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Weimar Republic
The German government established by the Treaty of Versailles- Germany hates it, Unprecedented inflation- hyperinflation, nothing can be done -
Establishment of communism in the Soviet Union 1922
Lenin rises to power -
Rise of Mussolini
-il duce
-prime minister- in charge
-outlaws other parties
-secret police- black shirts
-censorship of ideas
-controls the economy
-women- regulated to the home
-bc of monarchy, church, and army, he never gets total control -
Beer Hall Putsch
-Hitler tries to overthrow the government
-developing the Nazi Party- identity, symbols and uniforms
-gets/develop a group "Brown Shirts"
-does not work and gets thrown in jail -
New Leader- Josef Stalin
Lenin dies from stroke and Stalin rises as the new ruler. -
Dawes Plan
Reduced Germany's reparation and loaned money to Germany -
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Josef Stalin
Stalin rules the Soviet Union -
Mein Kampf
-Hitler writes this while he's in jail
-means "My Struggle"
Mein Kampf says:
-that German's are superior- aryan race
-need more German space- kick out others -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
outlaw war -
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Five Year Plan
Stalin needed to industrialize the Soviet Union -
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Collectivization
made large farms by killing kulacks and led to famine -
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The Great Depression (U.S.)
-Stock market crash
-Over production and under consumption
-Run-on banks
-New Deal- created to help depression
-WWII is what stops it -
Persecution of the Jews
-kicks Jews out the government
-concentration camps are established
-Nuremberg Laws 1935- lost citizenship, forbade intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews
-no equal protection- Kristallnacht 1938- attack on Jews -
Hitler's named Chancellor
-Hindenburg places Hitler in the government legally
-Hitler is in charge of government -
Fire at the Reichstag
-gets more control because he blames communist (Hitler)
-Enabling Act
-Establishes SS (terror and ideology)
Establish Totalitarian state- kills anyone who gets in his way
-outlaws political power
-controls mass media
-influences the kids -
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Purges
Stalin gets rid of his competition by putting on trials with the gulags system. -
Breaking Versailles-March
-Hitler rearms Germany
-goes against Treaty of Versailles -
March 1936
-Violation of Treaty of Versailles
-Troops enters Rhineland
-no punishment -
Anschuluss
-the vote to join Germany -Austria votes to join Germany
