The Best Bassist in the World’s History Blog

There are many different political ideologies but the two main ones are Communism and Capitalism.

  Communism is the belief that individual rights are less important than what is good for the country as a whole. There is one political party, and people can vote for which candidate is the leader. However they do not have complete freedom. Press and businesses are controlled by the government and any profit that an individual makes is given to the government to be put to 'good use'. This makes everyones average earnings the same. Not many people dare to speak out against the government in fear of what may happen to them. They might get kidnapped and totally pwned. Countries that have been communist include Vietnam, China and the USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republic).

  Capitalism is almost the opposite of Communism. Profits made by businesses are kept for personal use, and wealthy business men can take risks on the stock market and be as selfish as they want. Businesses are indipendant of the government and the press are free to publish what they want within reason. An example of a Capitalist country is the USA and the UK.

   
'The Cold War' is the term used to describe the relationship between the USA and the USSR. A 'Hot War' is used to describe a war in which physical fighting occurs between the countries involved. Therefore a 'Cold War' is one in which no fighting takes place directly. The Cold War was fought using Client States. This is where other countries and powers fight on the behalf of the other countries involved. Such as North Vietnam fighting on the USSR's behalf, with the USSR supplying them with arms.

   
The 'Domino Theory' was a capitalist idea that if one country becomes communist, then all the surrounding ones will. This was one of the reasons for the Vietnam War.  Capitalist countries were scared of communism and the effects.

  Further Reading:

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/bassismint
Theres a link to my wallwisher on the effects of WWII.

Here are some links relating to Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement, Munich Agreement, Rise of Hitler, and Causes of WWII: Use this to revise!

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rpY562-RAzIC&pg=PA82&dq=ocr+why+had+international+peace+collapse+by+1939

^ A text book page about the topic

Neville Chamberlain:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain - Wikipedia article about him and his works

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/chamberlain_arthur_neville.shtml - A basic overview of him

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/neville_chamberlain.htm - Information about him linking it with the Rise of Hitler

http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-in-history/neville-chamberlain - Information about him and his life

Appeasement:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=vss&q=define%3A+appeasement&meta - Google defenition of 'Appeasement'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement - Wikipedia about appeasement, unlinked to the Rise of Hitler

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWappeasement.htm - linked with the WWII and Rise of Hitler Topic

Munich Agreement:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWmunich.htm - An indepth insight into the Munich Agrreement

http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII5_Munich_Agreement.htm - A plain but informative website highlighting all key facts I need to know

Rise of Hitler:

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/hitler_01.shtml - A chronological guide to the Rise of Hitler and his policies

http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/hitlergainspower.htm - Hitler, linking with the Nazis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler - Information on Hitler's life and 'work'

Cause of WWII:

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/causes.htm - All of the main causes of World War II

http://www.johndclare.net/causes_of_world_war_two_revision.htm - A revision sheet to work on

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/causes_world_war_two.htm - A basic outline of the causes

How did Hitler come to power?
 
Hitler recieved a 5 year prison sentence, but prison was comfortable and he was let out after a year. He wrote the book 'Mein Kampf'.

He believed that he had to destroy democracy by first using democracy himself to be elected. Then transforming the country into a dictatorship.

He believed that he had to destroy democracy by first using democracy himself to be elected. Then transforming the country into a dictatorship.
 
"I can now use Hitler's popularity and take advantage of it. Many other experienced politicians can easily control him and do this too."
 
The Reichstag was the parliment building in Germany.
 
Hitler blamed the communists so he can use them as a scapegoat for the peoples support for his dictatorship.

Why did people support Hitler?
 
Hitler promised the people what they wanted to hear fro  a politician. Even though his views were extreme. People were willing to support him.

If Hitler used Jews and Communists then he could promise the people that he can 'sort the problem out'. Therefore people will vote for him as he is the only one promising them against this pretend threat.
 
Hitler offered poorer people such as Farmers higher prices for their produce, and the Unemployed were gaurenteed a job in the building industrial. As well as the less fortunate, he gaurenteed the Middle Class people the restore of the profits from small business. This was to restore their savings. This got Hitler a vote from every class.

Nazi Beliefs:

• Rearm Germany.
• Retake what was lost in the Treaty of Versailles.
• The 'German Race' were supposed to be blonde and blue eyed Aryans. these were supposedly the 'Master Race' and were thought to be pure. Any other race was completely impure and inequal.
• The 'master race' Aryan people needed more lebensraum (living space in English).

This diagram illustrated the problem of the Wall Street Crash in 1929. At the centre of the 'chart' is the Wall Street Crash. The 3 ovals coming off the centre are showing the circles that the economy is going in. Because all of the other labels are going in a circle, they will always end up going backwards again to the Wall Street crash. What the image is basically saying is that the Wall Street Crash is a vicious circle and cannot be escaped from.

The Wall Street Crash caused the Great Depression. Obviously this made most citizens unhappy, and helped contribute to the end of the League of Nations. In the 1930's, countries were more desperate, and were less likely to listen to the League of Nations. Seeming that the League did not actually have an army, and just verbal strength, countries started to ignore them. Such as in the Manchurian Crisis. The desperate-ness of the countries almost rendered the League of Nations useless. No country wanted to listen to then. They just wanted to get out of the economic troubles.

The League also had much less work. Because the countries were in bad shapes, they wanted to sort out internal problems such as unemployment due to the economic situation rather than carry on with International Disputes.

In desperate times, people will most likely turn to extremism. Extremist was practically the League of Nation's worst enemy. Because all the League had was talking power, the Extremists wouldn't even consider listening to them. They would simply ignore the League and carry on unstopped. One notable case of this was Germany. Another was Italy. With extremism comes militarism. Obviously this is hard to deal with because the League has no army.

All of these spelt the end of the League of Nations. Therefore the Wall Street Crash made a big difference in making the League 'not work'.

Further Readings:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=wall+street+crash+and+the+league+of+nations&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

http://getrevising.co.uk/resources/subjects/history/topics/wall+street+crash

Click here to download:

Abyssinian_Crisis.ppt (426 KB)

Me and Kyle did this presentation on Google Docs:

I analysed the cartoon 'Gift Horse' about the Wall Street Crash on VoiceThread.

http://voicethread.com/#q.b349291.i1850964