Ch.+24+Section+1+Futile+Search+for+Stability

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===================================================== = **Ch. 24 Section 1** = = **The Futile Search for Stability** =

==== **The peace settlement of World War I left many nations unhappy, and the League of Nations proved unable to deal with the crises following the war. The brief period of prosperity that began in Europe during the early 1920's ended in 1929 with the beginning of the Great Depression. This economic collapse shook people's confidence in political democracy and paved the way for fear and the rise of extremist parties that offered solutions to the hardships that many were enduring.** ====

Ratio proportion (kramer Hurt 5th hour) Thanx Cramer +3
==== Dawes Plan: __ Named after the American banker who chaired the commission, first reduced reparations. It then coordinated Germany's annual payments with its ability to pay. (Tim Wright, 1st hour) __ thanx Ti__m +1__ ==== ==== New Deal Franklin Roosevelt pursued a policy of active government intervention for the economy. It was a program to increase jobs. It put workers to work on building bridges, roads and airports. It was thought to have prevented a social revolution in the US. (Logann Adkins 1st hour) ====

John Maynard Keynes
Elizabeth Nesbitt 1st hour: British economist. He wrote "General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money." He was against letting economic depressions "fix themselves" without government intervention. ==== Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States. He put together the "New Deal" The only american president elected to more than two terms of presidency. He led the United States through most of WWII (Logann Adkins 1st hour) ====

Ruhr Valley
Elizabeth Nesbitt 1st hour: France sent troops to occupy this valley. It was Germany's main industrial and mining center.

Weimar Republic
Elizabeth Nesbitt 1st hour: German Democratic State. It was created in 1918 when Imperial Germany was defeated. thanx liz +4

**1. Explaining: Why was the League of Nations unable to maintain peace?**

 * ==== What were the France's demands? Strict enforcements of the Treaty of Versailles- which was that the Germans make payments (reparations) for the damage they had done in the war. German owed 132 billion German marks (33 billion U.S. dollars). Tim Wright, 1st hour). ====
 * ==== What caused the Inflation in Germany and how was it resolved? ====
 * ==== How did the Treaty of Lucarno save Germany and how did it impact the Western world? ====

**2. Summarizing: What were the results of the Great Depression?**

 * ==== List and explain the causes of the Great Depression: The Great Depression was a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment. Once cause was the downturn in the economies of individual nations in the second half of the the 1920's. Another cause was an international financial crisis involving the U.S. stock market. (Tim Wright, 1st hour). Thanx Tim +4 ====
 * ==== How did the Western world respond? ====

3. Analyzing: How did the German people respond to the Great Depression?

 * ==== Explain the problems the Democratic states of Switzerland, Germany, France, Great Britain and The US had that quickly help make dictatorship ideas more attractive. ====

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Crowd At new yorks union bank during a bank run. Alex Seal 5th hour.

Thanx Alex +3