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Weimar and Nazi Germany, - Coggle Diagram

- - - - End of WWI
        Armistice signed
      - January 1919
        
        First elections
        Spartacist revolt
        
        extreme left
        
        Karl Liebknecht + Rosa Luxemburg
        
        took over Berlin
        
        50,000 workers went on strike
        
        Put down by the Freikorps
        
        February 1919
        
        the national assembly
        congregates for the
        first time
        
        June 1919
        
        the Treaty of Versailles
        is signed
        
        March 1920
        
        Kapp Putsch
        
        extreme right (the Freikorps
        
        Wolfgang Kapp
        
        marched on Berlin but
        the population striked
        and paralysed Germany
        
        Wolfgang had to give in
        
        1923
        
        The Ruhr - in 1923, Germany failed to send reparations to France. France invade through the demilitarised Rhineland (due to TofV) and Germany couldn't defend due to limited military (due to TofV) so went of a passive strike so France took equipment and other resources e.g. coal and iron.
        
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  - - - proportional representation -
        everyone has a say
      - More people had a say -
        all people > 21
      - election every
        7 years
      - No one has total power
    - - Coalition -
        difficult to agree
        
        weak in a crisis
        
        article 48 -
        President could pass
        laws without deliberation
        in a crisis
- - - - Hitler was
        imprisoned
        
        Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
        
        Gained more support
      - Made the Nazi's
        change tactics
      - Hitler got publicity
      - NSDAP was banned
    - - Political and economic difficulty
        
        1923
        
        Kapp and
        Spartacists
        
        TofV
      - Mussolini's success
        in Italy
      - Hitler believed he
        had support
    - - 8/11/23
        
        The Nazis invaded a meeting of the Bavarian government and Hitler declared himself President
        Rohm took control of the local police
        600 SA members
        
        9/11/23
        
        The group marched on Munich joined by 400 additional SA officers and 2000 volunteers
        
        9/11/23
        
        they were met by police and somebody shot and then chaos - many Nazi officers were arrested buy some escaped
        
        11/11/23
        
        Hitler, who had escaped, was found hiding in a friend's wardrobe
        
        12/23
        
        Hitler was imprisoned in Landsberg prison for 9 months after being found guilty of treason
  - - - Hitler released from prison
      - February 1925
        
        Ban on the NSDAP lifted
    - - The Bamberg conference
        
        Stopped all of its potentially Communist plans
        
        Increased its racist plans
        
        25-point programme
        
        Established his leadership was absolute and final
      - National and regional organisation
        
        established regional offices along with the central office in Munich
      - Central Control
        
        Hitler had complete control of the party and this meant that anything he said goes. this was re-enforced by people's fear of him
      - Appeal to different groups
        
        Hitler youth
        
        League of German Maidens
        
        Promised better conditions for workers
        
        Said he would decrease unemployment
        
        Hidden unemployment
        
        women
        
        disabled
        
        jews
        
        homosexuals
        
        some people supported his anti-communist and anti-Semitic views
- - - - Strong leadership
      - Modern
        
        the use of new technology
        e.g. aeroplains
      - Hitler was very
        visible to the
        public
    - - US economy crashed
        
        stopped lending
        money to German
        banksq
        
        Germany's economy
        took a major hit
        
        Extreme parties do well when
        the country does poorly
    - - the country had suffered so they wanted change which means the want extreme parties in power as they tend to get thing (although in this case horrible) faster
  - - - July 1932 -
        Nazis share of the vote
        increased from 18% to 38%
        but Hitler is refused Chancellor
        
        But the Nazis lose seats (84)
        
        November 1932 -
        Von Schleicher threatens
        civil war if Von Papen stays.
        Papen goes.
        
        By January 1933 -
        Von Papen is vice chancellor,
        Hitler is chancellor