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
Class distinctions faded
Government expansion = more “white-collar” jobs (office work, business, etc)
Technology slowed growth of working class
Women earned the right to vote
Not a huge change?
WHY?

5. German Hyperinflation
German economy collapsed in 1923
Treaty of Versailles
Loss of territory
War Guilt Clause
Had to pay the winners back for the war
Leads to Hyper-inflation

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

7. Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe

8. 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

9. Reactions to the Depression
Government Changes
The New Deal (in USA)
Keynesian Economics
Greater government role in the economy
Political Radicalization
Rise of communism and fascism
Germany and Japan turn to state controlled economic growth

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

11. 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

12. 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

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

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