Depression

1920s

The Struggle

Great BritainLabour party - socialism Liberal party middle class fled to the Conservative party Conservative party held power most of 1920sIrelandIndependenceFrancePolitical divisions and financial scandals plagued the government of the Third Republic. United StatesExplain the Red Scare. Postwar foreign policy Explain the reasoning for the Maginot line.What is Kellogg Briand Pact?Explain why the league of nations was deemed weak?

Postwar EconomicsBritain serious economic problems General strike

France- recovered rapidly with the help of reparations and territories from Germany.

US worlds leading economic powerDepression - United StatesUneven distribution of wealthOverproduction of agriculture and business Americans buy lessGermanyWeimar Republic 1919Lacked strong democratic traditionInflation Dawes plan helped slow inflationLasting peaceGustav Stresemann (Germany) and Astride Briand (France) tried to improve relationship

Global DepressionBritain High protective tariffsIncrease taxesRegulate currencyFranceModerates, socialists, and Communists formed coalitionUnited StatesNew Deal Fascism

FascismExtreme nationalismNations must struggle - Peaceful states must be conqueredLoyalty to an authoritarian leader who guided and brought orderOne party rule

Benito Mussolini 1883 - 1945Inflation and failure to win land led to the rise of MussoliniAttacked socialists and communistsIl Duce by 1925Abolished democracy and outlawed political parties except the fascistsItalian Balilla (youth movement)Did not have total control unlike Stalin and Hitler

LandDemocracy and outlawed political parties except the FascistsStrikesJoseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler16

Adolf Hitler 1889 - 1945Fiery Orator1919 National Socialist German Workers Party - Nazis private militia ( brown shirts or storm troopers)Der Fuhrer attempted in 1923 to power Munich failed and arrested. Wrote _____________.Blamed WWI defeat on conspiracy of Marxists, Jews, corrupt politicians, and business officials.AryansLebensraum - ____________

Chancellor 1933Turned Germany into a __________.NationalismIndoctrination Hitler Youth and propagandaSecret police- gestapoNuremberg lawsAnti semitism kristallnachtPurged German culture

Speech AnalysisWho was the speaker? Where was the speech given ? Who was the audience? What is the speaker trying to accomplish?.What attitude did the speech convey? What first impression did the speaker create? How was the dress and appearance of the speaker appropriate to the speech?

Yertle the TurtleBased on what you have just learned, Identify the individual in History that represents Yertle the trutle . Be sure to support you answer with details from the book and your notes.Based on what you have just learned, Identify the individual in History that represents Mack. Be sure to support your answer with details from the book and your notes.If you were Mack, what would you of done? Why?