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.

1. Introduction.
2. The Period of Fulfillment.
3. The Situation in Britain.
4. The Decadence of France.
5. The Great Depression.
6. The American Solution.
7. The Victory of Hitler.
8. Stalin and the Five-Year Plans.

QUESTIONS: 

1. How did the European situation change following the period of turmoil after 1923? Did the likelihood of war become less probable? Explain.
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. 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