Violence played a major role in politics. New Deal: a series of reforms in an attempt to drag their country out of the depression. 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. Led by Hebert Hoover in the early stages of the depression years, later led by FDR. Women start wearing hair and skirts shorter and start hanging in jazz clubs. The “Flappers”.

Outdated factories and “replaced” as industrial leader by Japan and America. Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Labour Party in the political arena. Wartime alliance with Italy comes to an end. IRA terrorist group fights for their independence. Signed a mutual assistance treaty with Czechoslovakia and Poland. Their inspired speeches led his people to believe they could be restored in their pride, power, and world status.

Leader known as der Fuhrer(hitler). 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. 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...

Farmland as well as entire cities of the North lay in ruins as a result of the battles of WWI. Easter Rising: revolt against their government in an attempt to gain independence but resulted in executions of many of the Movements leaders. 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...

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 death of Lenin led to a power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Stalin will win the fight. 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