Post WWI – Germany and the West p. 937- 939 (top) Inflation Reparations Dawes Plan
Hope for Peace p. 939-940 Treaty of Locarno League of Nations “Poor old Britannier! Excuse a little sob; Ain’t your far flung empire a full time job? Less of this Locarney-blarney! Why d’you want to roam? Ain’t you got enough misfortunes in the home?” League of Nations Dawes Plan: The help Germany the US loans them $200 million Lets Germany pay reparations over a much longer time period Allows Germany to pay war loans & reparations with worthless marks Helped industrialists to pay loans & raised workers’ pay. German economy begins to recover World Peace: 1925 - Treaty of Locarno: Germany & France made a pact to never go to war again Germany agrees to respect boundaries of France & Belgium Germany admitted to League of Nations 1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact signed by all the major nations of the world Pledged “to renounce war as an instrument of national policy.” Things in Europe were starting to look up. Kellogg-Briand Pact
Great Depression p.942-946 Stock Market Crash New Deal Mass Unemployment WPA
Responses to Great Depression: Western Europe Ramsey McDonald & the Labour Party Scandinavian Example Popular Front
Rise of Hitler p. 966-968 Uprising in Munich Nazi Ideology Mein Kampf Nazi Ideology Reasons for Hitler’s popularity
Hitler’s Germany p. 968 -971 Enabling Act Nuremberg laws Rearmament
Franco’s Spain use handouts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDvz_53bjP4 Republicans Spanish Civil War International Brigades Guernica
Munich conference – appeasement – Sudetenland - Czechoslovakia Hitler on the move – building the “Third Reich” 971-975 Invasion of Poland Takeover of Austria: “Anschluss” Munich conference – appeasement – Sudetenland - Czechoslovakia
Write a thesis statement Identify the factors leading to the rise of the Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s.