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Futile Search for Stability
Objective: Cover the political and social developments after
WWI
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Uneasy Peace• After WWI border disputes breakout
among new nations
• League of Nations was ineffective• U.S. never join league
• League could not use military force only sanctions
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Reparation • French wanted strict enforcement of
Treaty of Versailles
• Germans could no longer repay the 33 billion owed
• French army invades Ruhr Valley to operate German industries themselves
• German workers go on strike in protest
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German Economic Crisis• To pay strikers government prints more
money
• Greatly devalues German Mark (dollar)• Huge inflation meant people suffered
greatly
• Dawes Plan helped by reducing payments Germany had to make to Allies
• Plan loaned Germany 200 million and America invest heavily
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Recovery• As Germany recovers relations between
Germany and France improve
• In 1926 Germany joins League of Nations • In 1928 Germany signs Kellogg-Briand
Pact with 63 other nations
• Pact renounce war as an instrument of national policy.
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Great Depression• Ended European prosperity
• Two main causes of depression was– 1. Downturn in the economies of nations
during second half of the 1920’s
– 2. Collapse of U.S. stock market in 1929
As the economy slowed millions lost their jobs
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Solutions to the Great Depression
• Englishman John Maynard Keynes argued that unemployment came from lack of demand not overproduction
• American Franklin Delano Roosevelt came up with a government program called the New Deal
• New Deal put millions to work building public projects like roads, bridges, dams, and schools