Lesson plans for chapter 30 section 1

The Western Democracies

Objectives

  1. Explain how the postwar world tried to ensure the peace.
  2. Understand how the Great Depression effected western nations.

Bellringer: Describe the main points of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. Could this treaty ever bring and end to war.

  1. A. Post war Problems
  2. jobs
  3. rebuilding_ lands
  4. paying off debts
  5. social unrest (Russian Revolution)
  6. lack of strong leadership

B. Pursuing Peace

1. LocarnoSwitzerland, treaties settle

a. Germany’s borders with France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

b. Kellogg-Briand Pact : renounce war as an instrument of national policy

U.S., Britain, France, Japan were to reduce theirs navies, failed to agree on limiting their armies.

c. League of Nation; committed to stop aggressions

d. Both had no way of enforcing the ban, and the U.S. refused to join.

C. Recovery and Collapse

1. U.S. emerged as leading economic power, their banks and businesses controlled the global network (as long as the U.S. remain prosperous the rest of the world would do okay).

a. weak spot everyone was over producing

b. war increased demand for raw materials

c. Improved technology and farming methods contributed to higher outputs.

d. industrial worker won higher wages.

e. led to an imbalance farmers’ wages had fallen so they could not afford manufacturing goods ,but the factories still continued produce at the same rate.

2. The Crash

a. on margin: pay only part of the cost and borrow the rest from the broker. When the brokers call in the loans the investors could not pay and financial panic set in. Causing The Great Depression.

b. to tried to protect their economies countries tried to impose a high tariff. In the end all countries lost a global market.

c. Many lost faith in democracy and capitalism and turn to Communism and authoritarian rule and the need to rearm.

C. Britain in the Postwar Era

1. After the war
a. oversea trade was lost, because the German u-boat had ruined the British shipping

b. Britain was in debt

c. factories were out dated

d. caused the general strike 1929 this was all types of workers striking for better wages over three million ,for nine days.

e. set up a coalition gov’t with leaders from all three major parties. (they did this because the Labour party was becoming more powerful and thy wanted socialism the Liberal and Conservative party did not).

2. Irish Independence

a. 1916 was the Easter Rising , a group of militant who were unable to wait for the war to end stared the up raising( 1914 Britain passed the home rule act). The raising was quickly stop 15 were executed but this widen the support of their cause.

b. When home rule did not come on 1919 , members of the Irish Republic Army (IRA) carried on guerilla war against Britain.

c. 1922 most of Ireland becomes independent Eire

d. Ulster the northern part of Ireland which is mostly Protestant remains under British control.

e. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa by 1930 all became self governing dominions called British Commonwealth of Nations.

f. Still linked by culture and economics, Britain planned for a gradual independence.

g. Britain wanted to relax the treatment to Germany in the Treaty of Versaille, becauseBritain feared that Germany would not be able to pay their debt and Soviet Union would expand and France would gain control over the continent. This left tension between France and Britain.

D. France Pursues Security

1.The Maginot Line: A massive fortification along the border, offer a sense of security (False one because Germany breaks through it in 1940)

a. France strengthen it military, sought alliance(Soviet Union, and demanded that the Versaille treaty be enforce hoping to keep Germany weak.)

  1. Prosperity and Depression in the United States
  1. Not joining the League of Nation: did not want involvement in future foreign wars.
  2. Limited immigration , Chinese, Japanese, Feared radical like the Bolshevik Revolution during 1919-1920 Red Scare
  3. President Coolidge during 1920’s slogan was “the business of America is business”. Booming years
  4. President Herbert Hoover during the Great crash he believed that the government should not interfere with private business matters
  5. President Franklin Roosevelt during The Great Depression The New Deal in which the government became more directly involved with people’s daily lives. ( laws for banking protected depositors FDIC) setup Social Security.