1. Post WWI – Germany and the West p. 937- 939 (top)
Inflation
Reparations
Dawes Plan

2. 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:
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
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

3. Great Depression p.942-946 Stock Market Crash New Deal
Mass Unemployment
WPA

4. Responses to Great Depression: Western Europe
Ramsey McDonald & the Labour Party
Scandinavian Example
Popular Front

5. Rise of Hitler p. 966-968 Uprising in Munich Nazi Ideology
Mein Kampf
Nazi Ideology
Reasons for Hitler’s popularity

6. Hitler’s Germany p
Enabling Act
Nuremberg laws
Rearmament

7. Franco’s Spain use handouts
Republicans
Spanish Civil War
International Brigades
Guernica

8. Munich conference – appeasement – Sudetenland - Czechoslovakia
Hitler on the move – building the “Third Reich”
Invasion of Poland
Takeover of Austria:
“Anschluss”
Munich conference – appeasement – Sudetenland - Czechoslovakia

9. Write a thesis statement
Identify the factors leading to the rise of the Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s.