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The West Between the Wars (Instability After World War I (Uneasy Peace,…

- - - - The Treaty of Locarno
        
        The Great Depression
        
        Responses to the Depression
        
        Arts and Sciences
        
        With political, economic, and social uncertainties came intellectual uncertainties. These were evident in the artistic and scientific achievements of the years following World War I. The shocks of World War I had left many authors with a sense of aimlessness once it was over. The dadaists were artists who were obsessed with the idea that life has no purpose. They tried to express the insanity of life in their art. A more important artistic movement than Dadaism was surrealism. In 1927, German physicist Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle shook this belief. Physicists knew that atoms were made of smaller parts .
        
        Economic depression was not new to Europe. However, the extent of the economic downturn after 1929
        truly made this the Great Depression.
        
        Germany: Imperial Germany ended in 1918 with Germany's defeat in the war. A German democratic state known as the Weimar Republic was then created.
        
        Great Britain: Although Britain experienced limited prosperity from 1925 to 1929, by 1929 it too faced the growing effects of the Great Depression.
        
        The United States: After Germany, no Western nation was more affected by the Great Depression than the United States. All segments of society suffered.
        
        The brief period of prosperity that began in Europe in 1924 ended in an economic collapse that came to be known as the Great Depression. A depression is a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment. An increase in the use of oil and hydroelectricity led to a slump in the coal industry. The second trigger was an international financial crisis involving the U.S. stock market. Then, in October 1929, the U.S. stock market crashed. Stock prices plunged. In a panic, U.S. investors withdrew more funds from Germany and other European markets.
        
        With prosperity came a new European diplomacy. In 1925, they signed the Treaty of Locarno, which guaranteed Germany's new western borders with France and Belgium. Three years later, the Kellogg-Briand Pact brought even more hope.
      - The German government adopted a policy of passive resistance to this French occupation. German workers went on strike. In 1914, 4.2 marks equaled 1 U.S. dollar. By the end of November 1923, the ratio had reached an incredible 4.2 trillion marks to equal 1 dollar. It then coordinated Germany's annual payments with its ability to pay.
- - - - The Fascist State
        
        From Russia to the USSR
        
        Lenin’s New Economic Policy
        
        The Soviet Union
        
        Stalin and His Five-Year Plans
        
        Costs of Stalin's Programs
        
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- - - - The Nazis Take Control
        
        The Nazi State
        
        The State and Terror
        
        Culture and Leisure