History Mystery

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History Mystery

• If Adolf Hitler had not been elected to
  chancellor of Germany would World War II have
  happened?
• Why would a society elect a leader like Hitler in
  1932?

What if Hitler got in to art school?
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An Age of Anxiety
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1. European society was badly shaken by the
effects of the war 2. Europeans experienced a
shock to their system of values, beliefs, and
traditions 3. Scientific and cultural that came
about after the war reflected a sense of loss and
anxiety 4. Alongside a widespread economic
depression dictators in Russia, Italy, and
Germany tried to develop stronger nations 5.
The communist rise of Joseph Stalin, and the
fascist governments lead by Mussolini in Italy
and Hitler in Germany led to a greater sense of
anxiety during this time.
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Postwar Pessimism
Lost GenerationWriting- Named by Gertrude
Stein- American intellects who wrote about
depression and disappointment showed the mood of
US and Europe after the Great War Progress-
Sciences and Technology focused on war - Western
Societies gave democracy to both men and women-
Democracy was viewed negatively and was named
rule of inferiors
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Effects of the collapse of Stock prices
Many countries were affected because many were
dependent on the U.S for financial
assistance Marriage,birthrates, and divorce rate
declined Millions of people struggle for basic
resources (shantytown appeared and breadlines
stretched for blocks)?
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Democracy or Communism?
Among Marxists minds capitalist society was seen
as a bad system. Vladimir Lenin and the more
popular Joseph Stalin formed the first socialist
society the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
in 1922 Across Europe Fascist movements
promoted alternatives to socialism which varied
from place to place
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The Party In Russia just started
With the victory of the Bolsheviks, The Russian
Communist Party, civil war erupted from 1918 to
1920. The Red Terror campaign started to kill
those opposing communism Tsar Nicolas II was
executed by Bolsheviks
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Transition to War Communism
Bolshevik government took control of all
privately held properties, banks and
industries. With the abolition of private land
industrial production went to 1/10 the of
prewar level and agricultural production reached
half of its prewar level. Lenin implemented NEP
in order to restored market economy and private
enterprises in Russia
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Joseph Stalin the man of steel
After the death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin took the
position of dictator of the Soviet Union in
1928 First Five-Year plan, aimed at
transforming the agriculture country of Russia
into a industrial power. Collectivization, a
enforced collecting of agricultural land, which
the Soviet state used to give land equally and
profit was shared
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The Start of Fascist Italy

• Benito Mussolini was a socialist writer whom
• believed that the Great War would strengthen
• Italy
• By 1920 Mussolini rallied support under a
• group of armed squads named Brown-shirts.
• Brown-shirts marched towards Rome, later King
• Victor Emmanuel III asks Mussolini to become
• prime minister and create a new government.
• He chose a fascist regime in 1922

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Benito's Acts

• From 1925-1931 Mussolini took
• dictatorship, with that he took liberty in
• eliminating of political parties, free
• speech, association, and began
• supervising military officers
• With Benito's friendship with
• Adolf Hitler came his ideas
• in 1938... anti-Semitic laws were
• placed such as excluding Jews and
• Aryans from marrying

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National Socialist German Workers' Party, AKA
N.A.Z.I's
Hitler gained powered from his Nazi association
becoming chairmen of the party in 1921 and in
1932 Hitler was elected chancellor. Hitler
destroyed trade unions, eliminated strikes and
lockouts and took out any possible enemies of
the regime.
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Race for Superiority

• Nazi Germany needed to build up its population
  as
• well and to do this Nazi Germany took measures
  into
• promoting birth and close all forms of birth
  control,
• abortion and family planning.
• The Honor Cross which was on August 12 ,the day
• Hitlers mother was born, mothers would receive
  a
• medal based on the amount of children they had.

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Sterilization of the inferior

• With its birth propaganda, Nazi's began
• sterilizing those with physical or mental
  handicaps.
• By 1935 racial aliens were forced to have
  abortions.
• Some racial inferiors were the gypsies and Jews
• Nazi anti-semitic laws were widespread, due to
  the
• popularized hate of Jews and the blaming for
  events
• that occurred in Germany.
• Nazis took all the possessions of Jews and by
  1938
• approximately 250,000 Jews fled Germany