4/9 Class

4/9 class

Keynes article- http://college.cengage.com/history/primary_sources/west/an_economist_analyzes_versailles.htm

"The events of the coming year will not be shaped by the deliberate acts of statesmen, but by the hidden
currents, flowing continually beneath the surface of political history, of which no one can predict the outcome.
In one way only can we influence these hidden currents,--by setting in motion those forces of instruction and
imagination which change opinion."    

             The people need to make the change, not the higher up

"Reparation was their main excursion into the economic field, and they settled it as a problem of theology,
of politics, of electoral chicane, from every point of view except that of the economic future of the States
whose destiny they were handling."

Each country and its leaders only cared for self interest not Europe as a whole which led

WW2 to start

Ties to the great depression as well because everyone is so concerned with self interest

"It is an extraordinary fact that the fundamental economic problems of a Europe starving and disintegrating
before their eyes, was the one question in which it was impossible to arouse the interest of the Four."

The Four are not paying attention to what needs aid, this ties to the issue of self interest

and the countries not helping one another because they are so concerned with
themselves

In what ways did the US influence Europe between 1920 and 1950?

Dawes Plan- US private investors gave money to Germany (expecting to be paid back with interest) then Germany would pay that money to France for their war reparations, finally France would pay money to the USA to pay back the war loans. 

France and Germany's infrastructure and economies were destroyed

What political parties are influential after World War II? Do they have the same relationship to mass politics as the political parties at the forefront in the end of the 19th century? Are these new voices?
The parties that were influential after WWII
- communist parties caused fear throughout
- socialist parties
- Rosa Luxemburg- Polish- Jewish Socialist who worked with Lenin
The US joins the war to make other countries have a safe democracy- they wanted to avoid dictatorships and communism
Nationalism leads to wars, they know that cooperation is needed
The UN (united nations) was created based in NY to ensure US involvement so they wouldn't have a repeat of the League of Nations