1. How to make enemies and murder mass amounts of people
Authoritarian States
How to make enemies and murder mass amounts of people

2. What is a totalitarian state?
Give your best definition of a totalitarian state.
What characteristics does a totalitarian state have?
What factors have to be in place, in order for a Totalitarian/Authoritarian state to come to power?
Can an authoritarian state be good for its people?

3. Read the Article Take Cornell Notes List 2 Main Ideas
How does it support your previous viewpoint?
How does it add to your previous viewpoint?
Read the Article

4. Conditions that contributed to his rise to power
Hitler
Impact of War
Economic Factors
Social Division
Weakness of Political System
Conditions that contributed to his rise to power

5. Hitler Focus Question:
Was democracy a desired by the masses, or was it a scheme by the military leaders Hindenburg and Ludendorff so that punishment would be lessened after the war? Explain Using Stage 1.
Focus Question:

6. Focus Question Stage One
Was the Constitution of 1919 a hinderance to a successful democratic system? Explain Using Stage 2.
Focus Question
Stage One

7. Focus Question:
What role did economics play in polarizing and brutalizing German political life? Is AJP Taylor’s view that, “only the Great Depression put the wind into the sails of National Socialism” accurate? Explain Using Stage 2

8. Focus Question
How significant was the Nazi’s 25- Point Program in generating popular support among the masses? Explain Using “The NSDAP’s 25-Point Programme”.

9. Focus Question
What does Streseman’s leadership and his death, coupled with the Great Depression, show us about the German people’s faith in democracy? Explain using Stages 3 and 4.

10. Using Stage 4, create a cause-effect chart for the influence of:
Hindenburg’s leadership
Bruning
Franz Von Papen
Otto Meissner
Cause-Effect
“We come as enemies, as the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.” - Goebbels

11. Was the rise to power of National Socialism one of destiny or chance?
Focus Question

12. OPCVL Revision Underline the origin in red
Underline the purpose in blue
Underline the content in orange
circle the word value - write the number of how many you have at the top
Box the word limiting - write the number of how many you have at the top

13. Homework:
Prepare for essay next class on the factor that led to the rise of Hitler.