Unit 8, Part 2: Inter-War Years


Lost generation

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Roaring Twenties

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Jazz

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British Broadcasting Corporation

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German Expressionists

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Dadaism

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Hannah Hoch

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Surrealism

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Salvador Dali

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Cubism

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Italian Futurism

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Bauhaus School of art

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Socialist Realism 

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Igor Stravinsky

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Arnold Schonberg

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stream of consciousness

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James Joyce

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Carl Jung

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Heroic Age of Physics

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Uncertainty Principle

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John Maynard Keynes

Summary

  • English economist who denounced the Treaty of Versailles

  • Doesn’t want Germany to become impoverished= economic hardship in all countries

Significance

  • Created Keyanism

  • Created sympathy for Germany

  • Created ideas the New Deal was based upon


Little Entente

Summary

  • Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia united against Hungary

  • France and Poland associate closely with it

  •  Made to keep territorial ambitions (Hungary + Germany are kinda expanding rn…)+ Hapsburg revival going on rn and they are trynna restore old glory..


Significance

  • Not much sig

  • Declined as WW2 started but got close relationships with france


Raymond Poincare

Summary

  • French Prime minister

  • Didnt accept the Germans renoucaition of payments from the war guilt clause even tho Britian basciallt did (moratorium but same thing)

  • Call germanies bluff or dissolve peace settlement~ they really playing w fire out here…

  • Help get out of ecnomoic crisis with taxes (latetr)

Significance

  • Wanna occupy ruhr disctrict to force down the treaty of versailles


French occupation of Ruhr district

Summary

  • French and Belgium armies move out of Rhineland and go to occupy Ruhr district to enforce the treaty of Versaille

  • Germany gets ruhr people to stop working- passive resistance

  • They then send african soldiers but germans rascist so blame shame

Significance

  • Creates international crisis

  • German pop isnt working!- germany economy goes DOWNNNN

  • Germany prints money = hyper inflation

  • Disconetent and germany scapegoats (fascist core think adolf..)


hyperinflation

Summary

  • German prints more money to combat but it act kills the economy and makes all money basciallt useless and now eco crisis

  • Lol they are cooked af why is germany STUPID


Significance

  • Savings wiped and ideas of thrift and caution gone

  • Economy bad

  • People literally burned stacks of money bc it was a more economical way of starting a fire


Dawes Plan

Summary

  • Charles G. Dawes makes an accepted plan for dealing with german inflation

  • Reperations are in line with germans economic output, more logical

  • Loans from US to promote recovery

  • Germany gets loans from us to pay britain and france- britain and france pay that money to us (counterintuitive)


Significance

  • Worked for a while but overall not good


Locarno Agreements

Summary

  • Germany and France agree to a common border

  • Britian and Italy with fight france or germany if they invaded each other (enforcning common border)

  • Poland and Czechoslovakia border dispute peacefully settled

  • Eastern brded germany not set


Significance

  • Lack of a Eastern german border = poles mad

  • Political tensions get deeper


Kellogg-Briand Pact

Summary

  • Pact initiated by French prime minister Aristide Briand and U.S. secretary of state Frank B. Kellogg

  • Renounced war- basciallt war is illegal

  • Peace only!


Significance

  • Hope USA is gonna help w europe stability


Beer Hall Putsch

Summary

  • Hitlers attempt to overthrow gov- quickly overthrown


Significance

  • Hitler gets attention

  • Short term prison for hitler


Ramsay McDonald

Summary

  • Labor party under Ramsay

  • Replaced liberals (opp to conservative party)

  • Moved towards socialism- no antagonization of middle class


Significance

  • Help with financial and political crisis


Great Depression

Summary

  • Crash of US stock market that lead to a wolrdwidde crisis lit everywhere (like europe but ok)

  • Us lend money to other places- banks dont have money anymore- recalling money- crisis other places


Significance

  • Economy bad


stock market crash

Summary

  • Everyone invests in same things but then the bubble pops and no more borrowed money


Significance


bank crisis

Summary

  • Banks cant get all the money people are withdrawing when they win and then they out of commision


Significance


general crisis of production

Summary

  • Output of goods falls a crazy amount bc fifnical crisis

  • Inward solving- they dont need anyone else strong independent man


Significance

  • Britian falls off gold standard- better in world markey but everyone else does same thing so no affect


protective tariffs

Summary

  • reserve shrinking national markets for domestic producers.- america does other people follow


Significance

  • Limit international trade- even worse for recovery


mass unemployment

Summary

  • Production cuts and then people lose their jobs


Significance

  • More social problems- poverty

  • Hopeless brithrates fall



Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Summary

  • Pres who made arg reforms to counteract depression

  • The Agricultural Adjustment Act

  • National Recovery Administration- minimum prices and wages


Significance


New Deal 

Summary

  • Series of reforms to target depression, Rosevelt

  • KEynsain economic- NRA

  • Relif welfare


Significance

  • Good didnt fix it tho


Works Progress Administration

Summary

  • Make more jobs and target unemployment

  • construction


Significance

  • Makes lots of jobs


Scandinavian Response to the Depression

Summary

  • Most successful response

  • Socialist reforms that are very good

  • Co-op community action

  • Large-scale deficits to finance public works- maintain production and employment

  • Welfare socialism

Significance

  • Good it works


The Popular Front

Summary

  • A alliance between communist and socialist parties in france

  • Response to right wings tryna take over paris


Significance


Leon Blum

Summary

  • Leader of the socialists in popular front

  • Becomes strongest party

  • His gov is popular front

  • Deals w social problems! (kinda)

  • Social rights but they bad = inflation


Significance

  • Resined and pop front collapse, pretty useless


Democratic Successor States

Summary

  • After WW1 when autro hungarian empire die its what comes out of it- they try to be democratic but quickly move towards totalirainism


Significance


Conservative Authoritarianism

Summary

  • uphold order, tradition and hierarchy

  • Nazi


Significance


Miklos Horthy

Summary

  • Took control of hungary gov in 1920

  • Lots of power even tho ‘elected”


Significance


Totalitarianism

Summary

  • Total power claims

  • Fascism and communism

“total claims” on the beliefs and behavior of their citizen

Violence + propaganda = power


Significance


Stalinism 

Summary

  • Communism

  • State interfere to achieve social leveling

  • Nationalized private property

  • Instrudilization

  • Collectiviation of agr


Significance


Fascism 

Summary

  • New community on national level

  • Glorify war and military

  • No levling of class diferences


Significance


Eugenics 

Summary

  • Psedoscicne abt breeding of races

  • Improve characteristics

  • Aryan supreme race (nazi spec)

  • Reform programs


Significance


Spanish Civil War

Summary

  • Right wing group is trying t UNSEAT dem elected people

  • Full scale mil campaign

  • Fascist take madrid


Significance


Francisco Franco

Summary

  • Lead right wing revolt that started spanish civil war


Significance


Joseph Stalin

Summary

  • Wanna turn soviet into communist state

  • Took power when lenin die (contendots w trotsky)

  • Marx and soviet relations



Significance


New Economic Policy

Summary

  • Replaced War communism

  • Ecnomic freedom bc they wanna rebuild arg

  • succses


Significance


“socialism in one country”

Summary

  • Stalins dev idea that helped him win bc appeal

  • Ability to independently build socialism


Significance


Centralized Russian control

Summary

  • Broke up soviet union into four parts bc believed in self determination (stalin)

  • Centralized control over diff regions

  • Culutral ind. No autonomy

  • Authority in moscow


Significance


Five-year plans

Summary

  • Wanted to increase industrial output by 250%

  • Collectiviation to increase


Significance


collectivization 

Summary

  • Giving up private property and coming together

  • Forced give up to come into one


Significance


kulaks 

Summary

  • lass of well-off peasants who had benefited the most from the NEP.

  • Stalin liquified them and sized theri property

  • Reducation 


Significance


Ukrainian famine/Holodomor

Summary

  • Colectivzation is rapid and VIOLENT

  • High impossible lebbels that ukrain has to get to 

  • Man made famine bc they no get food if they dont reach qotas


Significance


Gosplan

Summary

  • State planning commission in five yr plans

  • production goals and control deliveries of raw and finished materials


Significance

  • Shortage of necessities

  • Rapid industrial growth


transformation of soviet society

Summary

  • Industrialization

  • More jobs


Significance


women in the USSR

Summary

  • Complete eqaulity before stalin

  • Stalin revsereses woemns rights

  • Women work in construction

  • Its hard

  • Lots of female docotrs

Significance


Great Terror

Summary

  • Started with unknown assination of Sergei

  • Purged traitors

  • Use of secret police

  • Camps and collectivization camoaigns


Significance


gulags*

Summary

  • Labor camps they were send to during great terror


Significance


Benito Mussolini

Summary

  • Socialist/fasicts party leader in italy

  • Dicatort who hates socialism

Significance


fascio

Summary

  • a bundle of wooden rods that symbolized national strength in a united Fascist state


Significance


Black Shirts

Summary

  • Mousolini private military

  • Pushed socialists out of northern italy bc mousolini HATES them

  • Threatned king and got mousolini into power

Significance


Lateran Agreement

Summary

  • Recognition that Vatican is independent

  • Gives church finfical support if pope supports him

Significance


“cult of the Duce”

Summary

  • Powerful strongman, has best qualities of italian people


Significance


Italian invasion of Ethiopia

Summary

  • Invade ethiopia- italy got its “empire” under mosoliui


Significance

  • Nazis get cozy w italy


National Socialism

Summary

  • NAtional racsit facism


Significance


Adolf Hitler

Summary

  • Nazi party lider


Significance


Mein Kampf

Summary

  • Book hitler made in jail abt racial pruifciation



Significance


Lebensraum

Summary

  • Living space jsut for german race to “grow”

  • Premis which he took over areas like czech


Significance


Chancellor Heinrich Bruning

Summary

  • Trying to overcome economic crisis

  • Spending wages

  • Madeeconomic collapse worse

  • Lead to hitler apeal


Significance


Weimar Republic*

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Reichstag fire

Summary

  • Buolding destroyed

  • Blame communist


Significance


Enabling Act

Summary

  • Dictatorlike power due to fire


Significance


storm troopers (SA)

Summary

  • quasi-military band

  • Fight communists kill jews

  • Top mill positions


Significance


Heinrich Himmler SS

Summary

  • Perssonalgaurd and lider

  • Kill SA


Significance

Professional Civil Service Restoration Act

Summary

  • Banned jew from gov job

  • Outlaw marriage


Significance


Kristallnacht

Summary

  • Nazis kill jews mass scale


Significance


Night of the Long Knives*

Summary

  • SA killed by SS, pruged people


Significance


Aryanization

Summary

  • Take stuff from jews to aryan race- they will perservere at the cost of others


Significance


Volksgemeinschaft

Summary

  • “people’s community” for racially pure Germans

  • Spread nazi ideolgy


Significance


women in Nazi Germany


Summary

  • No rights

  • Sad

  • Traditional gender roles


Significance


appeasement 

Summary

  • Grant hitler things to avoid war


Significance


Rome-Berlin Axis

Summary

  • Italy and germany

  • Intiated ww2


Significance


Anschluss

Summary

  • Austria annexation

  • apeasement


Significance


invasion of the Sudetenland

Summary

  • Got them czech


Significance


Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

Summary

  • Nazi and societ good to one another- leads way for poland invasion


Significance

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