GCSE History Revision Cards

Effects of the Wall Street Crash

America recalled the money they had loaned Germany.
Factories were producing less so some of the workers were sacked and became unemployed.
Fewer people to buy goods so factories sold less.
So more workers were sacked.
Farmers were affected as less food was needed because unemployed people couldn't afford to buy as much.
So farm prices dropped forcing farmers and farm workers into unemployment.
This resulted in the Great Depression.
Unemployment kept rising.
1933- six million Germans out of work.
Led to misery and despair.
Middle class and working class people lost their homes.
Businesses went bankrupt.
Small farmers lost their farms.
Many turned to extremist parties who seemed to have a solution to the economic problems.
This gave Hitler and the Nazis the opportunity they needed.

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1924- Hitler released from prison.
He started to recorganise the Nazi Party to make it more effective in elections.
Started Hitler Youth for boys and a new fighting force, the **.
Marches and torchlight rallies were staged to publicise Nazi ideas.
More and more people joined the party.
1928- the Nazis didn't do to well in the elections.
When the Great Depression hit Germany this changed.
Hitler believed that the weak leadership of the Weimar governments had caused many of Germany's problems.
So he said Germany needed a strong leader like himself.
Hitler also said that the Nazis would then give Germany great military power by increasing the size of the army.
Make germany prosperous again.
Aryans were the superior race.
Inferior races; Eastern Europeans, people from Asia and Africa, Jews, and Travellers.
Wanted Germans to feel part of 'the people's community'.
Wanted to work together to make Germany great again.
Individual rights were less important than loyalty to the country, the people and the leader.
He hated communism and pledged himself to destroy it.

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