Germany in Transition

Weaknesses of the Weimar Consitution

Proportional
Representation
Article 48

Impact of the Treaty of Versailles

Political Instability

Spartacists, Kapp Putsch,
Munich Putsch

Events in the Ruhr
and Hyerinflation 1923

Stresemann

Recovery of the Economy

The Dawes Plan
The Rentenmark
The Young Plan
less unemployment

Improved relations
with other countries

The Locarno Pact
The League of Nations
The Kellog Briand Pact

Other improvements

Better standard of living
Womens lives
Culture and Art

Early development of party

Munich Putsch and its impact

SA SS Hitler Youth

Impact of the Depression

Appeal of Hitler

Goebbels and Propaganda

Financial support

Political schemings

Reichstag Fire

1933 election and
the Enabling Act

Gleichschaltung
Control of: the press,
the states. Ban on
political parties and trade unions

Night of the Long Knives

Death of Hindenburg
Oath of loyalty from army

Policies for Workers
RAD, Autobahns, Rearmament
Invisible unemployment, DAF, KDF

Women Policies
Traditional attitudes
KKK
Law for the Encouragement of
Marriage
Lebensborn

Young People Policies
Indoctrination
Youth Groups
School

Jewish policies
Persecution
Nuremburg Laws
Kristallnacht
Ghettos

Terror and Persuasion

Foreign Policy Aims

Rearmanent and
Conscription. Disarmament
Conference

Stresa Front 1935

Rhineland remilitarised 1936
Anschluss 1938
Sudetenland Crisis 1938
Takeover of Czechoslovakia 1939
Polish Corridor 1939

Non- Agression Pact
with Poland 1934
Rome Berlin Axis 1936
Anti-Comintern Pact 1936
Pact of Steel 1939
Nazi Soviet pact 1939