the nazis rise to power Flashcards
(7 cards)
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Weimar Republic
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1918-1933
- new republic
- spans the years between WWI and Hitlers machtergreifung
- unsettled years- republic faced many problems
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The Treaty of Versailles (1919)
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- signed by the countries involved in WWI
- humiliating for Germany
- lost territory
- military disarmed and restricted
- had to pay huge war reparations
- forced to accept guilt
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immediate post-war yeat
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- severe shortage of food supplies
- loss of war materials
- increasing debt
- economic losses
- controlled demobilisation kept unemplyment at around one million
- the allies pernitted only low import levels of goods that most germans could not afford
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the growth of the nazi party
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1920- the German Worker’s party had become the national socialist german workers party. called for a greater germany that eould deny citizenship for jews
1921- hitler named himself as chairmen of the party
1923- Ludendoff and Hitler declared they were planning to take control of Munich
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the golden era
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- 1924-29
- relative stability
- growing economy, less civil unrest
- ended with the Wall Street Crash in America and the global great depression
- american loans to help rebuild the German economy stopped
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the third reich
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- growing unemployment rate in 1932, bolstered support for the nazi and communist party
- many conservative politicians and industrialists thought that Hitler would be preferable to the left- leaning leader
- Hitler was sworn in as chancellor on the 30th of January 1933
- Gleichschaltung= one party state
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Nazi Ideology
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- nazism identified the German as a part of an Aryan or Nordic master race
- nationalistic values- aimed to unite all germans living in historically german territory, as well as gain additional territory
- exclude those deemed either community aliens or inferior races
- Austrian Anschluss
- Racist and anti-Semitic ideology- the holocaust
