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The rise of the nazsis (1914-1939)
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End of WWI
11th of November at 11am armistice was signed
Triple Entente
France Britain Russia
Triple Alliance
Germany Austria Hungary Italy
Date of Paris Peace Conference
Jan 1919
Biggest Result of WW1
Germany had lost the war
Paris Peace conference
a series of international meetings held by the winners of the war in 1919 and 1920 in paris, defeated powers could not participate
Woodrow Wilson
President of USA, not very affected by war and wanted diplomatic solutions
David Lloyd George
Prime Minister of Britain, was affected slightly by war and wanted reasonable solutions while still retaining trading links
Georges Clemenceau
Prime Minister of France, suffered tremendously due to war and wanted to humiliate Germany for their actions
5 Key issues treaty of Versailles tacked
• War Guilt
• Reparations
• German territories and colonies - mandates
• Germany's armed forces
• League of Nations
LAMB punishments
land lose
army small
money pay
blame on
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What is in the picture (observation)
What might it mean (inference)
How would this make people feel (perspective)
The league of nations
An international organization established after World War I with the primary goal of maintaining world peace.
Modern Historical View of TOV
wasn’t as harsh as Germans believed at the time.
Reparations
payments made by defeated country to compensate for war damage
Putsch
A violent attempt to overthrow the government
Spartacists
A communist group that wanted a workers revolution in Germany
Freikorps
Right wing paramilitary groups made up of ex soldiers
Reichstag
the imperial parliament of Germany during the German empire
Article 48
an emergency measure that allowed the president to rule by decree in time of crisis or instability
Why was Weimar Government hated?
Germany had never had a democracy before, and was a rough transition for Germany
Problems for the Weimar republic
Political Revolutionary and Economic problems
Hyperinflation
prices of all goods and services rise uncontrollably over a period of time
Why did Belgium and France occupy the Ruhr Valley in 1923?
in response to the lack of payment of reparations
Germanies Response for captured Ruhr region
Germany payed workers to go on strike and sabotage production
Far right wing
nationalistic and patriotic with strict law and order
far left wing
communist ideas revolving around equality and freedom
Fascism
is a far-right, authoritarian political ideology
The NSDAP
a far right political party that promoted antisemitism, anti-communism and opposition to the Treaty of Versailles/Weimar democracy
Great Depression on Germany
mass unemployment economic collapse and political instability, and catalyst for Nazi’s in Germany
Weimar Republic during Great Depression
severely damaged struggled to respond to issues, causing public disillusionment
Amount of Unemployed workers in 1933
1/3rd of population