History chapter 4
4.2 Germany becomes a republic (1918-1925):
After WOI, Germany needs a new government. The social, democratic and liberal parties
decide to turn Germany into a democratic republic. Other political parties aren’t happy with
this decision and riots break out from the moment the truce is signed in November 1918. The
communists (Spartacists) try to take over the power of Belin. Their uprising ends violently
and their leaders are murdered. The right-parties are disappointed and angry that they lost
the war and they feel betrayed because of the truce. They don’t know the commanders of the
army asked for truce. They think Germany lost the war because of the new government of
Germany and the uprising of left-parties/communism. (stab-in-the-back myth). Because of
the unrest in Berlin the new government meets in Weimar to discuss the new constitution.
Germany becomes a parliamentary democracy. From that moment until Hitler seizes power,
Germany is called the republic of Weimar. (1919-1933). The Germans are mad at the
government and the government is forced to sign the treaty of Versailles (1919) with
France, Great Brittan and the USA. Germany has to return territories and colonies, they have
to pay reparation costs, no more than 100.000 soldiers, they have to demilitarize the
Rhineland and they have to take blame. The economy of Germany was destroyed, in 1923
they couldn’t pay the reparation costs anymore. As a result, France took Rhineland.
Germany still wants to pay their workers in Rhineland because they are mad and revolt
against the French. To do this they print more money, but because of this their money loses
his worth. This causes a hyperinflation (everything costs more). Hitler tries to benefit of this
situation and he stages a coup, this failed and he is put in jail. A new German government
led by Gustav Stresemann takes action and destroys all the money to give Germany a fresh
start. He also convinces France to sign an agreement saying that the French soldiers will
leave the Rhineland. The USA also help Germany with the Dawes plan (1924), they lend
Germany a lot of money. Stresemann also signs the Locarno treaties (Germany, France and
Belgium) in which he acknowledges the treaty of Versailles.
4.3 the path to power (1923-1933):
In the USA, too many goods are being produced. Companies and people have barrowed a
lot of money. The companies can’t sell their goods anymore which means they can’t pay of
their loans. This leads to a lot of people being fired. Nobody could pay their loans anymore
and everyone started panicking. Investors sold all their stocks so the stock market on wall
street collapses (wall street crash, 1929). The whole economy in the USA crashes, because
of the Dawes plan, this effects Germany too. Germany thinks a new leader could help them
fix this, Adolf Hitler? Hitler turns the NSDAP (national socialist German workers party) into
one of the biggest parties of Germany. His ideas are mainly supported by young people,
small shop owners, farmers and civil servants. He wanted to get rid of the treaty of
Versailles, the Weimar republic and the unemployment in Germany. The NSDAP is a
nationalistic (great and strong Germany to be proud of) and authoritarian (powerful authority)
party. The national-socialists want one strong leader, no democracy. At the start Hitler is
seen as good and he uses a lot of propaganda. He shows the people that the other parties
are bad. The national-socialists (Nazi’s) use violence to achieve their goals. Anyone who
says something bad about Hitler is beat’ up. In 1933, Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
A month later an important German building is set on fire, the Reichstag. Hitler sees this as a
chance to get rid of communists and blames them for the fire. Hitler makes a new law in
which he is able to decide without the parliament. He gets rid of the other parties and the
parliament and rules alone. He wants a big, strong Germany.
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