PPT-Wilhelmine Germany HI136, History of Germany

Lecture 4 The Army and German Society The garrison was the centre of social life in Imperial Germany The German Army was made up of conscripts every male between the ages of 17 and 45 was eligible for military service. Lecture 12. The Third Reich . At War. The Polish Campaign, 1-28 Sept. 1939. Source: R. Overy, . The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Third Reich. Blitzkrieg. Campaigns in western Europe and the Mediterranean,. 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. Lecture 16. 1968. Background of Social Change. The protests of 1968 reflected an . ongoing. process of social change, not just in Germany but in the whole of the western world.. Increased prosperity and living standards.. Lecture . 13. Defeat, Occupation . and . Division. The Morgenthau Plan. . Drawn up by the US Secretary of State, Henry Morgenthau.. Designed to ensure that Germany could never again be a threat to her neighbours.. 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)?. 1 , 1890 - 1918 The Impact on Popular Morale ( March 1917 ) The command economy meant that the state was the public arbiter of hunger. It was also a symbol of the problem. Bureaucratic imperiousness Use the events list provided and the A3 graph provided to do the following:. Draw on the 21 events positioning them on either the ‘cold’ or ‘warm’ area of the graph depending on unification & relations between the East and West. 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). Wilhelmine Germany HI136, History of Germany Lecture 3 The Captain of Köpenick On 16 October 1906 an unemployed shoemaker named Wilhelm Voigt dressed as a captain in the German Army. Collecting together a small group of soldiers off the streets he went to the small town of K Otto von Bismarck (1815-98). Born in . Sch. önhausen. in Brandenburg, the son of a Pomeranian . Junker. .. Educated at . Göttingen. University.. 1836: Entered the Prussian civil service.. 1839: Retired from the civil service to manage the family estates.. 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.. Lecture . 14. West . Germany. The Basic Law. Based on 4 key principles:. The rule of law. Democratic participation for all. Federalism. Social welfare. Established the Federal Republic of Germany as a federal parliamentary democracy with separation...