Rise of Fascism
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Political Instability Dissatisfaction with the Weimar Government Fear of Communism
Dissatisfaction with the Treaty of Versailles Economic Instability
Reparations French invasion of the Rhur The Great Depression
German government prints money to help pay citizens wages = serious inflation (hyper-inflation) 1914
£1 = 20 marks, 1923
£1 = 1,680,800,000,000,000 marks Prices would double or even quadruple in
one day
Charisma of Hitler Finding scapegoats to blame their problems on
Munich Putsch Mein Kampf
Changes tactics and gets elected SA/SS (“Storm Troopers” and secret police) Reichstag Fire – Enabling Act (like Canada’s
War Measures Act) Ends political competition (turn towards
dictatorial power)
Propaganda Economic Reconstruction (rebuilding
military, civic works projects) Lebensraum (hegemony of Europe) Anschluss (union with Austria) Rome-Berlin Axis Nazi-Soviet Pact
Appeasement Britain did not see Germany as a serious threat
and there was a strong anti-war sentiment France was more concerned with defense and
re-building their economy U.S. remained isolationist
Munich Pact – Sudetenland Great powers agree with the argument of self-
determination for German-speaking people; sacrifice Czech sovereignty for peace
Hitler then takes all of Czecholslovakia and then turns
his sights on Poland