The Great War and the Interwar Years From 1918 to 1939

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The Great War and the Interwar YearsFrom
1918 to 1939
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Women after WWI

• Due to significance of womens groups helping to
  support the war through work and education, many
  women demand more freedoms throughout the world.
• -Many nations grant Womens Suffrage (right to
  vote)
• -Women begin to play a larger role in politics
  and social movements

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After World War I

• Totalitarianism spreads to some nations (e.g.
  Italy, Germany, Japan, Soviet Union).
• Japanese Militarism increases in Asia
• Fascism Belief that Society is more important
  than the individual
• Independence Movements after WWI
• -Gandhi India
• -Mao Zedong China
• -Haile Selassie Ethiopia

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Great Depression

• Over-abundance of Food (Why?)? Low prices for
  food ? Farm families unable to buy manufactured
  goods
• Loans to foreign nations are not repaid on time ?
  Germany asks for some slack ? Animosity between
  nations increases (France and Germany)

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Great Depression

• Investors purchased stocks on the margin ? Once
  stock market went down, investors lost lots of
  ? Panic swept the financial markets ? Bank Runs
  began to occur
• People lose their jobs leading to a cycle of job
  loss that is hard to break
• Job lost ? Spend less ? Business receive less ?
  Lay off workers ? Job loss

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Pre-WWII Japan

• Leader Emperor Hirohito
• Government Military Dictatorship (Fascist)
• Invades China to strengthen nation following the
  Wests example
• Nanjing Massacre Thousands of Chinese
  tortured/raped/executed in former capitol of China

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Pre-WWII Italy

• Leader Benito Mussolini Il Duce
• Government Military Dictatorship (Fascist)
• Invades Ethiopia positioned between two Italian
  colonies in 1935
• Strengthened Military might

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Pre-WWII Germany

• Leader Adolf Hitler
• Government Socialist Dictatorship (Fascist)
• Nuremberg Laws (1935) Forced Jewish people to
  live in Ghettos, heavy taxes, punished for
  religion, scapegoat
• Kristallnacht (1938) Night of Broken Glass
  Hundreds killed thousands brought to
  prison/camps businesses and home broken into and
  robbed.

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Pre-WWII Soviet Union

• Leader Josef Joseph Stalin
• Government Communist Dictatorship (Fascist)
• Gulags Forced enemies of the government into
  work-camps (gulags). Many are worked to death
  (Kulaks were a major targeted group)
• Although Hitler and Stalin hate each other, they
  sign a Nonaggression pact, stating they would not
  attack one another (cut a deal to split up Poland)

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Pre-WWII Information

• Appeasement Policy British Prime Ministers
  policy towards Hitler Give in to demands to stop
  further aggression
• Axis Powers Germany, Italy, Japan
• Allied Powers Britain, France, U.S., Soviet Union