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Date of ceasefire WW1

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November 11th 1918

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Strengths of Weimar Republic

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Checks and balances, Reichstag and Reichsrat
President acts as a balance

Democratic Pr everyone over 20 could vote

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Weaknesses of the Weimar Republic

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Proportional representation therefore weak coalitions 28 parties represented in the 1920’s
Allows fringe extreme party’s representation
Article 48 too much power to one individual

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Terms of Versailles

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Blame
Reparations
Army
Territory

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Blame in Versailles

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Article 231 blame for starting war and turning it into a dirty war

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Reparations

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Signed a blank chequer in 1919 set in 1921 at 6.6bn

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Army in treaty of Versailles

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Reduced to 100,000 no airforce only 6 battleships 6 cruisers no subs

Rhine land demiliterised

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Territory losses from Treaty of Versailles

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13% lost 50% of iron 15% of coal 11 colonies become mandates
Posen and west Prussia (polish corridor)
Alsace and Lorraine
Ripen and malady
Loss of economic benefits of the Saar
Danzig
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Why were German people unhappy

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Expectation that Versailles would be based on the 14 points of Wilson
No self determination
No mention of reparations in the 14 points
Diktat

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Stab in the back legend

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German people believed that they had been stabbed in the back by the politicians who signed the treaty of Versailles and surrendered due to a belief that the war was not lost

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November criminals

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Mathias erzberger and those who surrendered including Rathanau

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Spartacist Revolution

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Jan 1919 Led by Karl Liebknexhr and Rosa Luxembourg
Weimar to weak to win so called on the Friecorps
Leaders killed without trial 15th January
Weimar discredited by use of Friecorps

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Kapp Putsch

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March 1920 every attempted to ban the Friecorps they tried to overthrow him by reprisal
Government was helpless trade unions organised an general strike in resistance
400 Political murders including Rathanau who had just negotiated rapallo

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Bankruptcy in 1923

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Spent gold in war
1919 loss of teritory
1921 reparations
this caused them to default on their debts in 1923

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Occupation of the Ruhr

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1923 payment missed so French occupy the Ruhr and convos ate goods and machinery
Led to Passive resistance 130 killed, debt unemployment
Led to Hyperinflation

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Hyperinflation

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Due to occupation of the Ruhr
Government prints money to pay striking workers
32 factories working around the clock
1922 loaf of bread cost 200 marks, 1923 cost 100 thousand million marks
Savings become worthless

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How was hyperinflation tackled

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Streseman sept 23rd rentenmark, tied to land rather than gold

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International policy achievements

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Lorcano
Kellogg Briand League of Nations permanent seat on the council
More respect for Germany moves back onto the international stage on a level playing field

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Rentenmark

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Restored confidence
Tied to German land prices
Replaced by Reichmark August 1924
Trusted 4,900 million in the reichbank by 1926

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Dawes plan

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April 1924
Annual payments reduced
8,000 million mark investment in German industry

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Young plan

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Agreed 1929 August

Reparations reduced from 6.6 to 2 billion

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Lorcano

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Western borders agreed and garunteed by britain and Italy

Eastern borders agreed but not garunteed

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Kellogg Briande

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Kellog briande peaceful resolutions

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League of Nations and Streesman

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League of Nations permanent member and won temporary seat on council

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Weakness of Weimar 1929
Reliant on US loans
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Origins of the Nazi Party
DAP Anton Drexler Started numbers at 500 Drexler and Hitler work together to form 25 point program Drexler then forced out
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Cause of the Munich Putsch
Hyperinflation which leads to an opportunity
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Munich Putsch details
8th November 1923 takes over beer house with 3 Bavarian ministers claims he wants to take over the government They escape Hitler Rohm and Ludendorff March with 2000 supporters 16 Nazis killed
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Hitlers imprisonment
Gains attention of Hugenbeeg in trial Sentenced to 5 years let out after 11 months Writes Mein Kampf master race and lebensraum Changes to the political party
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Changes to the Nazi Party
Proper party with representatives outside of Bavaria Sections for women children and teachers Goebles as head of propaganda 1926 formation of the SS Hugenbeeg finance 53 papers and largest cinema in Germany But looses seats 32 to 12 1924 to 28
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Impact of Great Depression on people
24th October 1929 Wall Street crash 6 million unemployed Industrial output falls 48% 1931 5 major banks collapse
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Effect of great depression on Weimar
``` Instability Sense government has betrayed them brining cutting war pensions Social democrats in opposition German people take extreme measures 1928 12 seats 1932 230 seats Authoritarian democracy ```
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Goebles and propoganda
Reich radio chamber 1929 Hugenbergs power largest cinema chain 120 newspapers Torch lit rallies Posters leaflets Presidential campaign. 5 cities per day with private plane
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Election results
Presidential election lost 17 million to 11 million to Hindenburg 1928 12 seats 1932 230 seats slight drop to 196 after Schleicher was fired by Hindenberg
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Bruning
Authoritarian democracy under article 48 | Unpopular due to taxation and cuts coalition collapsed
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Von Papen
June to Nov 1932 Cabinet of Barons helped by Schleicher tried to tempt the Nazis into support without success Couldn't hold a majority so dismissed
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Von Schliecher
Dec 1932 to Jan 1933 Lost Hindenbergs support in part due to Papens manipulation Hindenberg wouldn't allow him to rule by 48 Hindenberg has meetings with Papen and businessmen leading to the appointment of Hitler 30th June 1933 with 3 other Nazis Papen thought he could control Hitler
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Reichstag fire
Hitler called an election to win a majority 27th Feb 1933 Reichstag fire found Marinus van der lubbe 4000 members of the KpD arrested Decree for the Protection of People and State suspended civil rights Election win17.3 million votes
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Enabling act
March 1933 gave hurler power to bypass Reichstag for 4 yeas 441 votes to 83 Reichstag surrounded by SA members Became dictator of Germany
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Other legal consolidation
May 1933 banning of trade unions replaced with Nazi labour front Law against the formation of parties July 1933
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Use of terror to consolidate and hold power
Dachau concentration camps SA violence, 3 million members SS 50000 by 1934 Gear app 1933 160,000 arrested by 1939
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Night of long knives
30th June 1934 Needed support of the army who feared the SA Sa were socialist against where hurler wanted to go 400 murders Schleicher Rohm George Strasser Following death of Hindenberg 2nd August the army swore alliance to hitler
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Control of the population Religion
Catholic schools and youth organisations July 1933 papal concordat Abolish ion of monasteries and youth mivements Sept 1933 reich church set up under Ludwig Muller as 1935 Ministry of church affairs
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Control of the population propoganda
Radio speeches rallies posters leaflets Goebles Hugenbeeg largest cinema and 120 newspapers Films 1940 the eternal Jew 1933 May 25000 books burnt 1934 neuer berg Rally of Will Berlin Olympiad 110,000 seats Reich chamber of culture people's reciever only 26 marks
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Control of the population | Workers
May 1933 trade unions banned replaced with the DAF RAD national service compulsory for all men 16-25 to serve Reduced unemployment to 0.5 million infrastructure such as the autobahns KDF strength through joy July 1934 control of leisure Pro farming techniques
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Control of the population women
Kinder kurche kirche Professionals forced from jobs German woman's enterprise classes in motherhood 1933 law for the encouragement of mariage 1000 mark loans 250 less paid back per child Mothers cross
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Control of the population | Youth
Hitler youth 2.3 million members BDM German league of maidens 1.5 million members Teachers had to swear loyalty 97% members of Nazi party The poisonous mushroom natural selection Mein Kampf compulsory 10 Adolfo Hitler School for boys
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Control of the population | Racial policy
Eliminate Jews and genetically impaired Protection of the ubermenschenw April 1933 law for the restoration of the civil service, Jews banned 1933 compulsory sterilisation Neueremberg laws 20th Jan 1942 wan see conference and the final solution
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Neueremberg laws
Reich citizens act only sry and were German citizens | Law for the protection of German blood Jews couldn't marry Germans
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Kristallnacht
``` 8-9 Nov 1938 response to assassination of Ernst von Rath 100 killed 1000 synagogue burnt 25,000 sent to camps Jews forces to pay ```
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Impact of WW 2
``` Impact of WW 2 Rationing 1939 clothes rationed no winter coats or shoes 300g meat ration Toilet paper 1940 ersatz food Total war cinemas theatres closed Tripled arms production ```
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Impact of WW 2 bombing
Impact of WW 2 bombing 800,000 German deaths Dresden 35,000 firebombing operation thunderclap May 1942 1000 bomber raid on cologne 1,455 tonnes of explosives Hanburg 1943 50,000 in a week 24th July inferno whipped up 150 kmph winds
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Impact of the war | Minorities
Poland 3 million more Jews Ghettos 30% of Warsaw crushed into 3% of the city SS death squads kill 1.5 million Final solution wander conference Jan 1942 final solution
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Impact of the war opposition
White rose group Sophie scholl leaflet campaign caught 1943 Edelweiss pirates Youth organisation 13 hanged Martin Neimoller passed Intel into allies hanged 1945 Stauffenberg bomb plot 20th July 1944 5000 arrested 14 generals and 27 colonels executed

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