Interwar Years

Official start date of WWII

September 1, 1939

Nations created from the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Estonia

Government that replaced Kaiser Wilhelm, that was replaced by Hitler and the Nazis

the Veimar republic

Hitler helped relieve the Depression in Germany

Spent money on the Ottoban system to create jobs (building it)

Hitler’s invasion of France

Occupied the Saarland district in 1935, and then the demilitarized Rhinelands

Nuremberg laws

Banned Jewish Germans from marrying Aryan Germans, revoked their citizenship

Japan in 1931

Seized the Manchurian capital without informing the government; met with no opposition from the League of Nations

Mussolini

Gradually seized control of Italy by organizing the Fascists; first years of ruling = massive programs of public work + improved infrastructure, stamped out corruption, improved army

Mussolini’s expansion

Into Abyssinia, brutal invasion, League of Nations did nothing

The Great Depression

Oversaturation of American markets —> people didn’t buy as much —> rich people didn’t make as much money, laid off workers —> rich people moved away, no jobs + stock market crash

Trickle down economics/supply side economics

Push money back to wealthy people so that they create businesses/jobs; Herbert Hoover and England’s attempts to end the Great Depression

The New Deal

Government money spent on public works; unemployed men taken into countryside to work, made sure stock market was fair + stopped gambling, guaranteed money was safe in the bank, destroyed food so prices would go up

France’s attempt to end the great depression

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