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Chapter 19 teaches students about:
- The advance of democracy through suffrage and social legislation after WWI.
- The attempts of eastern European countries to modernize themselves.
- The challenges of the Versailles treaty, inflation, and the formation of a new government faced by Germany.
- The signing of the Locarno treaties, which were intended to further prevent war.
- The Young Turks, who founded a Turkish Republic and pressed for reform.
- The promotion of independence, self-sufficiency, and tolerance by India's Gandhi and his successor, Nehru.
- The tensions between the Nationalists and Communists in China.
- The causes of and reactions to the Great Depression.
- Modernism and realism, the cultural developments that accompanied the prosperity of the 1920s and the harsh economic conditions of the 1930s.
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