hitler and nazi germany

Question 1

name problems Germany faced after the great war

Answer 1

collective grief (2 million died)
unemployment (married woman had no income)
political problems ( 1916 military controlled government, questioning if leader is up for the job, left wing divide from the right wing, a lot of different people wanted to overthrow the system)
living conditions (spanish flu, 600,000 died, shortage of oil food goods medicine, turnip winter 1916-1917)
germanys economy (foreign investment dried up, during the war the rich got richer and poor got poorer, heavy dept from the war)

Question 2

name the terms of the treaty of versailles

Answer 2

reparations (£6.6billion)
armed forces(reduced to 100,000, u boats, airforce and tanks, only 6 battle ships, all weapons were melted)
territory(Reinland occupied by the french, east prussia was given to poland for access to the sea now called the polish corridor)

Question 3

name effects of hyperinflation crisis

Answer 3

pensioners
savers/ middle class
big business owners
working class

Question 4

describe the sparticiast revolt

Answer 4

• who were the they (left-wing political group, leaders rosa luxemburg and karl liebknecht, wanted to be governed by worker and the state to be owners of all property and industries, aim to prevent exploitation by the wealthy)
• how did it start(workers in berlin were at strike due to the government dismissal of a loyal police chief, the spartacists used this to spark the revolt)
• events( the general strike started on the 7th of january, 100,000 surged downtown berlin seizing control of several building such as newspaper offices, couldn’t plan their next steps, people left because of the cold conditions, and numbers crashed significantly, friedrich ebert withdrew his government from berlin to weimar, he instructed a group called the freikorps to take back control, they were well trained thugs looking for a fight and were strongly right wing and hated the communists, they killed the leaders, 200 died)