PPT-HI136 The History of Germany

Lecture 17 1989 and Reunification Reasons for the Collapse of the GDR Domestic Factors Economic problems Growing dissatisfaction with regime Pressure for reform International Factors Reform within the Soviet Union. Four possible outcomes…. Germany did start the war…it was all their fault. Germany was mainly responsible for the start of the war, but other countries should also be to blame. All of the major powers helped to start a war, they are all to blame in some way. The End of Hitler. By: Luca Franceschetti and Rudy Szwarc. Battle of Stalingrad . 1942-43. Was a decisive and major battle in WW2.. Nazi Germany and the Soviet army fought over the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union.. and Empire. HI290- History of Germany. The . Bismarckian. System. After 1871 Germany needed peace and stability in order to consolidate the gains of the Wars of Unification.. Bismarck thus needed to persuade Europe that Germany was a “satiated power”.. Lecture 15. East Germany. Introduction. Debates over the history of the GDR – objective assessments are still difficult to arrive at.. Continuity with German history (especially with the Nazi period)?. Reading . The Book Thief. In order to get the most out of reading The Book Thief, you really need to understand the historical background to the novel. . In groups, pool your knowledge of Germany during World War II and the Jewish Holocaust.. The Rise of Nazism. WWI’s Effect on Germany. Germany had many problems after WWI:. Lost lands that contained valuable natural resources,. 2 ½ million Germans died,. 4 million were wounded,. Industry (factories) & farms in the country had been destroyed, and. Wider Reading. Academic Writing. Fulbrook. , M. . A Concise History of Germany, . Cambridge University Press (2004). Hiden. , J. . The Weimar Republic. , Seminar . Staudies. in History, Longman (1996). Four possible outcomes…. Germany did start the war…it was all their fault. Germany was mainly responsible for the start of the war, but other countries should also be to blame. All of the major powers helped to start a war, they are all to blame in some way. Washington Naval Agreements of 1922. . Between USA, Britain, France, Italy and Japan. .. . Placed limits on warships for all major powers. Battleships only, no cruisers, destroyers or subs. . But . Period 5. I What is Nationalism?. A) . Nationalism. is the belief that one’s greatest loyalty should not be to a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history. When the nation also has its own independent government, it becomes a . La gamme de thé MORPHEE vise toute générations recherchant le sommeil paisible tant désiré et non procuré par tout types de médicaments. Essentiellement composé de feuille de morphine, ce thé vous assurera d’un rétablissement digne d’un voyage sur . HI290- History of Germany. The Making of the modern German state and society.. Germany’s transformation from maverick to model state.. Diversity. No direct historical lines.. Module Themes. Distinctive German way to modernity which contrasts with the standard (West European, British, French) way:. Lecture 2. The Franco-Prussian War (1870-71): primacy of domestic policy. War with France created an huge upsurge in German national feeling – popular pressure in the South German states to transform the wartime alliance into a permanent union.. Lecture 5. The July Crisis. 28 June:. Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo.. 5 July:. Kaiser Wilhelm II offers Germany’s unconditional support (the ‘blank cheque’) to Austria-Hungary..