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The Rise and Rule of Adolf Hitler

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

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  1. The Rise and Rule of Adolf Hitler The Rise and Rule of Single Party States

  2. 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.

  3. Hitler the Artist • Moving to Vienna • Art School • The Effects of Vienna on Hitler • Hitler developed a dislike for many things in Vienna.

  4. Becoming a Soldier • Joining the ranks • Dispatch Runner • Corporal Hitler • A sense of belonging • The moral letdown

  5. Hitler’s start in Politics • Moving to Munich • The German Workers’ Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) • The National Socialist German Workers’ Party • Nazis • Goals

  6. Hitler • Benito Mussolini • January 1923 • The Ruhr Crisis • The Reichswehr • General Erich Ludendorff

  7. The first attempt at power • The Brownshirts • The Beer Hall Putsch • Hitler’s Trial • Mein Kampf • Hitler gains popularity

  8. 1925-1929 • Hitler’s popularity fades • The Dawes Plan • The Economy turns • The Great Depression

  9. Arms Limitations • The Geneva Naval Conference (1927) • Calvin Coolidge • Results • The London Naval Conference (1930) • The London Naval Treaty • Results

  10. The Great Depression in Germany • 6 million unemployed • Factories ceased production • Foreign loans stopped or recalled. • searching for new answers

  11. What to do? • Problems • Democracy? • Hitler’s use of propaganda • The Treaty of Versailles • National Humiliation

  12. 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.

  13. Election Results • 1928: 12 seats went to the Nazis • 1930: 107 seats • 1932: 230 seats • Making Hitler the Chancellor

  14. Hitler Becomes Chancellor • President Hindenburg • January 30, 1933 • Shared Power? • The Reichstag Building • Who to blame?

  15. The Red Scare • freedom of speech and press • The Brownshirts • Dictatorial powers • The Nazi Revolution

  16. New Rules • Germany ceased to be Federal • All other parties were destroyed • Purging the Brownshirts • June 1934

  17. The Nazi State • The Third Reich • Der Führer • Hitler’s view of Jews • Racial Science • The Nuremberg Laws • Dachau

  18. Anti-Semitism • November 9, 1938 • Kristallnacht • What “provoked” the incident? • Closed doors

  19. Crushing Competition • The Gestapo • The People’s Court

  20. 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

  21. Making Germany Stronger • Luftwaffe • Soviet Reaction to Hitler • Poland • German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact • Conscription • The Soviets join the League • Franco-Soviet Pact

  22. Making Moves (1934) • Austrian Nazis • Engelbert Dollfuss • Reaction of the Western powers • Mussolini’s reaction • Preventing the Anschluss

  23. The saar • January 1935 • The league of Nations • Nazi Agitation • Reunification

  24. Military Strength • March 1935 • Disarmament • The Response • 100,000 to 600,000

  25. 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?

  26. Joining together • Mussolini’s decision (1936) • The Earth’s Axis

  27. Going for More • March 1938 • Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg • Vote on it? • The Anschluss • Nazi Propaganda

  28. Appeasement • Czechoslovakia • The Sudetenland • Britain and France • Hitler’s Demands • Neville Chamberlain • Eduard Daladier

  29. Appeasement • Munich • Four Powers • Soviet Union? • Czechoslovakia? • Loss of strategic territory • “peace in our time”

  30. Italy goes for More • Not to be out done, Mussolini took over Albania in April 1939.

  31. The Arms Race • Rearmament by Germany • French Response • British Response • defensive strategies

  32. The Arms Race • The Maginot Line • The West Wall • Mobilizing the Economy

  33. 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.

  34. Financial Impact of the Arms Race • Germany? • France? • Britain?

  35. Going for More • Memel • Danzig • Poland • Anglo-French Guarantee • The Anti-Commintern Pact www.google.com/maps

  36. Collective Security • The Nazi-Soviet Pact • V.M. Molotov • Joachim Ribbentrop

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