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33 Cards in this Set
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Treaty of Versailles |
11 November 1918. had to pay reparations, lost all its colonies, military force cut and they lost land |
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Weimar Republic |
August 1919 Proportional representation used, chancellor ran the country but to pass laws need majority of the Reichstag; President was the head of states and was elected every 7 years, he chose who was chancellor, could pass laws by decree. |
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Occupation of the Ruhr |
1923. Frances response to Germany no longer being able to pay reparations. |
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Hyper-Inflation |
1923 Germany printed more and more money to help pay of reparations but this led to inflation and the currency becoming untrustworthy. |
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Spartacist League (left wing movement) |
1918-19 Luxemburg inspired a 100,000 communist demonstration in Berlin and took over key building. In response the government had to seek the help of the Freikorps to put down the uprising |
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Kapp Putsch (Right wing revolt) |
1920 supporters marched on Berlin to over through Weimar and bring back Kaiser. Many workers went on strike as they did not want the Kaiser to return. Kapp later fled as he realised he could not govern and was later arrested. |
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Munich Putsch |
8 November 1923 Hitler used it to get national publicity and as a result won its first seats in the Reichstag. He used his time in jail to start his autobiography |
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Rentenmark |
1923 Stresemann set up new state owned bank which gave out new stable currency. |
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Gustav Stresemann |
August 1923 Foreign secetary until 1929 |
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Dawes Plan |
1924 Annual reparations reduced to an affordable level. US banks gave loans to German Industry. |
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Locarno Pact |
October 1925 Germany agreed to keep its new borders and in return allied troops left Rhineland, France promised peace and open talks about Germany joining league of nations. |
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Young Plan |
1929 Reduced annual reparations which made it possible to lower taxes and in turn boost german industry and employment |
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League of Nations |
September 1926 Germany was allowed into the league of Nations |
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Kellogg-Briand pact |
August 1928 promised that countries would not use war to achieve foreign policy aims. |
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25 Point programme |
1920 Scrapping treaty of Versailles, expanding Germany's borders to give people more land to live in and depriving Jews of German citizenship. Also made clear that they would use force to achieve aims. |
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Hitler becoming Fuhrer |
mid 1921 |
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Volkischer Beobachter |
1920 He bought the newspaper for 180,000 marks and was able to use it to spread his views further |
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SA |
1921 Hitlers private army and they provided security and broke up meetings of opposition groups |
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Re-launch |
27 February 1925 Hitler re-launched the nazi party and had lost none of his personal appeal. |
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SS |
1925 with new funds from befriending most wealthy businessmen he set up the SS and they were feared for their menacing black uniforms |
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Goebbels |
1925 used him to improve nazi propaganda. |
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Fall of Chancellor Bruning |
April 1932 banned the SS and SA and this angered right wing parties so they formed a coalition to get rid of him |
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Von Papen becomes Chancellor |
May 1932 |
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Von Schleicher becomes Chancellor |
2 December 1932 He asked for Hindenburg to declare a military dictatorship as Hitler was conspiring against him but Hindenburg refused. This plan was leaked meaning he lost any support he had left. |
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Hitler becomes Chancellor |
30 January 1933 |
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Reichstag fire |
27 February 1933 Hitler used the event to declare a state of emergency so that Hitler could govern Germany by decree. He then called an election but before he issued decree allowing him to suspend German civil rights, and made the policy turn a blind eye to the SA. |
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Enabling Act |
March 1933 |
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Trade Unions |
May 1933 Hitler banned trade unions and make strikes illegal as they were a potential source of opposition. |
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Political Parties |
July 1933 Hitler made all political parties illegal apart from NSDAP |
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Night of Long Knives |
1934 Hitler ordered the execution of 400 people to remove political opposition |
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Death Of President Hindenburg |
August 1934 Hitler claimed all of his powers and forced oath of loyalty to him on all soldiers. A public vote was also carried out to confirm this and it was bombarded with pro nazi propaganda. |
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Gestapo |
1933 they were the secret police and would arrest people who spoke out against Nazi ideas |
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Concentration Camps |
1933 Camps opened in isolated areas and were for political prisoners or undesirables like prostitutes and minority groups, such as Jews. |
