• Labor problems caused by massive inflation.  In November of 1923, a newspaper cost 100 billion marks
• Loyalty of many ex-soldiers to the new government 
• Heavy war reparations to France that Germany couldn’t pay.  So the French sent troops to occupy mines and factories in the Ruhr, Germany’s steelmaking region
• Loss of territory and colonies at the end of World War I

These problems overshadowed some successes of the Weimar Republic. Germany was admitted into the League of Nations in 1926 taking its place once again as a member in good standing in the international community.

In Germany, as in Italy, a number of revolutionary parties took shape in the years following World War I.  One of these was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi party led by Adolph Hitler.  Hitler’s rise to power was quite sudden.  In 1923 he was jailed for attempting to overthrow the government of Bavaria, one of Germany’s states.  In 1932 he was Chancellor of Germany and by 1934 unquestioned dictator of the country.

Assignment 7.03 - Hitler's Rise To Power

Create a timeline in Microsoft Word.  In the “page set up/paper size” set the page to “landscape.”  In this assignment you will create a timeline of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.  The timeline should include the years and key events beginning at the close of World War I in 1919 and end with Germany’s defeat in 1945.