Weimar and Nazi Germany(EDEXCEL)

1918-1920
1. 9th November 1918 Abdication of Kizer Wilhelm II
2. 11th November 1918 Armastice treaty signed. (Treaty of versailles)
  1. Army
    1. Limited to 100 000
    2. Baned from the Ruhr
  2. Navy
    1. 6 battle ships
    2. 6 Crusers
    3. 12 Destroyers
    4. 12 Submerines
  3. No Air Force
3. Challegnes from the extreams
  1. Spartacists (communits)
    1. Came form the Inderpendent Socilistis Party
    2. Had Soviet Backing (large funding)
    3. 2 Leaders
      1. Rosa Luxemburg
      2. Karl Liebkecht
    4. Based in Berlin
    5. acted January 1919
      1. Took over Goverment Newspapers
      2. Strike on Berlin (attempted)
      3. Freikoprs used to remove them from power
  2. Kapp Putch
    1. Acted March 1920
    2. Made of Freikoprs
      1. Right-wing
      2. X-soldgers who had kept there wepons
      3. 250 000 men in March 1919
    3. Head of army resisted
    4. Marched on berlin
      1. Government fled berlin
        Goverment orginsed strikes, which forced them to stand down
4. Hitler joined the DAP (German Workers Party)
General
1. Stab in the Back Theory
  1. Didn't loes the war
  2. Betrayed by the Government
  3. Used By Hitler
  4. They could have won
  5. Not True
2. Extremests do better in bad conditions when people are desperate
1920-1923
1. Political assinations took place from 1919-1923
  1. Used by right wing extremists
  2. Weeken weimar
  3. Judges sympathetic resulting in light punishments
2. Hyperinflation
  1. 1919 bread - 1 mark 1922 bread - 100 marks 1923 bread - 200 000 billon marks
  2. November 1923 the mark was worthless
3. January 1923 - French troops occupy the ruhr to take reperations. Troops take things from the industry. Germany not allowed miltry there so can not do anything
4. Hitler became the leader of NSDAP (Nationl Socilist German Works Party) (NAZI) who were previously DAP
5. 25-POINT PROGRAM
  1. Points
    1. Increase Pensions
    2. Nationalise Industires
    3. Remove tratey of versailles
    4. Improve German Armed Forces
    5. No Jewish Citerzens
  2. The Nazio Program writen in 1920
1923-129
1. Stressman set up new courancy in November 1923
  1. Supply of notes tightly controled
  2. In august 1924 reich bank was given control of the new courrency
2. Dawes Plan 1923
  1. Installment temperaly reduced to £50 millon per year
  2. US bank aggred to make loans to germany industry
3. Youngs Plan
  1. Reduced Reperations from £6.6 billon to £2 Billon
  2. Payments could be made over a longer period of time (until 1988)
  3. Extremists opposed it e.g. Nazis. Extending Burden for future genorations
4. Improvments in the econamy
  1. Industal output doubled. Passed pre world war I levels
  2. Employment and trade incresed
  3. Extreame political parties were compley agianst Germany paying reparations at all
  4. Economic revery depened on American Loans
5. Stressman resigned as chanclor in Novermber 1923
  1. Stayed in Forein securaty until 1929
    1. Reduced populatiry for extmist parties
    2. Reduced economic hardship
6. Ageements/pacts
  1. Locarno Pact 1925
    1. Agreed border with france - improved relations with france
    2. perminant demilterisation of Ruhr (Both sides)
  2. Kellog Briand Pact 1982
    1. Agreement between 26 counries to not use war as a foriegn policity
7. Changes
  1. Workers
    1. Working hours reduced
    2. Wages Increase
    3. Conditions improve
    4. Unstable emplyoment due to hyperinflation
  2. Improvments for Women
8. Munich Putch
  1. Reasons
    1. Long Term
      1. 'Stab in the back'
      2. Repeartions
      3. Treaty of versailles
      4. Disliked Weimar
    2. Mediam Term
      1. Hitler inspiered by Musslini
    3. Short Term
      1. Frecnch Troops in the Ruhr
      2. Hitler thought that he had support
      3. hyperinflation

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