1. Wednesday April 20th Take your seat Begin Warm-Up Warm-Up
Take out your notes from yesterday, you should have finished them off Ed-line, discuss them in groups.

2. Today’s Agenda Warm-Up Notes: 13-2 Homework:
Read and annotate the document packet
Socratic sem prep – level one all docs, 5 level 2 and 3 level 3

3. Today’s Standard Standard 10.6/10.7:
Analyze the causes of the great Depression and explain its relationship to the rise of totalitarian governments in the late 20’s early 30’s

4. Today’s Objective
Identify and explain the causes and effects of the Great Depression on the U.S. and Europe.
Explain the relationship between the Great Depression and the rise of Totalitarian governments in Italy and Germany.

5. 1926 General Strike Trades Disputes Act (1927):
All general or sympathy strikes were illegal.
It forbade unions from raising money for political purposes.

6. 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 :
New taxes & tightened tax collections.
Drastic decline in govt. spending that stabilized the franc [the threat of runaway inflation was avoided!]

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

8. Austin Chamberlain (Br.)
Locarno Pact: 1925
Austin Chamberlain (Br.)
Gustave Stresemann (Ger.)
Aristide Briand (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.

9. Causes of the Great Depression
World economy was like a house of cards
U.S. (key card) has 3 weaknesses:
Uneven distribution of wealth
surplus of goods
Investors buy stock on margin

10. Stock Market Crashes
Black Tuesday - stock market crashed Oct. 29, 1929
B/C people panic that most stocks were over-valued
16 million shares sold - most at a huge loss
Global depression results – world trade drops by 65%
Banks and businesses fail; people loose their land and homes
2. Stability of world economy rested on U.S.; 1929 U.S. turning out nearly half of world’s industrial goods

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

12. German Unemployment: 1929-1938

13. The Great Depression Unemployment [1929-1941]

14. Decrease in World Trade: 1929-1932

15. After listening to this song, explain how it is different than the one we heard before. How does it represent the Great Depression.

16. World Responds to the Crisis
World govt’s create jobs and welfare programs
In US, Roosevelt launches New Deal in 1933
public works
welfare
regulations imposed on banking system & stock market

18. German Election Results in 1933

19. The “New Napoleons?”