AOS 1 History

The rise of the nazsis (1914-1939)

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