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The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic growth and widespread prosperity in the USA, driven by recovery from wartime devastation and deferred spending, a boom in construction, and the rapid growth of consumer goods.
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The USA banned the making and selling of alcohol
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Due to the prohibition, people started making their own alcoholic drinks or buying them illegaly. This led to a huge rise in organised crimes and gang violence. The most well-known mobster of this era was Al Capone -
This made technology affordable to the middle class. The automotive industry, the film industry, the radio industry, and the chemical industry took off during the 1920s. -
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Mussolini summoned thousands offascists to participate in it, threatening to take the control of the government by force. This resulted in King Victor Emmanuel III handing power over to Mussolini. -
Due to the enormous amount of money the Germans had to pay, they decided to print a lot of banknotes to pay off their debt, which was totally counterproductive. -
Hitler's coup wich failed and finished with Hitler imprisoned for one year -
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After Lenin's death, Leon Trosky and Joseph Stallin engaged in a contest for power. Stallin prevailed and became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He established a totalitarian regime called Stalinism -
The US inverted in this plan so as to recover its money. Consisting on dividing Germans debt into year payments and granting it a series of loans in order to allow Germany's economy to recover as well as pay back the USA and the allies. -
Stallin introduced this plan to transform communist Russia into an industrial power on a par with capitalism countries by modernising rural areas and focusing on the heavy industry -
The Dawes Plan was replaced. It reduced the reparations that Germany owed because everyone involved had realised that Germany was unable to pay the full amount -
Due to the importance of the USA in the global economy, the crisi spread quickly across the world. It was characterised by unemployment, poverty and misery.
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After weeks of ups and downs on the stock market, share prices fell and sahreholders started panicking. A mayor sell-off began and the stock market completely collapsed -
Germany's democratic system collapsed during the elections in 1930, and with rumors of a new posible coup, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as prime minister. -
A set of government programmes wich focused on three R's: relief for the poor, recovery of the economy and reform of the banking system -
Hitler ordered the assassination of leaders of the SA (Sturmabteilung), including its chief, Ernst Röhm, as they were seen as a threat to his authority, also used the purge to eliminate political opponents. -
With President Hindemburg's death, Hitler immediately unified the position of president and chancellor under the title of the Fuher. -
refers to the Nazi regime in Germany, which lasted from 1935 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.