Exam 2 EQs

Question 1

Hitlers Rise to Power

Answer 1

IV: Hitlers Rise
A: July and November 1932 Reichstag ~35%
B: Hitler Appointed Chancellor - Threaten to cripple gov if not
C: Nazi Parlimentary Forces
- SS; Bodyguards and Holocaust executioners
- SA; Used before Nazi gain power
D: Signifigance
1: Goals of Nazi Party - Gain control through elections
2: Appeal - Target broader audiance
3: Program - Build new Germany, earse division, Remove Prussian Aristocracy

Question 2

Foundations of Nazi Rise

Answer 2

III: Collapse of Weimar Democracy
A: Effects of Great Depression 1929
- Unemp 1.3mil -> 6mil from 1929-33
B: Rise of Nazi Party - needed Depression
1: Anton Drexler founded Germans’ Worker Party
- Hitler joins and is leading after 2y
2: Beer Hall Pusch - copy Musilini but fail
3: Pre Depression Nazi get 3%
4: Post Depression Nazi get 18%
5: 1932 Election Hindenburg wins but Hitler is 2nd

Question 3

Course of WW1 in Germany

Answer 3

IV: Course of Way
A: Course of War in West - Defensive tools, Machine gun and Artilary
1: Failure of Schlieffen Plan - Invade France through Belgium surround Paris
a. Battle Of Tannenburg - Russia loses but diverts enough troops
b. Battle at Marne - France stops Germany in thier tracks and Settle in
2: Battle of Verdun and Somme 1916:
- Verdun; Germany attack French to kill AMAP
- Somme; GB counter attack on Germans forcing them to abandon Verdun
3: Shift in Strat - Shorten Line because less men
4: Unrestrict Submarine Warfare; Attack all supply ships, starve allies before US mobilize
5: Russia Leaves 1917: War is bad for them so give up land and leave
B: Armisitce, November 1918
C: German Homefront
- Kaiser gives Power to Military leaders making Military Dictatorship
- Hindenburg and Ludendorff are reasonable, others take advantage.

Question 4

WW1 Foundation

Answer 4

III. Foundations
A: 1919 War Guilt Clause - Fischer Thesis, Sonderweg
- Germany must accpet blame
B: Causes for German Entrance
- Triple Alliance with Austria and Italy
- France GB and Russia
1: Fear of Encirclement
- Germany Will declare war on France and Russia same time to fight two fronts
2: Chauvenistic Nationalism - Own country before world peace
C: Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
- Serbian Terrorist kill Franz in Bosnia, Austria declare war on Serbs
- Russia allied with Serbs declare war so Germany gets involved and so does the rest of the world.
D: Austrian Declaration - Germany Declares war on France same time as Russia to try and mobilize faster.

Question 5

Unification Foundations

Answer 5

III. German Unification
A: Role of Prussia (GCU)
- Allows other German States to join Prussia Economically (no Austria)
B: Austrian Weakness: Era of Dualism until Bismark, Tax base and Economy differ
C: Otto von Bismark: Prussian, Conservative Junker
- Use German Unification to Cripple Austria
D: 3-class Franchise system, Landtag
- Landtag approves budget, Mainly Progressives when Bismark shows up
E: Military Reform: Slash Middle class army reserves, not liked
1: Bismark is appointed to deal with it
2: Bismark uses article 99, using old budget to wait out Progressive Landtag
3: He wants to unite Germany
F: He will suceed.

Question 6

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 6

A: Treaty in 1919
1: Wilsons 14 points and League of Nations, “Peace w/out Victory”
- Wilson pushes for going easy
- France and Britain want revenge and get it
2: Loss Alsacve Lorraine, Polish Corridor and Danzig
-France takes Alsace Lorraine back
- Poland land taken and Made Poland again
- Gives Hilter Reason to invade again
3: Demilitarize the Rhine Vally
4: 100k German Army, 6mil French
5: War reperations
- Germany Accepts blame for war, and must pay 500mil in gold to France over 66y

Question 7

Weimar Constitution

Answer 7

F: Establishing, August 1919 - 1933
1: President, Direct popular vote, 7y term
- Replace Kaiser and get Parliament system
2: Article 48: President suspend parliament and dictate in emergency
3: Universal Sufferege: 1to1 Vote no more favoring upper 20%
4: Chancellor and Cabinet
- Appointed from Reichstag Majority that is ever changing

Question 8

Kulturkampf

Answer 8

C: All Bismark, Limit Catholic Power in Germany
1: Black International - Church Label
- Preists prove loyalty
- End state support for catholic schools
- New Party oppose this legislature
- New Pope publish Rerum Novarum, Anti - Socialist Violence
- Good enough for Bismark and gives up on this
2: Red International - Bismark wants to get rid of socialists
- Outlaw socialist parties
- They just run as independent
3: Bismark Retires 1890
- Forced out, SPD come back
- He never hunted or imprisoned them so came back quick