-war Yugoslavia]
• [Image Bela Kun]
• [Image Admiral Horthy]
• [Primary Source Miklos Horthy becomes regent of Hungary]

3. Economic Problems of Eastern Europe; Land Reform
• [Image Distribution of bread to poor of Vienna, 1922]

LXXXXVIII. The German Republic and the Spirit of Locarno

• [Image Karl Liebknecht]
• [Image Rosa Luxemburg]
• [Primary Source Rosa Luxemburg, The Socialisation of Society, December 1918]
• [Primary Source Karl Liebknecht, Proclamation of the Free Socialist Republic, 1918]
• [Image Spartacist poster, 1919]
• [Image Spartacist uprising, 1919]
• [Image Provisional Government troops attacking Spartacists, 1919]
• [Image Elections for National Constituent Assembly 1919]
• [Image Opening session, German National assembly, 1919]
• [Primary Source Weimar Constitution, 1919]
• [Image Wolfgang Kapp]
• [Image Kapp putsch]
• [Image Violence by Nazis, 1930]
• [Image Adolf Hitler, 1923]
• [Primary Source The 25 Points: Nazi Program, 1920]
• [Image Nazi revolt in Munich, 1923]

1. The German Democracy and Versailles
• [Map Germany in 1920]
• [Image Weimar GermanyÑthe lost territory]
• [Image League of Nations Covenant]
• [Primary Source Franco-Polish Agreement, 1921]
• [Primary Source/Secondary Discussion Treaty of Rapallo in 1922]

2. Reparations, the Great Inflation of 1923, Recovery
• [Image French occupy Essen, Ruhr valley, 1923]
• [Image German view of French occupation of the Ruhr, 1923]
• [Primary Source Socialist Perspective on Occupation of Ruhr]
• [Image German children with stacks of worthless German currency]
• [Primary Source Dawes Plan, 1924]
• [Image Ruhr factory, c. 1930]

3. The Spirit of Locarno
• [Image Gustav Stresemann at League of Nations, 1926]
• [Image Edouard Herriot]
• [Image Aristide Briand]
• [Image Ramsay Macdonald]
• [Image League Headquarters at Geneva]
• [Image Locarno conference]
• [Primary Source Treaty of Locarno between France and Poland, 1925]
• [Primary Source Eduard Bene_, The Rationale for the Little Entente, 1928]
• [Primary Source Pact of Paris (Kellog-Briand Pact), 1928]

LXXXXIX. Anti-Imperialist Movements in Asia

1. Resentments of Asia
• [Image European club in Dutch East Indies]
• [Image Indonesians pushing Europeans on railway handcar]
• [Image Gandhi as a lawyer]
• [Primary Source Japanese attack on Russians at Port Arthur, 1905]
• [Image Persian nationalist revolution, 1905-06]
• [Primary Source Young Turks, Proclamation for the Ottoman Empire, 1908]
• [Image Sun Yat-sen]
• [Map Nationalist revolution in China, 1911]

2. First World War and Russian Revolution
• [Image Battle in Persia, 1917]
• [Image Indian troops, World War I]

3. The Turkish Revolution: Kemal Ataturk
• [Map Turkey, 1924]
• [Image Mustapha Kemal]
• [Image Mustapha Kemal]
• [Primary Source Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, 1923]
• [Image The fez as symbol of backwardness]
• [Image The hat as symbol of progress]

4. The National Movement in India: Gandhi and Nehru
• [Primary Source Gandhi on the passive resistance campaign]
• [Image Homespun alternative to English cotton]
• [Image Gandhi leads campaign against salt tax]
• [Image Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi]
• [Image Round Table Conference, 1930]
• [Image Rebellion in Dutch East Indies, 1922]

5. The Chinese Revolution: The Three People's Principles
• [Map Chinese revolution, 1911-12]
• [Image Sun Yat-sen]
• [Primary Source Sun, The Three People's Principles]
• [Image Demonstrations against the Western powers May 4, 1919]
• [Image Lu Xun]

6. China: Nationalists and Communists
• [Image Chiang Kai-shek]
• [Map China under warlords, 1924-26]
• [Image Chinese Red Army]
• [Image Mao Zedong]
• [Primary Source Mao Zedong, Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, 1927]
• [Image Zhu De]
• [Map The Long March]

7. Japan: Militarism and Aggression
• [Image Japanese Troops in Siberia]
• [Image Japanese army in Manchuria, 1931]
• [Image Anti-Japanese demonstration in Shanghai, 1932]
• [Primary Source Japan-Manchukuo Protocol, 1932
• [Map Manchukuo]

C. The Great Depression: Collapse of the World Economy

1. The Prosperity of the 1920s and Its Weaknesses
• [Image Automobile in front of grocery store, Washington, DC]
• [Image Tire shop]
• [Image Highway]
• [Image Truckdriver]
• [Image Filling-station attendant]
• [Image Purchase of radios in Germany, 1923-33]
• [Image Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel, 1930]
• [Image Installment buying]
• [Image Farm being auctioned]
• [Image Harvester-thresher combine]

2. The Crash of 1929 and the Spread of Economic Crisis
• [Image New York Stock Exchange crash, October 1929]
• [Image Closed bank, Tombstone, Arizona]
• [Image Closed factory, Dubuque, Iowa]
• [Image Unemployment in America, 1920-33]
• [Image Unemployed worker, Berlin 1931]
• [Image Workers lining up at labor office, Hanover, 1930]
• [Primary Source Food Line in Paris]
• [Image German workers, 1930
• [Image German woman in Berlin, 1930]
• [Image Hitler campaign poster, 1932]

3. Political and Economic Reactions to the Crisis
• [Primary Source German Chancellor Bruning justifies his policy of austerity, 1931]
• [Image President Herbert Hoover]
• [Image Rearmament: making aircraft motor casings]
• [Image A Hooverville, 1935]
• [Image Signing the Canada-US Trade agreement, 1935]

4. Cultural Reactions to the Crisis
• [Image Modernist art: Wasily Kandinsky, Two Sides Red, 1928]
• [Primary Source T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922]
• [Image James Joyce Ulysses]
• [Image Eugene O'Neill]
• [Image Virginia Woolf]
• [Image Ernest Hemingway, 1923]
• [Image Andre Gide]
• [Image John Steinbeck]