Events
- occupation of Ruhr
- hyperinflation
- Munich putsch
- stresemann = chancellorWWI ended- challenges of setting up Weimar gov
- spartacist uprisingGermany failed to makes 2nd rep paymentkapp putschDawes plan
(800million)Locarno agreementgermany joins LofN- young plan
- stresemann died
- start of GD (wall st crash)German industries/prod = pre war levels- B asked H to dissolve
reichstag, hold new elections
- 40% germans unemployedrise in political extremism
7 week frenzy during electionsHitler appointed chancellor
(10 years after Munich P)reichstag fire + election
ACTS (March)Hindenburg dies
(dictatorship, fuhrer)Night of Long Knivesnew plan4 year plan
Autarkytrade unions banned
& replaced by DAFavg. work hours
weekly = 60-72law for the encouragement of marriagewomen reintroduced into workforce
(needed for speed of rearmament)divorce law changedall jewish teachers sackedjews had to leave German schoolshitler youth membership =
compulsory (7m members)nuremberg lawsKristallnachtLebensraum: anschluss
& expand into SudetenlandNazi soviet Pact
(trigger of WWII)BlitzkriegG expand into Poland, Scandinavia, Belgium, France- lost battle for stalingrad
- lost control of north africa
- Italy no longer German allyG surrender to Allies &
Hitler commit suicideD Day
in Francerations: initial 500g meat
per weak halved by 194550% of workers involved in war productionRAF 'thousand bomber' attacksRAF switched attention to HamburgSoviets invade Berlinconcentration camps liberated by AlliesDenazification
abandonedNuremberg TrialsDeutschmark introduced
in WGYalta & Potsdam conferencesEG uprising in BerlinMarshall PlanEG closed border
(stop republikflucht)Truman
Doctrineby 1961, 3.5m EG
had moved to WGby 1980s, 25% of EGs
were informantsBerlin BlockadeBlockade called offBerlin Wall builtBizoniaG = 2 sep
countriesHallstein Doctrine
(Adenauer)Pete Fechter diedJohn F Kennedy visited WBBrezhnev DoctrineOstpolitik
(Brandt)Basic TreatyGorbachev abandoned Brezhnev DoctrineKohl proposed 10 point plantREUNIFICATION OF GBerlin Wall fellPeriods
weimar republiccost of bread stat (0.63 to 201 billion)weimar gov face challengesgolden yearsBruning = chancellorsupport for NP increasingNP seats in reichstag increased from 12 to 230, in 1932 electionEnabling Act gives H power to make laws w/o reichstag approval, 4 yrsGreat DepressionWWIIhigh morale on home frontlow morale on home frontWirtschaftswunder in WGAdenauer = chancellor of WGBerlin Wall in Place - 28 years
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