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Chapter 26 The Futile Search for a New Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939
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An Uncertain Peace: The Search for Security The French Policy of Coercion, 1919-1924 Enforce the Treaty of Versailles Allied Reparations Commission, April 1921 $33 billion Paid in annual installments of 2.5 billion gold marks Germany unable to pay in 1922 French occupation of the Ruhr Valley German mark fall to 4.2 trillion to $1, end of November 1923 Communist uprisings, October 1923
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Hopeful Years, 1924-1929 Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) Dawes Plan, August 1924 Treaty of Locarno, 1925 German entry into League of Nations, March 1926 Diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia The Great Depression Problems in domestic economies International financial crisis Crash of the American stock market, October 1929 Affects European markets
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The Democratic States Great Britain Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), Labour Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), Conservative National Government John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) Public works funded by the government France Raymond Poincaré (1860-1934) Cartel of the Left February riots, 1934 Popular Front
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The Scandinavian Example Social Democratic governments The United States Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 100 days New Deal World War II ends the depression
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The Retreat from Democracy: The Authoritarian and Totalitarian States Birth of Fascism Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) Fascio di Combattimento (League of Combat), 1919 Support from middle class industrialists and large landowners Growth of the socialist Squadristi, armed Fascists Terrorist activities Election successes, May 1921
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Fascist organizations Role of women in the Fascist society Lateran Accords, February 1929 Fascist School Charter, 1939 All parties outlawed, 1926 Fascist government Mussolini appointed prime minister, October 29, 1922 March on Rome, 1922
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Hitler and Nazi Germany Weimar Germany No leaders Paul von Hindenberg elected president, 1925 Inability to change old ideas Hostility to the Weimar Republic Economic difficulties Inflation Unemployment
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Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) Vienna Munich German Workers’ Party National Socialist German Workers’ Party, 1921 Sturmabteilung (SA), Storm Troops Munich Beer Hall Putsch, November 1923 Mein Kampf, My Struggle Lebensraum (living space)
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Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970) Paramilitary majority Emergency decrees Nazi party second largest in the Reichstag after 1932 election Support from right-wing elites Becomes chancellor, January 30, 1933 Reichstag fire, February 27, 1933 Successes in 1933 election Enabling Act, March 23, 1933 Gleichschaltung, coordination of all institutions under Nazi control President Paul von Hindenburg dies, August 2, 1934
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The Nazi State, 1933-1939 Mass demonstrations and spectacles to create collective fellowship Economics German Labor Front Heinrich Himmler and the SS Churches, schools, and universities brought under Nazi control Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) and Bund deutscher Mädel (League of German Maidens)
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Aryan racial state Nuremberg laws, September 1935 Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938 Restrictions on Jews Influence of Nazi ideas on working women Soviet Russia New Economic Policy Modified capitalism Revived economy Lenin suffers strokes, 1922-1924 Division Leon Trotsky Joseph Stalin General party secretary
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Stalin Era, 1929-1939 First Five Year Plan, 1928 Transformation from agricultural society to industrial Social and political costs of industrialization Rapid collectivization of agriculture Famine of 1932-1933; 10 million peasants died Political control Stalin dictatorship established, 1929 Political purge, 1936-1938; 8 million arrested
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Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe Dictatorship in the Iberian Peninsula General Miguel Primo de Rivera leads a military coup against Alfonso XIII, 1886-1931, in 1923 and creates a dictatorship – ends 1930 Spanish Republic proclaimed in 1931 Popular Front, 1936 Military revolts under General Francisco Franco, 1936 Aid of Germany and Italy Falange
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Expansion of Mass Culture and Mass Leisure Radio and Movies Mass forms of communication and entertainment Used for political purposes Nazis encourage cheap radios Triumph of the Will, 1934 Mass Leisure Professional sporting events Travel National recreation agencies Dopolavoro in Italy Kraft durch Freude in Germany
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Cultural and Intellectual Trends in the Interwar Years Political, economic, and social insecurities Nightmares and New Visions: Art and Music Tristan Tzara (1896-1945) Dadaism Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Surrealism Architecture Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) Walter Gropius (1883-1969) Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951 Tonality abandoned
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Search for the Unconscious James Joyce (1882-1941), Ulysses Virginia Woolf (1882-1942) Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) Carl Jung (1856-1961) The Heroic Age of Physics Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), atom could be split Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
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