HIST 106 1nd Edition Lecture 14 Outline of Last Lecture I Life during the 1920 s II Stock Market Crash III The Great Depression Outline of Current Lecture I II The Great Depression Events Leading to WWII Current Lecture The Great Depression Bull Market A good market going up Bear Market A market going down 1929 US is in a bear market Herbert Hoover does not know what to do o Trickle Down Theory give money to rich hoping it will trickle down to the poor does not work o Giving money to the lower class poor does work Hoover Dam provides work US lurches to safety by electing Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 o Handicapped o From a wealthy family o People felt he is a man that knows their problems o Closed the banks canceled prohibition created programs like CCC WPA ect o His first mistake he makes is in regards to the Supreme Court Supreme Court declares the programs unconstitutional Roosevelt felt every Supreme Court member over the age of 70 should be replaced People were unhappy Germans lurch to safety by electing Adolf Hitler in 1932 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 1933 Hitler takes over as the Chancellor of Germany o February 27 1933 Hitler burns down the Congress Building The Reichstag Building Van der lubbe is offered several hundred marks to play a prank Hitler is trying to blame the Communists stating it is a plot to seize the power or Berlin Gets found alive Nazi s give him an attorney Blames him for the whole deal o Enabling Act gives Hitler power to create laws without involvement of the Reichstag Made Hitler the Dictator of Germany o Order of groups that gave in to the Nazi s 1 Teachers 2 Catholic Churches 3 Pharmacists 4 Lutherans 5 Military Military didn t want to give into Hitler s army SA Hitler does away with his own army in order for the Military to join o 1933 Laws starting to turn against the Jews No Jewish lawyers doctors students Christians are benefiting o 1935 Nuremburg Blood Laws what Jews can can t do o The Italians are the first to start a fight Mussolini is in charge Oct 2nd 1935 Italians send 100 000 men to Ethiopia Want to take over Eastern Mediterranean Mare Mostrum It s an easy target there s nothing there Perfect place to test weapons It takes 9 months for them to get there They are the laughing stock of Europe 1936 The Spanish Civil War o Most important event in Europe in the 1930 s o Legal Election puts left wing coalition in charge of Popular Front Called itself the Republicans of Loyalist o Army rises up against them under General Franco o Last until 1939 turning point of the 1930s o Mussolini moves his troops to Spain Italians o Hitler sends 70 000 troops to Spain Nazi s o Nationalist win the war in 1939 o Germans use winning the war as an excuse to test stuff Blitzkrieg 1938 Evian meeting o Meeting in France o What should the Germans do with the refugees o Nobody wants them Munich Crisis o Sudeten Land Bohemia o Hitler makes a speech in Munich saying Germans are being discriminated against and if it does not stop he will declare war WWII o Hitler takes over Sudeten Land Nov 10th and 11th German turns against the Jews o Crystal Night or Night of Broken Glass 1939 March 1939 Germans invade the rest of Czechoslovakia Joe Stalin is alarmed the Poland is starting to get involved Stalin was paranoid and killed 80 of his own officers Either has to come to terms with the Germans or fight them o Decides to come to terms August 34 The Russians and Germans sign an agreement Nazi s Soviet s Allie o Exchange supplies with each other o They divide Poland between them WWII begins September 1939 1939 Depression starts to get better because of WWII