The Interwar Years Flashcards

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Postwar problems

A

Workers dead

Coming back to shortages, unemployment, and loss of family

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2
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Spanish Flu

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1918-1920–50-100 million die, more deadly than Black Death

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3
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Britain

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reform–voting at 21 for all–but unemployment

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4
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France

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National security–French industry wrecked while Germany is fine. Allies with Yugoslavia, Poland, C-S, Romania

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5
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Germany–political change

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Hohenzollern monarchy abolished in 1918–formation of Wiemar Republic. Freedoms, Reichstag, president

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6
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German economy

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hyperinflation of mark–$1 is 4,000,000,000,000 marks

Republic blamed for reperations

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7
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Economic plan

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Dawes’s Plan– America loans Germany to pay FR/GB who pay US

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8
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German recovery

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Late 1920s–tensions dropping, Germany enters LoN

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9
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John Keynes

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British–deficit spending to stimulate economy in Depression–countries denied it

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10
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decline of trade in Depression

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high tariffs to protect internal economies

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