Germany 1919-1939
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- Germany, 1919-1934
- Early Weimar republic, 1919-23
- impacts of WW1
- Germany was depressed and humilited
- severe food shortages
- bread and turnips, added sawdust to flour
- Flu epidemic killing thousands
- 600,000 widows and 2 million fartherless kids
- 1/3 state budget on war pensions
- industrial production 2/3 of 1913
- Army felted stabbed in the back
- how was the Weimer Republic born?
- Naval mutiny in Kiel north Germany
- this triggered other revolts
- Kaiser abdicated on 9th November 1918
- Ebert led the new socialist state and signed armastice
- made plans to draw up new constitution
- Germans reaction to new republic
- Ebert opposed by right wing officials
- wanted return of the Kaiser
- Kaisers former advisers still in post
- made it hard for Ebert
- Stabbed in the back
- Ebert also opposed by left wing officials.
- wanted Communist uprising like in Russia in 1917
- free election help January 1919, socialists won
- Ebert became first president of the constitution
- Ebert opposed by right wing officials
- Main features of the Weimer constituiton
- Threats from left wing
- Threats from right wing
- Effect of treaty of Versailles
- Events of the crisis year 1923
- How did the Weimer republic survive
- impacts of WW1
- Gustav Stresemann and the era of fulfilment 1924-29
- who was Stresemann
- German Chancellor for a few months in 1923
- leading member of Government from 1923-29
- highly skilled right wing politician
- instituted the policy of fulfilment
- complying with treaty of Versailles to be re accepted into international community
- Stresemann's economic achievments
- Ended hyper inlfation
- Replaced mark with Rentenmark
- 1924 Dawes plan
- reduced Germany's reparations and over a longer period
- 1929 Young plan
- further reduced reperations
- Afters dawes and Young plan, reparation down from 6.6 bil to 2 billion
- further reduced reperations
- by 1928, industry back up to pre war levels
- However
- loans could be called in at short notice
- peasants did not fare well, where as business owners did
- Called of passive resistance in the Rurh
- made French leave
- Ended hyper inlfation
- Cultural achievements of stresemann
- Writers, poets and artists flourished
- Bauhaus architecture flourished
- Golden age for German cinema
- clubs and night-life flourished
- 900 dance bands in Berlin
- who was Stresemann
- Hitler's rise to power
- what were Nazis doing during Stresemann era
- Hilter spent 9 months in prison and Wrote Mien Kampf
- Get into power through Democracy
- 'hold our noses and enter the reichstag'
- Recruitment drive
- 100,000 members by 1928
- Created network of local Nazi parties
- 100,000 members by 1928
- Enlarged SA in 1925- Ex service men
- Set up **, similer to SA, but fanatically loyal to Hitler
- used propaganda to spread message
- Posters, leaflets, films, radio, rallies
- Joseph Goebbels took charge of this
- Posters, leaflets, films, radio, rallies
- who voted for the Nazis 1924-29
- wealthy who were afraid of communism
- some peasant farmers - radically pure
- 1928, 3% of votes
- what were Nazis doing during Stresemann era
- Early Weimar republic, 1919-23
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