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W A L L S T R E E T C R A S H -
O C T O B E R 1 9 2 9
US called in all foreign loans.
Germany could not repay the
reparation of £6.6 billion they
asked the US for help so the
WSC was disastrous for their
economy.U N E M P L O Y M E N T R I S E -
Over the winter of 1929-30
the number of unemployed
rose from 1.4 million to over
2 million. By the time Hitler
became Chancellor in January
1933 one in three Germans
were unemployed, with the
figure hitting 6.1 million.
As a result, people lost any
remaining faith they had in
the Weimar Republic and
turned to extreme parties
such as the communists
and the Nazis.H E I N R I C H B R U N I N G
B E C O M E S
C H A N C E L L O R -
In July 1930 Chancellor
Brüning cut government
expenditure, wages and
unemployment pay.
Brüning could not get the
Reichstag to agree to his
actions, so President
Hindenburg used Article 48,
which gave the President
the power to pass laws by
decree, to govern. This
undermined democracy and
weakened the power of the
Reichstag – arguably opening
the way for Hitler’s later
dictatorship.R I S E O F E X T R E M I S M-
Between 1930 and 1933
support for the extreme right
wing Nazis and the extreme
left wing communists soared.
By 1932 parties committed
to the destruction of the
Weimar Republic held 319
seats out of a total of 608
in the Reichstag.H I T L E R B E C O M E S
C H A N C E L L O R I N -
J A N U A R Y
Hindenburg appointed
Hitleras Chancellor with
Von Papen as Vice
Chancellor. They believed
they could control Hitler
and get him to do what
they wanted.. R E I C H S T A G F I R E -
F E B R U A R Y
Reichstag set on fire. A Dutch
communist was caught red-
handed in the burning building.
Hitler used the fire to persuade
Hindenburg to pass an
emergency law restricting
personal liberty. This enabled
him to imprison many
communist leaders, which
stopped them campaigning
during the election. And allowed
for the 'scapegoating' of the
communists.R E I C H S T A G E L E C T I O N -
5 M A R C H
44 per cent of the population
voted for the Nazis, who won
288 seats in the Reichstag –
still not an overall majority.
Hitler had to join with the
nationalists to form a majority.. E N A B L I N G A C T -
2 3 M A R CH
With the communist deputies
banned and the SA intimidating
all the remaining non-Nazi
deputies, the Reichstag voted
by the required 2/3 majority to
give Hitler the right to make laws
without the Reichstag’s approval
for four years.
It gave Hitler absolute power to
make laws, which enabled him to
destroy all opposition to his rule.
This removed the Reichstag as a
source of opposition.P O L I T I C A L P A R T I E S
B A N N E D O N 14 J U L Y -
Only the Nazi party was
allowed to exist. Banning
political parties made
Germany a one-party state
and destroyed democracy
in the country. This removed
other parties as a source of
opposition.T R A D E U N I O N S B A N N E D -
2 M A Y
Trade unions are abolished and
their leaders arrested.N I G H T O F T H E L O N G K N I V E S -
30 J U N E
Members of the SA, including its leader
Ernst Röhm, demanded that the Nazis
carry out its socialist agenda and that
the SA take over the army. Hitler could
not afford to annoy businessmen or the
army, so the SS murdered 400 members
of SA, including Röhm, along with some
other opponents like the previous
Chancellor, von Schleicher.H I T L E R B E C O M E S F Ü H R E R -
1 9 A U G U S T
After Hindenburg's death on 2 Aug,
Hitler declared himself jointly
president, chancellor and head of the
army. Members of the armed forces
had to swear a personal oath of
allegiance not to Germany, but to
Hitler.
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