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The Rise and Rule of Adolf Hitler. The Rise and Rule of Single Party States. The Rise of Adolf Hitler. DOB: April 20 th, 1889 Born in the city of Braunau, Austria. Hitler lost his mother and father during his teenage years and dropped out of high school at age 16. . Hitler the Artist.
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The Rise and Rule of Adolf Hitler The Rise and Rule of Single Party States
The Rise of Adolf Hitler • DOB: April 20th, 1889 • Born in the city of Braunau, Austria. • Hitler lost his mother and father during his teenage years and dropped out of high school at age 16.
Hitler the Artist • Moving to Vienna • Art School • The Effects of Vienna on Hitler • Hitler developed a dislike for many things in Vienna.
Becoming a Soldier • Joining the ranks • Dispatch Runner • Corporal Hitler • A sense of belonging • The moral letdown
Hitler’s start in Politics • Moving to Munich • The German Workers’ Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) • The National Socialist German Workers’ Party • Nazis • Goals
Hitler • Benito Mussolini • January 1923 • The Ruhr Crisis • The Reichswehr • General Erich Ludendorff
The first attempt at power • The Brownshirts • The Beer Hall Putsch • Hitler’s Trial • Mein Kampf • Hitler gains popularity
1925-1929 • Hitler’s popularity fades • The Dawes Plan • The Economy turns • The Great Depression
Arms Limitations • The Geneva Naval Conference (1927) • Calvin Coolidge • Results • The London Naval Conference (1930) • The London Naval Treaty • Results
The Great Depression in Germany • 6 million unemployed • Factories ceased production • Foreign loans stopped or recalled. • searching for new answers
What to do? • Problems • Democracy? • Hitler’s use of propaganda • The Treaty of Versailles • National Humiliation
Who to blame? • The Weimar Republic • A man of action! • Unearned incomes, unfair taxes, trusts, chain stores, and high interest rates. • The lowest common denominator.
Election Results • 1928: 12 seats went to the Nazis • 1930: 107 seats • 1932: 230 seats • Making Hitler the Chancellor
Hitler Becomes Chancellor • President Hindenburg • January 30, 1933 • Shared Power? • The Reichstag Building • Who to blame?
The Red Scare • freedom of speech and press • The Brownshirts • Dictatorial powers • The Nazi Revolution
New Rules • Germany ceased to be Federal • All other parties were destroyed • Purging the Brownshirts • June 1934
The Nazi State • The Third Reich • Der Führer • Hitler’s view of Jews • Racial Science • The Nuremberg Laws • Dachau
Anti-Semitism • November 9, 1938 • Kristallnacht • What “provoked” the incident? • Closed doors
Crushing Competition • The Gestapo • The People’s Court
The World Disarmament Conference • Geneva 1932-1934 • Self Interests • Depression • Germany leaves the LON • The role of the Soviets • LON still dealing with the Manchurian Incident
Making Germany Stronger • Luftwaffe • Soviet Reaction to Hitler • Poland • German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact • Conscription • The Soviets join the League • Franco-Soviet Pact
Making Moves (1934) • Austrian Nazis • Engelbert Dollfuss • Reaction of the Western powers • Mussolini’s reaction • Preventing the Anschluss
The saar • January 1935 • The league of Nations • Nazi Agitation • Reunification
Military Strength • March 1935 • Disarmament • The Response • 100,000 to 600,000
The Rhineland • March 7, 1936 • The Franco-Soviet Pact • Weaknesses in the German Army • The response of France • The response of Great Britain • Going to war?
Joining together • Mussolini’s decision (1936) • The Earth’s Axis
Going for More • March 1938 • Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg • Vote on it? • The Anschluss • Nazi Propaganda
Appeasement • Czechoslovakia • The Sudetenland • Britain and France • Hitler’s Demands • Neville Chamberlain • Eduard Daladier
Appeasement • Munich • Four Powers • Soviet Union? • Czechoslovakia? • Loss of strategic territory • “peace in our time”
Italy goes for More • Not to be out done, Mussolini took over Albania in April 1939.
The Arms Race • Rearmament by Germany • French Response • British Response • defensive strategies
The Arms Race • The Maginot Line • The West Wall • Mobilizing the Economy
The Arms Race • Financing Rearmament • Hjalmar Schacht • British Blockade • Hitler’s 4 Year Plan • Where did the money come from? • 1939-2 million in the army.
Financial Impact of the Arms Race • Germany? • France? • Britain?
Going for More • Memel • Danzig • Poland • Anglo-French Guarantee • The Anti-Commintern Pact www.google.com/maps
Collective Security • The Nazi-Soviet Pact • V.M. Molotov • Joachim Ribbentrop