Interwar Years
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- October 29, 1929
- Stock Market Crash; Stresseman dies Oct 3, Mid-Oct. Germany announces it can't pay reperations, Late-Oct. France defaults on its loans, Oct 29 Stock Market crashes
- League of Nations
- worked to keep alliance systems out. had 2 major failures; the US wan't involved and there was no true enforcement (economic sanctions)
- Stresemann
- Greatest Weimar Politician who worked to stabalize the Weimar Republic
- Lacarno Pact
- 1925. series of treaties between Germany and all major euro. countries including France, Italy, etc. the western border of Germany is secured, Eastern border not recognized. Weimar Republic officially recognized in the League of Nations.
- Dawe's Plan
- 1924. allied powers restructured German reperations.
- Keynes
- unemployment can be prevented through deficit spending should be used to give people jobs in public works.
- Causes of the Great Depression
- German reperations (and French war debt), expansion of production capacities, protective tariffs (Great Britain; leads to unnatural inflation), Overextension of Credit.
- Young's Plan
- 1929.US restructures the reperations.
- Ruhr Crisis
- 1922-1923. Germany announced they couldn't pay their reperations, France invades the Ruhr VAlley to collect reperations "in Kind." (leads to Germany printing money causing hyperinflation)
- Washington Naval Conference
- 1922. goal was to end the naval race. (5:5:3:1.67:1.67 ratio)
- Facism
- extreme rightist. highly nationalistic, "Workers of _____ Unite"
- Marxism
- extreme leftist. predicted capitalism would destroy itself. "Workers of the World Unite", Proletariat supported.
- Treaty of Rapollo
- Germany and Russia recognized eachother, forcing Great Britain and France to compromise with Germany due to a scare of communism
- Kellog-Briand Pact
- 1928. "War is illegal." is signed by all major countries in the world includin Japan, Italy, and Germany. Failure; no true enforcement (bound by morals)