Jan 2010 How accurate is it to suggest that the Treaty of Versailles was mainly responsible for the political and economic instability in Germany 1919-23? How successful was Nazi economic policy in achieveing prosperity in Germany by 1939? Exemplar Pool - Watch the parameters of the dates! To what extent was the Weimar Republic
Was the Weimar republic strong until the Wall Street Crash in 1929? The Treaty of Versailles contained the War Guilt Clause. Weimar Governments were elected by proportional representation. Gustav Stresemann negotiated the Dawes Plan with the USA in 1924. Why was the Nazi Party able to gain such widespread support among the German people by 1932?
e) Out of the Volkish Movement came the Thule Society, a Volkish movement that dotted German Landscape. This became useful to the early founders of NSDAP. f) Thus instead of NSDAP being a direct reaction to being betrayed or to the Treaty of Versailles. The NSDAP may be traced to the attempt by German Military and Industrial leadership to manipulate labor in support of the war effort. 2) 1915: Hugenberg established the Petitions of The Six Associations and of the Intellectuals who represent the war
Use evidence from the documents or sources to provide two to three details about Reason #1 or your Sub Thesis a. Make sure that you state according to what document In your writing EXAMPLE: (Document A, B, C, D, etc.) C. Argument 1. Explanation of why Reason #2 is one factor that answers that question IV. BODY PARAGRAPH #3 (Reason three) A. Sub Thesis: 1.
A. Plan of Investigation The investigation assesses to what extent the Munich agreement could be held as a success for Hitler. In order to evaluate the outcome of the events in Munich in 1938 to Hitler, the investigation is focused on examining how successfully Hitler achieved his aims, to what extent the Munich Agreement went along with his ideology and popular opinion in Germany and how did it help to promote Hitler’s standing. The written accounts of historians are used to evaluate the role of the Munich Agreement to Hitler. The two sources: “Hitler: The Study in Tyranny” written by Alan Bullock and “The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler” produced by Robert Payne, are evaluated in the essay for their origins, purposes, values and limitations.
Modern History Essay Question: Assess the extent that nationalism was a cause of the failure of democracy in Germany in the period of 1918 – 1933 Nationalism was an important and integral factor in the downfall of the Weimar Republic and in turn, the ensuing failure of democracy in Germany in the period of 1918 – 1934. Nationalism is the desire to have your own country. The sense of loyalty and devotion to one’s nation, which the German’s had felt in their militaristic past, was ultimately, devastated by World War 1 and its consequences. In Germany, from 1918 onwards, nationalism was one of the main driving forces for the German people to make Germany a dominant power again by ultimately destroying the Treaty of Versailles. Several attempts from both the left and right sides of government tried to imbue the nationalistic beliefs that were embodied in Germany before they were destroyed by their humiliating defeat in WW1.
the changes in the mechanisms of ‘volkisch’ anti-semitism and how it developed throughout the preceding decades, with particular scholarly movements including the inception of scientific racism, the volkisch movement in correspondence with new imperialism and militant nationalism. The approach suggests that the holocaust was exclusively akin to Germany’s rising ‘volkisch’ culture and that the aggressive notions of supremacy produced in the late nineteenth century influenced their attitudes towards the other races within Germany at the time and subsequent to the century’s turn. This particular approach is therefore beneficial for understanding how the very concept of a civilised genocide was manifested and how anti-semitism transformed according to the circumstances of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and is therefore the synthesis of the intentionalist and functionalist schools as the German anti-semitism was developed in the long-term through cumulative radicalisation. It adds to our understanding of how ‘völkisch-antisemitisch’ developed from mere prejudice into genocide and how it was influential in the development of advancement of National Socialism, being spawned through nineteenth century scholarly ideologies and social movements including Social Darwinism as a product of emerging ‘scientific racism’, with this and the association with romantic nationalism being
How did the Nazi's exploit and challenge the Treaty of Versailles? ------------------------------------------------- Economic Situation * The Treaty of Versailles put massive economic strain on Germany. (NOTE! This treaty was designed to punish Germany anyway) * Basically things were going well due to Gustav Stresemann (he changed the currency to Retenmark) and the Dawes plans. * Then the wall street crash happened * It meant to an extent that Weimar was never able to become economically strong (Hyperinflation, the Depression (Wall Street Crash, October 1928), Trade deficit (in the balance of payments) etc...) * Thus people began to lose faith in the Weimar system of democracy and this precipitated a polarisation of the political spectrum ------------------------------------------------- Diktat * Germany had no say in the content of the Treaty - Hence it was a 'Diktat' (Dictated) * Germany was given two options: sign the Treaty or another war will start * No shape to fight * Forced to accept responsibility for the war through Article 231 (war guilt clause) and was thus responsible for paying reparations.
"German Expressionist Films pushed German films back into cinema screens in Europe and America because of their artistic value" German Expressionist films pushed the boundaries for the films in that period of time. After the first World War, Germany was trying to restructure their government whilst at the same time trying to set a new name for themselves. During this time the government injected a large amount of capital into the state-funded company UFA which stood for "Universum Film AG". The UFA controlled all or most of the cinematic output and distribution. One of the main aims of the German government of doing this is to try to reclaim Germany's place in the movie world.
Another thing was there was the weakness of the Weimar government, which played its part. The Weimar government was failing miserably, what with a failed economy, no power, a great depression, unemployment, a weak president, and the rise of terrorism and extremism. The Social Democrats were losing their touch. During the Stresemann years of the 1920s the Nazis couldn’t even get into double figures when it came to seats in the Reichstag. Germany, it looked, was on the rise while Stresemann was Chancellor but the Nazis and their appealing polices were al too good for the people of Germany to refuse and so while the votes for the Social Democrats only increased ever so slightly the Nazi votes were plumiting and with every election they grew and grew.