Wall Street crash

• Wall street crash


  1929 October - November
• Wall street crash


  • Value of shares in stock market suddenly plummeted
  • Huge problems in American economy
• Wall street crash


  Germany also suffered as a result of their American loans
• Germany's economy after Wall street crash

  • Crashed
  • Unemployment rocketed
  • Poverty increased
  • Germans became desperate
• Weimar government


  • Unable to gain votes in Reichstag
  • Laws only allowed to be passed by president
  • Not enough done to help economic crisis
• Economic crisis in Germany


  German people started looking to political extremes
• Nazis


  • Benefited from the economic crisis
  • Hitler's charismatic and motivational speeches for party
  • Violence of SA helped make Nazi party largest party in Reichstag because people felt intimidated
• Hitler became chancellor


  Jan 1933
• What was Wall Street crash ?

  stock shares in America suddenly plummeted
• How did nazi party benefit ?

  Used as an opportunity to gain reichstag votes and grow party