The rise of Nazism in 1919 came in direct response to the German public’s outrage over the Treaty of Versailles.

The Nazi movement gained traction in the early 1930s – as did likened fascist movements

Fascist is a political movement supporting strong, authoritarian government dictatorship.

Rise of Nazism

Germany faced many problems after World War I.

Germany infrastructure such as Highways, bridges, and railroads had to be rebuilt from the massive explosions during the war.

Since Germany was forbidden to have a large army or navy, military people had no job.

The government struggled to pay war reparations due to the lack of jobswhich it needed for receive taxes from the citizens.

In order to pay the reparations, Germany was forced to print more and more of its own money till it became worthless.

Printing so much money caused inflation of the German money making prices go up which made food scarce. Both men and women had a hard time finding jobs.

Many food lines where over a mile

long. Many citizens waited in line for

hours only to get a small cup of soup

consisting manly of water and a very

small amount of a potato.

Interesting Story

During Germany’s economic disaster a man frantically went to his local bank to put all the money he had on hand in the bank. The man’s money was so much he put it in a wheel barrel. Having to go the bathroom he made a pit stop outside a local grocery leaving his wheel barrel full of money outside. When he returned minutes later he found that his wheel barrel had been stolen, but the money was untouched!

Moral of the story – Germany's money was literally not worth the paper it was printed on.

Because of the hardships the Treaty of Versailles brought, Germans began to look for a leader during this time of distress.

Adolf Hitler came on the scene with big plans for all of the big problems.

His followers were called the National Socialist or Nazi Party.

Hitler speeches blamed the Treaty of Versailles for many of the problems.

Hitler speeches blamed Jews for controlling the banksand money in the country.

Hitler speeches blamed Jewsfor Germans not being able to make a good living.

Hitler created a leadership cult of himself to make him seem like an extremely special individual. He employed various tactics to achieve this image. For instance, he used his public speaking skills to mesmerize and hypnotize crowds. He would even wait 5 minutes for cheering crowds to quiet down and then shout in the midst of silence.

With the support of millions of Germans, Hitler was named chancellor of Germany in 1933.

Once chancellor he immediately passed laws quickly to give him more power.

Soon he took complete control of the government.

• Began to rebuild military

• Created jobs making war time weapons

• Fixed highways and railroads

• Improved Economy drastically

Although Hitler was very popular he did not have the support of all the Germans. Not all Germans approved of Hitler's viewpoints. Those who spoke out against him were imprisoned, murdered, or went missing.

After World War I, most countries began to prosper.

This time was called the “Roaring Twenties”.

People felt good about the economy and began spending money they did not have.

World Wide Depression

Because the economy was going so great, many citizens took out bank loans to investin the stock market.

Citizens planned on paying back the banks with the profitthey earned.

This flawed sense of money making worked for a short amount of time until the stocks lost value.

World Wide Depression

Experts say borrowing money to make money is

the worst financial investment one can

make.

The best method is to save up your own money

rather risk losing someone else's of whom

you owe interest on.

In the fall of 1929, the United States experienced a stock market crash.

Stocks bought for large amounts of money were now worth very little if anything.

Many people lost everything they had and were desperate to sell anything they could to keep food

on their table.

As the stock market crashed many people ran to banks to take out all of their money.

So many people tried to get their money out that many banks ran out of money.

Millions lost everything.

Bank deposits were uninsured and thus as banks failed, people simply lost all of their money.

Bank closure was widespread.

With the stock market crash and the fears of further economic woes, individuals from all classes stopped purchasing items.

This then led to a reduction in the number of items produced, thus a reduction in the workforce.

As people lost their jobs, they were unable to keep up with paying for items they had bought through

installment plans and their items were repossessed.

More and more inventory began to accumulate.

The unemployment rate rose above 25%.

With ¼ of the population out of a job, very few businesses were selling anything, resulting in many businesses laying off workers because of a lack of demand in their products.

No money to buy items such as the Model T

As businesses began failing, the government put up tariffs against foreigncountries.

This charged a high tax for imports from foreigncountries.

No Trade

No Money

The unintended consequence of this tariff was that less trade occurred between America and foreign countries.

To make things worse, the Dust Bowl occurred during the Great Depression.

The Dust Bowl was the worst drought conditions ever recorded in the United States.

While not a direct cause of the Great Depression, the drought that occurred in the Mississippi Valley in 1930 was of such proportions that

many could not even pay their taxes or other debts and had to sell their farms for no profit to themselves.

Year after year farmers planted and replanted their crops only to have the winds blow the topsoil off of their farm. Re-plowing the fields only made things worse.

Thousands of farm animals, children and elderly died from inhalation of dust as well as malnutrition.