Hitler's Rise to Power

  • Start and beliefs of the National Socialist Worker's Party

    The Party was a small political party that came out of the previous German government. The Party believed in nationalism and anti-jewish ideas.
  • Hitler assumes control of the Nazis

    Hitler assumes control of the Nazis
    Hilter declared himself the absolute leader of the Party. He blamed groups in Germany as the problems and he started to plot to demolish the German state.
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    Hitler is arrested and the Nazis gain support

    Hitler is arrested trying to overthrow the government. The trial gave the Party publicly making the group popular with farmers, small business owners, and middle-class members who felt betrayed.
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    The Great Depression and the Impact for Nazis

    The Great Depression caused people to turn to more radical parties like the Nazis. This allowed the Nazis to increase their share of the Reichstag vote.
  • Concentration Camps Open

    Hitler approves the building of concentration camps to hold political prisoners who had disagreed with the Nazis.
  • The Chancellor Deal

    Franz Von Papen told President Von Hindenburg that they can use Hilter's voting power of the NSDAP and they can surround him with carefully chosen advisers to control his radical views. Hindenburg agreed, offering Adolf Hitler the chancellorship and to form a government.
  • Reichstag Fire and Aftermath

    There was a destructive fire in the Reichstag building in Berlin. This allowed Hitler to declare a state of emergency. When accepted Hitler is able to gain ultimate power over the state and their people.
  • The Enabling Act

    The Nazis introduce the Enabling Act allowing Hitler to govern without restrictions.
  • Hindenburg's Death and the Aftermath

    Hindenburg's Death and the Aftermath
    President Hindenburg dies and Hitler takes over the government, being titled as fuehrer.
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    Rearmament

    Hitler reinstituted the draft. The following year he presented his Four-year plan which was a schedule preparing the nation's military for war.
  • Anschluss-Austrian Takeover

    The Austrian chancellor pushed for Austrian independence but after Britain and France refused to help him against the Nazis, he resigned. German forces invaded the following day and Hitler united German and Austria under the same government.
  • Czechoslovakia and the Munich Agreement

    Czechoslovakia and the Munich Agreement
    Hitler, the British prime minister, the Italian prime minister, and the France prime minister made an agreement that allowed the Nazis to take over Sudetenland seeing that Hitler would not go any farther into Czechoslovakia.