POLB92H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wing Leader, European Political Science
25 Feb 2014
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Lecture 11: the rise of the nazis: highly developed country with was a major industrial power by the late. Germany in the 1920s: they had little democratic history. , and had a monarchy until 1918, which opposed democracy drastically. The end of world war i until world war ii would be called weimar germany, which was dominated by hostile international conflict. Germany had been forced to pay the world war i costs, which was about 300 billion (never paid). After this the monarchy ends and a democracy is established known as the weimar republic: the constitution created gave the president enormous powers. President could appoint the chancellor (pm), disband parliament, and could rule by degree if parliament did not have majority. Proportional system meaning that the percentage of the vote you get is the exact representation you will have in parliament (usually countries will have a 5% vote minimum to avoid fragmentation): communists vs. nationalists threatened the nation.
