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Rise of Fascism

Rise of Fascism. 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. Conditions within Germany.

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Rise of Fascism

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  1. Rise of Fascism

  2. 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 Conditions within Germany

  3. 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

  4. 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) Efforts of the Fascists to gain power

  5. Propaganda Economic Reconstruction (rebuilding military, civic works projects) Lebensraum (hegemony of Europe) Anschluss (union with Austria) Rome-Berlin Axis Nazi-Soviet Pact Increasing their power

  6. 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 International Responses

  7. Hitler then takes all of Czecholslovakia and then turns his sights on Poland

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