1. Agenda

2. Quiz…
What did France do when Germany ran out of $ for reparation payments?
What was the Dawes Plan?
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
List three causes of the Great Depression.
How did the US response to the Depression negatively affect other countries?
John Maynard Keynes believed that unemployment was caused by what?
Give one example of how FDR’s New Deal helped Americans during the Great Depression.

3. Quiz… Occupied Ruhr Valley and controlled mining operations
Big US loan to Germany
Renounced war as a form of national policy
Uneven distribution of wealth, overproduction of agriculture, people defaulting on loans
Imposed tariffs that deterred other countries from trading with the US
Lack of demand
Social security, unemployment insurance, old age pensions, welfare, works progress administration

4. Homework – Read pages 563 – 565, New Era in the USSR
Homework – Read pages 563 – 565, New Era in the USSR. Outline everything on ONE PAGE. Stop at one page no matter what.

5. 17.2 - The Rise of Dictatorial Regimes
Fascism = strong loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader.
Fascists promised to fix the economy, punish those responsible for hard times and restore national pride.
Liked strong/harsh dictators
Communists
Fascists
Internationalists
Want classless society
Put state ahead of individual
Nationalists
Like rich and poor
put state ahead of individual

6. Fascist Headquarters in Rome…Mussolini’s face

7. Benito Mussolini Comes to power in Italy
Italians were mad that they didn’t get more land after WWI
Mussolini took action. Promised to revive economy and publically criticized Italy’s government
Eventually 30,000 fascists marched on Rome, and King Victor Emmanuel II gave his power over to Mussolini

8. Fascist March on Rome

9. Benito Mussolini

10. Mussolini = “Il Duce” Il Duce = “The Leader”
Abolished democracy and jailed anyone who didn’t support him
Used secret police (OVRA) and censored the media to only promote fascist ideas
Used propaganda
Outlawed strikes

11. Benito Mussolini & Adolf Hitler
Complete Wackos

12. Hitler and Nazi Germany
Born in Austria, 1889
Joined the National Socialist German Workers Party in 1920 (NAZI for short)
Believed that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair and that Communism was dangerous
Sent to jail after trying to seize power from Weimar Republic.
While in jail, wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
German nationalism
Anti-Semitism
Anti-communism

14. Hitler’s Views Wanted more “lebensraum” (living space) for Germans
Blonde and blue-eyed people = superior and members of the Aryan race
Hitler was ignored until the Americans stopped giving Germany $ and the German economy collapsed
30% of the German workforce unemployed by
Desperate people looked to Hitler for help.

15. Hitler slowly deprived Jews of all of their rights

16. Hitler was appointed to “chancellor” of Germany legally
Convinced everyone to give him dictatorial control for four years
Turned Germany into a totalitarian state
SS = protection squad developed solely to protect Hitler, directed by Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo = Hitler’s secret police
Scared Germans into total obedience
Did manage to fix the economy

17. Members of the German Gestapo arrested and im- prisoned after WWII

18. Bonfire of Anti-German Books

19. The Fuhrer is Supreme Hitler wanted control over everything
Used propaganda; controlled press, radio, literature, film and paintings to promote Nazism
Greatly influenced by Social Darwinism
By the early 1930s, Hitler had convinced most of the German population that Jews were responsible for all of the country’s problems