History 309 – CONTEMPORARY EUROPE – September 26, 2005  

The Great Depression

(Winkinson, 8)  

TERMS TO KNOW  

1. October 24, “Black Thursday,” 1929
2. deflationary & inflationary policies
3. Heinrich Brüning
4. Franz von Papen
5. Kurt von Schleicher
6. Engelbert Dollfuss
7. End of “Stresemann-Briand era of conciliation” (200)
8. Gold Standard
9. Stanley Baldwin
10. February 6, 1934 “Stavisky riots”
11. Scandanavian “middle way”
12. Government by coalition
13. Government by decree
14. “Pilgrim Trust”
15. Heinrich Hauser

QUESTIONS  

1. What was the Great Depression’s impact on daily life?  What do the “Pilgrim Trust” and Hauser readings suggest?
2. In 1929, most European states were democracies (with the notable exceptions of Italy and the USSR), though many were drifting in an authoritarian direction (see Wilkinson, 168).  By the later ‘30s, the Great Depression had pushed many European states in the direction of dictatorship.  Why did democrats have such a hard time dealing with the crisis of the Depression?

 

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