Vocabulary

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Vocabulary

• Disarmament
• Overproduction
• Margin buying
• General strike
• Flapper
• Fascism
• Totalitarian State
• Chancellor

• Concentration camp
• Mein Kampf

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Roaring 20'sThe DepressionThe Rise of Fascist
and Nazi States
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Following World War I

• Countries renounced war
• Encouraged international cooperation
• In Europe recovery from the war was slow
• Backed by loans and other assistance from U.S.
• In the United States during the 1920s
• The economy boomed
• Industry grew
• People were happy
• Dangerous under current of over-production

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1920s in U.S.

• WWI caused
• Factories to expand
• People moved from rural to cities
• Blacks migrated to north
• After War
• Factories retooled
• Incomes rose
• Sales and manufacture of consumer goods rose

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Automobiles Ripple Effect

• Model T price dropped from 850 to 290
• More jobs industries making parts for cars
• More roads
• New industries centered around the car motels,
  service stations, tourist traps
• Installment buying, buy now pay later

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1920s Society

• Prohibition 1/15/20 18th Amendment
• Womens place
• Suffrage 19th Amendment 1920
• Work place changes due to the war
• Appliances make house work easier creating free
  time
• Cars
• Created suburbs
• Causing the nation to shrink
• Red scare 1919-20
• Limited immigration

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1920s Sports, Arts and Fads

• Babe Ruth 60 homers 30yr record
• First talking movie Jazz Singer 1927
• Radio 1st in Pittsburgh 1920 by 1929, over
  10 million
• Jazz combines African rhythms with European
  harmonies
• Literature criticized American society
• Ernest Hemingway Farewell to Arms and F. Scott
  Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
• Lucky Lindy was the greatest hero flew NY to
  Paris in 33 1/2hrs.
• Fads flag pole sitting gold fish swallowing
• Flapperyoung women rebelslipstick, short
  dresses (just below the knees)

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Conditions in Britain and France

• Britain
• Overseas trade lost
• In deep dept
• Irish Rebellion 1916
• Former colonies become independent
• Canada, Australia, New Zealand and So. Africa

• France
• Recovered faster due to
• Reparations
• Territories recovered
• Decentralized industries
• Maginot Line

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U.S. Economics

• Stock market soared Bull Market,
• Many people bought stocks on the margin.
• Consumer debt rose 250 by 1929
• Farmers saw prices drop with demand after the war
• Labor unions were not supported by the government
• Union membership dropped by 30

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1920s and 30s In Japan

• During the 1920s Japan moved toward greater
  democracy
• Political parties
• A democratic parliament grew stronger
• By the 1930s, the Japanese military dominated
  the government
• Emphasizing obedience to the emperor
• Service to the state
• A policy of imperialist expansion.

Hirohito
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The Great Depression

• Created financial turmoil
• Widespread suffering throughout the
  industrialized world.
• Businesses closed
• Global trade declined
• Unemployment and poverty grew to unprecedented
  levels.
• New deal Economic Social reform

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Fascism in Italy

• Benito Mussolini and his Fascist party
  established the first totalitarian state
• Took advantage of economic and political unrest
• Fascism is rooted in
• Extreme nationalism
• Glorified action
• Violence, discipline, and, above all, loyalty to
  the state.
• March on Rome 1922
• Emmanuel III

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Totalitarian Rule

• Used by Stalin and Hitler as a model
• Single party dictatorship
• State control of the economy
• Used secret police and terror to enforce will
• Strict censorship
• Used schools and media to indoctrinate citizens
• Unquestioned obedience to single leader

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Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany

• Germanys Weimar Republic was weakened
• Political disunity and runaway inflation
• Blamed for the hated Versailles treaty
• War-guilt and reparations clauses
• Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party
• Appealed to extreme nationalism
• Anti-Semitism
• Anti-Communism
• Resentment of the Treaty of Versailles

U. S. needed cash, investments in Germany stopped
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Hitlers Third Reich

• Establish a totalitarian state
• Using terror, repression, and one-party rule
• Controlled all areas of Germany life
• Government, Religion, Schools
• The SS troops enforced
• The secret police (Gestapo) terrorized
• Combined with SS in April of 1936
• Most cheered
• Ended unemployment
• Revived German power
• Public works

Heinrich Himmler
Hermann Goering
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Purging German Culture

• Textbooks rewritten to reflect Nazi views
• Banned books burned
• Considered Christianity weak and flabby
• Muzzled the clergy
• Closed church schools

"Youth Serves the Führer. All 10-year-olds into
the Hitler Youth." Membership in the Hitler
Youth had become mandatory in 1936.
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Campaign Against the Jews
Night of Broken Glass"

• Nuremberg Laws prohibited
• marriage to non Jews
• Teaching in German schools
• Holding Government jobs
• Practicing law or medicine
• Publishing books
• Were not considered citizens of the Reich
• Hitler used the Jews as scapegoats

In two days, over 1,000 synagogues were burned,
7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted,
dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish
cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were
looted
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Authoritarian Rule Grows in Eastern Europe

• A dozen Ethnic countries were carved out of the
  Old Hapsburg, Ottoman and parts of the Russian
  and German empires.
• People were not accustomed to a slow moving
  democracy
• Gave up their freedoms for something to eat
• Stalin and Hitler divide Eastern Europe

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