HST 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Classical Liberalism, 1930 American Soccer League, German National People'S Party
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Us president hoover believed that government should keep out of the economy. This only pushed the country deeper into crisis. Fdr"s new deal policy got the economy moving again with massive investments and deficit spending. They were operating the government on massive american loans this led to financial ruins, unemployment and hitler coming to power. The weimar governments were usually coalition governments and at this time they had over 30 parties in parliament. Germany was immediately hit by the us crisis. The coalition government could not agree on a solution. He was the go between hindenburg and the army command. He was a background character and very conservative. Tried to set up a coalition government using classical liberalism ideology. Failed to gain a majority in parliament. Couldn"t get the socialists to support him, so he had hindenburg dissolve parliament. 1928: kpd party had huge amount of representatives in parliament.
