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Eu pe. But men who should h e been Charles' suppo rs deceived and bet yed him. Though Charles, accompanied Zita, tried a daring airplane trip into Hungary and rallied l alist troops behind him, one of his n generals deliberately allowed Hungarian g e ent troops to m e into a key st tegic position and Charles' attempt to gain his throne was iled. He and his mily were once again driven into exile, is time to e island of Madei , where the unhe th l clima and mise ble cir ums nces in which the rmer Empe r was rced to live b ught about his p mature death of pneumonia in 1922 at e age of 35. But his li had been so holy that the Church began investigations into the possible canonization of the last Hapsburg Empe r. ,
As r the League of Nations, Woodrow Wilson's g at d am, it never amounted to a thing. When Wilson re ed the United States, Congress re sed to allow e U.S. to join. Wilson nt on a tour of e country get public suppo r the League, but this so exhaus d him that he had a stro and died not long a er his term as P sident ended. The U.S. never did join e League, and that organization was unable to keep peace in the world.
The S iet Union
In Russia, now renamed the Union of S iet Socialist publics, or Soviet Union, e Co unist under Lenin tightened its grip. But it pidly became apparent at Communism could not p duce p speri . Farmers sed to g w mo crops an the nimum th needed, since any surplus belonged the g e ent. rkers, who und that the Com­ munists had lied when they promised them a sha in the ownership of c ries, went on strike. Manu c ring pidly declined. In 1921 the p duc­ tion of i n, r example, was only th e percent of what it had been be rld War I.
Lenin knew he could not remain in power if he did not imp ve the econo . So in 1922 he announced e N Economic Poli , all ing some eedom of ownership in manu cturing and fa ing. He so en­ cou ged reign capitalists to invest money in ssia and to build ctories. Many capitalists om Europe and America did so. G dually the economy improved. But be re the imp vement could be lly lt, ve million s­ sians died of starvation-proof of e inabili of Co unism to ed i people.
Though Lenin did tempo rily relax economic cont l, he did not relax a thing else. He directed many of his a cks wa family li in