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kaiser Wilhelm promblems

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1) growth of other parties in the reichstag with the left wing of spd having a 314% rise of seats over a few years

2) The rise of socialism the counter this he banned sunday working, introduced pensions and stopped employment if under 13
- also socialist leaders put on trial

3) industrialization made the gap between rich and poor grow. rich people got more powerful and cholera outbreak between poor

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naval laws under Kaiser Willhelm

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naval laws in 1898 and 1900 to build more battleships caused more debt for Germany with them owing 489 billion marks

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impact of ww1 economic

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  • factories set up for military use now aren’t producing goods for Germany
  • wages were low
  • 1918 featured lots of strikes
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impact of ww1 social

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british blockade where they blocked the north germany causing fuel and food shortages left many germans with only a little to no food a day

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impact of ww1

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munity of triel sailors deciding to not obey the kaiser
- the abduction of the kaiser
- weimar ruplbic
- Germany take balme

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treaty of Versailles

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land - colonies abroad lost. demiltrazation of rhineland
army - 100k troops no navy airforce or subs 6 battle ships
money - 6.6 billion
blame - article 231 germany take blame for the war

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reaction to the treaty by german people

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outraged as they belived the goverment had given up on the army and many germans believed they could have won

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the invasion of ruhr

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germany in 1922 failed to meet payments of reparations france wanted this money and in reaction stormed the Ruhr with 60 thousand troops from France and Belgium taking whatever they wanted . germany printed more to pay reparations but ended up causing hyperinflation

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left wing uprsing in weimar

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left wing group sparcists lead by rosa Luxembourg and karl liebnech tried to get german workers to take over Germany but the frei corp stopped them as they hated left wing groups and violence

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right wing uprising in Weimar

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right wing group with the kapp putsch was more successful as they believed in the same ideas as the Frei corp so they wouldn’t do anything against it. so the weimar fled and get german workers to strike forcing stuff to stop and putting an end to the revolutions

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munich putsch

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By 1923, the Nazi party had 55,000 members and was stronger than ever before.The Weimar Republic was in crisis due to hyperinflation.
In September 1923,
On the night of 8 November 1923, Hitler and 600 SA members burst into a local Beer Hall. Waving a gun at them, Hitler forced them to agree to rebel - and then let them go home. The SA took over the army headquarters and the offices of the local newspaper.
The next day, 9 November 1923, Hitler and the SA went into Munich on what they thought would be a triumphal march to take power. However, Kahr had called in police and army reinforcements. There was a short scuffle in which the police killed 16 members of the SA.

Hitler fled, but was arrested two days later.

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weimar promblems

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Uprisings

Economic
- hyperinflation due to ruhr invasion and paying people to strike

Social
- lots of different parties wanting power

political
- had to deal with post ww1 problems such as treaty of Versaile

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sterssenman solutions

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  • new currency of Rentenmark
    1924 dawes plan usa loaned 800 millions Rentenmark to help rebuild
  • 1925 locorna pact meaning France and Germany would keep a civil relationship
  • 1926 joined League of nations to help stop further worldwide conflict
  • 1929 young plan preparation reduced by 25%
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signs of economic recovery from Stresemann’s

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  • between 1925 and 1929 good exported out of country rose 40%
  • hourly wages rose yearly from 1924 to 1929 and even 10p in 1928
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golden age

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  • bauhaus school
  • ## jazz music
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wall street crash 1929

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us demanded money back and lead to
the unemployed number was up to 6 million in 1932
grew hate for Weimar with other parties rising
stopped any progress of the country finally improving

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rise of nazi reasons

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weakness of weimar (In 1930 Chancellor Brüning cut unemployment pay. This added to the spiral of decline and unemployment continued to rise, as well as making those who had lost their jobs even poorer.)
-economic downfall
-hitlers appeal
-propaganda
- fear of communism

had 12 seats in 1928 and 230 in 1932

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how hitler came into power

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hindenberg didnt want hitler as chancellor so got von paper then Von Schleicher, but they both as when they went to the reichsatg becuase nazi’s had the most seats they had no power.

hitler eventually was appointed chancellor as hidenberg thought he could control hitler

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Hitler consolidating power

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  • 1933 reichsatg set on fire by communists Hitler then is able to get emergency powers to deal with communists, therefore being able to set up camps to send them to
  • the enabling act hitler signed got rid of the opposition of the Reichstag
  • with the sa growing with 3million people and ernst ruhm with power hitler had the night of long knives were he killed ernst and high up as leader to gain full control of the sa
  • 1934 Helderberg dies Hitler gains full control of Germany.
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nazi progagnada

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joseph gobbels
spreading nazi ideologies and make Germans hate certain ethnic groups
- media needed to be proved by nazi to only put out stuff that put them in a good light
- sold cheap radios to listen to Hitler
- public rallies
- school text books were changed
it was good at reinforcing nazi ideas

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the police state

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thje enabling act of 1933 allowed the nazis to read peoples mail
listen in on phone call and search home without notice

Gestapo secret police know used to spy on people and keep order for the nazi party, methods included forcing people to inform on friends and family mainly they did this to jews

SD sercutiy of hitler
SS highest police state

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Hitler and the catholic church

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the concordat agreement between nazis and the pope in 1933 an agreement for both people to stay out of otherothers way
- however, Hitler did not stick to this hitler start destryoing catholic involment in education ending up getting rid of them
- youth group were banned
-1937 pope spoke out about hitler

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Hitler and the protestant church

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supported Hitler and vise verse
-1936 all protestant churches formed the reich church
- a naxified Christianity the replaced cross symbols with swastikas and bibles with mein kampf
-1937 had to go back to protesant church

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women in nazi germany

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  • didnt want to give they to much freedom wanted to to focus on family
  • kinder kuche kirche
    -awards to women who have lots of children “mothers cross”
  • payed to have children
  • discorged from wearing makeup smoking
  • young girls had different subjects at school
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reducing unemployment

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  • autobahn and omplyic staduim jobs
  • national labour service all young men spent 6 months in the army
    -rermament which was manufacturing arms and increasing army gave out million of jobbs
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nazi youth club

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hitler youth 1926
- physcal training
- training to be loyal nazis and grew up with nazi ideoliges
-1936 compulsory

league of german maidens
girls were training in coking sewing

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nazi education

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-subjects were rewriiten to fit nazi ideas
- children taught to be antisemitic
-physical education became more important for boys (5hours)
-EUGENTICS
- maths and chemistry downgraded

aim to brainwash kids

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nazi racial policy

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hitler wanted ‘cleanse’ the german people by removing any ‘inferior’ groups from the gene pool such as jews gypsises homeosexual people and disabled

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discrimination of jews

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  • 1933 boycott of Jewish buisness
  • Nuremberg laws stopped jews from being german citizens
    -1938 jews banned from attending schools
    -1938 night of broken glass when a german diplomat was killed by a jew many germans rioting killing jews breaking their houses and business,
  • this was also a excuse to arrest many jews and send them the camps
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opposition to nazis

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edelweiss pirates
- distributed anti nazi leaflets
buy many were publicly hanged

the swing youth
- groups of young people who rebelled considered degenrates for drinking alcohol
but were seen as a nuisance not a threat

white rose groups
- a group from the Munich University
- used non violent ways to protest including giving out leaflets and graffiti
-many of the group were arrested tortured and executed

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the holocaust

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  • jew ghettos
  • himler was head of death camps
    -6 million dead
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impact on ww2 during

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  • rationating, food turned mainly to bread and preserves
  • area bombing
  • employment
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1944 bomb plot

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In July 1944, a group of army officers tried to assassinate Hitler. A bomb was planted by Colonel Stauffenberg at a meeting attended by the Fuhrer. It exploded, but Hitler survived. In retaliation, Stauffenberg was shot the same day and 5,000 people were executed in the crackdown on opposition that followed.

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