The Rise and Rule of Single Party States
 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.
 Moving
 Art
to Vienna
School
 The
Effects of Vienna
on Hitler
 Hitler
developed a
dislike for many things
in Vienna.
 Joining
the ranks
 Dispatch
Runner
 Corporal
Hitler
A
sense of belonging
 The
moral letdown

Moving to Munich

The German Workers’
Party (Deutsche
Arbeiterpartei)

The National Socialist
German Workers’ Party

Nazis

Goals
 Benito
Mussolini
 January
1923
 The
Ruhr Crisis
 The
Reichswehr
 General
Erich Ludendorff
 The
Brownshirts
 The
Beer Hall Putsch
 Hitler’s
 Mein
Trial
Kampf
 Hitler
gains popularity
 Hitler’s
popularity
fades
 The
Dawes Plan
 The
Economy turns
 The
Great Depression

The Geneva Naval
Conference (1927)

Calvin Coolidge

Results

The London Naval
Conference (1930)

The London Naval Treaty

Results
6
million unemployed
 Factories
ceased
production
 Foreign
loans
stopped or recalled.
 searching
answers
for new
 Problems
 Democracy?
 Hitler’s
use of
propaganda
 The
Treaty of Versailles
 National
Humiliation
 The
Weimar
Republic
A
man of action!
 Unearned
incomes,
unfair taxes, trusts,
chain stores, and
high interest rates.
 The
lowest common
denominator.
 1928:
12 seats
went to the Nazis
 1930:
107 seats
 1932:
230 seats
 Making
Hitler the
Chancellor
 President
 January
 Shared
 The
 Who
Hindenburg
30, 1933
Power?
Reichstag Building
to blame?
 freedom
of speech
and press
 The
Brownshirts
 Dictatorial
 The
powers
Nazi Revolution
 Germany
 All
ceased to be Federal
other parties were destroyed
 Purging
 June
the Brownshirts
1934
 The
Third Reich
 Der
Führer
 Hitler’s
 Racial
 The
view of Jews
Science
Nuremberg Laws
 Dachau
 November
9,
1938
 Kristallnacht
 What
“provoked”
the incident?
 Closed
doors
 The
Gestapo
 The
People’s Court

Geneva 1932-1934

Self Interests

Depression

Germany leaves the LON

The role of the Soviets

LON still dealing with the Manchurian Incident

Luftwaffe

Soviet Reaction to Hitler

Poland

German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact

Conscription

The Soviets join the League

Franco-Soviet Pact
 Austrian
Nazis
 Engelbert
Dollfuss
 Reaction
of the
Western powers
 Mussolini’s
reaction
 Preventing
the
Anschluss
 January
1935
 The
league of
Nations
 Nazi
Agitation
 Reunification
 March
1935
 Disarmament
 The
Response
 100,000
to 600,000

March 7, 1936

The Franco-Soviet Pact

Weaknesses in the German Army

The response of France

The response of Great Britain

Going to war?
 Mussolini’s
decision
(1936)
 The
Earth’s Axis
 March
1938
 Austrian
Chancellor
Kurt von
Schuschnigg
 Vote
 The
on it?
Anschluss
 Nazi
Propaganda
 Czechoslovakia
 The
Sudetenland
 Britain
and France
 Hitler’s
Demands
 Neville
Chamberlain
 Eduard
Daladier

Munich

Four Powers

Soviet Union?

Czechoslovakia?

Loss of strategic territory

“peace in our time”
 Not
to be out
done, Mussolini
took over Albania
in April 1939.
 Rearmament
by Germany
 French
Response
 British
Response
 defensive
strategies
 The
Maginot Line
 The
West Wall
 Mobilizing
the Economy
 Financing
 Hjalmar
 British
Rearmament
Schacht
Blockade
 Hitler’s
4 Year Plan
 Where
did the money
come from?
 1939-2
army.
million in the
 Germany?
 France?
 Britain?
 Memel
 Danzig
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 Poland
 Anglo-French
 The
Guarantee
Anti-Commintern Pact
 The
Nazi-Soviet Pact
 V.M.
Molotov
 Joachim
Ribbentrop