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Economy-did standards of living improve (Yes) |
-employment was increased -national labour service gave jobs to people without work -conscription reduced unemployment -working conditions improved -strength through joy gave rewards to hard workers -beauty of labour improved working environments -vw promised people a car -average wages increased |
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Did the standards of living improve? (No) |
-invisible employment eg women and Jews were not counted in statistics although they had been forces from work -lives did not improve -strength through joy gave awards like cinema tickets -Beauty of labour meant that people had to do the work to get nice things -no one got a car bought -people worked 10 hours more per week |
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Did the nazis meet economic aims? (Yes) |
National labour service Introduced conscription which rose the size of the army Germany produced their own rubber and oil |
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Did the nazis meet economic aims? (No) rearm reduce autarchy |
Invisible unemployment Reliant on imports Food shortages |
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How were groups effected by the home front? |
Young-took over policing Women-sent back to work Looting and violence-was common due go food shortages Rationing-black market Bombing raids-cities were badly effected 400,000 were killed Minorities-treatment of the Jews escalated after the war |
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What happened due to the treaty of versailes being set up? |
Land-13% Army-100,000 Money-6.600 million reparations Blame-germany got blamed for the war |
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What were the two uprisings? |
Sparticist-wanted communism,leaders got killed by the freikorp Kapp putsch-overthrew weimar but the citizens went on passive resistance strike |
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What happened due to the invasion of the rhur? |
France invaded as Germany did not pay reparations Workers went on strike and Germany kept paying the workers by printing more money off |
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Who suffered due to hyperinflation ? |
People on fixed incomes- workers,pentioners Middle class lost savings Farmers lost land but food prices rose so they could produce food |
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The Munich putsch was a success because |
Learned violence was not the way to get support Wrote mein kampf displaying his hate for weimar and gained followers |
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Munich putsch was a failure because |
Hitler got sentenced to prisonLooked like Hitler didn't have the army's support |
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How did the nazis gain support? |
Propaganda-used antisemitic Propaganda The sa-attracted the people who felt betrayed by the treaty Hitler-gave great speaches |
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Recovery of weimar Republic |
Stresseman-introduced the rentenmark but people didn't get savings back Dawes plan-germany borrowed money from America, left too dependant Young plan- set a time period for reparations meaning Germany could rebuild 3 million new homes were built |
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The great depression 1929 |
People turned to extremist parties Weimar could not cope with the depression and got blamed Unemployment increased-6 million were out of work German businesses went bankrupt-loaned out money that America wanted back |
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Why was there increased support for the nazi party? |
Propaganda - speaches,newspapers, posters The work of the sa- admired the dicipline of the brownshirts Appeal of hitler- promised the destruction of the treaty -blamed weimar and insisted he was their last hope -promised the destruction of jews |
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Who supported the nazi party and why? |
Young-employment and the look of the sa Women-promised important roles Upper classes-promised support of big businesses Farmers-protection from communism |
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Crendo |
C-hitler becomes chancellor as van papen persuades hindenburg due to his hope for power R-reichstag fire,communists get the blame due to van der lubbe setting fire to it leading to Hitler being able to send communists to concentration camps E-enabling act gave Hitler full power and let him get rid of all rivals and banned other parties N-night of the long knives-ernst rohin was killed by Hitler removing all opposition D-death of hindenburg O-oath of loyalty gave Hitler the support from the army |
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Who had the blame for Hitlers rise to power ? |
Van papen, Hitler, hindenburgs death |
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How were young people influenced ? |
Taught eugenics at school (aryan race) Hail Hitler before a lesson History glorified Germany Youth groups prepared children for their roles and kept them occupied |
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What young opposition was there? |
White rose group-made anti nazi leaflets Swing groups-listened to American music Edelweis pirates-beat up Hitler youth |
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The churches |
Signed the concordat which meant that Hitler would not interfere with the church Ludwig muller set up the reich church which was a group of nazi supporters Martin neimoller set up a church with more power than the reich The Pope turned against Hitler and gave a speach called burning anxiety |
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Women's goals were |
Unemployed Traditional roles Increase the birth rate |
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How successful were women's goals? |
Not very Birth rate went up but the average was 2 children per family Women were sent back to work in ww2 |
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Control |
Indoctrination -Jose geobells who was ministry of propoganda gave out radios to hear the nazi broadcasts Books were burned Fear-people who opposed did not speak out in fear of being killed or sent to camps Gestapo used secret recording to listen in to conversations Had the right to arrest anyone or break into houses 162000 were imprisoned |
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Minorities |
Nuremburg laws -Jews and non Jews could not marry Jews were no longer citizens Kristalnach -Jewish homes and shops and synagogues were destroyed Ghettos-jews were separated,as Germany invaded more Jews were needed to be killed Final solution-jews held in death camps |