https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y Made with a wish on a star en-us 2018-04-16 13:53:10 UTC 2025-10-04 19:45:16 UTC hello@padlet.com perez_marlene11 https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253416796 -The Weimar Republic: Set up in 1919 and proved to be politically weak. It faced both left-wing communist rebellion and right-wing conservative and nationalist opposition, focused on the Treaty of Versailles, humiliating peace treaty to Germany. 
-When US loans were withdrawn following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Germany fell into depression. 
-National Socialism thrived on the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic. 
Hitler's aims: restore German prosperity, provide jobs and smash the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler's personal leadership, aims and idealogy won the people over. 
-By July 1932, the Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag due to the country's last democratic government collapsing. 
-On January of 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg was persuaded to appoint Hitler as chancellor.
-The Reichstag Fire permitted a further law that allowed the imprisonment of communists and helped to ncrease support for the Nazis in the March 1933 elections... Hitler forced through an Enablinh Act, which gave him dictatorial powers over Germany. 

]]> 2018-04-19 13:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253416796 perez_marlene11 https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253432105 -Aggressive Foreign Policy: Anschluss, Czechslovakia, Rhineland
-Hitler's personality was confident and charismatic
-Propaganda: set up a ministry for propaganda (controlled the media), wrote Mein Kamp (expresses his views), Hitler youth
-Hitler made sure that the Nazi Party gained control over government at both central and local level.
-Hitler made sure that no sectional interests that might conflict witht Nazism would be able to exist, by banning trade unions and other political parties.
-Before 1939, there appeared to be little oposition to Nazi rule, but beneath the surface, political,  ideological and religious hostility remained and an element of dissension contiued in some groups of young people. Opposition grew appreciably in wartime
-Foreign policy successes to 1940 added to Hitler's popularity and power, but failure thereafter weakened the regime and by 1945 few mourned Hitler's suicide. ]]> 2018-04-19 14:02:29 UTC https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253432105 perez_marlene11 https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253435708 -The Nazis attempted to control the Churches through the Catholic Concordat and a separate Reich Protestant Church. However, neither was ever fully brought into line and attempts to spread an alternative pagan faith met with limited success. 
-Young people were the focus of intense indoctrination through the education system and  Hitler Youth.
-The experimental, modernist Weimar culture was rejectede in favour of a controlled and conservative approach to the arts, which demanded that the arts should glorify Nazi values. 
-Nazi policy towards women was conservative, aimingg to keep women in the home, but it was inconsistent since women were encourgared back into the workplace in the war years.
-Minorities were persecuted for their social, religious, and racial conformity, with policies becoming ever more radical as the regime grew more secure. Attempts to create a 'Jew-free' society ultimately led to the Holocaust and the deaths of 6 million Jews. ]]> 2018-04-19 14:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253435708 perez_marlene11 https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253441468 -Before 1902, Cuba was a Spanish colony. Nationalist Cubans fought two Wars of Independence against Spain-from 1868 to 1878 and from 1895 to 1898. Following four years of US control, Cuba became independent in 1902. 
-However, the US Platt Amendment of 1901, which the 1902 Cuban constitution had to include, gave the USA powers of supervision and intervention.
-Cuban politics was corrupt, and in the 1920s students and others launched radical protest movements. 
-From 1927, Cuba was ruled by the dictator Gerardo Machado, but protests and general strike in 1933 forced him to flee. 
-The hopes of the 1933 radicals were dashed n 1934, when power increasingly passed to Fulgencio Batista. From 1934 to 1959, Batista ruled directly or through a series of puppet presidents.
-In 1953, Fidel Castro launched an unsuccessful attack on the army barracks at Moncada. In Mexico, his 26 July Movement planned Batista's overthrow. 
-Before 1959, Castro's ideology was a radical miz, influenced by Cuban radical nationalists. His main aims of his idealogy were for fairness, social welfare, mordernisation and independence from US intereference.
-IN 1956, Castro landed in Cuba with a small group of revolutionaries. The group included Che Guevara. By 1959, their guerilla war had force Batista to flee Cuba.

]]> 2018-04-19 14:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253441468 perez_marlene11 https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253441650 -1959, Castro began to establish a situation of dual power by creating alternative organisations that inreasingly bypassed the government
-Castro began to move agaisnt liberals opposed to his more radical policies
-In 1960, Cuba made several trade agreements with the Soviet Union, East European states and China. As a result of increasing US economic restrictions, Castro nationalised US companies operating in Cuba
-In 1961, Castro made the first announcement of Cuba's move to socialism. Over the next few years, Cuba moved closer to the Soviet Union and to Soviet style economy and state
-In 1965, the numbers f Cubans leaving Castro's Cuba increased
-On February 18, 2008, illness forced Fidel Castro to resign his leadership posts and his brother Raul took over]]> 2018-04-19 14:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253441650 perez_marlene11 https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253441914 -After 1959, Castro moved quickly to carry out earlier promise to help the poorer sections of society by redistributing wealth and resources. In May 1959, the Agrarian Reform Act gave confiscated land landless and poor peasants. ]]> 2018-04-19 14:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/perez_marlene11/l7bdblj9pi2y/wish/253441914