BK+Notes+122-141

=Decline of Weimar and the Rise of Nazism 1929-1932=
 * 1) The Impact of the World Econonomic Crisis on Germany
 * 2) Germany felt the most pain for lack of loans from America. Reparations triangle collapsed
 * 3) The balance of trade for Germany was in the red; they were in debt.
 * 4) It is probably that Germany faced a depression even if the stock market hadn't crash.
 * 5) Germany's debt
 * 6) 1.9 million unimployed.
 * 7) Farming economy was in trouble.
 * 8) The Human Effects of the Great Depression
 * 9) Unemployment
 * 10) Rose above 2 million between 1929 and 1930.
 * 11) By January of 1932, it was at 6.1 million potential workers.
 * 12) It crossed class boundaries
 * 13) Middle class was dragged down as well as the lower class, from doctors to grocers.
 * 14) Countryside Germans were hurt too. Farming industry declined badly when many farmers were evicted from their homes.
 * 15) Political Implications
 * 16) There was a lack of confidence in the government when the republic needed it most.
 * 17) Chancellor Mueller couldn't respond to the economic woes of Germany with his grand coalitions, so he resigned.
 * 18) Dawes Plan
 * 19) Stopped the reparations crisis.
 * 20) Allowed Germany to pay reparations as it was able to pay.
 * 21) It was a very temporary fix.
 * 22) Heinrich Bruening
 * 23) Marked a crucial step towards the end of real democracy.
 * 24) He was put into office by Authoritariens close to Hindenburg.
 * 25) Bruening's response to economic woes led to a constitutional crisis.
 * 26) Inadvertantly led to the rize of Nazism
 * 27) Overused Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution
 * 28) Dissolved parliement twice, both led to massive gains to the Nazi Party.
 * 29) Tried to run the government with emergency decrees from Article 48; depended too much on Hindenburg (Went from 5 in 1930 to 66 in 1932)
 * 30) Nazi Breakthrough
 * 31) People strayed from the middle of the political spectrum to the extreme right with the Nazis.
 * 32) After the first dissolution of the Reichstag, the Nazis gained 95 seats, from 12 to 107.
 * 33) After the second dissolution of the Reichstag, the Nazis gained 123 seats, from 107 to 230.
 * 34) Nazis enticed a new generation of voters to support their cause.
 * 35) The Death of the Weimar Republic
 * 36) Anti-Democrach
 * 37) Business were Authoritarians mostly
 * 38) High ranking government officials hated the Weimar Reublic
 * 39) Ongoing Economic Problems
 * 40) Limited Base of Popular Support