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Europe in the 1920s

Europe in the 1920s. Germany. From the German Point of View.  Lost—but not forgotten country. Into the heart You are to dig yourself these words as into stone: Which we have lost may not be truly lost!. The “ Stabbed-in-the-Back ” Theory.

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Europe in the 1920s

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  1. Europe in the 1920s

  2. Germany

  3. From the German Point of View  Lost—but not forgotten country. • Into the heart You are to dig yourself these words as into stone: Which we have lost may not be truly lost!

  4. The “Stabbed-in-the-Back” Theory Disgruntled German WWI veterans

  5. German Freikorps

  6. Sparticist Poster

  7. Friedrich Ebert:First President of the Weimar Republic

  8. The German Government: 1919-1920

  9. The GermanMark

  10. The German Mark

  11. The French in the Ruhr: 1923

  12. The French Occupation of the Ruhr

  13. The Beer Hall Putsch: 1923

  14. The Beer Hall Putsch Idealized

  15. Hitler in Landesberg Prison

  16. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]

  17. European Debts to the United States

  18. The Dawes Plan (1924)

  19. The Young Plan (1930) For three generations, you’ll have to slave away! $26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years.

  20. Weimar Germany: Political Representation[1920-1933]

  21. Italy

  22. Benito Mussolini [1883-1945]

  23. Italian Fasces

  24. March on Rome [1922]

  25. Lateran Treaty [1929]

  26. England

  27. Ramsay MacDonald: 1924, 1929 Labour Party

  28. Stanley Baldwin Conservative Party

  29. 1926 General Strike Trades Disputes Act (1927): • All general or sympathy strikes were illegal. • It forbade unions from raising money for political purposes.

  30. France

  31. Raymond Poincaré & the Conservative Right • He sent French troops into the Ruhr in 1923. • Pushed for large-scale domestic reconstruction programs. • After 1926-29: • New taxes & tightened tax collections. • Drastic decline in govt. spending that stabilized the franc

  32. Edouard Herriot & the French Socialists • 1924-1926. • Progressive social reform. • Spoke for the lower classes, small businessmen, and farmers. • Committed to private enterprise and private property. • Fervently anti-clerical.

  33. Collective Security

  34. League of Nations Members

  35. Washington Naval Conference[1921-1922] U. S. Britain Japan France Italy 5 5 3 1.67 1.67

  36. The Maginot Line

  37. Locarno Pact: 1925

  38. Locarno Pact: 1925 Austin Chamberlain (Br.) GustaveStresemann(Ger.) AristideBriand(Fr.) • Guaranteed the common boundaries of Belgium, France, and Germany as specified in the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. • Germany signed treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia, agreeing to change the eastern borders of Germany by arbitration only.

  39. Kellogg-Briand Pact: 1928 • 15 nations committed to outlawing aggression and war for settling disputes. • Problem no way of enforcement.

  40. The Great Depression

  41. The Great Depression [1929-1941] London in 1930 Paris in 1930

  42. German Unemployment: 1929-1938

  43. The Great Depression [1929-1941]

  44. Decrease in World Trade: 1929-1932

  45. German Election Results in 1933

  46. Art in the 1920s

  47. George Grosz Grey Day(1921) DaDa

  48. George Grosz The Pillars of Society(1926) DaDa

  49. Picasso  Studio with Plaster Head [1925] Cubism

  50. Georges Braque  Still Life LeJeur [1929] Cubism

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