Locarno Treaty
- guarantee borders between Germany and France
- seemed to have peace
Dawes Plan
-loans to Germany
maginot
border created by the French to protect them against the Germans
Occupation of the Rhur
caused inflation
Germany after WWI
Wiemar republic
Trotsky
wanted the revolution to spread across the world
Stalin
wanted to build up communism in Russia
5 year plan
built up heavy industry
gulags
slave camps in soviet union
Marshall Pilsudski
took over Poland after WWI
Causes of the Great Depression
- inflated currencies (Ruhr)
- tariff barriers
Great Britain after WWI
- labor party
- full democracy
- welfare state
- southern Ireland given Independence
- general strike
- during the great depression they put in tariff barriers, cut benefits, and raised taxes
- national government led revolver, but still unemploymenet
Gustav Stresemann
-leader of Germany after WWI
France after WWI
popular front (left wing) tried to extend social benefits during great depression
j.m. Keynes
- pump priming (government spending to provide employment)
- increase the demand! this is the cause of unemployment
Differences between Communism and fascism
- C: goal was no government, internationalist, equality, peace
- F: state is everything, nationalistic, inequality is natural, war is good
Italy after WWI
people were scared of communism
duce
Mussolini called himself this
fuhrer
Hitler called himself this
Spanish civil war
- Francisco Franco
- left aided by Stalin
- right aided by Mussolini
- didn’t have military alliance with axis
- created monarch
Hungary after WWI
authoritian
Czechoslovakia after WWI
democracy
Austria after WWI
one party rule
