The Contemporary Period, c. 1914 to the Present: Content Summary 6.3: The Global Economy and the State Between the Wars

Britain had started the war as the world’s largest lender and ended it as the largest debtor. (6.3.A)

The Depression had little effect on the Soviet economy, as it had few ties to Western financial institutions. (6.3.A)

Responses to the Great Depression varied but typically involved increasing state intervention in economic activities. (6.3.A)

The influence of fascism and militarism grew in Germany, Italy, and Japan. (6.3.A)

The influence of fascism and militarism grew in Germany, Italy, and Japan. (6.3.A)

Mussolini’s fascism, which espoused the needs of the nation above the individual and placed faith in authoritarian leadership over democratic institutions and free speech, attracted the support of Germans disenchanted with their new liberal democratic government. (6.3.B)

Mussolini’s fascism, which espoused the needs of the nation above the individual and placed faith in authoritarian leadership over democratic institutions and free speech, attracted the support of Germans disenchanted with their new liberal democratic government. (6.3.B)

Germany’s Weimar Republic had complied with the war reparations, demilitarization, and French occupation of the Rhineland required by the Treaty of Versailles, despite public resentment. (6.3.B)

Germany’s Weimar Republic had complied with the war reparations, demilitarization, and French occupation of the Rhineland required by the Treaty of Versailles, despite public resentment. (6.3.B)

Germany’s Weimar Republic had complied with the war reparations, demilitarization, and French occupation of the Rhineland required by the Treaty of Versailles, despite public resentment. (6.3.B)

By 1933 Hitler had won a referendum to effectively end liberal institutions and establish one-party rule. (6.3.B)

The Italian and German fascists increasingly aligned on foreign-policy objectives, such as militarily supporting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. (6.3.B)

Propaganda in both countries promoted racial supremacy and territorial expansion into the lands of “inferior” peoples. (6.3.B)

Propaganda in both countries promoted racial supremacy and territorial expansion into the lands of “inferior” peoples. (6.3.B)

German domestic policies included ethnic cleansing, which led to the Holocaust. (6.3.B)

Many Jews attempted to flee Nazi-occupied lands in response to rising anti-Semitism and state-sponsored persecution, but most countries refused to accept Jewish migrants. (6.3.B)

The Japanese government established during the Meiji Restoration (1868) mixed attributes of constitutional government with absolute monarchy. (6.3.C)

By the early 20th century, liberal reformers had succeeded in shifting more political authority to the legislature (Diet) and expanding suffrage to all males. (6.3.C)

By the early 20th century, liberal reformers had succeeded in shifting more political authority to the legislature (Diet) and expanding suffrage to all males. (6.3.C)

Like Germans and Italians, the Japanese held beliefs of their own racial superiority (Yamato-damashii) and used those beliefs to justify territorial expansion, occupying Manchuria in 1931 and invading Nanjing, China, in 1937. (6.3.C)