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The Interwar Period
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The Paris Peace Conference
Resulting in the creation of the Treaty of Versailles which aimed to criple Germany. -
Adolf Hitlers Rise to Power
Hitler joined the political party known as the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei later changed to the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party). -
The Treaty of Versailles
-Germans were cripled and humiliated by the terms of the treaty. -
Reparations devastate German economy
All currency became worthless -
The Great Depression
-Stock market collapsed and the Western worl was plunged into an economic depression.
-Left-wing parties gained power in Britain
-Right-wing parties gained control in Germany, wich inspired a strong sense of nationalism in Germany. -
The Rise of Adolf Hitler & the Nazi Party
-Hitler promised to liberate Germany from the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
-Pulled Germany out of the League of Nations
-Began rearming the military -
Hitler's Expansion
Hitlers expansionist policies were encouraged by the failure of the League of Nations to stop Japanese aggression in Manchuria in the early 1930's and Italy's aggression in Abyssinia in 1935-1936. -
Kristallnacht "Night of Broken Glass"
-Nazis burned down Jewish businesses and homes, and physically assaulted Jews.
-600 synogogues were raided, 300 were set on fire.
- 30 000 Jews were sent to concentration camps -
Anschluss
After being appeased by Britain and France, Hitler felt emboldened to annex the Sudetenland, then occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia, then turn his sites on Poland.