Adolf Hitler and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Rise to Power
Objective: The following is going to be a working document, meaning you will start with some basic research and add
to it while we progress through the unit. The objective is for you to get some basic background information for FDR’s
“New Deal” while at the same time comparing how the Nazi’s in Germany were gaining power. In addition we will be
trying to discover how all of this research led to the most destructive war in human history.
Task: ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF PAPER(S) you will research the following people, groups, places, government
acts and events and write a brief summary or definition of each. Leave room between each just in case you would like
to add some information later on. DO NOT WRITE ON THE ASSIGNMENT SHEET, NOT EVEN TO
CROSS OUT THE WORDS!
PEOPLE (don’t give life story just from 1933-1941)
Paul Von Hindenburg
Fuhrer
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Goebbels
Herman Goring
Heinrich Himmler
Ernst Rohm
Reinhard Heydrich
Huey Long
Father Charles Coughlin
Francis Townsend
Jesse Owens
Hershel Grynszpan/ Ernst Vom Rath
Rudolf Hoss
Emperor Hirohito
GROUPS
National Socialist German Workers Party
Sturmabteilung (SA)
Gestapo
Schutzstaffe (SS)
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Einsatzgruppen
Share the Wealth Society
National Union for Social Justice
PLACES
Reichstag
Dachau
Rhineland occupied by the Nazi’s
Buchenwald
Sudetenland
Auschwitz
Warsaw Ghetto
GOVERNMENT ACTS
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Enabling Act of 1933
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Homeowners Loan Corporation and National Housing Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
National Industrial Recovery Act and National Recovery Administration
Public Works Administration and Civil Works Administration
Securities and Exchange Act
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
Schechter Corp. vs United States
Social Security Act
Neutrality Act of 1935 and 1939
Nuremburg Laws
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
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Anti-Comintern Pact
Ludlow Amendment
Anschluss
Fair Labor Standards Act
Appeasement “Munich Pact”
Pact of Steel
Nazi/Soviet “Non-Aggression Pact”
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940
Lend- Lease Act
United States embargoes gas, oil, and metal to Japan
EVENTS
Munich Beer Hall Putsch
Fireside Chats
Germany withdraws from the League of Nations
“Night of the Long Knives”
“Packing the Courts”
Japan invades China 1937
Panay
Rape of Nanking
Kristallnacht
SS St. Louis
Germany invades Poland
Blitzkrieg
Battle of Britain
Operation Barbarossa
Zyklon-B
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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