Chancellor of Germany

One of the major political debates in Germany was over a woman’s right to abortion. Paragraph 218 of the criminal code of the Weimar Republic made abortion illegal. This law was highly contested by several political groups; both social democratic parties sought to change or entirely eliminate…

was able to become Chancellor in 1933. It was the cause of all the other significant factors, such as the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic, Nazi policies, propaganda campaigns, and the scheming of Hindenburg and von Papen. The Great Depression was the most important factor that lead to Hitler becoming Chancellor in 1933. It caused major economic issues in Germany such as businesses going bankrupt, workers being laid off, massive increase in unemployment and homelessness. Germany was affected…

Wilhelm II. This government signed the Treaty of Versailles which later on appeared to cause them problems as the people of Germany thought they had been betrayed by their own government bodies and stabbed in the back, also they signed the armistice, this was why they were called the November criminals. The problems associated with the Treaty as well as dissatisfaction in Germany for a new democratic government that was thought had a weak constitution doomed Weimar politically from the very…

Versailles. Gustav felt that Germany could make progress in Europe by accepting The Treaty of Versailles. Stresemann was Chancellor of Germany, but he only served for a couple of months. Gustav Stresemann was the German Chancellor for only a short-term and was a leading member of every government from 1923-1929. Gustav Stresemann accomplished a significant amount between 1924-1929 such as the Dawes plan or loans from the U.S. and the Young Plan, which means, Germany had 58 or 59 years to pay…

It can be argued that Germany knew that each of these policies would cause conflict with the other powers, and that they were introduced not only for the purpose of making Germany a great power but also to instigate a war. In his first years in power Caprivi attempted to untangle the complex system of alliances and commitments Bismarck had created during his long stay in office, and it can be said that his most important decision in accordance with Weltpolitik was his decision not to renew the…

1. Imagine you are a political scientist from India, the U.K., Germany, or Brazil (choose one). You are asked to help the newly democratic country of “Bostonistan” design a new constitution. Bostonistan has a history of conflict among religious groups, which are dispersed throughout the country—not every religious group lives in its own region. Many years ago, Bostonistan was a democracy, but it suffered a coup after military leaders got fed up with legislative gridlock that had paralyzed the…

Konrad Adenauer: Konrad Adenauer’s one goal he hoped to achieve most as Chancellor of Germany consisted of creating a solid and democratic state in West Germany (“Anna Gill”). Adenauer was born on January 5, 1876 in Cologne, Germany. Konrad was the baby in his family of three children, a mother, and a father. His family was Roman Catholic and didn’t make a lot of money even with his dad being a lawyer. Despite his family’s financial struggles, Konrad Adenauer succeeded through all…

when many around the world were suffering great inequalities, none more so than the people in Germany. The people of Germany were being collectively subjected to punishment because their leaders had just lost a massive war, World War One. The Great War as English edited history books record it involved Germany, his European neighbors and two greater powers, Russia and the United States of America. Germany was collection of German speaking nations that was formed by force into a federal nation…

a big industrial complex that produced steel and weapons. This industrialized building shows that people are gaining new jobs and are becoming unified because they are all producing the same thing in the world market. Otto Von Bismarck, the iron chancellor used industrialization to get everyone together. Industrialization unified everyone because it causes people to think that with technology increasing, the need for unity and a greater military becomes essential. The Russians opposed…

Hitler was not elected by the public to be chancellor, his support can be said to have played a major part in influencing President Hindenburg to ask Hitler to be chancellor. At the time Hitler became chancellor, an extremely large amount of people despised the current German government due to being the reason why the Dawes plan was introduced, which ultimately led to depression in Germany. (The US recalled the loans after the wall street crash, and Germany was unable to deal with this loss of…