1. Great Depression Photos

2. Great Depression Photos

3. Great Depression Photos

4. Great Depression Photos

5. * Huge rallies were staged and broadcast via radio
* Reflections from photographs from textbook on pages 570 & 571.
* Developing a “cult of personality?”
Hitler ordered all but the official Nazi radio transmission to be cancelled. There was no television, computer, cell phone or other electronic visual technology in the home. “We are yours” is depicted in the stadium.
* Huge rallies were staged and broadcast via radio

6. Reading Chapter 14, Section One (pages 568 – 575), answering …
** What do the photographs on pages 570 & 571 tell us about these totalitarian dictators?
(1) A “cult of personality” was encouraged about Stalin (also Mussolini and Hitler), describe this …
(2) Propaganda is used to … (describe this)
(3) Appeal of fascism was …
(4) What undermined Germany’s government, the Weimar Republic?
(5) What did military leaders in Japan argue?
(6) What were the weaknesses of the League of Nations?
(7) What is “appeasement?”
(8) What were the “Anschluss” and the “Munich Pact?”

7. What did military leaders in Japan argue? (page 572)?

8. (1) What does the cartoon below discuss?
Heading …
“Remember … One More Lollypop, and Then You All Go Home?”

9. Nazi Germany & Adolf Hitler
** What do each of these quotes mean?
Quote One: “The stronger must dominate the weaker and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. … All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.”

10. Nazi Germany & Adolf Hitler
** What do each of these quotes mean?
Quote Two: “With every means [the Jew] tries to subjugate. … Culturally, he contaminates art, literature, the theater, makes a mockery of natural feeling,
overthrows all concepts of beauty and sublimity, of the noble and the good, and instead drags men down …”

11. Nazi Germany & Adolf Hitler
** What is Hitler referring to in this quote below?
Quote Three: “The defeats of the battlefield in August 1918 would have been child’s play to bear. They stood in no proportions to the victories of our people. It was not [the defeats] which caused our downfall; no, it was brought
about by that Power [Jews and Marxists] which prepared these defeats by systematically over many decades robbing our people of the political and moral instincts and forces…”

12. Nazi Germany & Adolf Hitler
Hitler’s Ideology
In Mein Kampf (1923), major points …
[1] – Uniting all German-speaking people
[2] – Racial purification and a master “Aryan” race
[3] – Germany needs “lebensraum” or living space for national expansion

13. Causes that Supported Failure of “Weimar Republic (1918-1933)” and Rise of Hitler
Economic Instability and hyperinflation

14. How does Hitler become Dictator of Germany?
* January of 1933, Hitler is named Chancellor
* Feb. 27, 1933, burning of the Reichstag, legislative building
* March, 1933, Enabling Act of 1933, Hitler becomes dictator

15. What a greedy Jew looks like… [from “The Poison Mushroom” required reading in elementary schools under Nazi authority]
1930’s Children’s Book
"The Jew is our greatest enemy!
Beware of the Jew!"

16. The Beginning of German Aggression
** What was Hitler’s purpose in occupying the Rhineland?
1935 – Hitler continues build-up of army
1936 – Militarization of the Rhineland
Why appeasement?

17. Germany Enters Austria

18. The Anschluss Austria: German-Austrian Unification Referendum?
March 12, 1938, Germany troops enter Austria before referendum vote.

19. Sudetenland Crisis
- By 1938, there are 3 million Germans living in this region.
- Hitler claims mistreatment by Czechs.

20. Munich Conference & Agreement
Appeasement – signed September 30, 1938, Hitler gets the Sudetenland.
- Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
“Peace in our time”

21. Germany Enters Sudetenland

22. The Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia
March 15, 1939,
Germany takes the
rest of Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia:

23. Reading Chapter 14, Section Seven, answering …
(1) Describe the “Aryans” …
(2) Describe Nuremberg Laws …
(3) Describe Kristallnacht …
(4) Why were Jewish refugees not welcomed into other countries?
(5) Purpose initially of concentration camps ...
(6) The Wannsee Conference in 1942 moved towards Hitler’s policy of …
(7) When did the Allied nations learn of Nazi atrocities and what was the response?