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THIRD REICH AND WORLD WAR II

THIRD REICH AND WORLD WAR II. By: Angelica Labermeier 6 th hour. Third Reich 1933-1945. What was the Third Reich? Nazi Germany Who were the Nazi’s?

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THIRD REICH AND WORLD WAR II

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  1. THIRD REICH AND WORLD WAR II By: Angelica Labermeier 6th hour

  2. Third Reich 1933-1945 • What was the Third Reich? • Nazi Germany • Who were the Nazi’s? • The National Socialist Party in Germany led by a man named Adolf Hitler. The party was established in Munich in 1919, and was taken over by Hitler in 1921. • The national socialists had “revolution” using persuasion and terror to gain followers.

  3. Reichstag Fire • Hitler was in an election to be Germany’s new chancellor. • He wanted to become a dictator to begin the Nazi Revolution. • Hitler manipulated Hindenburg (Germany’s former chancellor) and got him to sign basically anything Hitler wanted. • Hindenburg signed an emergency decree that put the state of Prussia into Hitler and the Nazi’s hand. • A week before the election the Reichstag building was set on fire that was blamed on the Communists by the Nazi’s.

  4. Hitler as Chancellor and Dictator • Once Hitler took power, he said that all communists and some Social Democrats were not allowed to vote. • Hitler passed the Enabling Act that gave Nazi’s control of all institutions and organizations such as political parties and trade unions. • He also banned groups of “non Aryans.” • The difference between Aryans and non Aryans: • Aryan is a Non-Jewish Caucasian of Germanic or Nordic Ancestry. • Some believed an Aryan was someone with “blond hair and blue eyes” although most were, there were many variations of Germanic and Nordic people.

  5. More about the Third Reich • By this time, Nazi’s controlled the entire government. • After Hindenburg’s death, Hitler combined the offices of the president and chancellor. • Hitler controlled the military too • He made soldiers swear an oath of personal allegiance promising unconditional obedience. • Also he made political arrests of communists and socialists, Jews, and others.

  6. …and more. • Hitler’s use of terror was highly effective of silencing a resistance. • The Nazi party was so powerful it effected pretty much everything in Germany at that time. • They took control of education system, radio, and cultural institutions.

  7. World War II • Adolf Hitler or “Fuhrer” was a dictator over Germany. • Nazi government increased power of Germany’s armed forces. • Tried to overturn Versailles Treaty • Wanted to recover lost territory from WWI • Return so called Fatherland German speaking minorities • His goal: secure “living space” for the German “master race”

  8. Important Dates in WWII • March 1938: invaded and annexed Austria • March 1939: invaded Czechoslovakia • August 1939: Germany and USSR signed a non-agressionpact dividing up Poland. • September 1, 1939: invaded Poland. • September 3, 1939: Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declared war on Germany. • World War Two began. • June 1941-May 1945: war against the Soviet Union.

  9. More about the War • In June 1944 American, British, and Canadian forces invaded France. • Driving Germans back and liberating Paris by August. • Soviet armies advanced in the east. • March 1945: Western forces reached the Rhine River. • Soviet armies overran most of Czechoslovakia and headed for Berlin. • Hitler, feeling the tension, pressure, and certain defeat, insisted that every German city, village, and “every square meter” be defended or left behind as “scorched earth.”

  10. ….and more • April 27: the Western Allies and Soviet forces made their first contact in Saxony. • Three days later, in a bunker in Berlin, Hitler commited suicide along with his wife Eva Braun. • May 2: Berlin fell to the Soviet forces. • May 7: Third Reich surrendered unconditionally. • About 55 million people died in Europe during WWII. • About 8 million of these dead were German.

  11. Photos of Nazi Germany and WWIII

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