Interwar Period Kayla lanigan
All Countries
Movies become big entertainment
People in early post war era live for the moment, not planning on future
Three waves of the influenza pandemic hit
Post war prosperity crashes
Many people feel increasingly fearful of the unpredictable world
Some look to science to help support disillusion with the world
England
Outdated factories and “replaced” as industrial leader by Japan and America
Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Labour Party in the political arena
Easter Rising: revolt against their government in an attempt to gain independence but resulted in executions of many of the movements leaders
IRA terrorist group fights for their independence
The Locarno Pact in which a series of treaties state problems will be solved peacefully, and guaranteed existing boundaries between France and Germany
America
Black Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929: because of speculation, stock market crashed plunging the nation intodepression
Women start wearing hair and skirts shorter and start hanging in jazz clubs. The “Flappers”
Led by Hebert Hoover in the early stages of the depression years, later led by FDR
New Deal: a series of reforms in an attempt to drag their country out of the depression
Social Security Act of 1935 provided unemployment and oldaged benefits
France
Signed a mutual assistance treaty with Czechoslovakia and Poland
The Locarno Pact in which a series of treaties state problems will be solved peacefully, and guaranteed existing boundaries between France and Germany
Spent large amount of money to fortify borders with the Maginot Line
Wartime alliance with Italy comes to an end
New Economic Plan kept heavy industry, communications, transportation, and credit systems under government control
Farmland as well as entire cities of the North lay in ruins as a result of the battles of WWI
Germany
His inspired speeches led his people to believe they could be restored in their pride, power, and world status
In a book by the future leader of the country known as Mein Kampf, his racial superiority theory was laid out
The Locarno Pact in which a series of treaties state problems will be solved peacefully, and guaranteed existing boundaries between France and Germany
His “Black Shirts” broke up strikes, intimidated workers, and drove elected socialist from office
The Beer Hall Putsch was an attempt to oust the government. The future leader of the country was involved and jailed for his involvement
Began Fascist doctrine that appealed to the upper and middle classes
To help rid the country of the communist his party staged the burning of the Reichstag building and blamed the communist
Open violation of the Treaty of Versailles when he marched his troops into the Rhineland.
The Weimar Republic was the federal government establish after the war, however it proved to be weak and ineffective
Nazi Party leader Adolph Hitler becomes Chancellor & begins the Third Reich
Secretly began to rebuild and rearm the army
Leader known as der Fuhrer
Violence plays major role in politics
Single political party commanded by one man
No concern for human rights
Italy
Violence plays major role in politics
Single political party commanded by one man
No concern for human rights
The Locarno Pact in which a series of treaties state problems will be solved peacefully, and guaranteed existing boundaries between France and Germany
Began Fascist doctrine that appealed to the upper and middle classes
Youth followers, known as “Sons of the Wolf”
Symbol of country is Roman axe bundled tightly with rods
Fascist leader known as Benito Mussolini, also known as Il Duce, rises to power
His inspired speeches led his people to believe they could be restored in their pride, power, and world status
Soviet Union
Violence plays major role in politics
Single political party commanded by one man
No concern for human rights
End all class division like Karl Marx
Had a five year plan to increase industrial, agricultural output and turn them into modern industrial
giant Million of citizens were sent to gulags which were brutal labor camps in the barren area known as Siberia
Agriculture grouped to form collective farms and people worked together to bring in the crops using the scarce farm machinery
The “purge” rid the country of party members suspected of being disloyal
The death of Lenin led to a power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Stalin will win the fight
ALL religion was discouraged and in many cases banned all together
Became a command economy in which government controlled all economic decisions
Vladimir Lenin rose to lead the country
New Economic Plan kept heavy industry, communications, transportation, and credit systems under government control
The 5year plan resulted in decreased agricultural output and many starve
