The German confederation was an alliance with Austria which was later broken. ... Bismark decided to break the German Confederation and went to war with Austria. "Austria's conflict and rivalry with us was no more Culpable then ours with her; our task was the established or foundation of German national unity.... When Sardinia went to war with Austria they won with the help of France. ... The German government had to pay war reparations and workers, which caused massive inflation. ...

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In order for this conquest to be made a reality for German foreign policy, the ideology of greater Germany had to be implemented to promote the encompassing of all Germans in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, returning these nations to the third Reich. ... The Nazis had further succeeded with this ambition in 1938 with the annexation of Austria and Germany (Anschluss) in order to reunite the Germans in Austria with Germany once again. ... German foreign polociy after ww1 was hindered due to the restrictions set upon them as a result of the post war treaties and the Weimar governments polici...

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The government at the time predicted and constituted a solution to the problem and it was to simply increase the quantity of production in money printing making. ... Later on, after discovering that it really wasn't a good idea at all, the German government and her people relied on Gustav Stresemann who had a solution for the problem. ... From the decisions made, Germany had lost everything She was asked to pay £6600 million for the damage caused to both France and Belgium (of which has only recently fully been paid out), she had lost land to Poland, all of Germany's colonies w...

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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 would like to see it overthrown. ...

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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. ... Instead of solving the problem, the Weimar government decided to just printed more and more money to pay reparations to the Allies. ... 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 they needed a str...

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The major powers involved were Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. ... 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. ...

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As Germany searched the world for band-aids and tissues to heal her national wounds after a brutalizing treaty of Versailles, a young man was lurking in the shadows plotting his rise to power. This young man by the name of Hitler planned to bring Germany wealth and world power. Soon he would lead...

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Although the majority of his followers shared his dislike of the Weimar Republic's liberal democracy and anti-Semitic agenda, his party support, due to it's small size, was limited to the Bavarian region of German, this would prove to be a limiting factor when Hitler attempted to seize control of the provincial Bavarian government during his Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923. ... The Nazi Leader's prominence grew even further amongst the middle class, big businesses and the Army until Hitler finally secured a shared government between the Nazis and the Nationalists" and on Janua...

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Born in Austria in 1889, Adolf Hitler rose to power in German politics as leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, also known as the Nazi Party. ... Adolf Hitler Started out as a leader but later became more involved with politics when other individuals from the government liked his tactics in which I will never understand because of the high deaths rates that he produced. ...

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