The document summarizes major political events in Europe during the 1920s. It describes the unstable political situation in Germany during the Weimar Republic with communist uprisings. It also outlines several economic crises including hyperinflation in Germany in 1923 and the beginnings of the Great Depression at the end of the decade. Key agreements mentioned include the Dawes Plan to restructure German reparations, the Locarno Agreement which stabilized borders in Western Europe, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war.

1. The Twenties
Roaring? Or just Boring?

2. Weimar troubles
Friedrich Ebert Karl
Liebknecht
Rosa
Luxemburg

3. Kapp Putsch

4. Irish Crisis

5. Anglo-Irish Treaty

6. 1923 Crisis and
Hyperinflation

7. Poincare and Maginot

8. Stressemann and von
Hindenburg

9. Dawes Plan
❖ French evacuation of the
Ruhr
❖ Graduated payments of the
German debt
❖ Allied countries were
encouraged to loan money
to Germany to help

10. Baldwin and MacDonald

11. Locarno Agreement
❖ Germany guaranteed borders of all western countries
❖ Was allowed entry into League of Nations
❖ “Spirit of Locarno”
❖ Nobel Peace Prize went to Austen Chamberlain, Aristide
Briand, and Gustav Stressemann

12. TUC Strike

13. Kellogg-Briand Pact

14. Young Plan
❖ Further reduced German
payments
❖ Collapsed soon after
adoption because of....

15. The Great Depression!