... . The sense of loyalty and devotion to one's nation that the German people felt in their militaristic past, was ultimately devastated by the consequences of WWI. Nationalism hence became the driving force of many other factors that lead to the failure of democracy, including the Treaty of Versailles, the Reparations Bill and the occupation of the Ruhr. Several attempts to install nationalistic ... a failure, it was significant as it showed how groups from either political parties were prepared to take action against the Republic. Thus, this emphasizes the importance of nationalism as the...

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... saw the League of Nations as a club of victorious powers helping each other to set forth an unjust settlement upon Germany. The actual treaty of Versailles was not put into force until January 1920 and in March the US senate finally and officially rejected the Treaty of Versailles. The situation after the war also plays a role in the failure of the ... the League of Nations reacted by issuing sanctions, but was unwilling to include the decisive sanction on oil and coal (which would have forced Mussolini to retreat!) in fear of driving Mussolini into Hitler arms. Also, Hoare and Laval (t...

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... up the meetings of their political opponents. On 14 September 1921, in Munich, SA men savagely beat up the principal speaker, nearly killing him. Hitler was crushing political opposition through force, and this brought Hitler a three-month jail sentence but he was released after only one month. By 1922 the NSDAP were one of the most influential and violent Parties based ... disarray. Hitler set himself two objectives. The first was to establish his own absolute control over the Party by driving out those who were not prepared to accept his leadership without question. The second was to ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... would in turn lead to Germany possessing an efficient foreign policy that allowed the nation to eradicate its diplomatic isolation following World War I. As foreign minister, Gustav Stresemann was the driving force behind Germany foreign policy from 1924-1927. He believed that Germany could restore itself to a position of European power, through careful and patient diplomacy. His immediate aim was to improve ... ...

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