(Document 6) As written in The Origins of the Second World War, by A.J.P. Taylor, if more countries kept getting involved with the issue of the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia would have been safe. Taylor also thought that German people were the only ones in the world who can “turn Hitler out” This was to be thought because the Germans were the ones who put him into power in the first place. “The appeasers” feared that the loss of Germany would result in the domination of Europe” (Doc
-Stresemann altered the policies with the introduction of Dawes plan and the young plan. - Germany was able to meet its reparation payments and the French left the area of Ruhr in 1924. The failures can be seen through the flaws in the constitution, political parties, economic failures the lack of support towards the republic. •The new parliament met in February 1919 and drew up a constitution that established Germany as a democracy. •It was a constitution that would preserve German democracy, liberties and rights of the people.
The involvement of the German Army and other military groups in Weimar politics served to strengthen the Republic in the early years but later lead to its downfall. In 1918 the Ebert-Groener Pact was signed, ultimately giving the moderate-left side of Weimar politics (also known as the Socialist Democrats Party) the support of the traditionally right army in response to fears the extreme left might take power. This served a dual purpose in that it both maintained the power of the army in German politics and it also strengthened the position of the Weimar Republic in the eyes of the citizens, who still respected the army. Despite the Ebert-Groener Pact, in late 1918 Defence Minister Noske created the Freikorps, a paramilitary force of former soldiers and volunteers, which allowed for these small militant groups to be satisfied with their power – hence strengthening support for the new Reichstag – but later proved to create political instability through the Freikorps’ uncontrolled violence, which ultimately damaged the public perceptions of the Weimar Government. During the late 1920s, the involvement of the Sturm-Abteilung (SA) in the politics of the Nazi Party initially furthered
Even Lloyd George, who took a much tougher political approach towards the reparations, received criticism. Also, at the beginning of the period, Keynes was unsuccessful and his view of the Treaty of Versailles had very little influence at all. However, there was an acceptance during the 1920s that the Weimar Republic, a new democratic Germany, had emerged. There was perhaps, a realisation that the permanent peace of Europe should be based on mutually accepted agreements. In addition, the British governments under Prime Ministers such as Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Baldwin and
As 1915 and 1916 drew forth, the war was still in full swing and Germany had fallen under the weight of the Triple Entente. Because of this, the view of the civil peace became far less excited, for the German people began to tire of the Great War. By the time the war was ending, from 1917 into 1918, the German population was split into people who were still willing to support the Fatherland’s fight and the civil peace and those who opposed. Though the Great War initially brought adrenaline and a sense of nationalism to Germany, the garish reality of war’s hardships began to settle in, gradually altering the opinions if the German people towards a policy of civil peace. In 1914, Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany addressed a jilted crowd of his people, urging them to “stand together like brothers, and then God will guide the German sword to victory!” (Doc.
Despite this, the German army established a reluctant acceptance of the democracy through the Ebert-Groener Pact of 1919. This pact was an agreement between President Freidrich Ebert and the General of the Army, General Groener, in which the army would support the democracy from any threat, particularly that of the left. However, despite a strong opposition to the left, the army was reluctant to fight any threats from the right-wing, evidence of this being during the Kapp Putsch of 1920 where the army’s lack of support forced the government to flee Berlin. This therefore shows the strong impact of conservative elites on German politics during 1918-1934. It was the strength of the army that other conservative
What came along the effects of The Depression was the soaring unemployment rate as well as the poor living and working conditions that much of the population had to endure, this caused the people of Germany to look to the government for support. When the republic failed to help their people, the citizens of Germany turned away from the government and instead turned to the the Nazi party, with its nationalistic ideology which seemed promising and an appealing alternative to the Weimer
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used freedom symbols such as the bald eagle and used kind words such as "friend" or "my fellow..." to get people to support his ideas. Hitler and his Nazi party used the swastika and other militaristic symbols and used strong words in his speeches. Hitler and Roosevelt had a number of similarities and differences. Most notably, they came into power in the same month and solved the crisis of depression which was causing many social and political issues in both Germany and the USA. They also both hated Communism and Democracy, while Roosevelt was accused of founding a dictatorship.
The peace of the mighty proved that to be wrong. The German Army in the field, although battered was still formidable in the eyes of the German leadership. They had gone to the peace table hoping for scraps and got the business end of the newspaper. The German Peace Delegation was forced to assume blame for the war, and then sit helplessly by as territories it felt were largely inhabited with Germans were made part of other states. The Germans had come to the table hoping to hear Wilson saying, “the equality of nations upon which peace much be founded on if it is to last must be an equality of rights..” (German Peace Delegation, p. 76) Instead they were hit with several Billion reichmarks in reparations, a reduced military and many other limitations politically, economically, militarily and territory wise (The Versailles Treaty, 1918).
She knew that the radicalism that was exercised in the European suffrage movement was what the American suffrage movement needed in order to make any progress. When Alice was appointed as head of the Congressional Commitee for the National Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1912 she joined forces with Lucy Burns and Crystal Eastman to organize a monumental event in Washington, D.C. that would gain momentum for the Suffrage Movement. On March 3, 1913, Alice, Burns, Eastman and a large body of women participated in an extravagant parade during the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. The parade was led by Inez Milholland, an attractive lawyer socialite, who led the women up Pennsylvania Ave. adorned in Greek robe as she sat upon a white horse. As the women intended, the parade caught the attention of onlookers.