Describe at least one specific reason why germany was in bad shape between the end of world war i and 1933

Germany lost Lorraine and Alsace and moreover had to pay exceptionally high reparations. Moreover Germany lost its colonies. Its imperial dream disappeared. Germans felt humiliated. In 1929 economic crisis made all that even worse.

Explanation: psychologically speaking inflation (imperial ambitions and Great War, 1914-1918) was followed by deflation (reparations, lost provinces, lost colonies, economic crises). All that was fault of German elites.

the united states presidential election of 1844 was the 15th quadrennial presidential election, held from november 1, to december 4, 1844. democrat james k. polk defeated whig henry clay in a close contest that turned on the controversial issues of slavery and the annexation of the republic of texas.