Download hitler - A Broken World

(Rise of Nazis, Hitler becomes Chancellor,
The Fuhrer is Supreme, War on Jews, Fall to Dictators)
-Adolf Hitler started out as a little known political leader
-He volunteered for the Germany army
during the World War I
- received two Iron Cross, which is a medal for bravery.
-After the World War I, Hitler settles in Munich.
-He later on joined a small political
group in the early 1920s.
-This group's belief was that Germany should
overturn the Treaty of Versailles.
- This group later on was called as the Nazis
Adolf
Hitler
- The Nazis party was mainly supported by the
middle or lower middle class
- formed a branch of fascism which
we know as the Nazism.
- The symbol of the Nazis was called as the Swastika
-The Nazis made a private military
-Hitler was very talented w/ huge audiences
- Due to his excellent skill in organizing and speaking,
this led him to be a der Fuhrer, the leader of the Nazis
-Nazis is now a great political force.
-In 1923 plotted to seize power in Munich but failed
-During those 9 months, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
- became the blueprint, or a plan, for the Nazis.
-only the "Aryans", was the "master race".
-meant that the Jews, Slavs, and Gypsies were inferior
-called the unfair Treaty of Versailles an outrage
-promised to get back the land they lost in the process
-. said Germany was too crowded and that needed
more lebensraum, which means living space.
- In 1924, he united the Nazis party once again.
-People didn't believe him until Germany's Depression
-By 1932, Nazis are now the biggest political power
Reichstag
- Hitler made quick actions that helped strengthen
his position.
building
-Conservative leaders advice to name Hitler the Chancellor.
-called for new elections hoping to win a majority in the
Parliamentary.
burning
-6 days before the election, a fire burned downed the Reichstag
down
building
-The blame went to the communist and Nazis were able to get the
majority from the parliament.
-Hitler had absolute power for four years.
-Germany was changed into a totalitarian state.
-Hitler banned all other political parties and arrested the opponents. - SS (Schutzstaffel) was created to protect and be loyal to Hitler.
- In 1934, the SS arrested and murdered hundreds of Hitler's enemies.
– The SS's brutal actions and Gestapo's terror made people obey
-Economic wise, they had full control.
-New laws were made to ban strikes, destroyed labor unions, and
governments had authority over businesses.
-The employment rate to drop to 1.5 million unemployed in 1936.
They constructed factories, built highways, manufactured weapons,
and served in the military.
-used radio, literature ,press, painting, and film as propaganda tools.
-Books that were against Nazism was burned
-churches were forbidden to criticize
-schoolchildren had to join the Hitler Youth (for boys) or the League
of German Girls
-Social Darwinism and twisted Nietzsche's idea supported his brutal
acts
-Hatred of Jews was one of the main points of the of Nazis ideology.
-passed laws that took away most rights from Jews in 1933.
-November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) and
was the real start of eliminating Jews.
-Eastern nations in Europe fell for dictatorship
-1919, Hungary military forces and wealthy landowners
-1926 Poland Marshal Joseph Pilsudski
- Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Romania kings turned to strongman rule
-1935 Czechoslovakia is the only democratic country
-Britain, France, and Scandinavia’s democracy survived
-By 1930, 2 major governmental group; democratic and totalitarian