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Goebbels job

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Chief propagandist

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September 1930

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Brüning is an unpopular chancellor and Nazis win more seats than expected in election

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July 1932

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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

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30 January 1933

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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

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Nazi party growth

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  • 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
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Nazi beliefs

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  • 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
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Unemployment aids Nazi Growth

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Unemployment reaches 6,000,000 not including invisible unemployed and Nazi party votes grow rapidly

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Nazi party seats in 4 years

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Grow by 200+

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Nazi

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SA 1931-32 growth

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100,000 —> 400,000

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Stresseman successes

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  • rentenmark : ended hyperinflation
  • Dawes Plan : ended Ruhr invasion
  • Young Plan : reparations decreased
  • Locarno Pact : not to invade
  • Joined LofN : Germany’s international relations improved
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Young Plan…

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  • Decreased reparations from £6.6 to £1.8 billion
  • 1929
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Locarno Pact was signed in…

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1925

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Germany joined the League of Nations in…

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1926

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Impact of WWI on Germany

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  • reparations and loans
  • 600,000 widows and 2,000,000 fatherless children
  • exhausted factories
  • politically unstable
  • flu epidemic
  • starvation
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Economic problems post WWI for Germany

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  • 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
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Establishment of Weimar Republic

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  • 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
18
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June 1934

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Night of Long Knives
- SA kill/attack key opposition leaders

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Summer 1936

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Berlin holds summer olympics and membership to the League Of German Girls became compulsory

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November 1938

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Kristallnacht
Attack on Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues

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September 1939

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German invasion of Poland

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February 1925

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Hindenburg elected president

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January 1926

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Germany joins League of Nations

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February 1929

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Young plan proposed

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October 1929

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Wall Street crash

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Around 1930

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Great Depression

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January 11 1933

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Hitler is chosen as chancellor

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February 1920

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Nazi party is founded

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March 1920

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Kapp Putsch

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1922

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Hitler Youth Foundation

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January 1923

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Invasion of Ruhr

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November 1923

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Munich putsch

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August 1924

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Dawes Plan

34
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Hyperinflation impact on eggs and bread

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1 egg
1921 : 0.6 marks
September 1923 : 4,000,000 marks
November 1923 : 320,000,000,000 makes

1 load of bread
1921 : 4 marks
Sept. 1923 : 1,512,000 marks
Nov. 1923 : 201,000,000,000 marks

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February 1933

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Hitler could now control police and had a lot of control over radio and TV

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27 February 1933

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Reichstag fire

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May 1933

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Trade unionists banned

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July 1933

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Political parties banned

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