1. 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

2. Why/how do dictators rise to power? COLLECT HW
Warm Up
Why/how do dictators rise to power? COLLECT HW

3. Germany and Hitler
The Interwar Period

4. 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

5. 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)

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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