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1. What did France do when Germany ran out of $ for reparation payments?

2. What was the Dawes Plan?3. What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?4. List three causes of the Great Depression.5. How did the US response to the Depression

negatively affect other countries?6. John Maynard Keynes believed that

unemployment was caused by what?7. Give one example of how FDR’s New Deal

helped Americans during the Great Depression.

1. Occupied Ruhr Valley and controlled mining operations

2. Big US loan to Germany3. Renounced war as a form of national policy4. Uneven distribution of wealth, overproduction

of agriculture, people defaulting on loans5. Imposed tariffs that deterred other countries

from trading with the US6. Lack of demand7. Social security, unemployment insurance, old

age pensions, welfare, works progress administration

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

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

Communists Fascists

-Internationalists-Want classless society-Put state ahead of individual

-Nationalists-Like rich and poor- put state ahead of individual

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

Benito Mussolini

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

Benito Mussolini &Adolf Hitler

Complete Wackos

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

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.

Hitler slowly deprivedJews of all of their rights

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

Members of theGerman Gestapoarrested and im-prisoned afterWWII

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