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Interwar Years/WWII 1919 - 1939

Interwar Years/WWII 1919 - 1939. Essential Question. How did Russia and Germany change after WWI?. Lenin’s Russia. Russia becomes the Soviet Union Communist Party under Lenin controls government (not a democracy) New Capital – Moscow Treaty with Germany to end the war Russia lost land

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Interwar Years/WWII 1919 - 1939

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  1. Interwar Years/WWII 1919 - 1939

  2. Essential Question • How did Russia and Germany change after WWI?

  3. Lenin’s Russia • Russia becomes the Soviet Union • Communist Party under Lenin controls government (not a democracy) • New Capital – Moscow • Treaty with Germany to end the war • Russia lost land • Distributes farmland to peasants • Workers control factories • Average person has little freedom or rights

  4. Murder of the Romanov family

  5. Treaty of Versailles and Germany • German economy was weak after the war • Now, they had to pay reparations • Lost valuable land and towns • German people were dissatisfied • Felt they were punished unfairly • Felt “stabbed in the back” by their democratic government who ended the war • Germany was insecure and paranoid • Army was reduced • Surrounded by enemies (France, Poland, Russia)

  6. “So it had all been in vain. In vain all the sacrifices and privations ... in vain the hours in which, with moral fear clutching at our hearts we nevertheless did our duty; in vain the deaths of two million…had they died for this? So that a gang of wretched criminals could lay their hands on the Fatherland?” ~Adolf Hitler (1923)

  7. Essential Question • What caused the Great Depression and how was the world affected by it? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpKmfjf5tUk

  8. Underlying Causes • Uneven distribution of wealth • Top 5% controlled 33% of the wealth • Overproduction of goods • People are buying on credit. Go into debt • Buy stocks (certificates of ownership in a company) on credit • This is okay as long as the economy is good

  9. The Crash • Economy starts downturn in Sept 1929 • People lose confidence in economy • Investors sell their stocks and get less in return • Oct 29, 1929 – Black Tuesday • Economy takes a dive and entire fortunes wiped out, billions lost

  10. Great Recession of 2008

  11. Depression Goes Global • U.S. was largest economy so it affects others • U.S. had loaned countries money to rebuild after WWI (France, Germany, etc…) • Their economies collapsed • U.S. cannot buy world goods or sell American goods – hurts Europe • World goes into Global Depression

  12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exuGv3HsV-U

  13. Directions: Use the document (song, charts, and quote) to answer the following: • 1. What was the point of the song? • 2. How was life for a worker or cook (use charts)? • 3. Explain how these events could make you lose faith/trust in your government

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