The Great Depression 1919-1939

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  • Weimar Republic

    A German democratic state that suffered from economic problems.
    Political
    This replaced Imperial Germany after WW1
  • Reparations

    Payments that Germany had to pay for starting WW1
    Economic
    These payments put Germany in massive debt.
  • Lenin

    Took over Russia, introduced the New Economic Policy.
    Political
    Lenin and the communists created the Soviet Union
  • New Economic Policy

    Peasants were allowed to sell their produce openly.
  • Adolf Hitler

    Chancellor of Germany, rose to power, and HATED JEWS.
    Political
    Created Nazism and wanted people to be Aryan because he view them as the perfect person.
  • The Soviet Union

    Lenin and the communist create a new state called the USSR or Soviet Union.
    Political
    It was a new state
  • Inflation

    The value of money goes down
    Economic
    Germany suffered from inflation, making their money almost useless.
  • Benito Mussolini

    Italian Prime Minister, who started the first fascist movement. Created a Fascist dictatorship.
    Political
    He began fascism in Italy.
  • Fascism

    Glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central governemnt led by a dictorial rule.
    Political
    The government controls the people and stifles any oppisition.
  • Ruhr Valley invaded

    France was mad that Germany couldn't make payments, so they sent troops to the Ruhr Valley.
    Military
    They invaded the Ruhr Valley, and that requires a military.
  • Joseph Stalin

    The Stalin Era was the beginning of economic, social, and political revolutions.
    Politcal and Economic
    He started a new form of governemnt, and made economic plans for the future.
  • Dawes Plan

    American Banker came up with a plan to reduce reparations.
    Economic
    This plan helped solve the economic problems.
  • Heinrich Himmler

    Led the SS, the secret police force, and the regular police.
    Military
    Had control over the police forces
  • Treaty of Locarno

    Treaty of Locarno garunteed Germany's new western borders with France and Belgium.
    Social
    New borders for each country, allowing more travel.
  • Five Year Plans

    Economic goals for five year periods.
    Economic
    Their purpose was to transform Russia from an agricultural into an industrial country.
  • Collectivization.

    A system in which private farms were eliminated.
    Economical
    The government owned all of the land, and the peasants worked it.
  • Nazi Party

    A new political group created by Hitler that claimed to help Germany out of its economic depressions.
    Political
    Said they would help Germany's economy
  • The Great Depression

    In October 1929, the stock market crashed and stock prces plunged.
    Economic
    This was the beginning of the economic problems America and Europe suffered.
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    The Great Depression

    The stock market crashed, and this caused economic trouble all over the world.
  • Concetration Camps

    The Nazis would send Jews here to either work them to death or straight up kill them
    Social
    People were sent and lived there
  • New Deal

    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a policy of active government economic intervention
    Economic
    Roosevelt shut down the banks to prevent people from withdrawing more money.
  • Enabling Act

    This law gave the governemnt the power to ignore the constitution for four years.
    Political
    This allwoed Hitler to do whatever he wanted without approval of the president
  • The Nazi State

    Hitler believed the perfect person would be Aryan. Hitler wanted his empire to be tolitarian and used terror to enforce that.
    Social
    Hitler wanted to only have the perfect type of person in his empire.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    These laws defined who was a Jew
    Social
    Told others who and wasn't a Jew.
  • Nuremberg Party Rallies

    The Nazis used mass demonstrations and spectacles to make German people an instrment in Hitler's policies.

    Political
    Hitler used propaganda to get the German people to support him
  • Kristallnacht

    The night of shattered glass, the Nais burned 7000 Jewish businesses, and killed 100, and sent 30,000 Jews to concentration camps.
    Military
    The Nazis attacked Jewish property and killed and captured them
  • Francisco Franco

    The dictator of Spain, helped Spain win the Spanish Civil War.
    Political
    He created a dictatorship in Spain and ruled until his death.
  • Schutzstaffeln

    An important force for maintaining order and they controlled all police forces.
    Militarism
    They were used as police and security.
  • Auschwitz

    A concentration camp that was infamous for killing many Jews. They also tortured and did medical expirements on them.
    Social
    There were thousands of Jews here and many of them died.
  • Japan Bombings

    The United States launched atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 190,000 people
    Military
    U.S. launched these attacks to get Japan to surrender.