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Weimar Government
The Weimar Government was a Semi-presidential representative democracy. Founded on the 9th of November 1918 and stopped in 1933. -
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Germnay's Economic Crisis
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Germnays Economic Crisis
Germany couldn't pay reparations. -
Germany Econimic Crisis
Germany started to print more money causing Hyperinflation. DATE IS NOT EXACT(1) -
Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann was born on May 10th in 1878, and died on October 3rd in 1929. He served as Chancellor in 1923 and as Foreign Minister for the Weimer Government between 1923 and 1929. -
The Wall Street Crash
On Tuesday the 29th of October in 1929, the greatest stock crash in US history happened. Now known as BLack Tuesday, the crash started the Great depression in America and caused High unemployment and severe poverty in Germany as the US was lending them money. Stock prices did not reach the same level until late 1954. -
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Germany's Economic Crisis
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Hitler named Chancellor
When Hitler first asked Hindenburg to be Chancellor, the president at the time said no, but offered him position of Vice Chancellor, which Hitler refused. Hindenburg's son, Oskar Hindenburg participated in a secret meeting with Hitler and his closest men and was asked to help persuade his father to let Hitler be Chancellor- which worked. -
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Anti-Semitism In Germany
Nazi Party oredered anti-Jewish boycotts, staged book burnings, and enacted anti-Jewish Legislations. November 9, 1918 the Nazis destroyed synagogoes, adn shop windows of Jewish owned stores. On September 1st, World War 2 started and they turned to Genocide. -
The Reichstag Fire
A communist, Marinus Van der Lubbe was caught after he set fire to the Reichstag building in Berlin. No one else was caught, no one tried to stop the fire and no body really knows what happened. It convientely happened two weeks before an election. -
The Enabling Act
The Enabling Act have Hitler the power, as Chancellor to anact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. This was essentially the start of Hitlers and the Nazi partys Reign as he had free flow over the whole country. -
The Night of Long Knives
The Night of Long Knives saw the execution of many SA leaders and others who threatened Hitler personally of politically. After this SS leader Heinrich Himmler became more powerful in the Nazi government.
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Ernst Rohm
Ernst Rohm was born on November 28th in 1887 and died on the 1st of July 1934. Hitler felt threatened by him because he was the leader of the brown shirt SA's (Hitlers thugs and bullies) and had immense power in numbers. Rohm was also homosexual, he was shot in this prison cell in Stadelheim Prison in Munich. -
Hindenburg
Paul Von Hindenburg was the second President of Germany in 1925-34. He was born of October 2, 1847, and died on August 2, 1934. His successor was Adolf Hitler. -
Hitler becomes Fuhrer
When Hindenburg died and HItler appointed himself Fuhrer of Germany. Fuhrer basically means leader in German but it was erased from the German language after Hitler. -
Re-occupation of the Rhineland
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In 1935, Hitler cancelled the military clauses of the Treaty of Versaillies. In 1936 he began remilitarizing the Rhineland. 2 years later Nazi Germany burst out of their territories and took over Austria and parts of Czechosolovakia. -
Anschluss
The Nazi propaganda term for the annexing of Austria into Nazi germany after the remilitarization of the Rhineland. DATE NOT EXACT(1) -
Sudetenland
German name for the Northern, southwest, and Western parts of Czechosolovakia, inhabited by mostly German speakers. Germany invaded that area in March 1939. DATE IS NOT EXACT(1) -
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The Nazi-Soviet Pact
In April 1939, France, Britain and Russia(Soviets) met to form an alliance to stop the German's, but by August 1939 the Russian's had swpped signs and made a pact with Germany. Stalin and Hitler agreed not to go to war with each other and split Poland between them.
