Description |
viii, 567 pages ; 20 cm |
Series |
Modern German history titles in Norton paperbound editions |
Contents |
Crosscurrents in the German Empire, 1871-1914 -- The peace resolution of July, 1917 -- Brest-Litovsk -- Germany sues for peace -- Wilson dictates -- The advent of the republic -- German militarism obtains a new lease on life -- Civil war in Germany -- The Weimar coalition takes over -- Versailles -- The Weimar constitution and the struggle over the factory councils -- The Kapp Putsch -- Germany moves toward the right -- Foreign affairs: reparation, upper Silesia and Rapallo -- Adolf Hitler and the beginnings of national socialism -- The assassination of Rathenau and its aftermath -- Wilhelm Cuno, the Ruhr Imbroglio and the great inflation -- From the advent of Stresemann to the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch -- Financial stabilization and the Dawes plan -- The Dawes legislation, the league and the advent of Luther -- Hindenburg becomes president of the Reich -- Locarno -- Geneva, Thoiry and the Kellogg-Briand pact -- Prosperity, domestic conflict and new gains for labor -- 1928: the social democrats return to power -- National socialism in transition -- Toward a new reparation settlement -- The struggle over the young plan -- The great depression and the advent of Heinrich Bruening -- The inauguration of presidential dictatorship -- The Nazis score their first major triumph -- The social democrats tolerate Bruening -- Financial distress, the Harzburg front and Hitler's Duesseldorf speech -- Hindenburg's Re-election and the advance of the Nazi tide -- Papen succeeds Bruening -- Papen's coup in Prussia and the elections of July, 1932 -- Papen versus Hitler -- Schleicher succeeds Papen -- The advent of Hitler |
Notes |
First published 1946 |
Bibliography |
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SUBJECT |
Germany -- History -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054589
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Germany -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054524 -- 1918-1965
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Germany -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054613 -- 1918-1945
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ISBN |
0393002802 (paperback) |
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