Europe in the 1920s
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Europe in the 1920s. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. Europe in 1919. Germany. From the German Point of View. Lost—but not forgotten country.
Europe in the 1920s
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Europe in the 1920s Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
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 Disgruntled German WWI veterans
The Spartacist League Rosa Luxemburg[1870-1919]murdered by the Freikorps
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.
Monday, April 28, 2014 • Pick up your notebook • Take your seat • Take out your Warm-Ups/Timed Writings Timed Writing Analyze and evaluate the social, political and economic problems faced by the German Weimar Republic in the early 1920’s. Minimum of 2 body paragraphs req. for full credit.
Today’s Agenda • Timed Writing • FN: “Europe in the 1920’s” • Homework: • Finish reading chapter 26 • Complete the chart “Emerging Governments of the Postwar Era”
Ramsay MacDonald: 1924, 1929 Labour Party
Stanley Baldwin Conservative Party
1926 General Strike Trades Disputes Act (1927): • All general or sympathy strikes were illegal. • It forbade unions from raising money for political purposes.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 • Pick up a text book • Take your seat • Take out your homework from last night Warm-Up Discussion In your groups discuss each country on the chart, briefly reviewing the information. • What patterns do you see emerging? • What do you think this means for post war Europe? Answer each question on the back of your chart in 3-5 sentences each.
Today’s Agenda • Timed Writing • FN: “Europe in the 1920’s” • Homework: • Terms- Stalin's Soviet Union • Read, mark and annotate Stalin documents • Read Ch. 6 Animal Farm
Raymond Poincaré & the Conservative Right • He sent French troops into the Ruhr in 1923. • Pushed for large-scale infrastructure reconstruction programs [counting on German reparations to pay for them]. • After 1926-29: • New taxes & tightened tax collections. • Drastic decline in govt. spending that stabilized the franc [the threat of runaway inflation was avoided!]
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.
Collective Security
Essential Question How did European countries attempt to keep the peace and develop collective security?
Washington Naval Conference[1921-1922] • Five-Power Treaty – ratio for Warship tonnage • Four-Power Treaty – U.S. France, Britain and Japan agreed to consult w/ each other in the event of a E. Asia crisis before taking action • Nine-Power Treaty – marked internationalization of U.S. Open door policy. Recognized Japanese dominance in Manchuria U. S. Britain Japan France Italy 5 5 3 1.67 1.67
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.
Kellogg-Briand Pact: 1928 • 15 nations committed to outlawing aggression and war for settling disputes. • Problem no way of enforcement.
Art in the 1920s
