Internet Exercises   Instructions: Enter your answers into the boxes below. If you'd like a print-out of your responses, click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page, and you will be taken to a printer-friendly page. If you have been instructed to submit your exercise online, enter both your and your instructor's name and e-mail address, then click the Email button at the bottom of the page. Your answers will be e-mailed immediately. Macintosh Users: If you have been instructed to submit your reponses to your instructor, you must enter your responses, then click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page to receive a printer-friendly version of your responses that you can then print and turn in to your instructor.   Hitler’s Rise to Power and Its Lessons Two events marked the ascent of Hitler and the Nazis in the 1930s. The first was the demise of the Weimar Republic, a troubled democratic system established in the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War I. The second was the Munich Pact, in which the leaders of Britain and France acquiesced to Hitler’s plan to annex the Sudetenland, the portion of Czechoslovakia bordering Germany that contained many ethnic Germans. Hitler soon conquered all of Czechoslovakia. First head to The Destruction of the Weimar Republic: Bruno Heilig, "Why the German Republic Fell" (1938) 1. How did the international economy negatively impact the Weimar Republic? 2. What role did social inequality play in Weimar’s downfall, according to Heilig? 3. Which two parties gained the most votes in the election preceding Hitler’s accession to power? Why is this a telling statistic in regards to the fragility of democracy in the Weimar Republic? Now go to: Munich Pact 4. What does the plan designate for the Sudetenland? What did the plan require of the Czech government? 5. Look at the signatories to the agreement. Which countries are represented? What does the fact that Czechoslovakia was not a participant in the conference indicate about the nature of the international system in 1938? Finally, look at: Neville Chamberlain’s "peace in our time" 1938 6. What lessons could leaders potentially learn from Chamberlain’s errors? 7. Think about everything you know about the interwar years in Europe and the nature of the international system then. What would you have done if you were the leader of Britain in 1938?     Student Name:* Student Email:*   Professor Name:*   Professor Email:*         *required     Back to Exercise List