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Agenda. 3.25.10. Quiz…. What did France do when Germany ran out of $ for reparation payments? What was the Dawes Plan? What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact? List three causes of the Great Depression. How did the US response to the Depression negatively affect other countries?

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  1. Agenda 3.25.10

  2. Quiz… • What did France do when Germany ran out of $ for reparation payments? • What was the Dawes Plan? • What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact? • List three causes of the Great Depression. • How did the US response to the Depression negatively affect other countries? • John Maynard Keynes believed that unemployment was caused by what? • Give one example of how FDR’s New Deal helped Americans during the Great Depression.

  3. Quiz… • Occupied Ruhr Valley and controlled mining operations • Big US loan to Germany • Renounced war as a form of national policy • Uneven distribution of wealth, overproduction of agriculture, people defaulting on loans • Imposed tariffs that deterred other countries from trading with the US • Lack of demand • Social security, unemployment insurance, old age pensions, welfare, works progress administration

  4. Homework – Read pages 563 – 565, New Era in the USSR. Outline everything on ONE PAGE. Stop at one page no matter what.

  5. 17.2 - The Rise of Dictatorial Regimes • Fascism = strong loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader. • Fascists promised to fix the economy, punish those responsible for hard times and restore national pride. • Liked strong/harsh dictators

  6. Fascist Headquarters in Rome…Mussolini’s face

  7. Benito Mussolini • Comes to power in Italy • Italians were mad that they didn’t get more land after WWI • Mussolini took action. Promised to revive economy and publically criticized Italy’s government • Eventually 30,000 fascists marched on Rome, and King Victor Emmanuel II gave his power over to Mussolini

  8. Fascist March on Rome

  9. Benito Mussolini

  10. Mussolini = “Il Duce” • Il Duce = “The Leader” • Abolished democracy and jailed anyone who didn’t support him • Used secret police (OVRA) and censored the media to only promote fascist ideas • Used propaganda • Outlawed strikes

  11. Benito Mussolini &Adolf Hitler • Complete Wackos

  12. Hitler and Nazi Germany • Born in Austria, 1889 • Joined the National Socialist German Workers Party in 1920 (NAZI for short) • Believed that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair and that Communism was dangerous • Sent to jail after trying to seize power from Weimar Republic. • While in jail, wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) • German nationalism • Anti-Semitism • Anti-communism

  13. Hitler’s Views • Wanted more “lebensraum” (living space) for Germans • Blonde and blue-eyed people = superior and members of the Aryan race • Hitler was ignored until the Americans stopped giving Germany $ and the German economy collapsed • 30% of the German workforce unemployed by 1932. • Desperate people looked to Hitler for help.

  14. Hitler slowly deprivedJews of all of their rights

  15. Hitler was appointed to “chancellor” of Germany legally • Convinced everyone to give him dictatorial control for four years • Turned Germany into a totalitarian state • SS = protection squad developed solely to protect Hitler, directed by Heinrich Himmler • Gestapo = Hitler’s secret police • Scared Germans into total obedience • Did manage to fix the economy

  16. Members of theGerman Gestapoarrested and im-prisoned afterWWII

  17. Bonfire of Anti-German Books

  18. The Fuhrer is Supreme • Hitler wanted control over everything • Used propaganda; controlled press, radio, literature, film and paintings to promote Nazism • Greatly influenced by Social Darwinism • By the early 1930s, Hitler had convinced most of the German population that Jews were responsible for all of the country’s problems

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