What do you remember? When did the Wall Street Crash occur? (1) What caused the WSC? (1) What was the immediate impact of Germany of the WSC? (1) Why did unemployment rise? (3) How did the WSC affect reparation payments? (1) What three things did Hitler offer the people of Germany after the WSC? (3) What was the name of the Nazi Party programme? (1) What happened at the 1932 elections? (1) Who were the ‘November Criminals?’ (2) Why was the depression different to hyperinflation? (5)

IGCSE History Coursework What was the significance of the Wall Street Crash on Germany 1929 to 1939? (How important was the WSC in changing lives, policies and the course of Germany History) SHORT TERM EFFECTS LONG TERM EFFECTS

Nazi Germany revision Task: In your depth study books place the following events along a timeline from 1918-1939. 1918 1930 1939 Hitler appointed Chancellor Abdication of the Kaiser Rearmament introduced Wall Street Crash Signing of Treaty of Versailles Kapp Putsch Hyperinflation Night of the Long knives Setting of Reparations amount Young Plan Nazis 12 seats Stresemann era Conscription introduced Nazis 200 seats Book burning begins Reichstag fire Nazis 107 seats Enabling Act Spartacist uprising Locarno Treaties Dawes Plan Defeat in WW1 Invasion of the Ruhr Munich Putsch Euthanasia Project begins Kristallnacht Germany enter League of Nations Concordat with the Catholic Church Enabling Act/Law The army oath

Hitler appointed Chancellor Abdication of the Kaiser Rearmament introduced Wall Street Crash Signing of Treaty of Versailles Kapp Putsch Hyperinflation Night of the Long knives Setting of Reparations amount Young Plan Nazis 12 seats Stresemann era Conscription introduced Nazis 200 seats Book burning begins Reichstag fire Nazis 107 seats Enabling Act Spartacist uprising Locarno Treaties Dawes Plan Defeat in WW1 Invasion of the Ruhr Munich Putsch Euthanasia Project begins Kristallnacht Germany enter League of Nations Concordat with the Catholic Church Enabling Act/Law The army oath

Prelude to the Wall Street Crash The economy before 1929 Financially crippled by WW1 (statistics) Land, people and Saar taken from Germany Reparations from WW1 set at £6.6 million Invasion of the Ruhr by the French – passive resistance – gave in Hyperinflation – poverty – starvation Stresemann – new currency – foreign loans (Dawes Plan) – by 1928 same production as pre war era No more attempted revolutions Extreme Right (Nazis) only won 12 seats in 1928 Freedom of culture – writers, poets, artists, cinema, music Locarno Treaties, League of Nations and Young Plan BUT: Economy based on loans Big businesses gained – smaller businesses did not Unemployment was rising by 1928 Communists and Nazis were building up their parties Republic still unpopular Hindenburg become president and is opposed to democracy Culture only developed in cities – nothing changed in towns Opoosistion to moral decline League of Nations membership unpopular with Right wing Locarno and League meant that Treaty had been accepted Economy Political Social Foreign affairs Video on Germany 1920s

Effects of the Wall Street Crash Economy Political Social Foreign affairs