1. The Rise of Totalitarianism
Chapter 28

2. “Roaring twenties” Flappers- Jazz music Harlem Renaissance
Rejected old ways in favor of new, exciting freedom
symbolized the rejection of the moral values and traditional values
Science: Freud, Einstein

3. John T. Scopes Trial-1925
In the early 1900s, a Christian Fundamentalist movement swept rural areas.
Scopes was tried in court for teaching evolution in the classroom
His action broke the law that barred any teaching that went against the Bible’s version of creation.
All the events in the Bible are literally true.
Fundamentalism: strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject or discipline.

4. Great Depression Causes: Unequal distribution of income
Overproduction of goods
Less spending by American consumers

5. Kellogg-Brand Pact
What: Renounced war as an instrument of national policy
Why: Attempted to continue the spirit of the League of Nations
How: Reduction of armed forces and weapon
Many nations signed this pact, but nothing was done to enforce this pact.

6. Runaway Inflation in Germany
Cause:
In protest of the extreme reparations, the government printed huge quantities of money
Effect:
Money became worthless
Many middle-class families saw their savings wiped out

7. Alliances form
How: Japan, Italy, and Germany all defy the wishes of western democracies before 1937
Why: Each took aggressive action and seized other lands

8. Britain and France
Britain favored relaxing the terms of the treaty towards Germany
France insisted on imposing the harshest terms possible
What does this mean for WW2?
They will be on opposite sides during WW2

9. Fascism
Any authoritarian government that is not communist, whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights.
Interests of the state come before the interests of the people

10. Benito Mussolini
Italians were angry because they were not given lands promised to them after WW1
People were impatient with the democratic government
Black Shirts: Party militants, rejected the democratic process in favor of violent action.
Used intimidation and terror to oust elected officials
Used secret police and propaganda to bolster the regime
Critics were thrown into prison, forced into exile, or murdered
Dictatorship upheld by terror
How does he come to power?

11. Adolf Hitler
He Blamed the current government (Weimar Republic) for signing the Treaty of Versailles (as well as Jews)
Believed in extreme nationalism, racism and anti-Semitism
Those of German Austrian descent felt they were superior to Jews, Serbs, Poles, and other groups
Germans, he said, belonged to a superior “master race” of Aryans
Nazi “storm-troopers” fought in the streets against political enemies
In the Middle Ages Jews were persecuted for their different beliefs, The rise of Nationalism caused people to identify Jews as not only a different religion but as a separate race. Defined a Jew as anyone with 1 jewish grandparent.

12. Lebensraum
Translates to “living space,” which referred to the idea that Germany needed more territories so the Germans could increase in population and control additional natural resources, both of which would increase German influence.

13. Prohibition in U.S: Ended 1933
Does it support or criticize Prohibition? (Support)
Prohibition in U.S: Ended 1933