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History GCSE
What you must know
and understand!
Germany at the end of WW1
£6.6 Billion Reparations
1
War Guilt Clause
Why did the
Germans hate the
Treaty of
Versailles?
Poverty & unemployment
Russia & Serbia started it!
Land given to France &
Poland
Military cut to 100,000 men.
No German troops in Rhineland
Saar coalfields to France
Loss of food & people
Germany defenceless
It’s part of Germany!
Loss of important
resources
Threats to the
Weimar Republic
1918-23
Surrender
Rebellions
Weak constitution
Treaty of Versailles
What threats were there to
the new German
democracy between
1918-1923?
French occupation
Hyper-inflation
Munich Putsch
Stab in the Back
Theory
Spartacists 1919
Freikorps 1920
Proportional Representation
Article 48
£6.6 Billion Reparations
1922 refuse to pay
French occupy Ruhr factories
Money becomes worthless
Nazi rebellion fails
Stresemann & Golden 1920s
New currency: Retenmark
Dawes Plan
1924-29 Solutions
Pay Reparations
French withdraw
Jobs for most
Locarno Treaty accepts Versailles
Germany allowed to join the League of nations
Hyper-inflation
French Occupation
of the Ruhr
Political isolation after WW1
Poverty
Munich Putsch
Reparations
1923 Problems
How did Germany recover
between 1924-29?
How did the Wall Street Crash and the
economic depression help Hitler into
power?
Hitler promises
Work & Bread
USA stop loans
8 Million unemployed
Weimar Government
too weak
Violent chaos
on the streets
People want
quick answers
Nazis MPs
1928=13
1932=230
Democracy has
failed
Middle-class & Rich
fear Communist Revolution
Hitler promises
Strong Government
As leader of the largest
party Hitler is made Chancellor
How did Hitler increase his power between January 1933 and August 1934?
HITLER
BECAME
CHANCELLOR
Only 3 Nazis in the
Government = Hitler
is a ‘Puppet Leader’
OATH OF
LOYALTY
TO
HITLER
Army swear oath
to obey Hitler.
THE
REICHSTAG
FIRE
Blamed on
Communist.
Communist Party
Banned + leaders
arrested.
DEATH OF
PRESIDENT
HINDENBURG
This removes the only
person who could
have sacked Hitler.
Hitler combines
President &
Chancellor = Fuhrer
THE
ENABLING
ACT
Centre Party bribed to
support Enabling Act.
Hitler now dictator.
Political Parties banned.
Trade Unions banned.
All key jobs to Nazis.
THE NIGHT
OF THE
LONG
KNIVES
Rohm & SA
leaders executed.
Army now on Hitler’s
Side.
How did Hitler keep control of Germany?
The Terror State
Secret police called the
Gestapo would spy on
and arrest enemies of
the state.
SS were responsible
for running the
concentration camps.
Everyone was scared of
being arrested by the
Gestapo and being put in
a concentration camp.
Propaganda
Mass Rallies, Posters
and Propaganda films.
Keeping
Control of
Germany
The Nazis controlled
and censored the radio
& newspapers.
Popularity
School children were
indoctrinated with Nazi
ideas at school.
Ripping up the
Treaty of Versailles.
Creating Jobs
Hitler Youth & the
Young Maidens.