and officially ended in 1945‚ can be linked to the results of World War 1‚ which ended just two decades before. The Allied nations‚ who emerged victorious in WWI‚ imposed bleak punishments on Germany‚ through the peace treaty agreement known as Treaty of Versailles. Instead of accepting their penalty‚ Germany became bitter and the harsh terms of the treaty fuelled the rise of nationalism‚ Economic factors‚ and Appeasement and isolationism. An armistice was signed on 11 November 1918 and ‚ in January
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The Treaty of Versailles harshly punished the Germany in finance‚ military‚ and territories. Those clauses made the Germans feeling both humiliated and bitter‚ so I am agree that the treaty of Versailles is one of the important reasons to cause the World War Two. There are some reasons below. At that period‚ the German people were told and believed its army was only defending its border and taking back some lands previously held by the country. In addition‚ the exceedingly nationalistic sentiments
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How and why did Hitler become a dictator? Hitler rose to the position of chancellor in January 1933‚ as a result of the poorly prepared treaty of Versailles‚ the resulting economic hardship and his apparent strong leadership. In the next 18 months however Hitler seized absolute power and created a total dictatorship through his ability to exploit opportunities‚ a manipulation of his country through a reign of fear and a ruthless and systematic repression of all opposition. Hitler used the Reichstag
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How did Hitler become Chancellor in 1933 Germany had been recovering from its own economic crisis for six years‚ however its upward climb would soon come tumbling down‚ as the American Stock Market collapsed. America recalled its 800 million gold mark loans to Germany in order to steady its own economy. This caused havoc with Germany‚ 5 banks closed and around 20 000 businesses went bankrupt as they were unable to pay back the borrowed money. People lost their jobs‚ five and a half million out
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How did Hitler and the Nazis use youth and education in their endeavours to develop a Third Reich in Germany? Hitler focused on the youth of Germany because he believed that the Third Reich in Germany would last a 1000 years so why waste time and resources on the older people of Germany? The youth of Germany were open to manipulation because they were vulnerable from World War 1. Also there were already structures in place where Hitler could educate young people on the Nazis. Hitler thought that
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Adolf Hitler once said‚ "The Jew is a parasite. Wherever he flourishes‚ the people will die… Elimination of the Jew from our community is to be regarded as an emergency defense measure." During World War II‚ Hitler made it his mission to overpower the Jews who had made their homes in Germany and Eastern Europe; he felt he needed revenge on the people who had caused his home country to fall victim during World War I. Because of his desire to make the land free of racial impurities‚ he often went
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and should be maintained‚ but despite the initial wishes the following decade produced such heated debate on the best course for the new government that it became known as the “age of passions.” These debates reached the people as the struggle to gain power came at the cost of the first protection of the Bill of Rights‚ the freedom of speech. The Federalist and Democratic Republicans emerged in response to the Hamilton plan and continued throughout the decade‚ becoming more pronounced‚ as Federalist
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How Did Life Change in Germany Under the Nazis? Hitler became German chancellor in January 1933. He immediately took steps to complete a Nazi takeover. Following the Reichstag fire‚ the night of the long knives‚ the 1933 election and the death of Hindenburg Hitler took over as supreme leader in 1934. Hitler believed he was the saviour or the people. He did not want opposition of any kind in Nazi Germany. There were to be no other political parties and no debate. His vision was of a strong‚ militaristic
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The Holocaust is perhaps one of the most gruesome events that has ever taken place. Adolf Hitler was the mastermind behind the systematic‚ bureaucratic‚ and barbaric persecution that murdered six million Jews for no reason. When he became leader he had only one mission and that was to have an exceptional race and he would do everything to achieve it. The Nazis who came into power in Germany in January 1933‚ believed that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were inferior and posed as
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1. Germany the year of 1941 was the scariest place for Jews and other people. Adolf Hitler‚ Hitler was one of the scariest dictators in the world. 1941 is when the Holocaust started. Over 6 million Jewish people were killed‚ and over 9 million other victims that were not Jewish. Concertation camps were brutal‚ you barely got any food or water. You had to take showers with other people in horrible conditions‚ and have naked men rubbing up on you. you had to work or be beaten. Could you survive during
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