1. Warm Up
Answer the following questions based on the timeline of the West between the Wars (p ):
a. What book did Hitler write in 1924?
b. Who became the fascist leader of Italy?
c. Who became president of the United States in 1932?
d. In which year did Hitler become chancellor of Germany?

2. How did the Great Depression affect European economies?
Essential Question
How did the Great Depression affect European economies?

3. Between World Wars

4. League of Nations Remained weak
Members could not agree to use force when necessary
The U.S. never joined

5. French Demands Wanted strict enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles
Germans owed debt of $33 billion

6. Germany Economy High inflation (rise in prices)
German money becomes worthless

7. The Dawes Plan Proposed by Americans
Gave Germany a $200 million loan for economic recovery

8. Great Depression
Depression = a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment

9. Causes of the Depression
Falling prices in European countries
International financial crisis for the U.S. stock market

10. United States President – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Proposed the New Deal to help the economy

11. Great Depression

12. Great Depression

13. Great Depression

14. Weimar Republic German democratic state after WWI No strong leadership
High unemployment, poor economy

15. Great Britain
Two political parties:
Labour Party
Conservative Party

16. Changes in Europe
By 1939, only two European nations (France and Great Britain) remained democratic
Most others had adopted dictators

17. New Form of Dictatorship
Totalitarianism = government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens

18. Totalitarian States Led by a single leader and a single party
No guarantees of personal freedoms

19. Fascism Glorify the state above the individual
Need for a strong government led by a dictator
Remove opposition

20. Benito Mussolini
Established a fascist movement in Italy

21. Rise of Fascism in Italy
People feared communist revolution
Mussolini formed the Blackshirts – armed men who suppressed opposition

22. Mussolini in Power
Became dictator in 1922 as head of the Fascist Party
Known as “Il Duce” – The Leader

23. Quote, Mussolini
“Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only so far as his interests coincide with those of the State The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist. Thus understood, fascism is totalitarian.”

24. Japanese Expansion Difficulty finding resources for growing industry
Military gained more power

25. Invasion of Manchuria
1931
Japan became a war-driven economy

26. Picasso
Abstract art

27. Albert Einstein Physicist
Won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his theory of relativity