Age of Total War
Handout Seven
Topic:
The Great Depression,
The New Deal, and Stalin's Five-Year Plans
OUTLINE:
VII. The Great Depression, the New Deal, and
Stalin's Five-Year
Plans.
- Introduction.
- The Period of Fulfillment.
- The Situation in Britain.
- The Decadence of France.
- The Great Depression.
- The American Solution.
- The Victory of Hitler.
- Stalin and the Five-Year Plans.
QUESTIONS:
- How did the European situation change following the
period of turmoil after 1923? Did the likelihood of war become less
probable? Explain.
- Great Britain confronted many problems after World War
I, what were they? What accounts for the party realignment in Great Britain?
Would Britain be ready for rearmament during an immediate crisis?
- The Great Depression placed considerable stress on
most governments in the developed world. What factors best explain the
coming of the economic collapse that engulfed the world’s economies?
- After 1923, it appeared highly unlikely that Hitler
could ever become master of Germany, but he did in 1933. What reasons best
describe Hitler’s accession to the post of chancellor of Germany?
- How did Stalin marginalize Trotsky and eventually
dominate Russia? What price did the Russians pay for Stalin’s Five-Year
plan? Why didn’t the West know of those crimes?
TERMS:
Locarno Fritz
von Papen
Kellogg-Brian Pact Kurt von
Schleicher
Washington Naval Conference League of Nations
Gustav Stresemann The
Rhineland Pledge
Policy of Fulfillment
Dawes Plan
Young Plan
General Strike of 1926
Stanley Baldwin