The League of Nations is WEAK Germany is mad about the war guilt clause and is BROKE from paying reparations (money owed to all “winning countries” for the cost of the war) › To pay reparations, Germany just printed money, which caused INFLATION 1 loaf of bread cost 3 billion marks
Economic Depression : Low economic activity and High levels of unemployment › This occurred throughout the WORLD › This cause people to become desperate for a leader who could bring wealth back to their countries
Germany: Extremists get voted into power (HITLER) France: formed workers unions and collective bargaining- gave unions the right to negotiate with employers Great Britain: John Maynard Keynes proposed deficit spending- government builds to hire the unemployed, the unemployed will spend their $ and all industries will get more money
The US: Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed The New Deal which included bank reforms, union reforms, social security, unemployment, welfare, etc