Germany-Post+World+War+I+Era+to+1933

 **Europe before WWI and Europe after WWI** **Resources: [] ** ** Jewish Life in Europe before the Holocaust By Lexi Stovsky **  **RESOURCES:** [|**Holocaust Museum #1**]  [|**Holocaust Museum #2**]  [|**German Jew's Life Before the Nazis**]
 *  The Aftermath of World War I **
 * ** The Treaty of Versailles blamed the entire war on Germany, who was forced to pay $31.5 million for the war after being forced to sign the treaty. **
 * ** Germany’s economy declined and the reichsmark inflated greatly. **
 * ** The German people began to look for leadership to help them out of the economic hardship, and eventually went to the Nazi party. **
 * ** The Unites States stock market crashed in 1929 and the Great Depression began. **
 * ** Countries largely affected include Australia, the UK, the United States, Canada, Chile, South America and the Netherlands. **
 * ** Starvation struck all around the world. **
 * ** The Russian Empire was replaced with the USSR **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** The Ottoman Empire fell, and eventually split into many different modern countries. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Austria-Hungary fell. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Czechoslovakia was created **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Benito Mussolini seized fascist power in Italy. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** The American people supported isolationism, and didn’t want to get involved with European conflicts. **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**Before the Holocaust Jews had lived in Europe for more than two thousand years.**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** In 1933 the largest Jewish population was in eastern Europe. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Eastern European Jews lived a separate life as a minority. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** They spoke their own language, Yiddish. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** They also read Yiddish books, and attended Yiddish theaters and movies. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Many younger Jews in larger towns were beginning to adopt modern ways and dress, but older people often dresses traditionally. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Jews in western Europe, including Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium, made up less of the population and adopted the culture of their non-Jews. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Some families were wealthy, but many more were poor. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Many children ended schooling early to work in a craft or trade, while others looked forward to continue their education at a university. **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe during that time which was 60 percent of the world’s population of Jewish people. **
 * **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Jews fought alongside Christian soldiers in World War I **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">**Mixed marriages between Jews and Christians were not uncommon.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Nazi Rise to Power (under Hitler) **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**The Nazi Party was mainly in Munich Germany.**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**Hitler said he would resign from the Nazi party but the Nazi’s knew with the loss of Hitler the Nazi party would end, and he said that the only way he would return was if he was given the spot of chairman and had dictation power.**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**Hitler was named fuehrer of there Nazi Party in July of 1921**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**In 1923 Hitler attempted to overthrow local authorities in Munich which was a failed attempt. It was called the Beer Hall Putsch.**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**In 1923 Nazi leaders, including Hitler, were trialed for High treason because of the Beer Hall Putsch. After a 24-day trial he gained sympathy from the judge and received only five years in prison and was aloud early parole. The other Nazi leaders were given a light sentence. Hitler got out of prison after a year.**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**The Nazi Party began making a mass movement. They had 27,000 members in 1925 and by 1929 they already had 108,000 members.**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**The first Nazi concentration camp is formed at Dachau in march of 1933.**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 132%;">**<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Pau ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 132%;">**<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">l v ****<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">on Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes President and cancellor in august of 1934. **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**The Nazi's invades Poland and annexes the of Danzig in september of 1939**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">** The British and US military aircrafts begin the round-the-clock bombing of Nazi Germany in February of 1943 **** . **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**Adolf Hitler commits suicide on August 30th in 1945.**

Resources: http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/timeline/nazirise.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERchron.htm