Germany

• 1930 - Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party
• 1928-1934 - The Great Depression, unemployment rises to over 6 million people
• 1935 - Nuremberg Laws passed, Jews are stripped of their citizenship rights
• 1932 - Hindenburg is re-elected as president, but he dies in August 1934
• August 1934 - Hitler declares himself Fuhrer (leader) of Germany
• 1938 - Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), Jewish shops smashed up and synagogues burned down
• In the TOV Germany loses 48% iron production, 16% coal production, 12% population
• Germany expected to pay $132B gold marks
• John Keynes says the TOV was "one of the most serious acts of political unwisdom for which our statesmen have ever been responsible"
• The Night of Long Knives, also known as the Röhm Putsch was from 30 June 1934 to 2 July 1934
• The Reichstag fire was February 1933
• The Enabling Act was March 1933
• Gleichschaltung laws of 1933 


  series of measures taken by the Nazi regime to establish a totalitarian control over all aspects of society, including political, social, and cultural institutions
• Law Against the Founding of New Parties (July 14, 1933)


  Declared the Nazi Party as the only legal political party in Germany, banning all other parties
• Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (April 7, 1933)


  Required the removal of Jews and political opponents from the civil service.