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10 Cards in this Set
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2.1 Legacy of Versailles and weaknesses of Weimar |
Article 48 too many weak parties
War guilt, loss of land, reparation, disarmament... |
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2.2 Nazi Party in 1928 |
SA violence
Overall losses in 1028 elections (12 seats)
Gau with Gauleiters for each region
Party membership reorganised
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2.3 Impact of Great Depression, Elections and governments 1928-33 |
Unemployed - 6m (benefits designed for 800,000 people)
Decline in world trade by 70% 1929 -32
Fall in wages
Business and farmer bankrupt
Industrial production in 1932 40% of 1929
Muller Chancellor from May 1928
Bruning 1930
1930s election Nazis made a major gain in seats (107)
July 1932 - 230 seats
Nov 1932 - 196
Jan 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor. |
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2.4 Communism |
1932 - 360, 000 members
Encouraged elites to support extreme right
Appealed to workers (50% of the population)
Appealed to young unemployed (Red Front)
Leader Thalmann controlled Red Districts |
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2.5 Rise and appeal of Nazism, role of propaganda and Hitler; |
Brown shirts for SA
Nazi Salute
Newspaper "Der Sturmer"
Swastika
Mass rallies (Munich 1922)
Goebbels had of propaganda |
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2.6 Hindenburg; |
Died in 1934
Allowed use of rule by decree
Appointed Hitler in 1933 (wasn't keen on doing this in 1932)
Right Wing. |
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2.7 Papen, Schleicher and 'backstairs' intrigue |
Bruning led Centre Party 1932
Known as the Hunger Chancellor for not doing anything in the depression
Forced to resign by Hindenburg
Papen became Chancellor in 1932 (failed to create a stable government), he offered Hitler Vice Chancellor. |
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2.8 Reichstag Fire; |
Feb 1933
Nazis blamed it on a Dutch communist
Nazis used it to their power
Led to the Decree for the Protection of People and State. |
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2.9 Election of March 1933; |
Propaganda used to intimidate opponents
Very high vote turnout
Nazi slogan "The battle against Marxism"
Nazis get 44% of the vote and Nationalist allies get 8%. |
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Who were these cards created by? |
elloc72 |
