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The rise of Nazi Germany - Coggle Diagram

- - - - New democratic government formed in Weimar
        
        Government signed armistice with the allies
  - - - Countries who won the war wanted revenge on Germany
        
        Germany had no say in how they were punished
        
        Germany Reparations
        
        lost land
        
        pay for cost of war
        
        admit blame for war (Guilt Clause)
        
        not allowed to build up a defence force
        
        Treaty of Versailles signed 1919
- - - - Set up armed groups of supporters who wore a uniform of brown shirts
        
        Groups known as storm Troopers or SA. (Sturmabteilung)
        
        SA organised marching parades
        
        carried flags with swastika on it
        
        motto = All opposition must be stamped into the ground.
        
        Beat up people who disagreed with him
  - - - Short time for serious offence
        
        Judge did not approve of Weimar government like many others
- - - - Stock market crash
        
        Stocks that people had bought no longer had any value
        
        Known as Wall Street Crash
        
        all countries that traded with USA were affected
        
        In Germany - Banks, factories closed, inflation rose and workers lost their jobs
        
        The USA wanted the money that they had lent Germany back
        
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- - - - Many Political parties in Germany. No party could win a complete majority of seats in the Reichstag
        
        Weimar Republic did not have a strong enough government to deal with Germany's problems
        
        When the Great Depression hit, Weimar could not cope with the economic crisis
        
        People became very angry
        
        Weimar ended when hitler came into power