Thursday 4/14/11

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Thursday 4/14/11

• Please get your propaganda posters ready to
  present along with your video notes and 150 words
  poster description.
• Please clearly label your assignments!
• Hmwk Pg. 172 Activity Due Tmrw.

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Reading Quiz

• Who did Hitler blame for the Reichstag fire in
  1933?
• What was the Act that made Hitler a virtual
  dictator in 1933?
• Enabling B) Empowering C) Election
• What leader of the SA was killed on the Night of
  the Long Knives?
• What two factors characterize a Totalitarian
  state?
• Who was the Gestapo and what was their role?

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Reading Quiz Cont.

• Which faction of Hitlers SS was responsible for
  the concentration camps?
• According to the text, which was not one of the
  three main reasons why there was so little
  opposition to Hitler?
• A) Nazi Successes B) Economic Fears C)
  Concentration Camps D) Propaganda
• What was the Nazi view of the role of women? (Did
  it change?)
• What two young people groups did NOT support
  Hitler?
• Who was Hitlers propaganda organizer? (last
  name)

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Impact of WWIUse pgs. 137-139

• Germany-
• Find examples of challenges for your groups
  topic
• Then debate among your group to find the top
  priority for your topic.
• Each group will then present their posters and
  top priorities for Germany at the end of WWI
  and as a class we will narrow it down to the top
  three priorities for Germany.

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Mini ProjectDue Thursday

• Read pages 148-182
• Pick a topic to address in a propaganda
  posteryoung nazis, womens response , jews
  etc.
• Create a propaganda poster illustrating your
  topicdo NOT copy one from the bookyoull get no
  credit.
• Must be 14x11 (1/4 poster) size.
• Fully colored
• Caption/slogan on the poster
• Also, turn in 150 words explaining your poster
  and the topics significance. Typed.

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Weimar Republic

• WWI Treaty condition- democracy
• Kaiser refuses-revolts in Germany
• November 9, 1918 Kaiser abdicated
• Socialist leader, Friedrich Ebert leader of
  Republic
• Signs armistice with Allies

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Ebert has opposition

• Right Wing

• Left Wing

• Kaisers former advisers remained in power
  preventing change
• Hoped Kaiser would return

• Communists wanted revolution like Russias 1917
• January 1919- free elections Eberts party wins
  President of Weimar Republic

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Republic in danger 1919-1924

• Left-Wing Threat-
• 1st Revolution Attempt
• Communists (Spartacists) led by Karl Liebknecht
  and Rosa Luxemburg
• Anti-Communist Threat was Freikorps
• FightingFreikorps won first communist revolution

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Left-Wing Threat Cont.

• 2nd Revolution Attempt
• Bavaria south Germany, independent Socialist
  state
• Feb. 1919 murdered Kurt Eisner, Eberts ally
• Communists try to make it soviet republic
• Ebert sends in Freikorps May 1919
• 600 communists killed

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More Revolutions

• 1920 more Communist agitation in Ruhr industrial
  area
• Freikorps clashed with Communists
• 2000 casualties
• Bitterness grows between Communists and Eberts
  Socialist Party
• Despite defeats, Communists remained powerful
  anti-government force in 1920s

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Treaty of Versailles

• Germany lost- 10 land, all colonies, 12.5 of
  population and 16 coal and 48 iron industry,
  army reduced to 100,000, no air force, reduced
  navy and accept blame-pay reparations
• Ebert reluctant to sign
• German army felt betrayed by Socialist govt. not
  continuing the war

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Right-Wing Threat

• People who supported the Kaiser, dictatorship
• Wanted empire and industry
• 1920 Kapp Putsch-5000 Freikorps to Berlin
• City strikes and shuts down-Kapp leaves and dies
  awaiting trial
• Assassination frequent
• Hitler led Munich Putsch-jailed for it

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Economic Disaster

• Germany forced to pay reparations from the Treaty
• The Ruhr-
• 1921 paid one installment
• 1922 no payment
• French and Belgium enters industrial Ruhr and
  takes reparations in material goods
• Germany instructs strike, France kills 100
  workers
• Strike causes devastation for Germany currency
• Hyperinflation occurs

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1923 New Govt

• Gustav Stresemann takes over
• Called off strike in Ruhr
• Made new money- Rentenmark
• Got American loans under- Dawes Plan
• Renegotiated reparation payments
• Economic Crisis solved