History Readind pg 53-64 bullets

#1- *League of Nations was created in the Paris Peace Conference. 

*Had an assembly with 4-5 permanent seats (numbers changed), and 4-6 temporary seats (numbers changed). 

*Because of the US senate the United States was blocked entry. 

* Soviet Union also denied entry 

*Promoted international co-operation 

*Prompted the signing of the Washington Naval agreement

#2-*Organizes by the League of Nations

*opened in 1932

*aim was to set limits on army, air force...

*Germans wanted equal rights

*In 1933 Germany left the League

#3- *Peace could not be secure if Germany was still upset about the Treaty

*Germany unstable after WWI

*German constitution had great flaws

*Political instability -no absolute ruling party

#4-*The instability caused economic problems

*Germans blames the Allies

*Mainly because Germany borrowed so much $ during WWI 

*Inflation rose BIG TIME, money not worth much at all!!

*German problem threatened Anglo-French relations

*2 US bankers went to Germany to help sort everything out..led to recovery

#5-*Daws plan: Germany payed regular payments on loan in the US, French promised to not use force to get payments. 

* Treaty of Locarno: Germans agreed to the Wester Front conditions of the Treaty of  Versailles (did not agree to the Eastern ones)

*Shows how badly the Germans wanted a revision of the Treaty of Versailles

#6-*1924-1929: Germany seemed secure

*However, trouble was coming. germany relied on US loans

*Left and Right political parties still upset with each other

*Hitler starts to gain power

* He wanted to return Germany as a major World Power

*He had 4 key policies pg 60

*Hitler was the leader of the NSDAP (Nazi Party)

#7-*US economy crashed

*Biggest world economic crisis

*The World relied on the stability of the US economy

*US could not give loans to Europe

#8-*The above caused the Manchurian crisis

*Political crisis in japan

*Japanese Army occupied Manchuria 

*has been a territorial dispute between China and Japan for a long time

*China asked League for help

*League didn't really do anything, Japan left the League 

*Manchuria remained a place of instability 

#9-*Germany used the loans given to them by the US but when they ran out their economy collapsed

*When Hitler came to power it was already like a dictatorship

*Von Hindenburg was the President

*many elections

*Country worried about either a communist dictatorship, the nazi party or a return to high inflation 

*Eventually Hitler was appointed the German Chancellor by the President 

*German problem NOT SOLVED!