EURO 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fasci Italiani Di Combattimento, Leni Riefenstahl, John Maynard Keynes

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: European Studies
• Course: EURO 3300
• Professor: Roberta Cauchi- Santoro

Document Summary

Tuesday january 17th, 2017: two extreme ideologies have gained prominence throughout europe, communism and. Responses to the great depression, 1929-1939: the great depression, the stock market crash, 1929, run on the banks everyone withdrawing their money, economic theories john maynard keynes (1883-1946) Suggested abandoning the gold standard: democracies" responses, the national unity government (great britain, the rise of nazism, the rise of adolf hitler, hitler"s ideology mein kampf (1925) The idea of lebensraum: germany has to become a large, strong force again, the paramilitary dimension. The schutzstaffel (ss) hitler"s private bodyguard force: the appeal of anti-semitism, nazi strength in the reichstag. The vision of the third reich: domestic and foreign policy, a more moderate course in foreign policy. Maxism litvinov (1873-1951: establishing the command economy. The 5 year plans: phenomenal growth followed by failure, worker dissatisfaction. The soviet union under stalin, 1929-1939: stalin"s totalitarian state, the great purges. The secret policy, the nkvd: labour camps the gulags.