Interwar Period

Interwar Period Emma jones

Outdated factories and “replaced” as industrial leader by Japan and America.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
Wartime alliance with Italy comes to an end
IRA terrorist group fights for their independence.
Signed a mutual assistance treaty with Czechoslovakia and Poland

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.
Social Security Act of 1935 provided unemployment and old-aged benefits
Agriculture grouped to form collective farms and people worked together to bring in the crops using the scarce farm machinery
New Deal: a series of reforms in an attempt to drag their country out of the depression
Violence played a major role in politics

Farmland as well as entire cities of the North lay in ruins as a result of the battles of WWI
Spent large amount of money to fortify borders with the Maginot Line
The Locarno Pact in which a series of treaties state problems will be solved peacefully, and guaranteed existing boundaries between France and Germany

Leader known as der Fuhrer
His inspired speeches led his people to believe they could be restored in their pride, power, and world status
Secretly began to rebuild and rearm the army
Nazi Party leader Adolph Hitler becomes Chancellor & begins the Third Reich
The Weimar Republic was the federal government establish after the war, however it proved to be weak and ineffective
To help rid the country of the communist his party staged the burning of the Reichstag building and blamed the communist
Became a command economy in which government controlled all economic decisions
Open violation of the Treaty of Versailles when he marched his troops into the Rhineland
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
The Locarno Pact in which a series of treaties state problems will be solved peacefully, and guaranteed existing boundaries between France and Germany
In a book by the future leader of the country known as Mein Kampf, his racial superiority theory was laid out
Violence played a major role in politics
Aryan racial superiority became an obsession of the state
A single political party dominated by a single man
No concern for human rights

Fascist leader known as Benito Mussolini, also known as Il Duce, rises to power
Symbol of country is Roman axe bundled tightly with rods
Youth followers, known as “Sons of the Wolf”
Began Fascist doctrine that appealed to the upper and middle classes
His “Black Shirts” broke up strikes, intimidated workers, and drove elected socialist from office
The Locarno Pact in which a series of treaties state problems will be solved peacefully, and guaranteed existing boundaries between France and Germany
A single political party dominated by a single man
No concern for human rights

The death of Lenin led to a power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Stalin will win the fight
New Economic Plan kept heavy industry, communications, transportation, and credit systems under government control
The 5-year plan resulted in decreased agricultural output and many starve
Vladimir Lenin rose to lead the country
The “purge” rid the country of party members suspected of being disloyal
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
The Locarno Pact in which a series of treaties state problems will be solved peacefully, and guaranteed existing boundaries between France and Germany
Violence played a major role in politics
A single political party dominated by a single man
No concern for human rights
Said it would end all class division like the teachings of Karl Marx

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