Why did the Great Depression hit? Use the words “margin” and “confidence” in your answer....

Why did the Great Depression hit?Use the words “margin” and “confidence” in your answer. (HINT: It was MUCH more stock market crash!)

Average tariff on imports, 1928-1938, percentage

What was the world’s initial reactions to the Depression?What impacts did these reactions have?

What impact would these levels of unemployment have on a state? What does this do to the people and their confidence?

Describe what does this quote mean in regards to stabilizing the global economy after the start of the Great Depression:

“The British couldn’t and the US wouldn’t”

Keynesian Economics

What does Keynesian economics say the government should do whenever there is an interruption in the circular flow?

What’s the New Deal? How was it a new path for the US?

What’s the “Scandinavian response” to the Depression?

Unemployed men protest outside a Labour exchange in London during the Great Depression

What impact did the Depression have in Great Britain?

   What was the impact of the Depression in France?(HINT: Think both left and

right)

What is the PoV of the artist of this cartoon?

What is happening in Spain?

What is fascism? What is it against? Why did it come about now?What allowed them to grow in influence and power so efficiently?

How would you compare and contrast the fascists to 17th century absolutists?

Why did Italy turn to fascism?

Who were the Black Shirts? What was significant about their “March on Rome”?

How does this Mussolini quote connect to fascism? “Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”?

What is this Mussolini quote mean? What is he contrasting fascism with? “Fascism was not the nursling of a doctrine worked out before hand with detailed elaboration; it was born of the need for action”?

Why did Germany turn to fascism?

What were the Nazis against?(HINT: BIG LIST!!!)

Political Parties in the Reichstag

May 1924

Dec. 1924

May1928

Sep.1930

July1932

Nov.1932

Mar.1933

Communist Party (KPD)

62 45 54 77 89 100 81

Social Democratic Party (SDP)

100 131 153 143 133 121 120

Catholic Centre Party (BVP)

81 88 78 87 97 90 93

Nationalist Party (DNVP)

95 103 73 41 37 52 52

Nazi Party (NSDAP)

32 14 12 107 230 196 288

Other Parties

102 112 121 122 22 35 23

Why did the Great Depression increase the popularity of the Nazis?

What role did the Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act play in Hitler & the Nazi’s rise to power? What is significant about that legislation?

The Night of Long Knives

What was the Night of Long Knives? Why is it significant?

What are each of these artists saying about the Knight of Long Knives? What are their PoV’s?

“They salute with both hands now” David Low

"Will the audience kindly keep their seats.“

What was Kristallnach? What was its significance?

What was Hitler’s major project after gaining power? What is the significance of this?Why wasn’t he stopped? Was WWII inevitable??? When did it become so?