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Worldwide Depression

Worldwide Depression. Fascism and the War in Brief. German Hyper-inflation. Germany’s unstable Weimar Republic was forced to pay reparations to France, Britain & others in gold German companies lost their oversees markets during the war. Devaluation of Currency.

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Worldwide Depression

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  1. Worldwide Depression Fascism and the War in Brief

  2. German Hyper-inflation Germany’s unstable Weimar Republic was forced to pay reparations to France, Britain & others in gold German companies lost their oversees markets during the war.

  3. Devaluation of Currency To pay its “in-country” debts, Germany printed more paper money. With each printing the value of the “Mark” decreased further Germans begin to barter instead of paying with money

  4. Emerging Disaster in U.S. Prices of agricultural goods drop sharply. Farmers dump milk in protest

  5. Prohibition of Alcohol sales lead to a rapid increase in crime FBI is created to deal with “bootlegging” & corruption

  6. Black TuesdayOctober 29, 1929 Combination of overproduction of consumer goods, depressed farm prices and buy stock shares on margin sent the stock market crashing

  7. The Crash created bank insecurity and unemployment

  8. Duststorms Overuse of farmland to grow cotton & corn in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri & Kansas

  9. Loss of Fertile Soil Land was rendered useless Foreclosure of farm property made millions homeless

  10. Migrant Homeless

  11. By early 1930s, farm migrants combined with unemployed in cities created “Hoovervilles”

  12. Americans vote for a “New Deal” and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933

  13. Fascism For Europeans in Italy, Spain and Germany the answer to unstable times meant turning to Fascist leaders for answers Beginning with the “election” of Benito Mussolini in Italy.

  14. General Franco in Spain and Adolf Hitler in German

  15. Beer-Hall Pusch

  16. The Rise of the NAZIs Nationalist Socialist Party gets its start in the beer halls of Munich Hitler’s speeches created riots; he was jailed In jail, he writes “Mein Kampf” …My Struggle

  17. NAZIs win 1/3 seats in German Parliament February 1933 Hitler builds a coalition that gives him the Chancellorship. President Hindenburg approves Weeks later the Parliament building burned Hitler blamed the communists

  18. NAZI pageantry Term “3rd Reich” builds upon the Roman & Holy Roman Empire Imagery & salute are Roman based Large rally in Nuernberg Swaztika (Hakenkreuz) represented Aryanism

  19. Targets & Opponents Jehovah Witnesses Communists Gypsies (Roma) Slavs (Poles, Russians, etc) Jews Catholic Priests & Protestant pastors who preached against NAZIsm Student groups

  20. German purity laws“Nuremberg Laws” German Jews were forced to carry identity cards indicating their religion…then they would be forced to wear stars Jews were then forbidden to attend mixed schools and were harrassed at work and in the streets. Jews couldn’t marry outside of their faith

  21. Kristallnacht November 9, 1938 Jewish temples, homes and businesses are attacked and damaged

  22. Concentration & Extermination Camps Dachau prison is built as a hard labor camp for male political prisoners in 1933 soon after the burning of the Parliament building. Eventually it would be a model for the “death camps.”

  23. Lebensraum “room to live” Idea that all ethnic Germans should be together Borders set by Versailles Treaty of 1918 confined Germany in too small of a space Was used as an excuse to annex Austria and invade neighbors

  24. Non-aggression Pact German & USSR sign a treaty to divide Poland USSR would get Finland and the Baltic States

  25. Blitzkreig! “Lightning Attack!” German attacks Poland in September 1941 The war in Europe has started

  26. Attack on Norway and Denmark April 9, 1940

  27. May 1940 German troops march through Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg

  28. Shortly thereafter, German troops invade France

  29. British troops and French government retreat at Dunkirk

  30. Germany attacks Russia but the harsh winters slow down the assault

  31. Allied troops led by General Montgomery attack Germans in North Africa led by General Rommel

  32. Allied invasion of France“D-Day” June 1944

  33. German surrender May 7, 1945

  34. Japanese surrender August 9, 1945 after the distruction of Nagasaki

  35. Formal surrender on board USS Missouri September 2, 1945

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