Reconstruction


 
 
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Reconstruction

Reconstruction: Hitler gave the responsibility of economic recovery to the economist- Hjalmar Schacht. He wanted full production and full employment through a state-funded work-creation programme. As a result, the famous German superhighways and the people’s car, the Volkswagen, were made.

  • Hitler assigned the responsibility of economic recovery to the economist Hjalmar Schacht who aimed the production and full employment through state funded work - creation programme.
  • He pulled out of the league of the Nations in 1933, reoccupied in Rhineland in 1936 and integrated Austria,Germany in 1938 under the slogan " one people one empire and one leader".
  • Later, Hitler chose war as a way out of the economic crisis. Resources were to be accumulated through expansion of territory. In 1939, Germany invaded Poland and started a war with France and England .A tripartite signed between Germany , Italy and Japan in 1940. attacked the soviet union in June 1914 meanwhile,resisted involvement in the war.
  • When Japan extended its support to Hitler and boomed US base at Pearl Harbor, Us entered 2nd world war ended in May 1945 with Hitler's defeat and the US dropped atom bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.
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