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GERMANY
1. How did the Treaty of Versailles impact them?
It was signed by Germany and the Allied Powers. Germany lost much of its land and was limited to many things. The main reason this treaty was created was to punish Germany and to create a League of Nations.Germany had to take the blame for the whole war and they were stripped of a lot of their land. Their Army had to be cut 100,00 men and the Navy was cut 36 ships and could have no submarines, they were even banned from having an Air Force. Unions were banned, resources were lost like coal and iron. Germany also had to pay reparations to certain countries.
2. What type(s) of government did this country have in the interwar years(1919-1938)?
3. How did their leader, that led them throughout WWII, come to power?
4. How did this leader change their country(for the better and worse) prior to WWII?
worse
5. What were the goals of the leader?
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-hossbach.htm
His primary goal was the forcible acquisition of Lebensraum (living space) for the German people. Secondly, he desired some kind of final reckoning with the Jews.
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture11.html
6. What was the military strategy of this country in the inter-war years(1919-1938)?
7. What role did they play in WWII?
8. Who were their allies in WWII?
Axis powers -Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001288.html
9. How did WWII impact/effect the country?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_World_War_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_rehabilitation_of_Germany_after_World_War_II
Germany was divided into four quadrants, which were controlled by the Allied Powers
In total Germany lost roughly a quarter of her territory.
The much larger reparations from occupied Germany to Russia were to be paid not by goods or money but by the transfer of capital goods, such as dismantled manufacturing plants.
Germany and Italy also paid in the form of POW-provided forced labor
The Morgenthau Plan of 1944 called for stripping Germany of the industrial resources required for war
The main industrial areas of the Ruhr and Silesia were to be removed
first industrial plan required the destruction of 1,500 manufacturing plants
The Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067 (JCS 1067), which governed U.S. policy in Germany from April 1945 until July 1947, stated that no help was to be given to the Germans in rebuilding their nation,
The Western powers' worst fear was that the poverty and hunger would drive the Germans to communism.
Marshall Plan,called for the U.S. Congress to allocate billions of dollars for the reconstruction of Europe
After the war, many high-ranking Germans were prosecuted for war crimes, as well as the mass murder of the Jews in the Holocaust
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