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1928
(Before the Great
Depression)
1929 –Start of
Great Depression
1932
(During the Great
Depression)
World War II/Holocaust Notes
The Nazi Party won only 12 seats in the Reichstag
(Reichstag- the German version of our Congress)
The U.S. stock market crashed in 1929 and started the
Great Depression throughout the world
The Nazi Party had 230 seats in the Reichstag and they
were the largest political party (like our Democratic and
Republican parties)
Article Intro:
1939
Germany invades Poland to start WWII (The Soviet
Union invades two weeks later – secret deal between
Hitler and Stalin)
WWII Overview
50 million people died in the war including six million
Jews in the Holocaust
“A Raw Wound”
-WWI
How Hitler comes to
power – Double
Whammy!
-2 million Germans die
-Treaty of Versailles
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WWI
Treaty of Versailles
Great Depression
Nazis do well in elections
von Hindenburg names him chancellor (Hitler
was not actually elected)
“Hitler’s Spell”
Hitler takes control
Of the government
Hitler and the Nazis
become more popular
Hitler tests Europe and
the World
“Another Hitler?”
The Holocaust
-Reichstag building is burned down(??)
-German Congress silenced
-Take away freedom of speech and other freedom
-German people silenced
-Other political parties arrested
-opponents of the Nazis are silenced
-von Hindenburg Dies (??) (Hitler has total
control)
-the president is silenced?
-They clean up crime and put people back to work
by violating the Treaty of Versailles (building up
the army)
-Nazi Propaganda persuades people (Hitler was a
persuasive speaker)
-The Nazis discriminate against the Jews
(Nuremberg Laws)
-Germany takes over Austria and then
Czechoslovakia
-Germany invades Poland
-Jews were stripped of their property and
freedom(Nuremberg Laws)
-Nazis implemented the “Final Solution”
-The main targets of the killing were the Jews (Six
million Jews were killed out of eight million total
in Europe)
-Other targets of the Nazis were: Roma, disabled,
gay people, resistance forces, Soviets,
communists, Polish people and other Slavic
people (Five million others)
WWII
-Hitler and the Nazis take over most of Europe
-1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and the U.S.
enters the war (Turning Point)
-1942-43: Battle of Stalingrad-Germany attacks
the Soviet Union and looks like they may defeat
the Soviets until the Russian winter stops the
Germans at Stalingrad. The Germans are pushed
back for the first time. (Turning Point)
-WWII in Europe ends in April of 1945 and Hitler
kills himself
***What Putin is doing in and around Russia today
seems similar to things that Hitler did.