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EdExcel GCSE - History - Weimar and Nazi Germany - The Great Depression
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- 1How did the Wall Street crash affect payments between the USA, Germany and Britain and France?Pre: USA loaned to Germany, who used that to pay reparations to Britain and France, who paid war loans with the reparations
Post: Germany still paying reparations to Britain and France, but both are paying loans to USA - 2How were the unemployed and poor affected by the Depression?> 6,000,000 unemployed by 1932, couldn't afford rent
> 30% of 6 million on very low benefits
> 15% received nothing at all - 3How were farmers affected by the Depression (and before)?> Prices falling since 1925
> Depression lead into more debt - 4How were young people affected by the Depression?> Over 50% of all Germans aged 16 - 30 were unemployed
> 60% of new university graduates could not get a job - 5How were business owners affected by the Depression?> Many businesses forced to close
> Income fell - people had less money to spend
> Government raised taxes from businesses to pay benefits - 6How were workers affected by the Depression?> Many became unemployed
> 40% of factory workers unemployed by 1932
> Government cut unemployment benefit - extreme poverty for some - 7What were 2 different options to solve Germany's economic and unemployment crisis in 1930?1. Print more money - unemployment might stay low, but inflation (flashbacks to 1923)
2. Increases taxes to pay for unemployment benefit - put time limits on benefits to make them more affordable - 8Why did the plan to increase taxes for unemployment benefit get rejected?> Right wing: didn't like unemployment benefits
> Left wing: didn't like the time limits imposed on the benefits
Coalition government didn't help either
(256 to 193 votes) - 9Why was Communist support strong amongst the working classes in large towns in 1932?> Growing unemployment - reached 5 million in 1932
> Falling wages - real wages in 1932 were 15% lower than 1928 - 10What were the impacts of the Depression and how did they appeal to the Nazi 25 Point Programme?> 12 million unemployed - authoritarian / nationalism
> 20,000 companies bankrupt - lebensraum
> 1,616 banks bankrupt - lebensraum
> 5% of farmers evicted - lebensraum - 11How did Josef Goebbels increase Nazi support through propaganda?> Simple and frequently repeated message
> Owned 120 daily / weekly newspapers by 1930s (regularly read by Germans)
> Goebbels able to present the Nazi Party in elections since the Weimar government descended into chaos under Bruning
> Daily radio broadcasts
> 4 - 5 rallies per day
> Hitler flown around Germany to speak - 12How were the SA integral to the 1930 and 1932 elections?> 1930 - SA had 400,000 members; KPD's Red Front Fighters had ~130,000
> SA tore down opposition's posters, intimidating candidates, broke into offices and disrupted rallies in 1930 / 1932 elections
> 1932 - Hamburg, 18 killed in clash with Communists - 13Why and how did the SA support Nazi policies after the Depression?> Restore law and order
> Scrap Treaty of Versailles
> Propaganda - posters and rallies
> SA able to stand up against foreigners and opposition - 14Why and how did big businesses support Nazi policies after the Depression?> Protection from Communism
> Gave money to the Nazi party - 15Why did the working class support Nazi policies after the Depression?> Traditional German values - seemed to be better after what happened with Weimar's values
> "Work and Bread" poster campaign - 16Why did the middle class support Nazi policies after the Depression?> Depression caused lost companies, savings and pensions
> Fear of Communism, they wanted to abolish private ownership of land and business
> Alcoholism and sexual openness seen as a moral decline, wanted traditional values - 17Why did farmers support Nazi policies after the Depression?> Fear of Communism, they wanted to abolish private ownership of land
> Nazis promised no confiscation of non-Jewish land - 18Why did young people support Nazi policies after the Depression?> Seen as an exciting future
> Heavy propaganda - rallies particularly - 19Why did women support Nazi policies after the Depression?> Seen as best for families
> Traditional values
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