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Rise of Dictatorships

Rise of Dictatorships. Nazi Germany. Germany Post-WWI. Lost WWI Had to suffer under the Treaty of Versailles. Blamed for starting the war. Had to pay huge indemnity to Britain and France. Only way to pay that was to loan money from USA. Nazi Party.

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Rise of Dictatorships

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  1. Rise of Dictatorships Nazi Germany

  2. Germany Post-WWI • Lost WWI • Had to suffer under the Treaty of Versailles. • Blamed for starting the war. • Had to pay huge indemnity to Britain and France. • Only way to pay that was to loan money from USA.

  3. Nazi Party • Short form of National Socialist German Worker’s Party. • Ideologically, the Nazis were on the far right of the political scale. • Against both communism and democracy. • Stressed that the Aryan race was the only pure one.

  4. Nazi Persecution • During their reign over Germany the Nazis persecuted the following groups: • Jews • Slavs • Gypsies • Homosexuals • Mentally and physically disabled • Communists Collectively, these groups were known as Lebensunwertes Leben. “Life unworthy of living.”

  5. Rise of the Nazi Party • Began as a political party during the Weimar Republic. • Bullyed other political parties through violence. • Beer Hall Putsch 1923. Fails. • Hitler sent to prison. While there, writes a book entitled Mein Kampf, (My Struggle).

  6. Mein Kampf • Written by Hitler while in jail. • Detailed the philosophy of Nazism. • Blames the world’s problems on two things: Judaism and Communism. • Detailed Hitler’s foreign policy: wanted to ally with Britain and Italy against France and Russia.

  7. Adolf Hitler • 1889-1945 • Served in German army during WWI. • Eloquent speaker • Leader of the Nazi party. • Appointed Chancellor by von Hindenberg. • Declared himself Führer (supreme leader)

  8. Joseph Goebbels • Propaganda minister. • Used the medium of radio to spread Hitler’s message. • One of the planners of the Holocaust.

  9. Heinrich Himmler • Leader of the SS. • In charge of running the concentration and extermination camps. • Responsible for the murder of over 6 million Jews (the Holocaust) as well as thousands of others.

  10. Hermann Göring • In charge of the German Air Force (the Luftwaffe). • Responsible for bombing civilian targets during the war, including London.

  11. Lebensraum • Translated as living space. • Used as justification when the Nazis began to expand into the other countries of Europe. • Because the Germans were of the Master Race, they should be able to take whatever land they wanted. (This was the Nazis thinking at the time.)

  12. Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (between Nazis and Soviets.) • Invasion of Poland, September 1st, 1939. • Britain and France pledge that if Nazis attack Poland, they will go to war. They do so. • Germans use Blitzkrieg tactics. • 1st real effective use of tanks’ mobility on the battlefield.

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