Palmer and Weitz on Weimar Republic

spengler had cool historical theories with a massive amount of explanability

dadaism, rejcted the traditional

poem, the second coming:

” The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity. ” jeez.

russia was ostrozised,

everyone revered woodrow wilson

greeted as the man who would lead civilization out of its wasteland.

democracy!

Democracy having defeated the Central Powers, people hoped that a new settlement, made in a democratic age, might be reached by gen eral agreement in an atmosphere of mutual confidence. There was a real sense of a new era.

allies banded together and follows wilson,

everyone made a bunch of treaties

nationalism was big, worked well with liberalism and democracy

stuff started going wrong

league of nations! international anarchy, no more! (ish)