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Good Afternoon!. NVC/Collect Stalin Prompt Warm-Up: Global Economic Crisis Rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party Essential Question : What was Hitler’s agenda as the leader of Germany? Homework : Stalin Prompt due MONDAY. Warm-Up: Economic Crisis.
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Good Afternoon! • NVC/Collect Stalin Prompt • Warm-Up: Global Economic Crisis • Rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party Essential Question: What was Hitler’s agenda as the leader of Germany? Homework: Stalin Prompt due MONDAY
Warm-Up: Economic Crisis • Briefly define the terms below and explain the effect they had on Germany after WWI • Inflation • Dawes Plan • Great Depression
Rise of Hitler • Adolf Hitler • Officer in the German army in WWI • Twice awarded the Iron Cross for bravery • A super nationalist • Hated the Treaty of Versailles • Post-WWI joins a tiny political group called the National Socialist German Workers Party • Aka NAZI Party • First attempt to seize power in 1923 Beer Hall Putsch • Plan fails, and he is forgotten when Dawes Plan fixes economy
Hitler Gains Power • 1929 Great Depression • German economy collapses • People once more turn to Hitler and the Nazis • Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg tries to control Nazis • 1933 Hindenburg names Hitler Chancellor to keep a better eye on him • 1934 Hindenburg dies, Hitler gains absolute power
“By naming Hitler as Reichschancellor, you have delivered up our holy Fatherland to one of the greatest rabble-rousers of all time. I solemnly predict that this cursed man will plunge our beloved Reich into the abyss and bring our nation into inconceivable misery.”– General Erich Ludendorff, to President Hindenburg of the Weimar Republic
Essential Question • What was Hitler’s agenda as leader of Germany? • Read over the “Program of the Nazi Party.” In the first column of the graphic organizer, summarize each agenda point in YOUR OWN WORDS • Read over Documents A-D (Speeches 1-4). How does Hitler further explain the main points of the Program of the Nazi Agenda? Summarize this information in the second column