history mystery if adolf hitler had not been elected to chancellor of germany would world war ii...
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History Mystery
If Adolf Hitler had not been elected to chancellor of Germany would World
War II have happened?
Why would a society elect a leader like Hitler in 1932?
What if Hitler got in to art
school?
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An Age of Anxiety
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1. European society was badly shaken by the effects of the war
2. Europeans experienced a shock to their system of values, beliefs, and traditions
3. Scientific and cultural that came about after the war reflected a sense of loss and anxiety
4. Alongside a widespread economic depression dictators in Russia, Italy, and Germany tried to develop stronger nations 5. The communist rise of Joseph Stalin, and the fascist governments lead by Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany led to a greater sense of anxiety during this time.
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Postwar Pessimism“Lost Generation”Writing- Named by Gertrude Stein- American intellects who wrote about depression and disappointment
showed the mood of US and Europe after the Great War
Progress- Sciences and Technology focused on war - Western Societies gave democracy to both men and women- Democracy was viewed negatively and was named “rule of inferiors”
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Effects of the collapse of Stock pricesMany countries were affected because many were dependent on the U.S for financial assistanceMarriage,birthrates, and divorce rate declined Millions of people struggle for basic resources(shantytown appeared and breadlines stretched for blocks)
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Democracy or Communism?
Among Marxists minds capitalistsociety was seen as a bad system.
Vladimir Lenin and the more popular Joseph Stalin formed the first socialist societythe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922
Across Europe Fascist movements promotedalternatives to socialism which varied from place to place
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The Party In Russia just started
With the victory of the Bolsheviks,
The Russian Communist Party, civil war erupted
from 1918 to 1920.
The Red Terror campaign started to kill those
opposing communism
Tsar Nicolas II was executed by Bolsheviks
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Transition to War CommunismBolshevik government took control
of all privately held properties, banks and industries.
With the abolition of private land industrial production went to 1/10
the of prewar level and agricultural production reached half of its prewar level.
Lenin implemented NEP in order to restored market economy and private enterprises in Russia
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Joseph Stalin “the man of steel”After the death of Lenin, JosephStalin took the position of dictator of the Soviet Union in 1928
First Five-Year plan, aimed at transforming the agriculture country of Russia into a industrial power.
Collectivization, a enforced collecting of agricultural land, which the Soviet state used to give land equally and profit was shared
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The Start of Fascist Italy• Benito Mussolini was a socialist writer whom believed that the Great War would strengthen
Italy
By 1920 Mussolini rallied support under a group of armed squads named Brown-shirts.
• Brown-shirts marched towards Rome, later King Victor Emmanuel III asks Mussolini to become prime minister and create a new government.
He chose a fascist regime in 1922
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Benito's Acts
• From 1925-1931 Mussolini took dictatorship, with that he took liberty in
eliminating of political parties, free speech, association, and began
supervising military officers
• With Benito's friendship with Adolf Hitler came his ideas
in 1938... anti-Semitic laws were placed such as excluding Jews and
Aryans from marrying
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National Socialist German Workers' Party, AKA N.A.Z.I's
Hitler gained powered from his Nazi association becoming chairmen of the party in 1921 and in 1932 Hitler was elected chancellor.
Hitler destroyed trade unions, eliminated strikes and lockouts and took out any possible enemies of the regime.
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“Race” for “Superiority”
• Nazi Germany needed to build up its population as well and to do this Nazi Germany took measures into
promoting birth and close all forms of birth control, abortion and family planning.
• The Honor Cross which was on August 12 ,the day• Hitler’s mother was born, mothers would receive a
•medal based on the amount of children they had.
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Sterilization of the “inferior”• With its birth propaganda, Nazi's began
sterilizing those with physical or mental handicaps.
• By 1935 “racial aliens” were forced to have abortions.Some racial inferiors were the gypsies and Jews
• Nazi anti-semitic laws were widespread, due to the popularized hate of Jews and the blaming for events
that occurred in Germany.
• Nazis took all the possessions of Jews and by 1938 approximately 250,000 Jews fled Germany