Transcript Hitler: Step by Step - Mrs. Silverman: Social Studies

Rise of
Hitler:
Step by Step
1929-1939:
World Wide Economic Depression!!
World Wide Effects
1. High rates of unemployment, famine,
poverty…
2. Led to political shifts
Communism
Fascism
PRE-WWII
Fascism
Communism
WWII
Setting the Stage:
After several failed coups,
a jail sentence, and the writing
of Mein Kampf…
1932:
The Nazi Party gets
more Reichstag (German
Legislature) seats than any
other political party; German
President Hindenberg asks Hitler
to be Prime Minister & form a
government.
1934:
Hitler becomes the German
dictator or the “fuhrer”
Step #1:
Creation of a TOTALITARIAN STATE
• banned all opposition
Step #2:
Creation of the SS
(Schutzstaffel)
• Elite “protection”
squad
• Loyal ONLY to
Hitler
Step #3:
Took command of the German
economy
• GREATLY improved conditions
Step #4:
Creation of the Nazi
“Propaganda Machine”
• Press, radio, literature, art, film
• Youth Indoctrination
• Hitler Youth (boys) &
League of Germans (girls)
Step #5:
Anti-Semitic Policies
• Jewish people used as
scapegoats
• Nuremberg Laws (1934-35)
• Kristallnacht (1938)
Step #6:
Dream of creating the
“THIRD REICH,” or the
Third German Empire