During the 1930's, Weimar Germany was in a state of instability and confusion. ... As the U.S. economy was quickly crashing, they demanded their money back from the Germans. ... Germany without a doubt suffered the most from the effects of the depression. ... He promised the German people a whole new system of government, not just a change in government, of which there had been far too many already1. ... The people were suffering heavily, and the government did close to nothing to help them. ...

• Word Count: 472
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

During the years 1919 to 1933, the Weimar Republic affected German females, and women challenged social expectations of the German nation. ... This law stated that all new couples would get a government loan which was about the average nine months income; however, the birth of one child allowed the loan repayment be excused by 25%. ... Having a large family was a significant contribution to increasing the population of Germany. ... Before the 21st century, children were often seen as an obstacle to a career; however, the German government encourages women to depend on child care these days and...

• Word Count: 765
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

How did Hitler gain the support of so many Germans and turn a liberal democratic government into a totalitarian dictatorship? ... At this time in Germany, there was absolute disarray. ... This caused a serious drainage of Germany's money. ... Eventually, this government tamed inflation. ... Hitler incited anger and stirred up hate in the Germans against the Jews and other religions and blamed them for Germany's horrid condition. ...

• Word Count: 634
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Topic: Why did the German people support Hitler and the Nazi Party in the 1930's? ... This may have helped to turn the people's support to the Nazi's, as they would have thought that the current government was weak and gave in easily. ... This started after Germany started losing the western front of the war. ... Elections were held throughout Germany in January 1919. ... Hitler was eventually made Chancellor of Germany in 1933. ...

• Word Count: 999
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Reichscorp (right-wing mercenaries hired by the German government) quelled the uprising. ... The Nazis had a policy of "Germany first-. Their catchphrase was, "Germany, awake!... A secret government report of the time stated that the Nazi party wielded "no noticeable influence-. ... People were disillusioned with the government and turned to politics as a way to force a change and have their problems alleviated. ...

• Word Count: 1809
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Soon he would lead an extreme right-winged party, the Nazi's, straight to the top of the German government. ... Hitler and the Nazi party swore to keep Communism out of Germany, as to protect the land and wealth of the German people. Propaganda and twisting of the German minds could easily be the biggest reason why the Nazi party came to power in Germany. ... He made treaty between Germany and Austria, known as Anschluss. ... If you were a German in the 1930's, would you have followed the Nazi"s? ...

• Word Count: 676
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The army had asked him to spy on new political groups in Germany. ... He also started to blame the Jews for the problems that occurred in Germany. People in their hundreds started to attend the meetings, many of these were ex-soldiers or unemployed people unhappy with the government. ... Hitler then moved on and described what the German Workers Party was exactly about: getting rid of the Treaty of Versailles, joining all Germans into a huge German state, this included Austria and finally, to kick all the Jews out of Germany. ... Many people didn't agree with the Weimar Government and...

• Word Count: 783
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This caused the German economy to fall. Germany was in debt to many countries. ... The Chancellor in Germany started to cut government expenses, wages and unemployment pay. ... The Weimar Republic in Germany was a failing government and they were not able to fix the economy. This caused the citizens to lose faith in the government and democracy and seek out extremist parties, like the Nazi Party.8 One can then conclude that these economic sanctions on Germany, which caused a crumbling economy, assisted Hitler in his rise to power thus creating World War II. ...

• Word Count: 1039
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Once a new government was established it was already set to fail. ... It did not help that the government was often in paralyzing standstills and could not get a whole lot done. ... (Bergan, 45) With hyperinflation decimating the German Mark it caused more stress on the populus and further feeded their hatred for their new government. ... With the help of the United States government, the German economy started to stabilize. ... As stated earlier, the judicial system was unchanged during the Weimar Republic's take over of the government. ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Individual liberties such as the right to think differently from others would be valued less than loyalty to the German people, to Hitler and Germany, "Volk, Fuhrer und Vaterland."" ... Women were also discouraged from smoking as this was considered non-German. ... The Law for the Promotion of Marriage of 1934 allowed all newly married couples, which passed as "genetically healthy-, would be eligible to get a 1000 mark government loan. ... Schacht had pulled Germany out of the depression and set the foundation for Germany's economic recovery. ... The memory of the blockades in world wa...

• Word Count: 1661
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

It formed modern government in many countries, made drastic legislative changes, and even spurred a major war for many countries. ... The German government ordered the workers to strike as a form of passive resistance. To compensate these workers the German government printed huge amounts of new money. ... German currency rapidly lost value. ... They lacked mass support and had no chance against the military force of the government. ...

• Word Count: 2446
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In 1929, Germany was a in a turbulent state. ... The large governments had to work with smaller ones in a 'coalition' government. ... Bruning's way of slashing Government expenses made him very unpopular. ... Germany was then a one-party state. ... Democracy in Germany was dead. ...

• Word Count: 774
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

They wanted to establish a Soviet Style government for Germany. The Freikorps were used to suppress the Spartacist Revolt by demand of the government. ... The Treaty of Versailles had taken so much from Germany's wealth; Germany lost 13.5% of its land and 12.5% of its population. ... Germany lost farms, factories, mines and colonies. ... Proportional representation led to thirteen coalition governments and this clearly shows instability as they failed to cooperate. ...

• Word Count: 880
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In 1920, Adolf Hitler, an Austrian born German, became the leader of the German Workers' Party; later renamed the National Socialist German Workers' party (i.e. ... Germans strongly believed that the German government should have gone to the Paris Peace Conference to negotiate peace instead of admitting to defeat. This led to rage from the Germans to the government and they hated the fact that the government accepted the treaty without any comment whatsoever. Because of the Germans and their anger towards the government, Hitler was able to gain even more support. ... They decided th...

• Word Count: 1088
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Moreover, the growing dissent in Germany caused by the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Government's failure to restore order prompted the rise of one of the most dangerous leaders in history - Adolf Hitler. ... When tax revenue failed to meet the needs of the annual payments to the Allies, the Weimar Government ordered its treasury to begin printing more money. ... In Germany, a loaf of bread cost .63 marks in 1918. ... Many Germans began expressing doubt in the ability of the Weimar government to handle the needs of its people. ... Since becoming President and Chancellor of Germa...

• Word Count: 1750
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Since the German government suffered badly in the depression, the existing Weimar government, put in place by the victorious allies, was blamed (John). Throughout the depression the government became more and more disliked since it was indecisive and no central power, but is not where Hitler entered the picture. ... At what is known as The Beer Hall Putsch a man by the name of Kahr was giving a speech in front of some 3,000 supporters of the Bavarian government. ... Hitler knew this was the right time to take over the government. ... It was the second highest position in the German government...

• Word Count: 3236
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The German Workers? ... The German government supported the workers by giving them financial support. This caused the increase in inflation within Germany creating concern whether the Weimar government was capable to govern Germany. ... Hitler thought Germans would support him because the people were angry with the Weimar Government and blamed them for the inflation. The Bavarian State Government plotted against the Weimar Government, which led to Gustav Stresemann being appointed as Chancellor of Germany in August 1923. ...

• Word Count: 2792
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Germany was not invited. The Weimar Republic was the political system that replaced the old imperial German Government after world War One. ... Already in the June of 1922 the German government had asked the allies to grant a delay on the reparation payments, but the allies bluntly refused. ... The workers of the Ruhr, (which was the industrial heart of Germany) declared a general strike and received financial support from the government in Berlin, which called for a campaign of passive resistance. ... German currency had become! ...

• Word Count: 2583
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The conditions after World War One left Germany in a vulnerable state. ... Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party offered a new direction for Germany. ... It combined German nationalism, racism, anti-semitism, and expansion. ... With this victory Adolf Hitler refused all the positions that he was offered within the German government and demanded that he become chancellor. ... On the 30th of January Hindenburg appointed Hitler as the Chancellor of a minority government. ...

• Word Count: 1601
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Adolf's dreams of becoming an artist did not match the government official job his father wanted him to have. ... He planned a revolt in Munich to bring down the German republic and then to make himself the dictator of Germany. ... The businesses and mines of Germany were closed down because the government didn't pay the reparation payments which were written in the Treaty of Versailles. ... Hitler was thrown in jail for his attempt to overthrow the government, but only served nine months of his 5-year sentence. ... He quickly outlawed all political parities and made the Nazi ...

• Word Count: 1838
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The General of the 8th German Army (500 000 men who stayed back to protect Germany from Russia) was Max Vonprattwitz. ... In 1917 Russia got knocked out of war along with Germany. Once Germany was out of they war, they sent help to France. ... In 1922, the Great Depression hit Germany especially hard. ... They started to blame the Jews because most of them were involved in the Weimar Government. ...

• Word Count: 764
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Hitler maintained and built his power in Nazi Germany through his followers. Hitler took Germans and convinced them that his ideas were the best. ... Nazis were placed in the bureaucracy, the judiciary and the German provincial governments. ... Germany's youth female were not to be left unattended to as well so Hitler devised the Nazi-led "League of German Girls." ... All of these plans for war and ultimately war brought great economical gains for Germany. ...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

However, Hitler did not have any intention of acting in a democratic government. ... This placed the Germany's parliament building unusable and instead used the Kroll Opera House. ... (Blum  The European world; a history 878) The Enabling Act caused severe changes to the government and entirely changed Germany. ... He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945, and caused the deaths of about 11 million people. ... An Illustrated History of Germany. ...

• Word Count: 1545
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the case of Germany, a country didn't exist. ... And another consequence of the war, and probably the most severe was that it left these gaps in the governments of some of these countries where Totalitarian Regimes could rise to power. ... This left Germany in bad shape. ... The people of Germany had nothing to live for. ... Hitler began his takeover of Germany, by taking over the German Workers Party. ...

• Word Count: 874
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Along with many other Germans, Hitler was distressed and angry over the harsh penalties Germany received from the post World War 1doctrine, the Treaty of Versailles. ... He strategically did this so the German people and leaders who remembered past German military might begin to support the Nazi party and its troops. ... (Source 4) He told them men that he was to be the new leader of Germany and offered them jobs in his new government. ... This angered Hitler, who decided to enter a coalition government as chancellor in January 1933. ... With an improving economy, Hitler claimed credit for Ger...

• Word Count: 1914
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School