The Interwar Years

Question 1

Postwar problems

Answer 1

Workers dead

Coming back to shortages, unemployment, and loss of family

Question 2

Spanish Flu

Answer 2

1918-1920–50-100 million die, more deadly than Black Death

Question 3

Britain

Answer 3

reform–voting at 21 for all–but unemployment

Question 4

France

Answer 4

National security–French industry wrecked while Germany is fine. Allies with Yugoslavia, Poland, C-S, Romania

Question 5

Germany–political change

Answer 5

Hohenzollern monarchy abolished in 1918–formation of Wiemar Republic. Freedoms, Reichstag, president

Question 6

German economy

Answer 6

hyperinflation of mark–$1 is 4,000,000,000,000 marks

Republic blamed for reperations

Question 7

Economic plan

Answer 7

Dawes’s Plan– America loans Germany to pay FR/GB who pay US

Question 8

German recovery

Answer 8

Late 1920s–tensions dropping, Germany enters LoN

Question 9

John Keynes

Answer 9

British–deficit spending to stimulate economy in Depression–countries denied it

Question 10

decline of trade in Depression

Answer 10

high tariffs to protect internal economies