Germany 1890-1945 Flashcards
Goebbels job
Chief propagandist
September 1930
Brüning is an unpopular chancellor and Nazis win more seats than expected in election
July 1932
Brüning resigns and Von Papen is elected chancellor but is very unpopular and calls for an election where the Nazis win majority with 230 seats
30 January 1933
Hindenburg has previously attempted to give chancellor to other part members but they all resign as they’re unpopular and so he gives in an Hitler is given chancellor
Nazi party growth
- extremist views are becoming more popular as people need someone to believe in / turn too
- Wall Street crash in 1929
- desperate Germans wanted to follow Nazi beliefs
- people feared communists
- hitler was charismatic and inspiring
Nazi beliefs
- Jews were to blame for Germany’s economic problems
-Treat of Versailles was a crime against Germany
- Germany needed to be turned back into a powerful nation
Unemployment aids Nazi Growth
Unemployment reaches 6,000,000 not including invisible unemployed and Nazi party votes grow rapidly
Nazi party seats in 4 years
Grow by 200+
Nazi
SA 1931-32 growth
100,000 —> 400,000
Stresseman successes
- rentenmark : ended hyperinflation
- Dawes Plan : ended Ruhr invasion
- Young Plan : reparations decreased
- Locarno Pact : not to invade
- Joined LofN : Germany’s international relations improved
Young Plan…
- Decreased reparations from £6.6 to £1.8 billion
- 1929
Locarno Pact was signed in…
1925
Germany joined the League of Nations in…
1926
Impact of WWI on Germany
- reparations and loans
- 600,000 widows and 2,000,000 fatherless children
- exhausted factories
- politically unstable
- flu epidemic
- starvation
Economic problems post WWI for Germany
- 1925, 1/3 of budget used for war pensions
- national income has decreased by 1/3 from 1913
- industrial production decreased by 2/3 from 1913
Establishment of Weimar Republic
- the stress of war caused a revolution from October to November 1918
- this caused the Kaiser to abdicate and the war ended
- new leaders were disliked
- 11 February 1919 : political leaders from around Germany met up with Ebert in Weimar and the new democratic system was set up - Weimar Republic
June 1934
Night of Long Knives
- SA kill/attack key opposition leaders
Summer 1936
Berlin holds summer olympics and membership to the League Of German Girls became compulsory
November 1938
Kristallnacht
Attack on Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues
September 1939
German invasion of Poland
February 1925
Hindenburg elected president
January 1926
Germany joins League of Nations
February 1929
Young plan proposed
