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SOCIAL SCIENCES
, EMERGENCE OF NAZI GERMANY
END OF WORLD WAR I > TREATY OF VERSAILES
[Weimar Republic = new name for Germany]
TREATY OF VERAILLES [termination of war]> 1919 > 4 PEACE CONDITIONS:
1. Germany pays damages
2. Germany lost land ownership (+ 4 African colonies).
3. Germany = Smaller Navy and NO AIR FORCE
4. Germany admits they started the war (Germans > unfair)
WAR DEBT >Weimar Republic struggled financially [inflation→prices of goods and services
rose and CURRENCY became almost worthless]
1923 > French and Belgian troops > Germany's industrial area-- Ruhr Valley -- occupied
because Germany didn't pay their war debt and didn't supply enough coal/steel > German
people stop working [result = INFLATION & LOW MORALE and country = politically divided]
HITLER AND THE NAZIS [1920s]
[NAZI-PARTY = National Socialist German Workers' Party]
ESTABLISHED→ 5 January 1919 [Munich]
3 POPULAR VOWS OF THE NAZI PARTY:
1. job creation
2. to make Germany strong and united
3. offers resistance to instructions > suspect of Versailles
HITLER > arrested (working against Weimar Republic)→ 1923
GRADE 9 > TERM 1
• Book > Mein Kampg (My Struggle)→master plan for Germany (Aryan race population)
• Nationalism persisted
• Jew hatred [Anti-Semitism]
HITLER > released (promise to gain power legally)→ 1924
GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 & IMPACT ON GERMANY
October 1929 →collapse of the Wall Street stock market > end of the strength of
America's economy = GREAT DEPRESSION
, • Germany borrows money from America [90 days repayment] > occupation of Ruhr
= could not pay war debt (Dawes plan > 1924 & Young plan > 1929)
• 90 days = impossible > German companies play bankrupt and lead to
HYPERINFLATION [→price of goods and services rises dramatically & inflation gets
out of control > money loses all value]
FAILURE OF DEMOCRACY > WEIMAR REPUBLIC
Weimar Republic accepts Treaty of Versailles > Germans seen as weak (disgruntled &
bitter and want to blame)
After Wall Street collapse > Nazi propaganda & sense of belonging to powerful nation =
promotes Germany
Attempts to overthrow Weimar Republic= contributes to instability
• Spartacusbung uprising[January 1919]
• Kapp Rebellion[March 1920]
• Munich Putsch[November 1923] > Hitler to prison
REASONS > PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR NAZI PARTY
[PROPAGANDA]
Z Nazis hoped by promising a strong, united Germany with work & renewed determination
> build Germany
Z Spread ideas through Germany [posters, radio broadcasts, rally attendance
(enthusiastic attendance)] > feel proud to be German again
Z HITLER > excellent speaker & portrayed as nation's last hope
Z Josef Goebbels [Minister of Propaganda] = making Nazi policy known to the public
ELECTION OF 1932 - 1933
>financed by Nazis (3 election campaigns)
Z Reichstag [1929]→12 sets
Z July 1932 > Nazi = strongest [230 sets] but could not get majority
Z March 1933 > Hitler [288 sets]
1933 January> President Paul von Hindenburg makes HITLER chancellor of COLIATION
GOVERNMENT
[collation →agreement between persons / groups according to which they work together
for a SPECIFIC purpose (temporary)]
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