1. Post WWI & Great Depression
Age of Anxiety
Post WWI & Great Depression

2. Europe after WWI

3. Transformation of Europe
Period of Social Change
Scientific and Cultural Transformation
German Hyperinflation

4. Social Changes of the 20’s
Huge casualties mean more social mobility for those who survive
Class distinctions fade
Government expansion = more “white-collar” jobs (office work, business, etc)
Technology slowed growth of the working class
Women earned the right to vote

5. Flappers

7. German Hyperinflation
German economy collapsed in 1923
Treaty of Versailles
Loss of:
15% of its European territory
All colonial possessions
War Guilt Clause
Had to pay the winners back for the war
Leads to hyper-inflation

8. What does hyperinflation look like?
What can you do with German money in 1923?
Make a fort (below)
Burn it for heat (right)

9. Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe

10. The Great Depression Causes Effects Agricultural Depression
Bank Failures
Overproduction of Goods
Credit
Decline in world trade
Massive unemployment
Global decline in industrial production
Poverty and hunger widespread

11. Most important event of the Post WWI period
The Great Depression
Most important event of the Post WWI period
Directly leads to WWII
Shows that capitalism has some pretty serious flaws

17. Reactions to the Depression
Government Changes
The New Deal (in USA)
Keynesian Economics (circular flow of $$)
Increased government spending & lower taxes=recovery from recession
Greater government role in the economy
Political Radicalization
Rise of communism and fascism
Germany and Japan turn to state controlled economic growth

18. Fascism Mussolini – Italy (1922) One- party dictatorship
Took over government, press, public education
Extreme nationalism
Secret police
Fascism appealed to people who feared:
rapid change & economic instability

21. Totalitarianism and Mass Mobilization
Characteristics:
Attack democracy and capitalism
State directed economy
State more important than the individual
Charismatic dictator
Mobilization of the masses
Embrace public welfare programs
Use censorship and propaganda
Women not permitted a public role

22. Adolf Hitler Ignores the Treaty of Versailles Rise of Hitler
Reforms by Hitler
Austrian
Served in World War I
Became chancellor of Germany in 1933
Ignores the Treaty of Versailles
Ends war reparations
Remilitarizes Germany

24. What made Hitler so charismatic? Let’s take a look.

26. Japan
Authoritarian
Wants out of the Great Depression
Government in the hands of a nationalist military group
Began aggressively attacking areas of Asia