HIST 106 1nd Edition Lecture 12 Outline of Last Lecture I WWI II The Great Russian Revolution III Treaty of Versailles Outline of Current Lecture I II III IV US after WWI Europe after WWI Nazi s Hitler Current Lecture Announcement Holocaust Survivor comes Tuesday March 18th Russians drop out of WWI by a treaty o Treaty of Brest Litovsk Congress denied Wilson of the Treaty of Versailles Germans are stuck with large payments to the French o They print more money which leads to hyperinflation o Hyperinflation until 1923 The US stops it by sending a group of bankers led by Dawes Dawes Act They sweep up all the money and create new money system Germans DO NOT owe the US money because they didn t ratify the Treaty of Versailles US felt that if they straighten out German economy they will be able to send money to British and French who will pay the US better 1929 US Stock Market Crash United States o Turns very conservative after the war These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Started to hate foreigners socialist Catholics Jews blacks ect o A Mitchell Palmer led raids all over country Palmer Raids o 1920s KKK returns Were against everybody They become stronger o The American Legion Very close to the KKK Turning against anybody who was not 100 American o American Civil Liberties Union ACLU was created to protect citizens from the KKK and American Legion o The Industrial Workers of the World IWW The wobblies strongest in Texas believed in direct action wanted to take down capitalism o 1918 Government rounds up the wobblies They were arrested for conspiracy Government was allowed to do it because US was technically still in war because the agreement was not signed o Two Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti were blamed for Anti American activities during the war They were arrested tried and executed o 1920 US elects a Republican Warren G Harding 1920 1924 Died mysteriously on a ship First Death Certificate states Shell Fish Poisoning Second Death Certificate states Heart attack It is said that his wife murdered him so that he wouldn t see him administration go down in flames His entire cabinet except 2 went to jail Blamed the WWI on Democrats b c Woodrow Wilson was Democrat o Calvin Coolidge elected 1924 silent Cal o Herbert Hover elected 1928 Engineer from Stanford Multi millionaire didn t take a salary o Big business returns 1922 strike down Child Labor laws Prohibition is passed and last until 1933 o 1920 1930 A Boom Decade Making lots of money Congress and Presidents are very Republican Easy for people to make money The rise of the hoodlums Al Capone made large amounts of money Europe o The Nazi s Product of the 1920 s 1 National Germany only 2 Roman symbols come from Ancient Rome 3 Male movement 4 Convinced Germany that they were part of an ancient tribe Aryans 5 Hated the Jews a 07 of German population are Jewish b Jews are stingy 6 Worship the Volk 7 Master producers of stuff o Hitler Didn t get into Art School and blamed the Jews He was born and grew up in Austrian Dictators are often not born in the country they dictate Father was an alcoholic and abusive Hitler spent his mother s pension Goes to Germany He was a message deliver in the war He was never promoted and became angry His first job in Munich was a spy Went from group to group and wrote reports He joined one group called NSDAP National Socialists German Workers Party