A Period of Disillusionment

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A Period of Disillusionment

• Ch. 29 radio broadcast information

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Fascist Dictatorships

• Italy
• 1919 Mussolini joins the Fascist Party
• 1922 Fascists march on Rome Mussolini becomes
  Prime Minister
• 1924 Fascists win a majority in the Government
  and Mussolini is Il Duce

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Fascist Dictatorships

• Germany
• 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler is thrown in to
  jail.
• 1933 Hitler is named Chancellor.
• 1935 Nuremburg Laws are passed
• 1938 Kristallnacht

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The Soviet Union

• 1918 Bolsheviks win the Civil War and institute
  War Communism
• 1921 Lenin announced his New Economic Policy
• 1922 Socialist State is formed, the United Soviet
  Socialist Republic and its constitution Lenin
  suffers two heart attacks
• 1928 Stalin Announced the end of the NEP and the
  beginning of the Five Year Plans.

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Western Democracies

• United States
• 1919 American Congress votes against League of
  Nations membership
• 1928 America and France sign Kellogg-Briand Pact
• 1929 Stock Market Crash
• 1933-1937 The Dust Bowl

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Western Democracies

• Great Britain
• 1921 Two million people are out of work
• 1926 General Strike
• Ireland- Michael Collins and independence movement

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Western Democracies

• France
• 1919 France has lost ½ of all males between 18
  and 32 years old
• 1934 Fascists riot and the Socialists rise in
  power in reaction to the Fascists and form the
  Popular Front electing Leon Blum as Prime
  Minister
• Construction of the Maginot Line between Germany
  and France to keep the Germans out of France