Agenda PRACTICE AP EXAM DATE MOVED TO APRIL 28TH Warm Up? Reading Quiz Ch. 24 Discussion: Germany between the Wars and Hitler’s Rise to Power HW: Nazi Propaganda: Google Classrooom PRACTICE AP EXAM DATE MOVED TO APRIL 28TH

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Germany and Hitler The Interwar Period

After the Great War Germany is stripped of military dominance after the war. A fragile provisional government takes over and slowly rebuilds Germany. League of Nations created to maintain world peace

Issues with the League of Nations Created to prevent future wars United States does not join, the people want isolation. No authority to enforce decisions Established Mandate System Britain and France divide Ottoman Empire Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon Led to future conflict in Middle East (M/E)

Hyperinflation and Depression Germany prints money to pay reparations American Stock Market crash causes worldwide Depression Unemployment is nearly 30% when Hitler takes power.

Hyperinflation 1919: 4 to 1 1922: 500 to 1 1923: 18,000 to 1 January 350,000 to 1 July 5,000,000 to 1 August

Examples of Prices Newspaper = 100 Billion marks Loaf of Bread = 3 Billion One beer = 4 Billion Pound of Meat = 36 Billion Banknotes were used as firewood and wallpaper

Great Depression Worldwide US economy fails, then Germany, then Britain and most of the world. High unemployment, bank failures, collapse of credit, collapse of world trade Russia not effected.

Hitler Rises to Power Legally named Chancellor in 1932. He becomes President and Chancellor in 1933, and Germany approves. Hitler abolishes all other parties except Nazism. Sets fire to government building and blames it on communists.

Nazi Ideology Glorification of militarism and order. Rule by a single Leader. Hitler adds racism and eventually genocide to the ideology. Hitler Youth Prop