1. GERMANY

2. CHILD
HITLER 1919
HITLER 1923
WWI HITLER
EVA AND BLONDIE
RALLY 1933

3. HOW DID HITLER COME TO POWER?
During the depression the popularity of the Nazis grew. (HITLER LEARNED AFTER 1923 THAT HE HAD TO GAIN POWER POLITICALLY
In 1932 he ran for president and lost (to Hindenburg)
1933 the communists and Nazis were the two largest parties
Von Papen and Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor to restore order…..
FUHRER
HINDENBURG
VON PAPEN

4. HITLER’S GOALS Create a dictatorship – take away personal freedoms
Racial Purity – Germans were the superior race, Jews, Africans, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled were the enemy.
Dismantle the Treaty of Versailles
Destroy communism
Reunite all German speaking peoples (Austria, Czechoslovakia- Sudetenland, Poland)
Lebensraum – “living space to the east”
Aryan supremacy

5. KEY NAZI LEADERS 1933-45 HEYDRICH GOEBBELS GOERING HIMMLER EVA BRAUN
EVA & GOLDIE
ROMMEL
EICHMAN

6. HITLER’S TOTALITARIAN STATE
BURNING OF THE REICHSTAG 1933 – the Nazis blamed this on a Communist insurrection
ENABLING ACTS – This law gave Hitler “Marshall law” in Germany
- opposition was banned
Black shirts – SA – Gestapo and SS
- secret police state was increased (Gestapo, SS)
- book burnings
- Hitler Youth and the Young Maidens
Concentration camps were opened (for political prisoners)

7. Public burning books
Gestapo banner
Reichstag burning
Hitler Youth
The SS
Gestapo

8. “NIGHT OF LONG KNIVES 1934”
June 30, 1934 – the SS murdered Rohm (leader of the SA) and 130 others
Himmler and Heydrich convinced Hitler Rohm was out to replace him.
Included Strasser (head of the Nazi Socialists)
Von Schleicher – opponent of Hitler
Gave Hitler the support of the army, and instilled fear.
1934 – Hindenburg died and Hitler took the position of President and Chancellor (became the Fuhrer)
VON ROHM

9. Third Reich
1. Discus the New Order

10. 2. Lebensraum

11. Racial Purity
3. With a partner:
Define Anti-Semitism

12. 4. Nuremburg Decree or Laws 1935

13. Nuremburg Rally

14. Jewish Bureau

15. Final Solution
In 1942 at Wannsee, key Nazis discussed and used the term “Final Solution”
The removal of Jews from Europe was discussed (Madagascar)
It was decided to liquidate the Ghettos and to send Jews from across Europe to the death camps (Auschwitz)

16. FINAL SOLUTION

17. Wannsee Conference held January 20, 1942 at Wannsee.
Was headed by Heydrich
The Final Solution for Jews and the Jewish question had changed before this meeting.
At this meeting it was made clear that the term Final Solution meant the murder of all Jews in Europe.

18. Einsatzgruppen

19. Death Camps

20. Kristallnacht (Crystal Night)

21. SPANISH CIVIL WAR 6.
General Franco? was the leader of the Nationalist Sect
Who supported or did not support in the war?
Germany, Italy, USSR, Britain, France

22. Austria 1934 1934 – DOLLFUSS MURDER
Germany was forbidden to take Austria
7. Aunschlus
The leader of Austria was murdered by Austrian Nazis
Hitler mobilized his troops
Mussolini threatened Hitler and he backed down
Dollfuss was replaced by Schuschnigg.
Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria 1934

23. Annexation of Austria 1938
Schuschnigg was pressured by Hitler to stop pressuring Austrian Nazis
Seyss Inquart (Austrian Nazi) was to be made Minister of the Interior (police)
Schuschnigg offered to have a plebiscite
Hitler blocked it & threatened to invade
Schuschnigg resigned
Replaced by Seyss Inquart
March 12, German troops were invited to enter Austria to restore “order”
Schuschigg
Seyss Inquart

24. 8. Czechoslovakia Munich Agreement

25. Hitler and Benes
Sudetenland had 3.5 million ethnic Germans
Britain and France pressured Benes to give up the Sudetenland as they didn’t want a war over Czechoslovakia
Many of the Sudeten Germans wanted to join Germany
Chamberlain negotiated for the British and Daladier for the French

26. Hitler and Chamberlain met at the Berchtesgaden
He agreed to let Hitler have the Sudetenland
Hitler then broke the deal 5 days later and announced he would occupy the Sudetenland
This would cause a war with Czechoslovakia
Mussolini then suggested a four country meeting at Munich

27. Munich Conference / Pact
Mussolini, Daladier, Hitler and Chamberlain met
Hitler agreed to postpone until October 10
They pressured Benes to agree.
Benes resigned

28. “I believe it is Peace in our time!”
“I have no more territorial demands!”
The piece of paper
By March 15,1939 Hitler had all of Czechoslovakia

29. Define APPEASEMENT REASONS FOR APPEASEMENT:
Britain believed Germany was merely correcting the Treaty of Versailles
WW 1 was too brutal (repeat not wanted)
Was a strong Germany economically good?
Hitler was anti communist
None of the items on Hitler’s “Hit List” were important to Britain
They were fooled by Hitler’s deceit.

30. 9) German Soviet Non Aggression Pact
Stalin approached Britain and France with a deal and they turned him down.
August 23, 1939 Germany and the USSR signed their pact.
Agreed not the attack each other
Agreed to carve up Poland