Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
Europe in 1919
From the German Point of View Lost—but not forgotten country. Into the heart You are to dig yourself these words as into stone: Which we have lost may not be truly lost!
Maimed German WW I Veteran
The “Stabbed-in-the-Back” Theory Disgruntled German WWI veterans
German “Revolutions” [1918]
Sparticist Poster
German Freikorps
The Spartacist League Rosa Luxemburg [ ] murdered by the Freikorps
Friedrich Ebert: First President of the Weimar Republic
The German Government:
The German Mark
The French in the Ruhr: 1923
The French Occupation of the Ruhr
The Beer Hall Putsch: 1923
The Beer Hall Putsch Idealized
Hitler in Landesberg Prison
Mein Kampf [My Struggle]
European Debts to the United States
The Dawes Plan (1924)
The Young Plan (1930) For three generations, you’ll have to slave away! $26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years. For three generations, you’ll have to slave away! $26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years.
Weimar Germany: Political Representation [ ] Political Parties in the Reichstag May 1924 Dec May 1928 Sep July 1932 Nov Mar Communist Party (KPD) Social Democratic Party (SDP) Catholic Centre Party (BVP) Nationalist Party (DNVP) Nazi Party (NSDAP) Other Parties
Monday, April 28, 2014 Pick up your notebook Take your seat Take out your Warm-Ups/Timed Writings Timed Writing Analyze and evaluate the social, political and economic problems faced by the German Weimar Republic in the early 1920’s. Minimum of 2 body paragraphs req. for full credit. Pick up your notebook Take your seat Take out your Warm-Ups/Timed Writings Timed Writing Analyze and evaluate the social, political and economic problems faced by the German Weimar Republic in the early 1920’s. Minimum of 2 body paragraphs req. for full credit.
Today’s Agenda Timed Writing FN: “Europe in the 1920’s” Homework: Finish reading chapter 26 Complete the chart “Emerging Governments of the Postwar Era” Timed Writing FN: “Europe in the 1920’s” Homework: Finish reading chapter 26 Complete the chart “Emerging Governments of the Postwar Era”
Benito Mussolini [ ]
Italian Fasces
March on Rome [1922]
Fascist Youth
Lateran Treaty [1929]
Ramsay MacDonald: 1924, 1929 Labour Party
Stanley Baldwin Conservative Party
1926 General Strike Trades Disputes Act (1927): All general or sympathy strikes were illegal. It forbade unions from raising money for political purposes. Trades Disputes Act (1927): All general or sympathy strikes were illegal. It forbade unions from raising money for political purposes.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 Pick up a text book Take your seat Take out your homework from last night Warm-Up Discussion In your groups discuss each country on the chart, briefly reviewing the information. 1. What patterns do you see emerging? 2. What do you think this means for post war Europe? Answer each question on the back of your chart in 3-5 sentences each. Pick up a text book Take your seat Take out your homework from last night Warm-Up Discussion In your groups discuss each country on the chart, briefly reviewing the information. 1. What patterns do you see emerging? 2. What do you think this means for post war Europe? Answer each question on the back of your chart in 3-5 sentences each.
Today’s Agenda Timed Writing FN: “Europe in the 1920’s” Homework: Terms- Stalin's Soviet Union Read, mark and annotate Stalin documents Read Ch. 6 Animal Farm Timed Writing FN: “Europe in the 1920’s” Homework: Terms- Stalin's Soviet Union Read, mark and annotate Stalin documents Read Ch. 6 Animal Farm
Raymond Poincaré & the Conservative Right He sent French troops into the Ruhr in Pushed for large-scale infrastructure reconstruction programs [counting on German reparations to pay for them]. After : New taxes & tightened tax collections. Drastic decline in govt. spending that stabilized the franc [the threat of runaway inflation was avoided!] He sent French troops into the Ruhr in Pushed for large-scale infrastructure reconstruction programs [counting on German reparations to pay for them]. After : New taxes & tightened tax collections. Drastic decline in govt. spending that stabilized the franc [the threat of runaway inflation was avoided!]
Edouard Herriot & the French Socialists Progressive social reform. Spoke for the lower classes, small businessmen, and farmers. Committed to private enterprise and private property. Fervently anti-clerical. Progressive social reform. Spoke for the lower classes, small businessmen, and farmers. Committed to private enterprise and private property. Fervently anti-clerical.
Essential Question How did European countries attempt to keep the peace and develop collective security?
League of Nations Members
Washington Naval Conference [ ] U. S. Britain Japan France Italy Five-Power Treaty – ratio for Warship tonnage 2.Four-Power Treaty – U.S. France, Britain and Japan agreed to consult w/ each other in the event of a E. Asia crisis before taking action 3.Nine-Power Treaty – marked internationalization of U.S. Open door policy. Recognized Japanese dominance in Manchuria
The Maginot Line
Locarno Pact: 1925 Gustave Stresemann (Ger.) Aristide Briand (Fr.) Austin Chamberlain (Br.) Guaranteed the common boundaries of Belgium, France, and Germany as specified in the Treaty of Versailles of Germany signed treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia, agreeing to change the eastern borders of Germany by arbitration only. Guaranteed the common boundaries of Belgium, France, and Germany as specified in the Treaty of Versailles of Germany signed treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia, agreeing to change the eastern borders of Germany by arbitration only.
Locarno Pact: 1925
Kellogg-Briand Pact: 1928 15 nations committed to outlawing aggression and war for settling disputes. Problem no way of enforcement. 15 nations committed to outlawing aggression and war for settling disputes. Problem no way of enforcement.
George Grosz Grey Day (1921) George Grosz Grey Day (1921) DaDa
George Grosz The Pillars of Society (1926) George Grosz The Pillars of Society (1926) DaDa
Picasso Studio with Plaster Head [1925] Cubism
Georges Braque Still Life LeJeur [1929] Cubism
Walter Gropius Bauhaus Bldg. [1928] Bauhaus
Essential Question Why did the American stock market crash and the resulting Great Depression impact European Countries?
Causes of the Great Depression World economy was like a house of cards U.S. (key card) has 3 weaknesses: –Uneven distribution of wealth –surplus of goods –Investors buy stock on margin
Stock Market Crashes Black Tuesday - stock market crashed Oct. 29, 1929 –B/C people panic that most stocks were over-valued 16 million shares sold - most at a huge loss Global depression results – world trade drops by 65% Banks and businesses fail; people loose their land and homes
The Great Depression [ ] Paris in 1930 London in 1930
German Unemployment:
The Great Depression [ ]
Decrease in World Trade:
German Election Results in 1933
The “New Napoleons?”