... and a black hooked cross the swastika to suggest the struggle towards victory of the Aryan Man (Forman 43). At what is known as The Beer Hall Putsch a man by the name of Kahr was giving a speech in front of some 3,000 supporters of the Bavarian government. Hitler shot his pistol in the middle of Kahr's speech and shouted, "The national revolution has begun." The "revolution" began when Hitler lied to the people saying the Bavarian Trumimvirate, Kahr, Lossow ... , Prime Minister Churchill was quick to dampen the celebration, and told the British people, " We must be careful not to assign ...

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... favour. The French had come to collect their reparations, even amid widespread German poverty and squalor. The humiliation was seen to be the worst thing, in many Germans' eyes. In Munich, Hitler and the Nazis acted. This act became known as the Beer Hall Putsch and took place on November 8th 1923. The Nazis stood in the middle of a rival party meeting. They wanted to start a nationalist revolution in Bavaria ... were considered a joke and a radical fringe party, but just four years and four months later Hitler was in power. By the end of the 1920s, Germany was impoverished again. The W...

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... Germany claming compensation from Russia from the time of the revolution. In January 1923 Germany failed to pay reparations by a non - delivery of a shipment of timber. As a result of this France occupied the Rhur. The Rhur was the biggest industrial area in Germany. This hit Germany hard because it deprived Germany of its main source of income. When the French occupied the Rhur the workers engaged in a campaign of passive resistance. This had affects ... reparation payments. The idea of the Dawes plan was to reduce the amount Germany owed each year and spread the payments over a longer ...

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CAUSES OF WORLD WAR 2 By the end of WWI Europe was very bad economically and it was also politically divided, having the possibility of social revolution. The unfair treaties signed after the war and the incompetence of the League of Nations contributed greatly to WWII. Europeans had little experience with democracy. Also, when difficulties arise in countries the political parties are weakened by divisions within the group. People may then be willing to sacrifice democracy in ... -Rome Axis and also a pact with Japan called the Anti-Comintern Pact. Both pacts were a preparation to fight agains...

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... to an end. World War One was now over , the killing had stopped .But total peace still had to be worked out. On January 18, 1919 a conference to establish terms of peace began at the Palace of Versailles. 32 countries attended ,but the major decisions were decided by the Big Four: Woodrow Wilson of the United States, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George of Great ... Britain and Vittorio Orlando of Italy. Russia was not present because they were in the middle of a civil war. Germany and its allies were ... they did not have to pass away in this tragedy. The war drained ...

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... fact would make the eventual war of conquest against Russia a relatively simple undertaking: "The gigantic empire in the East is ready to collapse." In Hitler's view the October revolution had merely given the Slavic masses a new ruling class, because they were unable to rule themselves anyway. Their traditional Germanic ruling group had been supplanted by Jews, like Lenin and Trotsky, flying the banner of the despised Marx. Both of these races ... against France. With this the French would be confronted by possible aggressors on three fronts, thus logically increasing the chances of a ...

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... became the most influential factor in the early twentieth century, the innocent teen lost for good. The end of the war and Germany's defeat disappointed and frustrated Hitler greatly. Thus , he turned against the revolution in Germany and the Weimar Republic that he blamed for his misfortune. He soon realized the power of his oratory abilities. After returning from Munich, the Bavarian military appointed him an instructor in a program for the political indoctrine of the troops ... Ernst Roehm, a Bavarian staff officer. Roehm advocated the primacy of the military and wanted to incorporat...

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... that was defeated in World War One and later by the great world economic depression. The polices of the National Socialists were offered to deprived and hopeless people for solutions to their economic woes. Also through some very crude tactics the Nazi party showed its readiness to end the turmoil in the streets and bring about an ordered social and political system. ... find ourselves on the path of revolution." Shirer, W.L. 1959. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. U.S.A: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. p:141. This would be one of the key points that the national socialists adopted to c...

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... indication Germans supported his ideas. At the end of 1922, the Germans asked France for a break of the payments they were required to pay according to the Treaty of Versailles. The French Government refused the proposal and occupied the Ruhr Valley and the Saar coalfields. These two were the main places Germany made money selling coal, steel and iron. The French believed their action would make the Germans restart payments. The result was the opposite. It led to workers ... well known in Munich politics and society attended the meeting on the evening of 8 November. Hitler was standing ...

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... Spanish civil war. (1) A: In July of 1936, The Spanish revolution with Franco to restore a fascist government was assisted by Hitler and Mussolini by sending supplies and even helping bomb enemies. R: Stalin and the Soviet Union sent some weapons to the republicans in Spain but not enough to make a difference in the outcome. Britain and France wanted the republicans to win also but did nothing to ... and France declare war on Germany. Push to Dunkirk. June 1940 (5) A: French and British troops tried to resist Germany but were pushed back to the port of Dunkirk. R: Britain rushed all kind ...

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... Ludendorff, a rouge military officer, to counsel him on the way to execute the overthrow. On the evening of November 8, 1923, the leaders of Bavaria were gathered in a Munich beer hall. Hitler's storm troopers surrounded the building and then Hitler burst into tavern brandishing a pistol. He said that "the national revolution has begun and the police and army are marching under the Nazi banner."" (Ayer, 40-43) This was a ... force rather than a defending force. The pieces were falling in place and Adolf was almost ready to spring the trap. (Stalcup, 87-97) Hitler showed no respect for t...

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