1. Who’s Who Between the World Wars SSWH17: Major Political and Economic Factors that shaped world societies between World War I and World War II

2. Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis—The Interpretation of Dreams (theories of the unconscious mind)
Human behavior was determined by repressed experiences/memories
Repression—people repress desires and emotions into their subconscious
Freudian Slip: An error in speech that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of some unconscious
As a common pun goes, "A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, but you say your mother."

3. Albert Einstein
Theory of Relativity—if all material things disappear out of the universe, time and space would also disappear—deep!
Wrote a letter to American President, FDR encouraging him to develop “extremely powerful bombs of a new type" with hints that the German government might already be doing so

4. Pablo Picasso
Painting: Guernico—portrays German bombing during the Spanish Civil War (1930’s)
Stayed in Paris during WWII—continued to paint—he was not able to show his works, because they didn’t fit the Nazi view of Art

5. The Bolsheviks Faction of Marxism
Ultimately became the Communist Party
Vladimir Lenin
Remember the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

6. Vladimir Lenin Led the Bolshevik Revolution New Economic Policy (NEP)
“Comrade Lenin cleanses the earth of Filth”
Led the Bolshevik Revolution
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Makes changes in Russia—land to peasants, factories, etc.
Royal Family (Romanovs) murdered in 1916
Organized self governing republics (USSR)

7. Joseph Stalin
Replaced New Economic Policy (Lenin) with Five Year Plans
Launching a period of rapid industrialization and economic collectivization
The upheaval in the agricultural sector disrupted food production, resulting in widespread famine
6-8 million people died

8. Benito Mussolini II Duce Fascism/Italy/totalitarianism Black shirts
Believe that imperialism is necessary
A nation must have a warrior mentality

9. Adolf Hitler Racial policies/”Aryan Race”
Racial Hygiene/Scientific Racism
Compulsory/Forced Sterilization (over 400,000 sterilized against their will)
Said, “people suffering from hereditary defects cost the German people $$”
Ultimately led to the Holocaust
Purge Europe of insane, handicapped, mentally retarded, Jewish, etc.

10. Hirohito
Japanese Emperor December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989

11. Francisco Franco Spanish Civil War
Hitler and Mussolini allied with Franco—tested out weapons they would later use in WWII

12. Sun Yat Sen Father of Modern China
Key figure in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty in 1911

13. Mustafa Kemal Attaturk
Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, he led the Turkish National Movement
He successfully led the liberation movement of the country and to the establishment of Turkey.
During his presidency, he embarked upon a program of political, economic, and cultural reforms
he sought to transform the former Ottoman Empire into a modern, democratic, and secular nation-state.
Breaks the Islamic Stronghold

14. Mohandas Gandhi Indian Independence Movement Civil Disobedience
Assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu Nationalist