Why was Germany hit the hardest during the depression?
In 1929 the Wall Street Crash led to a worldwide depression. Germany suffered more than any other nation as a result of the recall of US loans, which caused its economy to collapse. Unemployment rocketed, poverty soared and Germans become desperate.
One huge consequence of this situation was a huge rise in unemployment and by the time Hitler became chancellor in January 1933 one in three Germans were unemployed. With this figure hitting 6.1 million industrial productions had also more then halved over the same period
Explain what Germany had to agree to by signing the Treaty of Versailles?
Some of the things that Germany had to agree on with the Versailles treaty were for Germany to require disarm,make territorial concessions to Belgium,Czechoslovakiaand Poland, pay reparations to the many countries that had formed the entente powers, return Alsace and Lorraine to France and cede all its overseas colonies in China, Pasific and Africa to the allied nations.
How was NZ affected by the depression?
There were many countries that ere affected in this tragedy and new Zealand was one of them.
In New Zealand the crash was not immediately apparent but the 1930 export prices had begun to plummet. It had started falling to 45% by 1933. In the end of 1930 the urban businesses had manufacturers and were feeling the flow-on effects.
The great depression.
1933: Hitler appointed Chancellor burning of the Reichstag first anti-Jewish measures first concentration camp opened at Dachau indefinite imprisonment becomes law.
1934: President Hindenburg dies in office and Hitler combines the roles of Chancellor and President, becoming Commander-in-Chief of Germany
November 35th Nuremberg laws enacted, defining Jews biologically, and sanctioning the final social and legal separation of Jews and non-Jews
1937: concentration camp at
Buchenwald opens; major anti-Semitic exhibition in Berlin
1938: Anschluss (Germany annexes Austria) Italy joins Germany in passing sweeping anti-Jewish measures known as ‘Racial Laws’
