The number of people unemployed rose by five million from the start of the great depression1929 to when Hitler became chancellor in 1933. Some people were still in works but they were paid low wages and worked short time works. The number of unemployment left many people hungry as they had no work so they couldn’t get the money to buy food. Also many people became homeless. The great depression gave huge boost to the extremist parties as the German people started to blame the government to the depression and therefore lost confidence in them.
Many lost their jobs, and were forced to look for work elsewhere. Numerous people were also forced to leave school to help pay the bills (Doc 1). Herbert Hoover, considered one of the worst presidents ever, did not help the situation very much. In 1930 he said that “The Depression is over.” However, the Depression did not end until 1937 when World War II began (Doc 2). The country was fed up with Hoover’s help.
The Night Of the Long Knives is significant to the political development of the Nazi state and cementing Hitlers power. By purging the SA and others, Hitler aimed to make concessions to groups in German society to gain their support. The German army, for example, were highly respected by the public and were much better trained than the SA. They also remained the only institution which had the power to remove Hitler from office so Hitler needed them on his side. The ambitions of the SA and Rohm however, were regarded as serious by the army leaders, the more so when SA units began stopping army convoys and confiscating weapons and supplies in the summer of 1934.
The collapse of the housing market and unemployment caused the most damage. Between 1991 to 1992 unemployment had gone back up to 2.6 million. Negative equity meant home owner were paying mortgages far higher than their homes were worth. Many people could simply not keep up with the increased prices and resulted in them losing their homes due to the bank repossessing them. The recession hit close to home for the Tories, effecting the middle class not just the working class of the industrial north.
However, it was the effects of the Great Depression in Germany that brought the Nazi Party to its first real nationwide importance. The rise in unemployment in 1929–30 provided millions of jobless and unsatisfied voters whom the Nazi Party exploited to its advantage. From 1929 to 1932 the party vastly increased its membership and voting strength; its vote in elections to the Reichstag increased from 800,000 votes in 1928 to about 14,000,000 votes in July 193. By then, big businesses had begun to finance the Nazi party because of tax increases and communists. The effects of the great depression caused mostly by Wall Street crash and therefore the American investors urgently needed the return of money they had lent to businesses.
This means that the prices for stock were too high, far higher than they were really worth, then they fell drastically. People who had borrowed money to buy high-priced stocks (intending to sell the stocks at a profit and repay lenders), went bankrupt. That’s further expounding on what I said about buying on margin. Black Tuesday also marks the beginning of the great depression (Regan3). Living conditions during this time were unsanitary and horrible.
Due to the serious lost of employment in the United States the people are faced with stress of debt and no income to support their families. The banks and lending institutions are over extended and pressured because of the government and nation's people have taken out loans to maintain a kind of life style which they can't afford. People, businesses and now the lending institutions are all going bankrupt. People can't afford food let alone paying a mortgage on their homes to the lending institutions. The number of products imported from other counties has increased over the years and exports have seriously decreased.
English 11 November 8, 2011 The Great Gatsby Having power is addicting and learning to control it is a crucial part in someone’s life, but if one person is incapable of handling the proper usage it may/could end a person’s life. Francis Scott Fitzgerald published the novel The Great Gatsby in 1953. The novel is set in America during the 1920’s. During this time America had a great economy from money earned from Germany after ww1. Some of the characters in this novel served in the war.
The Great Depression was mainly in America but it also had effects on the German economy too. Between the years 1929 and 1932 the amount of world trade fell by around 70 per cent. The unemployment levels rose and wage cuts were made and many people were made homeless due to this, they were unable to pay their rent or their mortgages so many were reduced to instant poverty. Welfare was a problem with the depression, the right wing didn’t like the idea of welfare but some of the left wing parties did. This meant they were arguing over welfare, the fall of Muller government and what they would do with the benefit system.
Towards the end of 1934, Adolf Hitler had managed to gain complete control over Germany. Through a very important law named the enabling act, Hitler was able to pass multiple laws declaring other parties illegal and moulding Germany into a one party state. In one single night he also managed to diminish any threats and with the death of President Hindenburg along side the oath made by the army, Hitler began to nazify Germany. From his appointment as chancellor in January 1933 and through each point leading towards 1934, it could be said that Hitler managed to claim total control over Germany, In March 1933 with the new Reichstag elections Hitler hoped his party would win a two thirds majority in the hope that he could get parliament to agree that he could rule without it. The Nazi party now forced to think tactically and with the burning of the Reichstag building through a communist Hitler was able to blame the extremist party for the beginning of a revolution and with President Hindenburg's approval he arrested the ‘enemies of the state’.