Years of Change

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Years of Change

• Challenges to World Peace

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Review

• Partners, WITHOUT Notes (4 minutes)
• How did the Bolshevik revolution change Russia?
  (what was it like before, what was it like after)
• What is a totalitarian dictatorship? Give an
  example of a totalitarian dictator.
• List three countries who continued to change
  during the interwar period.

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Preview

• Today, you will see
• The struggles that challenge the world in the
  Interwar Period.
• The development of fascism in some European
  countries.

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Peace and Prosperity

• The Roaring 20s
• General Prosperity
• The Jazz Age
• Struggling for Peace
• Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
• Why was this needed for peace?

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Fear and Depression

• Stock-market Crash
• October 29, 1929
• Black Tuesday
• The Great Depression
• A time of global economic collapse in the 1930s.
• Causes
• Overproduction
• Credit-buying

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Video

• The Great Depression hit the United States first
  (Black Tuesday) and eventually spread around the
  world. This video on America during the Great
  Depression is an example of life during the
  1930s. As you watch, think of the following
  questions
• What was life like during the Great Depression in
  the United States?
• What some similarities and differences to todays
  recession in the United States?

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The Rise of Fascism

• Fascism
• Definition A totalitarian form of government
  that is based on capitalism.
• Intense Nationalism
• The State gt The Individual
• Anti-democratic Anti-communist

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Fascism in Italy

• Benito Mussolini
• Leader of fascist Italy from 1922 through the end
  of World War II.
• Il DuceThe Leader
• The Black Shirts
• Combat squads used for intimidation and terror

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The Fascist Formula

• Single-party dictatorship
• State control of the economy
• Use of police spies and terror to enforce the
  will of the state
• Strict censorship and government monopoly of the
  media
• Use of schools and media to indoctrinate and
  mobilize citizens
• Unquestioning obedience to a single leader

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Hitler and Nazi Germany

• Adolph Hitler
• Leader of Germany from 1933 to the end of World
  War II.
• Der Fuhrer The Leader
• Most infamous character in German history

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Hitlers Rise to Power

• World War I and Aftermath
• Joins National Socialist German Workers Party
  (Nazi)
• Attempted coup in 1923
• Jailed for treason
• Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
• A book authored by Adolph Hitler that outlined
  Nazism.
• Released and gradually gains support
• Storm Troopers

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Hitlers Nazism

• Extreme Nationalism
• Racism (Aryanism)
• Anti-Semitism
• Lebensraum (Living Space)
• The idea that Germany must expand in order to
  become strong and stable again.

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The Third Reich
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Hitler and the Jews

• Hitler blames Jews for Germanys problems
• Restricts rights and terrorizes Jews
• Goal Drive all Jews out of Germany and
  establish an Aryan nation.
• Extremes must be fought by extremes. Against
  the infection of Marxism, against the Jewish
  pestilence, we must hold aloft a flaming ideal.
  And if others speak of the World and Humanity, we
  must say Fatherlandand only Fatherland!

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Campaign Against the Jews

• Krystallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
• A Nazi-led massacre and pillaging of Jewish
  communities around Germany in 1938.
• Concentration Camps
• Detention centers for civilians considered
  enemies of the state.

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Question

• What might make you or your country turn to a
  fascist dictator?
• Partner (2 Minutes)
• Possible Answers
• Stability
• Nationalism
• Inspiration

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Follow der Fuhrer?

• Restoration of Nationalism
• Powerful Speaker
• Propaganda
• Spreading of ideas to promote a cause or damage a
  cause.

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Review

• What were some struggles the world faced in the
  Interwar Period?
• Define fascism.
• How did Hitler gain power in Germany and spread
  Nazism?

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Assignment

• Complete the propaganda worksheet and answer the
  questions on separate sheet paper.