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The Economic and Political Consequences of World War I in the USA, Italy, and Germany, Ejercicios de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales

An overview of the economic prosperity and hidden problems in the USA during the 1920s, the causes and consequences of the Great Depression, and the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany. It also discusses the policies implemented by Roosevelt during the New Deal and the impact of World War I on Italy and Germany.

Tipo: Ejercicios

2019/2020

Subido el 30/03/2020

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1. What happened in the USA when the war had ended?
Everything looked great for the USA.
It was one of the superpower in the world (with Great Britain). The consumption of
expensive products increased, so enterprises won a lot of money.
The stock market was huge, a lot of people had investments in stock market and Wall
Street was a concerning economic place for the world. They had a lot of financial
goals, and they were reaching them because their economic situation was super good.
2. Why the 1920s prosperity did not affect everybody?
Farmers who worked in the camp invest all of their money in machinery because they
won a lot during the WWI, as the army needed food. But when the WWI finished, they
didn’t sell as much as before, so they had a lot of debts and they couldn’t pay their
debts. Industrial prices raised a lot, but agricultural prices didn’t. They lost all of their
money.
3. What were the hidden problems in the US economy?
4. What happened in 29th October 1929? How it is called?
Black Tuesday. Everybody wanted to sell, but nobody wanted to buy because the
prices were falling. Banks and enterprises had to close, and it caused the Great
Depression. A lot of people lost their jobs, the unemployment increased and the banks
couldn’t pay to people their money because they didn’t have it.
5. What is the Great Depression. Causes of the Depression. How did it happen?
It was an economic crisis that started in 1929 and finished in 1939. It was caused by
the decreased of prices and the banks closed. A lot of families fell in poverty, the debt
raised, like the unemployment.
6. What was the New Deal?
Roosevelt implement this programme as a solution for what the crash of the 1929
caused.
7. What types of policies did FD Roosevelt apply?
Economic and social
8. New Deal's economic policy
He invested in private companies who didn’t can afford their debts.
He supervised that the banks had a low interest.
He invested in public sector where private companies couldn’t invest.
He destroy agricultural stocks to raise the food prices.
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  1. What happened in the USA when the war had ended? Everything looked great for the USA. It was one of the superpower in the world (with Great Britain). The consumption of expensive products increased, so enterprises won a lot of money. The stock market was huge, a lot of people had investments in stock market and Wall Street was a concerning economic place for the world. They had a lot of financial goals, and they were reaching them because their economic situation was super good.
  2. Why the 1920s prosperity did not affect everybody? Farmers who worked in the camp invest all of their money in machinery because they won a lot during the WWI, as the army needed food. But when the WWI finished, they didn’t sell as much as before, so they had a lot of debts and they couldn’t pay their debts. Industrial prices raised a lot, but agricultural prices didn’t. They lost all of their money.
  3. What were the hidden problems in the US economy?
  4. What happened in 29th October 1929? How it is called? Black Tuesday. Everybody wanted to sell, but nobody wanted to buy because the prices were falling. Banks and enterprises had to close, and it caused the Great Depression. A lot of people lost their jobs, the unemployment increased and the banks couldn’t pay to people their money because they didn’t have it.
  5. What is the Great Depression. Causes of the Depression. How did it happen? It was an economic crisis that started in 1929 and finished in 1939. It was caused by the decreased of prices and the banks closed. A lot of families fell in poverty, the debt raised, like the unemployment.
  6. What was the New Deal? Roosevelt implement this programme as a solution for what the crash of the 1929 caused.
  7. What types of policies did FD Roosevelt apply? Economic and social
  8. New Deal's economic policy He invested in private companies who didn’t can afford their debts. He supervised that the banks had a low interest. He invested in public sector where private companies couldn’t invest. He destroy agricultural stocks to raise the food prices.
  1. New Deal's social policy He invested in public sectors (roads, dams…) Encouraging companies to raise wage and a 40 hours working for week.
  2. Why was Italy in crisis after WWI? It was the first parliamentary democracy that the WWI consequences led to an increase of nationalist and authoritarian political movements, which will turn in a dictatorship.
  3. Why was Italy in political crisis? There was social unrest (strikes) Political instability- in 5 years a lot of parties in the government. The Peace Agreements weren’t good for Italy. 700.000 deaths in WWI There was a debt with other countries.
  4. Who were the Fasci? Who supported them? Their leader, their logo. Paramilitary group. The Catholic Curch, the petty bourgeoisie and the king himself. Leader: Benito Mussolini.
  5. Origins of the Fasci. Italy was in a bad moment so Mussolini created this party. They wore black shirts and fought against the labour movements.
  6. How did the fascist rise to the power? 22 over 500 seats in the parliament. Strikes continued. 300.000 fascists (March of Rome). The King Emmanuel gave support to him and in the new elections he won.
  7. What happened in 1922 in Italy?
  8. How were the fascists structured?
  9. Ideology/characteristics of the Fascist party. State over the individual. Legalizar la violencia.Cult of militarism.

He used his leadership skills. Hitler presented a populist and demagogic programme. The Nazi Party produced fear in the people. He took advantage of the democracy to appoint himself as chancellor. He was appointed as chancellor, and then the Nazis burned up the Reichstag (it’s like a parliament where the President is appointed) and blame the communists. President Heidenberg died and Hitler proclaimed himself as President and inaugurated the Third Empire.

  1. How was Hitler's power enforced? By two ways.
  2. Big enterprises voted him, not only workers.
  3. Propaganda helped Hitler saying that democracy was doing Germany weak and powerless.
  4. How was Hitler's totalitarian regime?
  5. Gestapo
  6. Abolition of human rights
  7. Purges in the administration
  8. He eliminated other political parties
  9. He used propaganda
  10. They manipulated students in school.
  11. They wanted to destroy minority groups (jews, homosexuals, Romani, disabled people)
  12. What happened after Lenin's death? Trotsky and Stalin struggled to be in the power.
  13. Trotsky and Stalin's different points of view and confrontation and triumph of Stalin. Stalin wanted to impose the communism in Russia before a spread revolution. Trotsky wanted to encouraging world revolution.
  14. Kolkhoz and sovkhoz - collectivisation of land. Kolkhoz- Sovkhoz-
  15. Describe Stalinism. Cult of the Leader
  16. It was a planned country. They said some goals/objectives for every five years.
  1. There wasn’t private property, all the land was a state property (Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz)
  2. They gave more priority to heavy industry than to population’s needs.
  3. Stalinism: purges and dissidents, gulags. Stalin ruled the USSR with a new method called Stalinism, it wasn’t similar as bolshevick. He imposed communism and sent dissidents to gulags (prison camps).
  4. Economic principles of the USSR under Stalin
  5. Political principles of the USSR under Stalin