1. Pre-Notes Tariff – tax on imports
Gold Standard – country would set and would buy and sell gold at that price
Nazi Party – National Socialist German Workers’ party
Totalitarian State – system in which leaders totally control how citizens thinks and live

2. Responses to the Depression

3. US blamed President Herbert Hoover

4. 1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President

5. He introduces the New Deal - provides jobs and stimulate the economy

6. New Deal
Government regulation of the banks and stock market

7. Government guidelines for agriculture and factories

8. Public building projects

9. (North Augusta High School – 1939-1953 – built by WPA)

10. Social Security and Unemployment insurance

11. Great Britain

12. Conservative Party replaces the Labor Party

13. They also:
Passed high tariffs
Raised taxes
Ended the Gold Standard

14. Germany

15. Following World War I - the Weimer Republic was established - had many problems

16. Middle class was almost bankrupt
Unemployment was high
Runaway inflation

17. Germans were desperate to get out of trouble

18. Begin listening to a failed artist named Adolph Hitler

19. 1921 - Hitler takes control of the Nazi Party

20. As the economy got worse - more people listened:
He appealed to the people economic fears
He used the hatred of the Treaty of Versailles
He promised to build a new Germany

21. Once he gained control of the government he built a totalitarian state

22. Classwork What caused the depression to worsen in America?
How did America, Britain, and France respond to the crisis?
What problems did Germany face following World war I?
What did Hitler promise the German people?