Germany
Cards (152)
- German armyLimited to 100,000
- Rathenau assassinated- TOV1921
- Erzberger assassinated- signed armistice1922
- Communist uprising yearly 1919-23
- Communists didn't get more than 13% of the vote before 1930
- Nazis got 2.6% of the vote in 1928
- Rentenmark introduced1925
- 1924-1929 industrial production trebled
- Real wages rose 50% 1924-1929
- Only half as many days were lost through strikes 1924-1929
- High inflation lowering living standards 1919-1923
- Germany received 7 billion marks more from the US than it ever paid
- Weak multi-party coalitions in Germany
- Due to the Wall Street Crash, industrial production declined 42% 1930-1932
- 50,000 businesses went bankrupt 1930-1932
- Unemployment nearly 6 million by 1932
- Wages declined by a third
- 5 major banks collapsed in 1931
- Agricultural depression started in 1927
- 18,000 farmers went bankrupt by 1932
- Nazi vote rose from under 3% to over 37%
- VolksgemeinschaftIdea of a racially unified national community working for the common good
- Osthilfe scandal - government aid for landowners had been misused
- Hitler never won a majority in free elections
- Within 4 months Hitler turned Germany into a dictatorship
- Enabling ActMarch 1933
- Night of the Long Knives30th June 1934
- Army swore oath of loyalty to Hitler
- GleichschaltungCoordination and standardisation of all aspects of society under Nazi control
- Decree for the Protection of the People and State allowed Nazis to terrorise opponents
- Länder (states) abolished in 1934
- Restoration of a Professional Civil Service in 1933
- Nazis removed Jews, fired women from civil service
- Church youth groups and schools banned by 1936
- Even in March 1933 the Nazis only got 44.5% of the vote
- Less than 20% of the population felt threatened by the Gestapo
- SS purged the SA in the Night of the Long Knives
- Concentration camps controlled by the SS and Gestapo under Himmler
- Unemployment fell from 6 million in 1932 to full employment by 1938
- Farmers' incomes rose 41% 1933-1938