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Weimar Republic
Post ww2 government in Germany. France and Britain created the government through The treaty of Versailles. Everybody hates it. -
Establishment of the Soviet Union
Lenin establishes a communist state -
Rise of Hitler
takes over the Nazi party, comes up with the party's identity, gets his own terrorist group known as the brown shirts.
Beer Hall Putsch- Hitler tries to over throw the government, gets thrown in Jail instead of killed. -
Rise of Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Takes over Italy- hes the first fascist leader. Italy was mad from the treaty of Versailles . Inflation and unemployment. uses black shirts to scare people. Censorship and the women are relegated to to the home. -
Germany Recovery-Dawes Act
Reduced Germany's reparations and loaned money to Germany. -
Rise of Stalin
Lenin dies, Stalin takes over -
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Josef Stalin
"One death is a tragedy. A Million deaths is a statistic" In control created a totalitarian -
Mein Kampf
While Hitler was in Jail he wrote a book, means my struggle, complains about the Treaty of Versailles and says Germany is a slave to Europe but then says they are Superior because they are the Aryan, pushed for Lebensraum (Germany needs living space). -
Collectivization
Stalin creates large farms, gets rid of the kulkas -
Germany Recovery- Kellogg-Briand Pact
Renounce war- not allowed to go to way, but to enforce this they go to war -
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5 year plan
Rapid industrialization -
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The Great Depression
Everybody is suffering because: Stock market crash, run on the banks, over productions, under consumption, buying stocks on market.
The U.S reacts by creating the New Deal, which Georgia wants us to believe saved us from the Depression -
Persection
Kicked Jews out of the governments, concentration camps.
Nuremburg Laws (1935)- Removes all Jews rights
Kristallnacht (1938)- Removes Jews protection -
Hitler becomes chancellor
In Charge of the government
Fire in the Reichstag (government building)
Demands more power
Enabling act- totalitarian state (has total power), sets up the SS (his protection squad), outlaws all political parties, controls religion, Hitler Youth. -
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Purges
8 million arrested, put on trails, sent to death. -
Hitler Rearms Germany
France and Britain "threatens" Germany-but doesn't do anything about it.
1936- takes his army and puts them in the Rhineland, on the boarder of France-but France does nothing
1938- Anschluss- Austria becomes as part of Germany -
Munich Conference
Appeasement- give them what they want to avoid the conflict Sudentenland- Czechoslovakia, Chamberlain gives land to Hitler, Hitler then takes all of Czechoslovakia -
None Aggression Pat with Soviet Union
not going to fight each other, divide up Poland -
Germany Invades Poland
start of WW2
