History - Germany 1919 - 1945
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- Germany 1919 - 1945
- Weimar Republic Problems
- People thought that the Treaty of Versailles was harsh on Germany
- Everyone was annoyed with the government for signing the treaty of versailles
- March 1920 - Kapp Putsch - rebels tried to overthrow the government.
- Freikorps were soldiers that refused to disband and formed private armies
- Communist Spartacists uprising in Berlin
- Nationalist terror groups killed 356 government officials
- After failure of Kapp Putsch, red army rebelled in the Ruhr
- Reperations payment failed in 1923 so the french invaded the Ruhr
- Putsch in Munich by Nazis 1923
- Weimar Germany 1924-1929
- Hyperinflation!
- Stresemen replaced the marks with Rentenmarks
- The Dawes plan - Only had to pay when could afford
- The young plan - a longer time frame to pay within
- Borrowed money from the US to bring back jobs
- Hitler's rise to power
- American stock exchange collapse so America recalled their loans
- Unemployment went up by 6 million
- Anger and bitterness helped nazis gain support
- Papen becamse president for 6 months and Schleicher for 2 months in 1932
- 1933 Hindenberg offered hitler vice chancellor but hitler demanded chancelor
- Workers turned communist so industrialists provided financial support for the Nazi party
- 1928 Nazis had 12 seats in the Reichstag, 1932 - 230 seats and largest party
- Hindenberg used article 48 to cut government expendature
- Rechstag fire, Hitler blamed communists and had 81 officials arrested - 1933
- Jews and anti-Nazis removed from civil service in 1933
- 1933 - hitler made Nazis the only legal party and banned trade unions and replaced them with Labour front
- June 1934 - Night of the long knives, Ernst Rohm leader of storm troopers killed with 400 of his men
- Germany during the war
- 1939 - Blitzkrieg Poland and then 1940 - Blitzkrieg Belgium, Lexumberg, Holland, Denmark, Norway and France
- November 1939 Germany rationed clothes, no toilet paper, and only warm water twice a week to save fuel.
- Black market developed because of rations
- Nazis encorouged woman to work and have children
- 1943 - Zoo animals were killed because the meat supply was so low
- June 1941 start of Barbarossa campaign (invasion of Russia)
- 1944 - 800,00 civilians killed by allied bombings
- Weimar Republic Problems
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