Politics

AP Euro Notes Sec 27-2 pp.868-872 AND 876- 888 Nalani Story THE AFTERMATH OF THE WAR: EMERGENCE OF THE COLD WAR Tehran Conference (1943) Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, the leaders of the Big Three of the Grand Alliance, met at Tehran, Iran in November of 1943 primary purpose was to determine the way the final assault on Germany would be conducted Roosevelt and Stalin overruled Churchill and decided that the British and Americans would invade the continent through France in the Spring of 1944 not through the Balkans as Churchill wanted decision meant that Eastern Europe would be liberated by the Russians agreed to link up with the Soviets in Germany and partition Germany upon its defeat Yalta Conference (1945)

AP Euro Notes Sec 26-2 pp. 807-816 Nalani Story The Democratic States Woodrow Wilson proclaimed that WWI=been fought to make world safe for democracy 1919, there seemed to be some justification for this claim 4 major Euro states & a host of minor ones had functioning political democracies In a # of nations, universal male suffrage=replaced by universal suffrage as male politicians rewarded women for their contributions to WWI by granting the right to vote (except in Italy, France, & Spain) Women also began to enter political life as deputies to parliamentary bodies. In new German repub almost 10% of deputies elected to Reichstag in 1919=women # dropped to 6% by 1926 Great Britain After WWI GB went through a period of painful readjustment and serious economic difficulties

AP Euro Notes Sec 25-2 pp. 789-794 Nalani Story War and Revolution Russia experienced kind of complete collapse in 1917 that others were predicting might happen throughout Euro Out of Russia?s collapse came Russian Revolution?whose impact would be widely felt in Euro for decades to come The Russian Revolution Revolution 1905=failed to bring substantial changes to Russia Tsar Nicholas II relied on army & bureaucracy to uphold his regime WWI magnified Russia?s problems and severely challenged tsarist gov?t Tsar, possessed of strong sense of moral duty to his country.= only Euro monarch to take personal charge of armed forces, despite a lack of training for such an awesome responsibility Russian industry=unable to produce weapons needed for army

AP Euro Notes Sec 22-1 pp.666-684 Nalani Story The France of Napoleon III Napoleon III taught his contemporaries how authoritarian gov?ts could use liberal & nationalistic forces to bolster their own power Louis Napoleon: Toward the Second Empire Many contemporaries dismissed ?Napoleon the Small? as a nonentity who?s success due only to his name However he= smart, clever, patient Used troops to seize control of gov?t on Dec 1, 1851 Restored universal male suffrage Asked French people to restructure the gov?t by electing him president for 10 yrs 7.5 mil yes vs. 640,000 No Nov 21, 1852= Louis Nap asked for restoration of empire 97%=yes Dec 2, 1852, Louis Nap= assumed title of Napoleon II 2nd empire=begun The Second Napoleonic Empire