1. POST WWI-EUROPE AND RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM

2. LETS TALK ABOUT WWI AND HOW IT ENDED What do you remember?

3. TREATY OF VERSAILLES Made Germany take full responsibility for WWI Made Germany disarm and pay war damages ($ 385 billion in today’s money) Forced Germany to give up much of its land

5. EUROPE AFTER WWI Devastated economically, psychologically, and socially 9,911,000 died Millions others wounded Millions who made it back had PTSD (known as “Lost Generation”) Changed way people thought of country, selves, and civilization Land where fought ravished by trenches, bombing, and gas Hugh economic depression, especially in Germany(hyperinflation)

7. WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM? Rise in Totalitarian Dictators like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Franco